'I didn't know I was starting a life where I'd be asked to do three impossible things before breakfast, and be sworn at by four celebrities by lunch. I just thought, hey, I've got a job on a tabloid.' Sharon Marshall was a tabloid reporter for ten years. Along the way she saw and did some Very Bad Things. She also had a spectacularly lousy love life. It took the entire decade to realise the two may be connected. In her hilariously honest memoirs she reveals what really goes on behind the scenes at a major tabloid newspaper. What lengths will a tabloid hack go to, just to get the story? What do celebrities (secretly) do to get into the headlines? And can a job which involves fighting with popstars, pretending to be a swinger and provoking a fuming Jeremy Paxman ever make you marriage material?
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`A hilarious and gossipy book. Thank god she never worked for me!' --Piers Morgan
'Hilariously honest. 4 Stars' --Look magazine
'A rip-roaring account of her time on Fleet Street. 4 stars' --News of the World
'Hilariously honest. 4 Stars' --Look magazine
'A rip-roaring account of her time on Fleet Street. 4 stars' --News of the World
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Sharon Marshall presents on THIS MORNING and writes a dating column for the SUN.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Jane Mack
Format:Paperback
I'm writing this at 5.30am having just finished reading 'Tabloid Girl'. It was such fun I couldn't put it down. Having worked in the media myself, albeit only on the periphery of the lifestyle that Sharon Marshall writes about, I know it's all true but it's still a bit shocking when it's actually spelled out. Anyway, I'm off now to read the morning tabloids to try and spot the stories planted by the 'close friends', the 'sources close to XXX' and the 'industry insiders'. If you're the sort who's inclined to believe what you read in the papers, you'll wise up after finishing this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Brilliant, just loved it and couldn't put it down. If you want to find out how they get the stories in the tabloids, this is the book for you. Not Dickens, not Jackie Collins just a really fun read and VERY informative.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This looked like a required read of a subject we were researching, but according to her testimony in the Leveson inquiry, these 'stories' are just that, just 'stories', just a pack of embellished stories that have in no way been verified or investigated. Fair enough, but anyone could create such a work of fiction, only this is not how the book is being promoted on the cover, where it is promoted, seemingly, as fact - 'Tabloid Girl, a true Story'. 'In her hilariously honest memoirs she reveals what really goes on behind the scenes at a major tabloid newspaper' ? 'A rip-roaring account of her time on Fleet Street. 4 stars' -News of the World ?
Second to the content misrepresentations, Media personalities have also been named in places through the text, thought this rather out of order given her recent admission that this book, even in the opinion of the author herself, is just vastly elaborated hearsay, covered with 'dramatisation' and 'topspin' or 'colour' as she likes to call it...but as Lord Leveson would have it, 'lies'.
Second to the content misrepresentations, Media personalities have also been named in places through the text, thought this rather out of order given her recent admission that this book, even in the opinion of the author herself, is just vastly elaborated hearsay, covered with 'dramatisation' and 'topspin' or 'colour' as she likes to call it...but as Lord Leveson would have it, 'lies'.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun easy and honest read - interesting if you followed Leveson
Having worked at a national newspaper (not as a journalist) I didn't find Sharon's shocking tales as hard to believe as your regular office worker, however I am not convinced she... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Hannahr1902
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring tabloid life
It is claimed to be a true story based on the experiences Sharon Marshall - the writer - had when working as a tabloid journalist. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Blue
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fab train ride read
This book was just the ticket for my commute to and from work on a crowded, often delayed, train. It was hilariously funny, shocking and most of all hard to put down. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Peppermint Sal
3.0 out of 5 stars
See Sharon Marshall on the Leveson enquiry - this book is not the...
I've just watched Sharon Marshall giving evidence to the Leveson enquiry [...]It's clear that this book is mostly made up. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Howler
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant tale of life as a tabloid girl!
This is actually Sharon Marshall's second foray into book writing; she co-authored Tara Palmer Tomkinson's book The Naughty Girls' Guide To Life. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Leah Graham
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cautious with the truth
I knew Sharon before she was the tabloid girl she became.
It's a period of her life that she's tippexed out giving the impression that she went straight from local... Read more
It's a period of her life that she's tippexed out giving the impression that she went straight from local... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Simon Rockman
5.0 out of 5 stars
READ ALL ABOUT IT !!!!!! LIFE ON A TABLOID.....
so relevant at present time - gives a really realistic and funny insight into the cons/ scams and relentless pressure for a hack on a tabloid. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Susan M M M M M
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reasonable
Another book about gossip, re: Celebs.
Good read, a little boring in places, not interested in Sharon's lovelife, but well interwoven at times. Read more
Good read, a little boring in places, not interested in Sharon's lovelife, but well interwoven at times. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2011 by sharon53
5.0 out of 5 stars
HILARIOUS
I really loved reading this, it opens the lid about what goes on behind the scenes at a tabloid newspaper. You will never believe another news story you read. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2011 by Audders
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bridget Jones in the newsroom
I tore through Tabloid Girl at speed, and reading it certainly made a nice break from a glum, academic book I'd been plodding through at the same time. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2010 by Nicola
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