Sunday, August 8, 2010

NoTW - My new guilty pleasure

The ‘News of the World’ is amazing. Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Feeling hungover after our house party this morning, I went to get the paper in preparation for a roast and the football. I picked up the Observer as usual.

But my friend suggested we get something else a little more suited to our current state – the NoTW

I have never read a paper so entertaining. I’m now cursing every Sunday I’ve gone
without it. I’ll never make that mistake again.

Great exclusives
The NoTW splashed today with the exclusive, ‘CROUCH BEDS £800 TEEN HOOKER’.

What a great story. It’s clearly the biggest around, which is probably why the editor gave it 5 pages. And at that length it is nothing short of thorough.

There is even a criminal style map, picking out the landmarks of Crouch’s journey with the hooker from club to hotel room along with some rather saucy pictures. I am glad I know where he withdrew the cash to pay her, and even more thankful I know what the cash machine looks like. I was hanging off every word.




Strong stories
Another exclusive in the NoTW today was CUE ACE HIGGINS’ DAUGHTER REVEALS HIS WILD SECRETS. Another great read. I’ll just pick out a couple of my favourite bits:

She tells how he
- HURLED TVs through windows in front off his terrified kids
- POSTED envelopes stuffed with cash through the letterbox to try and win his family back
- THREATENED to have his children kidnapped
- TRIED to marry her off to a billionaire Dubai sheikh

Lauren says “People called him wild, unpredictable and off-the-wall, but to me, he was just my dad.”

Yeah that is strange that people thought that about him? Doesn’t sound like you saw that side of him at all Lauren?!?!?

“I do find it embarrassing that he blew £4 million gambling. But he loved it. And I am happy he did what made him happy.”

Powerful writing
But this is my favourite. On page 16 there was a picture of ‘The Bill’s Louise Lytten in a bikini.


The intro…

COP a load of these Sunhills.

Absolutely genius. I wish I could pen a line like that. I would be a rich man.

It’s not healthy, intelligent or classy but from now on the News of the World is my guilty pleasure.

N.B - pictures take from newsoftheworld.co.uk