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    Doctor Love

    "Belle de Jour" was hard-up research scientist.

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    Doctor Love

    Check out her Amazon wish list. A load of brainy books (as you'd expect), and a load of Pitchfork Media-friendly American indie rock. If only the producers of the ITV series had known, the soundtrack might have been a lot more interesting...

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      #3
      Doctor Love

      I know one of the producers, clang, look at me, etc. but it will be interesting to see what he says about this. I myself subtitled most of the first series. I felt guilty for thinking it was a bit bobbins.

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        Doctor Love

        I wonder why she's gone public now, particularly. She's got a fairly successful academic career, and she's surely made a huge sum of money already from book sales and TV rights. It's all very well trying to spin it into something about "highlighting the lengths women have to go in order to fund their studies" or whatever, but I'm guessing that at the age of 34, she simply decided she fancied a crack at being a celebrity.

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          #5
          Doctor Love

          Either that or the story was about to be broken by the tabs.

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            #6
            Doctor Love

            It said an ex was about to blab and that the Mail were on it.

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              Doctor Love

              I hope her colleagues and bosses are OK about.

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                Doctor Love

                She found an escort agency and started her secret life. "I did have another job at one point, as a computer programmer, but I kept up with my other work because it was so much more enjoyable."
                Hmm. I have been thinking how I could earn £££ in my spare time...

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                  Doctor Love

                  It's a shame she had to break her anonymity (tabloid scumbags, I expect), but it's very good that this story has come out now. There's a pretty ill-natured debate going on about criminalising all payment for sex, based upon unprovable "statistics" about trafficking. You might think that there are enough people in prison already without sending men who visited Belle du Jour there as well, but that's what's being proposed by some.

                  I'm not for a minute saying she's typical or that research scientists should have to do that for a living.

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                    #10
                    Doctor Love

                    "I'm guessing that at the age of 34, she simply decided she fancied a crack at being a celebrity"

                    I'm sure you are right in this. As well as controlling (somewhat) how this comes out, as it sounds like it was about to do anyway.

                    I think it's a fair call on saying she has something of an exhibitionist streak. Partly in choosing this way of earning some cash (which wasn't her only option, though probably the most quickly lucrative one), then also choosing to write about it, even if anonymously.
                    In some ways it's suprising she managed to keep quiet about her own identity for so long, given that she has written best selling books, that are generally acknowledged to be of a good standard. The temptation to say "that was me!" must have been huge.

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                      #11
                      Doctor Love

                      Why on Earth... wrote:
                      I hope her colleagues and bosses are OK about.
                      Interesting that you'd focus on this aspect. I say, interesting that you would focus on this aspect.

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                        #12
                        Doctor Love

                        Wyatt's bang-on tho.

                        It would be atrocious if her career is ruined over this.

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                          Doctor Love

                          "A spokesman for her employer, the University of Bristol, said: "This aspect of Dr Magnanti's past is not relevant to her current role at the university."

                          The spokesman added that Dr Magnanti's revelations would not affect her chances of future employment with the university.

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