Michelle Mone: My Fight to the Top
Perhaps it was because she clearly wasn't very well that Michelle Mone seemed uncharacteristically downbeat when being interviewed by radio broadcaster Edi Stark. Or perhaps it was simply the 'torture' of writing her tell-all autobiography, her candid admissions that she had "become a diva, a selfish bitch" in past years, the brutal breakdown of her marriage to a man she'd been with since she was 17. Whatever the reason, it wasn't too surprising that Stark wondered if it had all been worth it, if the cars and houses and travel and famous friends didn't in the end make you happy. Yes, Mone replied, I have no regrets, it's made me who I am. The audience applauded her putting laxatives in the cheating husband's tea, but many of them seemed to want business advice and inspiration, and I'm not sure how much of the latter they got.
Mark Millar: The Graphic Novels That Made Me
Everyone has an off-day. Although it's hard to imagine someone with Mark Millar's energy and enthusiasm being easily floored. This was a love-in with a partisan audience and none the worse for that, as Millar surprised us with his sympathy for David Icke, whose alien theories he managed to squeeze into the Avengers, and who was the first to teach him not to believe everything you read in the newspapers. His sympathy, too, for those bygone comic creators of the "silver age" who died penniless because they sold their rights to Superman and Spiderman when they were too young to know better, was touching, given the stellar success he's had. Gerard Jones' study of the superhero in this era was a warning to him, he said, and made him commit to founding his own company and keeping hold of his own rights. A businessman then, as well as an artist.
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