George Michael's rememberances

HarperCollins has put together a million-plus deal that will see unsold piles of George Michael's autobiography be shipped from Waterstones to The Book People warehouses sometime after next Christmas.

Actually, quite touchingly for a supertstar autobiography, Michael is intending to write it all himself. So, at the very least, we'll finally get to see if repeated heavy use of cannabis does screw the memory up.

Now that Rupert Murdoch's paying a large sum to George for his life story, it'll be interesting to see if The Sun changes its attitude towards Michael in the coming months.

Andy Stephens, who manages George, is promising an unalloyed work:

"People aren't stupid. They're beginning to notice that the truth is more interesting than the stories the press come up with."

Given that the stories in the press involve enormous amounts of drug consumption, a sex life to rival Captain Jack's and the odd spot of cottaging, the mind does boggle as to what could possibly be more interesting than that.