Take poor Joan Armatrading, dogged for 30 years by the story that she was in a gay relationship with Valerie Singleton. What serious cred can a rock singer expect if the fans think you go home after the gig and make periscopes from Pringles packets?
And now we know that none of it is true. That Val is straighter than six o'clock, and that behind those emanations of icy reserve lurks one passionate woman, whose lengthy roster of former lovers includes her fellow Blue Peter presenter, Peter Purves, known, in the long-running show's Singletonian glory days, as "the sensible one".
We know all this because, at 71, Val has produced an autobiography, and the millions of us who grew up thinking of her as the best possible alternative to a real mother, who ached for the affections she bestowed on the show's resident pets, who learned from her what people ate for breakfast in the Tuamotus Islands and how to make thermonuclear warheads from milk-bottle tops, are entitled to feel faintly dismayed.
Not that you can blame Valerie for wanting to set the record straight. The Joan Armatrading rumour dates from 1978, when Val interviewed the singer in Manchester for a BBC TV show, Tonight in Town. They got along well, but when the interview was over, Joan disappeared chastely into a night buzzing - as Valerie discovered - with romantic possibility.
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And now we know that none of it is true. That Val is straighter than six o'clock, and that behind those emanations of icy reserve lurks one passionate woman, whose lengthy roster of former lovers includes her fellow Blue Peter presenter, Peter Purves, known, in the long-running show's Singletonian glory days, as "the sensible one".
We know all this because, at 71, Val has produced an autobiography, and the millions of us who grew up thinking of her as the best possible alternative to a real mother, who ached for the affections she bestowed on the show's resident pets, who learned from her what people ate for breakfast in the Tuamotus Islands and how to make thermonuclear warheads from milk-bottle tops, are entitled to feel faintly dismayed.
Not that you can blame Valerie for wanting to set the record straight. The Joan Armatrading rumour dates from 1978, when Val interviewed the singer in Manchester for a BBC TV show, Tonight in Town. They got along well, but when the interview was over, Joan disappeared chastely into a night buzzing - as Valerie discovered - with romantic possibility.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3559977/Valerie-Singleton-has-not-slept-with-Joan-Armatrading.html
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