Saturday Celebrity Fluff

Anna Leask of the Herald has discovered where the gold is: tabloid journalism. We like to know all the grubby details of our celebrities, and she delivers with style. Her previous sojourn into the world of bad boy celebrities was an expose of the shocking behaviour of that "household name" Martin Devlin.

This morning she's taking the horse out for another gallop. But this time Devlin's friends are along for the ride.

Convictions, addictions and disorderly conduct all par for the course for these big egos, says one television industry insider

They were applauded for being "laddish" and outrageous on screen - but no one is laughing after a fifth panel member of the sports show Game of Two Halves got himself into trouble.

The article then rehashes the various offences that the Game of Two Halves boofhead set have been charged with.

It's just a pity that, with one very notable exception (Tony Veitch), it's small beer. Sitting on a car, possession of a few tablets of a mostly harmless drug, driving while disqualified. 

And how is Mike King's struggle with addiction newsworthy? Leave the poor man alone.

If further proof is needed that this is a piece of tabloid celebrity fluff Leask also finds an "industry insider" to dish the dirt.

And now (shock horror!) one of the said boofheads has written in support of sacked UK Sky TV commentator Andy Gray.

If newspaper editors want to know why people are turned off by their product, here's a clue: don't print this celebrity tittle-tattle and pretend it's news.