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I remember the first time they found me – I was working at Sky at the time and had just published an audio clip of someone slagging off Take That. I foolishly said they sounded like they had taken coke. BOOM. Shit got very real, very quickly, and I had to pay him thousands to leave me alone. I didn't have thousands. I was not a popular man at home that evening.Having said that, it's not often you get to print things like:"Despite what we said, Chris never criticised Cat Deeley or called her a lesbian. Chris has huge respect for Cat.We also reckoned his career was heading down the dumper. Nothing could be further from the truth. We've since learned that Chris is currently filming BBC1's Hotel Babylon with Max BeasleyWe also now understand that Chris has never even been to a sauna in the USA.You may have also got the impression that Chris engaged in homosexual fetishist role play activities with a Rabbi he knows to be a happily married man with children. This has turned out to be complete and utter nonsense and we should never have printed it."Gossip came from many different places – mostly from my "moles" (see what I did there?) – a collection of journalists, PRs, pop stars, actors, presenters, runners publishers, hell, anyone who could get their hands on the good stuff. This lot still exist on the same, old-fashioned message board, except nowadays the conversation is all about moving out of London because we're old."The biggest scoop the site ever got was finding out that Madonna and Guy Ritchie were divorcing. I hit the button and published it to an avalanche of incredible phone calls from her record company and PR, going proper LA apeshit at me" – Jamie East
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