Dates sept 2003 – Sept 2004 – Daily Telegraph Sept 2004 – Jan 2005 – wenn jan 2005 – April 2007 – Mail on Sunday April 2007 – Sept 2007 – LondonPaper Sept 2007 – Jun 2009 – Sunday Mirror

TO DO: Start with Event Based…should I do Celebrity Based next? EG from Amanda Holden to Honor Blackman to Zane Lowe / Zawe Ashton?

Once I have planned all this, I print it out and highlight the best bits. BUT what is the structure going to be? I think I should start each chapter with emails to my sister about my week. She’s an air hostess flying the world. We meet up occasionally during the book but mainly I party with Fiona (Firgas). We get to know my sisters character through her emails and mine through my first person musings. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS FIRST PERSON.

OR I do it 37 Friday nights for my quest to find a lover and my work getting in the way. Could start each chapter with my sister asking how I am getting on. Or start the book with the prologue about looking at the calendar and then in present tense. Week 1 and my resolutions start….

What is the chick lit book that is written with letters about a girl that dreamed of working in a hotel but had a kid early?

(But Jackie Collins is 3^rd person with characters like Firgas, Leo, Stephen Mahoney. Mr Big)

Cheryl Cole marries Ashley Cole in July 2006. I went to her hen do at Umbaba, watching her mum fall off the table and her be loud / rude / disgraceful! (Still had the toilet slapping gene in her)

Being envious of Katie Nicholl gate crashing Kate Moss’s 30^th birthday and vowing to do the same one day. I did it at the time of her 35^th birthday 

Being envious of Katie Nicholl’s trips to Cannes then getting to go to Monaco for Swarovski Fashion Rocks 2005. Getting invited to the Candy’s yacht and being shocked I had to take my shoes off. I had terrible feet! Hearing about Neil Reading’s indecent arrest for shagging someone outside Jimmyz. Meeting Kasabian. Mariah Carey. Beyonce and Jay-Z. Bon Jovi. Amerie, Craig David, Blondie, Victoria Beckham eating chocolate cake!! Wearing a tiny gold dress with no bra and gatecrashing!!

REALLY expensive lunches and dinners. Tom Aikens lunch (£140 for lunch with no wine!) £220 fr dinner at Claridges with Emily Maddick and being told off. BUT at the start, being told to spend more!!

Taking Simon Brewer (u’luvka) and Harriet to lunch at Kensington Place for my first ever lunch and being so nervous that I could barely eat! But it coming good as they invited me to a few parties sponsored by u’luvka or by asahi beer. Coco De Mer had a party at Boujis once!

Party in the Asprey strore in Bond St – always lavish! Going to the launch of Jade Jagger for Garrard jewellery thanks to Simon Brewer.

Using Simon Brewer at the polo parties as he has society connections. My first ever polo party at PJs Grill in Fulham, meeting Henry Brett and Jack Kidd and falling in love with the glamour of the sport (all Jilly Cooper). Vowing to go to more. Alex Rayner also had polo connections and went on to run Polo in the Park at The Hurlingham.

Simon Brewer inviting me to the Omar Sharif backgammon party at Sketch – sooo random.

Rolls Royce tour with Emily Maddick – all the helicopters, Phantoms, Hampshire hotel and spa treatments. Goodwood Festival of Speed. Outfit from TK Maxx!!

Janet Ginnigs party at her Curzon St shop – meeting Caprice and Sally Farmiloe. Friendly!

Going to Annabel’s where I met uncle date guyr (bhaveen jobanputra) and his more important uncle, Kam Bathia

Lunching the Conde Nast crew Harriet and Nicola so I could go the Glamour Awards etc. Eatin g PIE at the Barbican chop house! But it worked. I saw them again at Katie Nicholl’s book launch at Marco Pierre’s restaurant Wheelers, changing their shoes in the street. Even posh people need to change in the street too!

Going for lunch with super posh people. Fanny Rush at Chelsea Arts Club.(Shane Warne). Georgea Blakely at Arts Club (and horse art)

Meeting Marco at Frankie’s Harrods, and him eating my hand. Then going to Hell’s Kitchen with Dominic Midgeley from LondonPaper Features (and making a mistake eating pigeon so I had to get prunes!)

