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13:32 UK time, Friday, 14 October 2011

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Paper Monitor occasionally observes that one of the most satisfying things in journalism is the ripples from one's work, the very notion that people are actually reading and caring.

Sadly for most journalists that's usually when people take umbrage. In the umbrage corner this week are Marina Hyde and Myleene Klass.

Hyde, in her Lost in Showbiz column in the Guardian, seems to have suggested that La Klass, when claiming she had pilfered monogrammed toilet roll from the Vatican, had been a little economical with the actualities.

Klass, a former reality popstrel, television presenter and role model for mothers everywhere, also suggested she had checked into hospital under a false name to avoid preferential treatment when having her baby.

Klass has come back at Hyde with a picture of the toilet roll in question, as well as a hospital discharge sheet bearing the name "Angela Quinn". These ripostes, for some reason not clearly explained, were carried on the Daily Mirror's 3am gossip page.

But Hyde is not going to let it lie. She has done a bit of digging and established that the toilet roll pictured [emblazoned with the letter "R"] is not from the inner recesses of the Vatican and the logo is probably just commercial branding.

And on the point of the special treatment, Hyde argues that the doctors and nurses dealing with Klass would in any case have her real name on her medical notes.

There's only one way to settle this, as Harry Hill would say:

Fight! Fight! Fight!

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