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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/16/andrew-neil-marries-in-secret-in-france
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Veteran Scottish television presenter Andrew Neil has been enjoying warm congratulations across social media this weekend after revealing he quietly married in France last week at the age of 66. His bride, Susan Nilsson, is 20 years his junior and was described by her new husband as “the Swedish engineer” as he posted pictures on his Twitter feed on Saturday morning with the caption: “Secret’s out!”
They couple were married near Neil’s villa in the south of France, attended only by neighbours in the town of Grasse, Deal Or No Deal presenter Noel Edmonds and his wife Elizabeth Davies. The newlyweds’ dog, Molly, also featured prominently in the photographs.
Neil, once nicknamed the “bachelor of Fleet Street”, started out in journalism at the Economist and went on to edit the Sunday Times for 11 years from 1983 to 1994, overseeing the controversial move to Wapping in 1986. While still working for the Murdoch empire, he brought The Simpsons to the UK as one of the founding pillars of Sky TV.
He now presents the BBC’s live politicial shows – Daily Politics, Sunday Politics and This Week – and chairs the media group that owns the Spectator.
In earlier days he made regular appearances in the gossip columns thanks to his love of celebrity nightclubs, including Tramp in London’s West End, where he met his short-lived girlfriend, Pamella Bordes, a former Miss India and Westminster researcher, in 1988.
Private Eye enjoyed parodying Neil as “Brillo”, a reference to his hair, and it became a running joke to seek pretexts to publish a photograph of Neil and Bordes on a night out together. As their affair came to a difficult end, Bordes was exposed by newspapers as a £500-a-night sex worker and became embroiled in a sex and security scandal involving Tory MPs, and a Libyan intelligence officer.
Neil said at the time: “I regard myself as quite savvy for getting out after 12 weeks, because she was the kind of woman men become besotted with and do really stupid things with.”
He went on to sue Peregrine Worsthorne for libel, and won, after the Sunday Telegraph editor wrote that “playboys” should not edit newspapers. Neil had not known that Bordes was an occasional call-girl. The court victory was portrayed as a triumph of classless new Britain – the Paisley grammar school boy seeing off a public school grandee.
Neil and Nilsson have been together for almost five years. A polo enthusiast and economics graduate, she is the director of communications of engineering and environmental consultancy the Waterman Group. Soon after they met, Neil said: “She is wonderful, beautiful and intelligent. She keeps me in check.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/16/andrew-neil-marries-in-secret-in-france
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Veteran Scottish television presenter Andrew Neil has been enjoying warm congratulations across social media this weekend after revealing he quietly married in France last week at the age of 66. His bride, Susan Nilsson, is 20 years his junior and was described by her new husband as “the Swedish engineer” as he posted pictures on his Twitter feed on Saturday morning with the caption: “Secret’s out!”
They couple were married near Neil’s villa in the south of France, attended only by neighbours in the town of Grasse, Deal Or No Deal presenter Noel Edmonds and his wife Elizabeth Davies. The newlyweds’ dog, Molly, also featured prominently in the photographs.
Neil, once nicknamed the “bachelor of Fleet Street”, started out in journalism at the Economist and went on to edit the Sunday Times for 11 years from 1983 to 1994, overseeing the controversial move to Wapping in 1986. While still working for the Murdoch empire, he brought The Simpsons to the UK as one of the founding pillars of Sky TV.
He now presents the BBC’s live politicial shows – Daily Politics, Sunday Politics and This Week – and chairs the media group that owns the Spectator.
In earlier days he made regular appearances in the gossip columns thanks to his love of celebrity nightclubs, including Tramp in London’s West End, where he met his short-lived girlfriend, Pamella Bordes, a former Miss India and Westminster researcher, in 1988.
Private Eye enjoyed parodying Neil as “Brillo”, a reference to his hair, and it became a running joke to seek pretexts to publish a photograph of Neil and Bordes on a night out together. As their affair came to a difficult end, Bordes was exposed by newspapers as a £500-a-night sex worker and became embroiled in a sex and security scandal involving Tory MPs, and a Libyan intelligence officer.
Neil said at the time: “I regard myself as quite savvy for getting out after 12 weeks, because she was the kind of woman men become besotted with and do really stupid things with.”
He went on to sue Peregrine Worsthorne for libel, and won, after the Sunday Telegraph editor wrote that “playboys” should not edit newspapers. Neil had not known that Bordes was an occasional call-girl. The court victory was portrayed as a triumph of classless new Britain – the Paisley grammar school boy seeing off a public school grandee.
Neil and Nilsson have been together for almost five years. A polo enthusiast and economics graduate, she is the director of communications of engineering and environmental consultancy the Waterman Group. Soon after they met, Neil said: “She is wonderful, beautiful and intelligent. She keeps me in check.”
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Here's the photo. Who could resist?
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Does Neil think he is Justin Bieber in that get up.? Middle age crisis m'thinks.
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That isn't Bordes, the Grauniad have got it wrong...for a change!
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Good luck to him, he's the best journalist the UK has by a large margin,
That photo is ancient and was in private eye or something about 1980 :) Nothing to do with the story. |
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Aye, she looks similiar to the £1000 a night high class hooker he was caught with some years ago. The randy old goat!!
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The only other guests were Mr and Mrs Noel Edmonds! What a jolly time they must have had.
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I hope Mr Blobby wasn't attending the wedding night ... you can read that two ways
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In the wedding pics on his twitter page she is a gorgeous woman. Good luck to him, who wouldn't do the same in his position. And Molly his dog was there too. He does look more like her father in wedding pic. They have been together for 5 yrs so not like he suddenly just met her this year. I like him on TV he is a very good presenter and interviewer.
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I remember Mr Neill for the 5 times a night tabloid headlines with a 19yo blonde prostitute. Must be 25 years ago now
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CLYDEBANK29 Try googling "Ralph Halpern Fiona Wright", then start praying that Andrew Neill never stumbles on this thread.
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Straining to 'keep up' will do for him sooner or later. Still better to live 66 years as a loud-mouthed opinionated journo than a thousand years as a sheep.
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Baaaaaaaaa !
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Hey Leopard, where this from?
"(The world) ... consisted entirely of sheep-like creatures, who existed merely in order to give up their wool to his shears." |
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And this.
"Love - flames for a year, ashes for thirty." It's bleeding obvious. |
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That would be the book named after me.
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That's worth the first ever emoticon from me. The world will end soon. The Death Of A Prince is one of the finest chapters ever. Hope I go with similar symbolism. But drunk. |
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Ha! I've still never used an emoticon. My heart remains pure.
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Later, mad with regret, I may slit my wrists.
But probably not. The world moves on. Move with it or die. There's always something to make a last stand over. But not emoticons. Cheese maybe. Hey, good job AITL etc no longer here. |
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" Middle age crisis m'thinks."
Middle age crisis ? He's 66 |
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He might live to 124.
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re emoticons I had to laugh at that story a while ago where it turns out on some phones sending "emojis" was treated as a picture message or something and people were running up huge bills before they realised.
I asked myself, how many texts are these people sending and how many emoticonjs are they adding? I suppose in the case of a teenager these days, the answer could be greek debt sized. Actually I just looked up a story, woman was 48 and getting charged £1 a smiley I'd have sympathy but when she got two large bills she kept on doing it. |