As a celebrity, I naturally get a huge number of calls on my time (though I admit that some of these are from people asking: "Alexei, will you please fuck off?").

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Elegiac stories of dignity and renunciation

LINDA TRIPP, who secretly taped Monica Lewinsky's confessions of her affair with President Bill Clinton, has passed a lie-detector test after allegations that the tapes might have been doctored.

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n My 40 years of rationalism have been overturned by one short, hilarious letter (14 January). The soul is immortal and the Great Ridiculer of Humbuggery is still at it.

Monica Rose, 45, the 'chirpy cockney' who starred in the 1960s television game shows Double Your Money and The Sky's The Limit, killed herself with an overdose of anti-depressants and tranquillisers while suffering from depression, an inquest in Leicester decided.

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