This Putney born former Conservative MP was described as being “still frisky at 81” by the Daily Mail’s Jane Fryer in October 2012. Twice married and famed for her tattooed eyebrows, Teresa Gorman spent 14 years in politics and loathed “middle-class idiots”, chauvinists and “wet Tories”. As MP for Billericay, she was as well known for her colourful clothes as her rebellious spirit and has, more recently, headed to where she truly belongs: The United Kingdom Independence Party.
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Ted Richards
Having removed his ears, had 110 tattoos, 50 piercings and a split tongue, parrot obsessive Ted Richards told The Sun of his desire to find a surgeon prepared to turn his nose into a beak in October 2015.
Emeritus Professor Jane Somerville
This “straight talking” cardiologist told Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that “it was much more fun to be mafioso and naughty” than being “prudent” but it’s for her pioneering work on congenital heart disease that she’s best known. A mother of four and the “mother of GUCH”, Somerville’s ex-fellows set up […]
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A nasty woman with no heart. I should have dealt with her.