Cannes for the first time. I could have a whole chapter on Cannes! Yachts EVERY year. And Pamela Anderson for Blonde and Blonder one year with Sunday Mirror (and Mark Adams). Kung Fu Panda! Getting better access at Mail on Sunday than any other place I worked. Eg I was actually invited to the Quintessentially Party back in 2007 at Eden Roc. Harvey Weinstein was nice to me because I knew Katie Nicholl (and also because I was pretty).

Pearl Lowe’s collection launch in Holland Park at Cross the Road. So gothic! Someone driving past and pelting people with eggs. Danny Goffey from Supergrass (my teen hero) being super chatty. Carl Barat from Babyshambles also being lovely. Sadie Frost moody!

Later on, Firgas and I went to Pearl’s launch for Peacocks at Sketch and I was banned from talking to Daisy (by Liz Matthews). But it was ok when we went to her swimwear launch at Haymarket Hotel and Firgas and I thiefed a bit of jewellery! The swimwear was disgusting – vintage styles with boy shorts and lots of fabric. One of Pearl’s kids was running wild.

The Fashion Tea at athe Mandeville Hotel on Zandra Rhodes china. Beautiful teacups, lots of pink but it is difficult to get Zandra Rhodes in the paper

Befriending Rod Liddle (Radio 4)and his young girlfriend. Goingfor dinner with them – slightly awkward as they were arguing and she was pregnant. I was more star struck by him (and ended up signing up for Millwall newsletter because he was a fan)

Thomas Heatherwick for Longchamp handbags at the Design Museum. Nice goody bag!

Whitechapel Art Gallery party with the YBAs and Kate Moss. I gatecrashed with Veronica!

Gordon Ramsay’s book launch Humble Pie in Claridges, taking Claire Adams from ent news as she really fancied him. (ended up ruining this friendship with Claire slightly when I got hysterical inat Glasto). Gordon’s jokes (although not when I beat him in Marathon). Lying to me about buying a crocodile!

Scarlet Magazine’s 2^nd anniversary party – v naughty goodybag with sextoys.co.uk, durex condoms, lube etcc

Taking Kate Basarab Horwath to Hemel Hempstead and leisureworld and pretending to be a lesbian couple so we could do a quiz about each other and win a free bottle of ‘Champagne’.

Organising my sisters 21^st birthday! Sound nightclub (with free Champagne). Angels as well? I was sooo glad when it was time for them to get the limo home! I drove up with them in the limo then I stayed in London.

I went undercover in the London Scientology centre to try and get a lead story on Tom Cruise! Scary. Signing up to mailing list and dealing wit Graeme Wilson

The days before Facebook and Twitter, so I had to beg a password for A Small World or use Friends Reunited. Or pay someon to give me a mobile number.

Lots of book launches! From Hatchards on Piccadilly to Nicky Campbell’s biography about his adption at Soho Hotel. Jordan doing a publicity trail about her book launch

NOTES I WROTE TO MYSELF – Editing Tips: Need new, active stories (not non-stories about not doing something or follow-up of other stories). –Don’t exaggerate in conference. – Dress conservatively. –Speak more quietly in the office when on phone and discussing stories with deputies Emily and Chris. – Go to parties, don’t be lazy and you get more if you stay longer. –Be flexible – if a good photo story from a party comes in later in the week then I need to change it.

The LondonPaper launch at the old Chinawhite –smoking shisha in the VIP room…while my sister almost got thrwn out for throwing her handbag at the barman. Awkward atmosphere as none of the journalists really knew each other. I decided to film it and I have a DVD somewhere.

The Oscars with Capital Radio. Hoff Watch. Meeting Hoff in his dressing room in Las Vegas with Johnny Vaughan. Cipriani A’listers! Soho House and goody bags. Mulberry.

Durex condoms launch at Sketch – v cheeky, Another one at The Box club for Dual Impact condoms (filled with boring journos, no celebs – bad for brand!)

