Now Samantha Brick is to appear on Celebrity Big Brother

Just when you think there is nothing more that the mavens of reality TV can do to raise our interest, they unveiled a new wheeze designed to tempt the most ghastly and banal of human instincts. Having failed to snare the Mail's star writer of dizzyingly self-contradictory confessional journalism, Liz Jones, they have now closed in on her recently anointed first reserve, Samantha Brick. Brick achieved notoriety overnight by writing a piece in which she despaired that other women hated her because she was so very beautiful and so very wondrously irresistible to men. Her imminent appearance on Celebrity Big Brother is now being dangled before such "other women". If only we all dared to switch on the telly, and risk our menfolk catching a glimpse of this siren, that could be compulsive viewing.