What laughs they have in City Hall. The Mayor has been teasing his chief spin doctor Guto Harri by claiming he is a character in Exiled, a new novel by his wife Shireen Jilla.Harri was once the BBC’s New York correspondent and it just so happens that Jessie, Jilla’s hero, is a British expatriate in the Big Apple with a predilection for S&M: “Jessie was also naked, half-kneeling on either side of her ankles. He was holding a black whip, which he was lashing against her breasts … Do you know what it felt like to be allowed to whip Jessie’s balls with a leather belt?” No wonder Boris enjoyed the book, which Harri admits makes him nervous. “Boris keeps teasing me mercilessly that I am Jessie — and reads out passages from the book substituting Guto for Jessie and laughing to himself!” he says, while insisting that he is not Jessie. “I do not own a Gieves & Hawkes suit,” he says defensively. “I tend to wear Boss. And I was a foreign correspondent in New York, not a diplomat. And I have never worked for a sausage magnate or … Sorry I can’t give away the punchline of the story — but it’s not based on me.” Doth he protest too much ?
30 March 2011
I didn’t work for a sausage magnate and I don’t do S&M