![]() The brainless bimbo presenter who replaces Katie on the pastel-coloured sofa is also a type, insists Penny, just like Mike. 'I mean, Mike's love of kerb crawling, for instance. She names two well-known TV faces as well as a former radio colleague. But Mike's other characteristics come from other people.' Yes, the late arrival bit may have been true of him he was renowned for cutting it a bit fine. 'No, it's not Eamonn ,' says Penny, emphatically. Here is a man who habitually turns up five minutes before he's due on air and then publicly rubbishes the script he's been handed.Īfter one such outburst that day's producer muses to himself: 'Mike could easily have had a word in private but, no, he liked to puff up his already toady chest even more than it was already.' What about who you know? Take Katie's fellow presenter Mike, for instance. You know what they say: write about what you know.' Then I had a shot at another one, this time set in the radio industry, when I worked on Radio Trent. I started - but never finished - a book based in a newspaper office when I worked on the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 'I've been at GMTV for 15 years,' she says. We are sitting in a windowless cubby-hole somewhere deep within the bowels of GMTV, and Penny is keen topromote this second string to her bow. ![]() It is just after eight in the morning and her day's work is done. Or is it the longest suicide note in the history of the small screen A cloud passes over the face of the naturally sunny Miss Smith. So is Coming Up Next no more than a light-hearted work of fiction set in a world its author knows inside out? ![]() Katie goes on holiday and never returns to Hello Britain! She's been sacked. (For the record Penny has been in a monogamous relationship for almost seven years now.)įine, but pretty much most of Katie's other characteristics and opinions are shared with an author whose nickname in the corridors of GMTV is Punny Smith.īut it is nonetheless Katie's quirky sense of humour that is her ultimate downfall, the advertisers falling out of love with the Princess of Puns, as her editor witheringly dubs her, preferring instead someone who appeals more to the mothers of young children. 'For a start, she's slept her way to the top.' Set in the world of breakfast TV, its sassy, if flawed, heroine is Katie Fisher, a 40-something presenter on Hello Britain! with a fondness for excruciating puns, grand opera and the odd tipple, an ingrained aversion to marriage and babies and an all-pervading obsession with tidiness and order. It's also above-average sexy, stuffed with excruciating puns and a delicious opportunity for guessing on whom the characters are based. GMTV's Penny Smith has written her first novel.Ī comic roller coaster, Coming Up Next is exactly the sort of racy summer read you'd expect from the clever, funny, sharp Miss Smith. ![]() Remind you of anyone? Sorry, but GMTV presenter Penny Smith says the characters in her first novel are strictly fiction - honest! A puffed up male co-presenter on an ego trip. Penny for her thoughts: Ms Smith insists the protagonist in her novel isn't based on herĪ ditsy blonde with a fondness for puns and the bottle.
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