David Hockney exhibition at National Portrait Gallery. Amazing portraits and I got to keep the book. I felt v classy! Talked to Joanna Lumley about Gurkhas.

Starting to really to get to know photographers. My crew included Daffyd Jones, Alan Davidson, Richard Young and Dave Bennet.

Meeting Charlie Pycraft for the first time then continuing to work with him at the Sunday Mirror. He went to public school and used to get decent stories as well as photos. But whe News of the World shut it affected him so much he became a Buddhist monk!

The Oscars with Sunday Mirror in 2009. Stalking Slumdog Millionaire cast. Hanging out with Emily Maddick (who was panicking even though she was at Beverley Wilshire with Grazia and Grey Goose). Julia Clancy and her crew – dinner at Elle magazine, other fun parties! Meeting Joan and Jackie Collins at Beverly Hills Hotel polo lounge!!! Photoshoot at SLS hotel. Visiting Chateau Marmont and thinking it was a dump!

Launch of the new Kitts club (with Krug) but it being EMPTY!! 2007

Agent Provaceteur fashion show at Café De Paris. Kate Moss turned up. I couldn’t get to her so I just nicked lots of goody bags (in the wrong sizes). I did have better luck when I took Derreck Twum to the lingerie awards in 2013, he talked to Sarah Harding and I got a photo with Abbey Clancy. Even tho Derreck was sooo late!

I also took Derrick to the Menkind penthouse…where I found out he had a son!

BUT he was good to cling to when I was scared at the premiere of Paranormal Activity 4. Good dancer at Love Perfume Awards in Vanilla club when Leo went crazy on the cocktails and flireted with Lizzie Cundy!

Friday lunches with Luke Blackall – hopefully at le pont de la tour, sometimes at Oxo Tower, sometimes at the sandwich café near waitrose!

Moet Mirage during London Fashion Week in Sept 2008 where a huge Moet logo was beamed up in the air. Myself and Alex the blagger stole tons of mini Moet champagne bottles. There was a fairground and Candy Floss at Holland Park Opera House. I saw Piers Morgan with Celia Walden and was insanely jealous. Naomi Campbell attended, Tamsin Egerton and Sandi Thom (but Sandi goes everywhere, she even went to my Sunday Mirror launch party). Tara Palmer Tomkinson in a fishtail maxi dress acting CRAZY. Getting the Moet key to London Fashion Week when London Fashion week was at the history museum in South Ken, before it moved to Somerset House.

Q Awards launch 2007 at Indigo2 - Manic Street Preachers, Hard-Fi, Athlete, Kate Nash, Cherry Ghost 

Sony Bravia BORING TV party at Tramshed in Shoreditch organised by Mark Borkowski. Tamara Ecclestone was good but yawn aside from that. Chloe Madeley showedup with lots ofpikey friends, drank too much and puked in the toilets. Chloe also did this at a Nintendo dance party (or got chucked out of it like she got chucked out Whisky Mist for falling off a table). Now Chloe is a fitness addict!

Hooch press fashion show at Old Bulington Club organised by Stephen Mahoney and it was so dark we couldn’t see any of the designs. Chatted to Portia Freeman (linked to Pete Doherty) but that was it. Weird because of dark!

MTV Copenhagen with Mark Jagasia

Royal Box at new Royal Ascot with a massive pink hat (from John Lewis)

P Diddy’s parties – at Paper nightclub and in Copenhagen. Snoop Dogg and the blue carpet. Learning not to panic when with Mark (and make stuff up that I could get away with).

Giving my parents tickets to the ballet, and they were seated next to the DIRECTOR! They went to Wicked, the musical and got VIP treatment.

Meeting Gillian Anderson at the X Files I want To Believe premiere – she was nuts! Hearing Mark Jagasia’s stories about how she lives in her own head, not the real world!

I went to the opening of Billy Elliot the musical, stood up to Elton John about the miners’ strike and my dad’s involvement in it. Then got abused by rude David Walliams, because I didn’t sponsor him in his charity channel swim!

