I used to love the Big Breakfast, especially Paula Yates doing interviews on a bed (remember the Michael Hutchence one?!). And didn’t Denise Van Outen go out with Gary Glitter back in the day?!!
OMG I'm so glad someone else remembers this!! She was 14 and a chorus girl, i believe in a panto. I had a row with a woman at work who said it was bollocks because she'd Googled it. I pointed out that it was quite easy to bury a story on the internet if you had enough money....
My guess is GG paid to make it go away. Probably just before the dirty bastard went on trial. She gave an interview to a teen mag in the early 90s and was quite open about it. I'm about the same age as DVO and remember thinking it was gross. Not just shagging GG, but being with someone that old when she was so young was just gross.
This was an era where Amanda de Cadenet and Emma Ridley were very publicly in nightclubs at 13 so no one really batted an eyelid. Jane Goldman was another one. She was always photo'd falling out of taxis drunk when at school. She turned up to school late and hungover and was threatened with expulsion. Her parents' response was to ask the school to let her attend later in the day so she could get in on time. She married Jonathan Ross and had her first baby young (legal and a not-creepy age gap!) so she (imo) found the stability she clearly needed and they are still together 30 years later so good on 'em .
Mandy Smith admits shagging Bill Wyman at 14 (with mother's encouragement) and then married him at 19 when he was old enough to be her grandad. Emma Ridley was married at 15 in Vegas (again with Mother's encouragement)
All completely disgusting but totally accepted at the time.
It was my era and those 'It girls' were my age and we used to lap up the gossip pages of the papers and teen mags. It was baffling to me that these girls were out drinking and partying but I was still at home and rollerskating round the street!!