Thursday 6 June 2013
We should all stand in awe of the groundbreaking investigative journalism and fearless police work dedicated to putting Tulisa Contostavlos back in her place
Tulisa: what it is about this successful 24-year-old that is so offensive to so many scribes? Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images
Without further ado, Lost in Showbiz is coming out as Team Tulisa, and anyone who declines to join me is cordially invited to do one to the showbiz outlets where the singer is routinely described as a "chav" or a "council estate Barbie".
In case you had been preoccupied by other matters, let me recap by saying that the erstwhile X Factor judge was the victim of a Sun on Sunday sting last weekend, and is accused of obliging the undercover reporter's requests for a contact who would sell him some cocaine. The news forces an urgent shakeup of the odds for the prize of Greatest Newspaper Investigation Ever, which now stand as: Tulisa Can Get You A Number For Someone Who'll GetYou Some Coke 1/9, Watergate 3/1, and Thalidomide 11/1. It's 16/1 bar those.
