Most concerned 37-year-old Shahbaz Chaudhry, whose dysfunctional mental state led to his leaving the Big Brother house last week after threatening to kill himself on air.. Record numbers of viewers have complained about the latest series of Big Brother. The Law Lords’ judgments giving Melissa Miller a divorce settlement of £5m and Julia McFarlane £250,000 a year for life were widely regarded as the most significant for decades, recognising as they did that divorcing women should be compensated for giving up (sacrificing, as The Daily Telegraph surprisingly put it) careers after marriage.. Do the obsessive upholders of traditional values for whom the Daily Mail caters veer less from the straight and narrow than Sun readers trying to absorb page three and watch Big Brother at the same time?

This was the week in which, as the Daily Express described it, “Women win the divorce jackpot Husbands will be taken to the cleaners Now women rule”. It would be fascinating to know, for example, whether the propensity for divorce is greater among Telegraph than among Independent readers. The commissioner promises to prosecute those “identified in previous investigations who continue to commit these offences” Ouch.. If there is data about the divorce habits of readers of particular newspapers, I am unaware of it.

He’s told the paper’s finest that if they break the law, they will be out of a job. Could this sudden assiduousness in pursuing ethical journalism have anything to do with the recent report about illegal dealing in gen by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas? In Thomas’s arsenal is a dossier naming 305 journos who have used such tactics. I didn’t really expect to be asked and I’ve been in America so I don’t even know who they’ve got. So unless John Motson keeled over, I don’t think I would be there for the BBC.” Shame.We know where you…Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace has issued a stern warning to his hacks about paying dodgy detective agencies for private phone numbers, addresses and bank details. Popular Sandra has not so far been thought one of life’s natural columnists, so the contents will be awaited with interest.Please, give that man a mikeIt was reported recently that the BBC’s best soccer commentator, Barry Davies, would not be commentating on the World Cup. His admirers hoped that such stories would provoke some youth-obsessed TV exec to think again about the great man and offer him a microphone But sadly no such offer has been forthcoming.

“I’ve done 10 of them, but I’m hardly going this time,” says Davies. “I’m doing a few articles and going for the first part and then coming back to cover Wimbledon as I usually do. Her new signing? Sandra Howard – wife of former Tory leader Michael – who is to begin a column in Stella magazine in a fortnight. Really quite remarkably whiffy he was.” Letts is uncharacteristically discreet about the identity of the malodorous chap, but other London theatre critics have also privately noted the problem. Perhaps it’s time for a whip-round for some fragrant Parisian deodorant?Sandra Howard goes ‘Stella’Whatever next? After an extensive de-fluffing exercise that would be the envy of many a sheep-shearer, The Sunday Telegraph’s new editor, Patience Wheatcroft, has hired a blonde ex-model as a columnist. No transcripts are available, but by the time it had filtered down to the newsroom, her message was interpreted as: “Don’t worry about what Bert said It’s not policy and he was speaking out of turn.