Giles Deacon for New Look party at New Look near Marble Arch and Peaches Geldof getting moody / being diva about goody bags. I got a 50% press discount and a few weeks later my purse was stolen and they wouldn’t replace it

Bedtime Stories premiere at Odeon High St Ken with Adam Sandler and Russell Brand.

Nicole Kidman Christmas movie premiere The Golden Compass at Old Billingsgate Market – lavish with a huge bear in reception!

Fun in the foyer for all the kids movies I’ve attended. Seeing Charlie and the chocolate factory with Katie and Hannah on my 25^th birthday. Then getting our portrait taken in Regents Park after I won it in a raffle at a dinner. Woof, woof! Dinner at Nandos.

Vogue’s 90^th birthday at the Serpentine Gallery. I had lunched Harriet and Nicola from Conde Nast by this point and had fab access. Saw Kate Moss and Pete Doherty looking skanky together. Kate’s hair looked manky. Matthew Williamson, Camilla Al Fayed, Nigella Lawson, Yasmin Le Bon and Jodie Kidd looked wayyyy better!

Getting to know Liz Brewer and meeting Joan Collins at the South Kensington Brasserie re-launch by Azzy. (Who I knew intimately through Nick Valentine)

Hanging out with Sonique – restaurants and parties and competing to see who could be the tallest/ wildest. Shock discovery about her breast cancer.

The Urban Music Awards chaos – three times! Coolio almost got thrown down the stairs by UK Worries (cousin of Beenie Man) at New Connaught Rooms. Then I went with MAC make-up and nobody knew what was going on. On a Saturday night (when I didn’t even have to be there). Then there was blood at the O2 after someone got stabbed and me and Angellica Bell ha to runfrom the building. Thankfully nobody died (like at the Blackberry gig in 2012 that Leo attended).

Banter with Gordon Ramsay. Him telling me he owned a crocodile. Getting my own back to get my parents a lovely table at Claridges for their ‘wedding anniversary’.

Steve Jones from T4 – seeing the womaniser in action (Paris Hilton / Pamela Anderson) and almost falling for it myself.

Wild Hogs party and tking Ingrid Tarrant. Having to stop to buy new shoes!

Rocky Balboa fim premiere and desperately trying to get close to Sylvester stallone at the after party at the casino. Hysteria!!

Ghostowm with Ricky Gervais at haymarket cineworld, Using my flip camera and it failing with Ricky. Faied for BBC 519show  BUT it worked with Dizee Rascal, who asked for my phone number on camera!

The World Music Awards in London – MEETING MICHAEL JACKSON! And seeing Lindsay Lohan fall down the stairs. Confusion backstage as Michael was driven up to the stage – a 4 by 4 Toyota land crusier drove to the door of his dressing room and then drove him 25m to the stage. Sugababes looking for a dressing room. Michael picked up an award from Beyonce then disappeared while Chris Brown came on to do a cover of Thriller. Finally he came back, singing just five lines of the song We Are The World. Ropey! Looked like he couldn’t remember the words.

Emily Maddick and Courtney Love ramblings!

Yoko Ono onochord art exhibition – getting a torch and being told to shine I love you. Its i and ii and iii

Taking my dad to see Lulu and Jools Holland. Getting him to gatecrash.

Getting my mum to gatecrash Strictly Come Dancing, after getting the tickets through Vernon Kaye – who owes me after the Angelina Jolie climbing fence to get the ball back drama.

Pete Doherty smashing up his guitar at the Camden Crawl, chaos!!! Trying to get out and almost panicking

Taking the London Paper’s Purple Santa on the tube. Bad Santa! How could I control him

Lily Allen adding me on BBM. Fall outs and party nights. Her kicking the paparazzi on Brits night.

Endless stalking of Amy Winehouse. Pete Doherty. Elle Style Awards with Amy Winehouse in Camden, her calling me the Sexy One.

Amy Winehuse at Brixton Academy in 2007 where she hardly made any sense. And she clearly had something hidden in her hair. Kept wiping her nose with her hairband!

