Amanda Platell

Watching brief - Amanda Platell admires Tara's rehab hug

• 16 September 2002

The broadsheets almost ignored I'm a Celebrity . . . but it had nearly three times as many viewers as they have readers - and a high proportion were young ABC1s

Watching brief - Amanda Platell on celebs in the human jungles

• 09 September 2002

In the human jungle of the Earth Summit, Tony Blair looked like a participant in I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here. Then he was voted off by the African leaders

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell notes an empty seat at GMTV

• 22 July 2002

David Blunkett has installed an ISDN line so he can broadcast more clearly on the Today programme, but he refuses to sit on the GMTV sofa. GMTV should count its blessings

Watching brief - Amanda Platell chides Greg Dyke and Mrs Saatchi

• 15 July 2002

Greg Dyke plans to replace On the Record with a regional programme featuring "real people". The only thing they will have in common is that they will all be boring

UK Politics

Watching brief - Amanda Platell muses about Byers in bed

• 08 July 2002

The problem with Stephen Byers's sex scandal is that, like everything else about his political career, it is consummately second division

UK Politics

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell tips Portillo for a new job

• 01 July 2002

Michael Portillo said on Breakfast with Frost that, as a child, he had two ambitions - to be Prime Minister and to be David Frost. Was this a rather public bid for Sir David's job? By Amanda Plattell

UK Politics

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell on a cyclone around a sarcophagus

• 24 June 2002

Blair has a nerve to say he doesn't like spin distracting from government. It was his vanity that turned a storm in a teacup into a cyclone around a sarcophagus, reports Amanda Plattell

UK Politics

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell thinks Tony Blair is a cad

• 17 June 2002

Meet Tony Blair, the compulsive cad who preys on vulnerable women like Pam Warren, Mo Mowlam, Gwyneth Dunwoody and others. By Amanda Plattell

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell is happy to pay her licence fee

• 10 June 2002

Singing along to "All You Need is Love", Cherie appeared for all the world like a happy-clappy hippie chick (if dressed in Armani). Not a first lady look

Watching Brief - Amanda Platell gives rules for public confessions

• 03 June 2002

Deayton's claim that his cheating is a form of schizophrenia gives new meaning to the notion of a two-headed monster - one lives in his head, the other in his Sloggis