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Billy Smart, Jr.

Smart was a familiar figure in the gossip columns of the 1950s and 1960s as a well-known performer and eligible bachelor: his publicised liaisons included celebrities such as Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, and Shirley Bassey.

Nury Vittachi

Vittachi started his journalism career on Morning Telegraph in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" (see red envelope) and "Spice Trader" for the South China Morning Post until 1997.


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Dan Gross

Dan Gross is an American journalist who writes a gossip column for the Philadelphia Daily News.

Hugo Rifkind

He joined The Times in 2005, taking over the gossip column ("People") from Andrew Pierce.