After more than 30 years writing a column about celebs and pop culture at the London Daily Mail, Baz Bamigboye moved to Deadline and today, we launch Breaking Baz.
This will be a regular column of scoops and perspective from Baz’s London-centric perch. What better way to start than with Spare , the biting memoir by Prince Harry.
The gossipy revelations have been spilled here and everywhere. Bamigboye is uniquely positioned to comment on this Royal rumble, the pressure to dig up dirt and the complicity of Fleet Street and Buckingham Palace played in the daily scrum that led to the death of Harry and William’s mother Princess Diana, and created the rupture between Harry and his family that led to their exit to California, and to spill the tea in unprecedented fashion.
The call came from an editor on the night news desk in London. It was about Randy Andy. Prince Andrew would later be known by his formal title the Duke of York, but in 1982 this was his tabloid handle, long before he was disgraced by his association with paedo Jeffrey Epstein.
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