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He's the mysterious young protégé of Alan Jones who vanished in a cloud of innuendo. Now in London with an heiress girlfriend, he answers the question everyone in high society has been asking...
As the enigmatic protégé of broadcaster Alan Jones, Jake Thrupp was an endless source of gossip for society scribes, whose innuendo-laden dispatches noted how he was 'by Jones' side... constantly'.
As the enigmatic protégé of veteran broadcaster Alan Jones (right), young producer Jake Thrupp (left) was an endless source of gossip for society scribes for years Jake left Sydney ('a cut-throat town' where jealousy is 'rampant') and moved to England - where Jones, a former teacher and Wallabies coach, had lived in the early 1970s and where he once had a brush with the law in 1988. While Jake's move to Britain might be viewed by those with a jaundiced eye as well-timed given that Jones was charged last year with multiple sex offences (he has pleaded not guilty), he maintains it was always a 'long-harboured ambition to study in the UK'.
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