Swarovski Fashion Rocks in Monaco – wearing hardly any clothes and getting into a lift. Going to the stage door as James Blunt came out. Getting into the backstage chill area and waiting for Bon Jovi. Finding Kiki King and going to Bon Jovi’s yacht together. Hedonism and dancing on the tables. Getting stuck at sea!! Staying in a bad hotel. Meeing the black guy in the Ferrari that promised to get me int any party…until Eva 3am talked him out of it. Going with Anna Lusser from Outside (who kind of held me back). She’s married with two kids now (but does PR for Winter Wonderland). She married well – head of Royal Albert Hall.

Sandra Berhnard at the Shaw Theatre in Euston Road. I expected her friend Madonna. I got Blondie and Krissie Hynde and it felt like a mothers meeting in a café in Euston. I mean, was anyone even drinking except diet coke?

Mischa Barton cracking up at Harrods (toothache?) and me getting the video

Leona Lewis getting assaulted at Waterstones

Britney Spears’ breakdown and me bribing people to get the gossip. Henry meller.

Taking Ingrid Tarrant to the John Travolta premiere, Wild Hogs

Mark Ronson party

Seeing Pete Doherty at Jalouse, bringing the wrong crowd to a posh nightclub. Seeing him on the Camen Crawl again and lots of sirens as he tried to smash up the place.

Sunday Mirror launch party – Peaches Geldof DJing, Dom Joly papping, Caprice and my brother, Gordon Ramsay truffles, Leaving flowers behind, meeting Leo (and chicken)

Driving in Leo’s jeep to footballers’ parties

Running Race For Life…and then 1^st ever Royal Parks Half and then the marathon

RedBull Air Race in Perth with Konnie Huq!

Organising Hannah Mills’ Hen Do at Mayfair Hotel but not being able to do the daytime spa part because I was working on a Saturday. The nightime meal was alright but Crystal club wouldn’t let us in because somepeople were too ugly (!!!) so we had to beg Kevin Wright / Jeremy to let us into Angels (the Stringfellows club!). We ended up getting free Champagne tho!

Doing the Midweek mash-up and capturing the action on my Flip cam. UNTIL I fought with Jody Thompson (who was jealous) and I got into ‘legal trouble’ with Lily Allen who was rude to me on camera at the V festival.

Going from highs to normal with the Glamour Woman of the Year gatecrashing to going to K-Box to play singstar guitar and do karaoke. Wireless Fest lightbox to Firgas’ BBQ.

Being bored by shows – the ballet when Julien Macdonald designed the costumes.

Volver premiere with Penelope Cruz but she was frosty. (Not like when I met her and sister Monica in toilets of Soho House in LA). Kiki King managed to talk Spanish to her but that was it. I was stunned by her beauty. But she was rubbish with men – Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey break-ups.

London’s Critics Circle Film Awards…and getting to talk to Sienna Miller about Gi Jane and her driving test. Buying the ticket for NSPCC and the Sunday Mirror taking ages to pay for it 

Seeing U2 on the roof of BBC Radio 1…and waiting in the posh Langham hotel first (on expenses!)

Seeing The Kings of Leon at Brixton Academy with Paul Stokes, just because I fancied paul stokes, not coz I knew who the band were. Swigging from their Champagne bottle afterwards which was a high…and then a low as the Sunday mirror didn’t know who they were either!

O2 Silver Clef Awards lunch and meeting Amy Winehouse when Blake was in prison. She put a message of support in her beehive. Then we chatted afterwards. While we were chatting a photo was taken and I ended up in the gossip column of The Sun.

Sony Walkman party…just so I could get a free MP3 walkman. (That I couldn’t actually work as I am so used to iPhones. Ebay!!)

Shock discovery that Telegraph good girl Rebecca Newman became a hardcore sex columnist for GQ!

Jeans for Genes launch with afternoon tea at The Sanctum Hotel – but the Sunday Mirror being stupid about me going out the office in the afternoon. Having to justify everything. Stacey Solomon from X Factor was there with her son and lovely. And some Strictly Come Dancing people?

