I also religiously wore the green leopard skin when I posed for Adrian George, the illustrator and painter in his Bayswater attic flat. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough space for me to stand on my head there. Adrian once drew me sitting in a deckchair and he captured me perfectly. I was young at the time and I looked pretty vacant in the drawing. Adrian was my Svengali at the time. He even helped me get a job as the gossip columnist on David Bailey's Ritz Newspaper in the late Seventies. Adrian also inspired me to invent a character called Jonti in "Frantic", my novel about the early Seventies. Jonti got Alice, the book's heroine a job, which was true to life.
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