Gordon in the morning: All power to the Dumas

Is Gordon tiring of the tabloid life? He's started throwing about latin and literary references:

IT can only be a matter of time before ID star HARRY STYLES’ tattoo collection contains Latin.

And after hearing about the band’s clever contract, I think I’ve got the perfect phrase for him: “Omnes pro uno, unus pro omnibus”.

Alexandre Dumas’ coined the motto “All for one, one for all” in his novel The Three Musketeers.

Gordon, calm down - this is getting a wee bit highbrow for the column that is usually tracking who is having sex with whom. People might think you're some sort of intellectual. Wind it back it, man.

I know it well from the cartoon Dogtanian And The Muskehounds on TV when I was a nipper.

That's more like it.

Gordon rushed to the library after being inspired by One Direction's new contract:

It is the perfect summary for the legally binding document that Harry, LOUIS, LIAM, NIALL and ZAYN have signed — which basically means that if one jacks it in, all five suffer the same brutal financial punishment.
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[A source said] “If one of them walks away before then, then all five miss out on the money.

“They don’t miss out on a few quid either, we are talking millions.

“They all get on really well, but it would be the kind of deal that would see them through the worst aggro possible.”

Hmm. Isn't the problem with this supposedly genius bit of legal paperwork that, if someone gets so pissed off with being an origami song-and-dance act that they're prepared to walk away from a multi-million deal, they'd probably have reached the point where they'd see being able to quit and cause enormous pain to their former colleagues as a bit of a bonus.

Songwriter shot by handyman

Songwriter and producer Fabio Alonso Salgado was critically wounded in a shooting at his LA home on Friday. Salgado - who has worked with nearly every crossover Latin pop star including Gloria Estefan, Paula Rubino, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and Julio Iglesias - was believed to have been attacked by a long-serving employee. Francisco Oliveira was said by police to have been delivering blow to Salgado when he shot him in the back of the head; although the injuries were near-fatal, the songwriter was able to tell police what had happened to him.

A seven-times winner of the BMI Latin Songwriter of the Year, Salgado - who was widely known as Estefano - released his first solo work as a singer in 2005.