Carly Cole’s hen do – sailors at Mahiki (tacky)

Mahiki parties with Prince William. ALL MY ROYAL PARTIES – Mamalanji, Amika (Prince Harry), EMbasy (William), Cuckoo club (both)

Pete Doherty and tryng to befriend his crew. The guy that rides round on a BMX I had to pay in cash. Carl Barat,

V Festival hedonism with Gail Porter! And Gareth Gates. Motorbikes. Meal tickets / drinks tokens

V Festival with Holly Willoughby and her family who goes wild. Coleen Rooney - hanging out. Playing pool with Hollyoaks people. Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson – ALL NIGHT DRINKING

Wireless Fest and trying to go backstage

Harvey Nichols parties and my feud with Ivana Giachono for Purple PR – she kept not letting me in! But I did get an invite to the Mulberry For Giles star studded party in 5^th floor café in Harvey Nicks. I didn’t get an invite to Pharrell Williams clothing launch in Harvey Nicks and tons of other parties but I turned up anyway and still got goodybags! Inc a Pringle party! (MaybeGoogle Harvey Nichols parties between 2006-2008. One year it was a summer party I got into, so fun, great canapés, always real Champagne not cava).

Glastonbury – freezing! Amy Winehouse stylist / tepee/ Piers Hernu. Dressing up woth the Klaxons, Pete Doherty’s Winnebago and lemons and NME, being forced to bathe in mud (with hanprints), weird photographer )Rowern Lwarence). My first Glastonbury = full of high hopes. I got expenses to buy a tent. But I was lonely, I was wet, it was freezing! I was starving. I just got back from Mykonos where I was so helthy and tanned and ruined it at Glasto. In Mykonos, Jo got with Damo but I was still single. Or was I with Ed Scott? Uggggghhh. FINALLY getting in the BBC Hospitality area. BBC is meant to be license payers but they had great food (bacon sarnies) and I saw Chas and Dave.

Interviewing Lewis Hamilton…just about! Struggling to get time with him at the Hempel party

Kylie Minogue’s White Diamonds premiere and persuading Murray Chalmers PR to get me a photo with her. Then having to find something to wear. Going to the pub before for start of week (Tues)drinks with the bosses like James Scott and him genuinely wishing me luck.

Sunday Mirror politics – liking James Saville and TinaWeaver and Mike Hamiltn but hating Nick Buckley and James Scott (class wars).

The climate gig Live Earth and getting backstage thanks to Embassy nightclub hospitality. Taking a news reporter and they were LAZY, I got everywhere while being hassled by Sean all day. Finally I got Liam Gallagher but he wasn’t happy. Hung out with Dave Grohl and his kid and Geri Halliwell and bluebell. The only person I couldn’t get to was Madonna. But I did witness them all being briefed about the message to give on stage. Nightmare day as after gig finished at 10, I queued up for more than an hour to get on stage. Wembley travel hell!

Going to Ibiza with Sony Erisson for 48 hours of hedonism (PAOLO) with The streets!!

Miss Sixty gifting lounge at the Metropolitan hotel where Daisy Lowe took all her friends! I got more than Firgas because I was working for the paper but we stole the elemis bathroom toiletries!

Amy Winehouse at the Sanderson hotel and blood on the ballet shoes.

Dating the Sugababes guy…and using him

GQ Man of The Year awards – loosing my stiletto with Justin Timberlake. Getting drunk in the toilets with Charlotte Church. Dancing on the central dancefloor with Davina McCAll. I can google all the best years but its fab every year (except the year I was in St Petersburg and Holly Kutchinsky went to mingle with George Lamb). I went one year in a pedalo car thing as couldn’t get a taxi. Taylor Lautner. Going downstairs early after dinner even tho I wasn’t invited to dinner. Piers Morgan chatting about Naomi Campbell. Cigarettes outside with Charlotte Church.

GATECRASHING SERPENTINE SUMMER PARTY WITH VERONICA – after party in a tiny club with Jay Kay from Jamiroquai. Then pulling up Paris Hilton’s yellow dress.

Gatecrashing another year by walking in with Will Young. Sooo much adrenalin. Then finding Basia Briggs in the crowd. Talking to