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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Wetherspoon boss accuses Private Eye editor of 'fantasising' after the critic claimed he witnessed domestic violence in pub
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: As a team captain on Have I Got News For You, Ian Hislop enjoys bringing pompous politicians down a peg or two.
Hislop wrote back to Ms Picknett, describing his recent trip to a Welsh Wetherspoons, in which he'd allegedly seen a woman beating up her husband and witnessed a group of 'underage dealers trying to sell drugs for cheaper than the cut-price shots'. Prince Harry's old friend Alex Rayner went into battle for him last week in the row over charity Sentebale, suggesting that its chairman, Sophie Chandauka, failed to support Meghan over criticism as she 'had her nose put out of joint because she was not the most important woman of colour on stage' at a polo event. And this week public relations man Rayner, 46, playfully squared up to boxer David Haye, 44, at the charity International Restaurateurs' 8 Hand Dinner, sponsored by Visit Malta and Neft Vodka, at the Rosewood Hotel in London.
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