Paper Monitor
11:05 UK time, Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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This morning in the newsagent, Paper Monitor felt like applauding.
A teaser on the front page of the Daily Telegraph for a story inside was a marvellous example of the sub-editor's craft.
It ran thus:
Diarmuid Gavin, the celebrity gardener, has disclosed how he banished a stalker by arranging a "sting" operation with the help of Alan Titchmarsh.
Paper Monitor cannot be the only reader who grabbed the periodical from the stands and turned straight to page three for the
It transpires that Mr Gavin, best known for Gardener's World, Home Front In The Garden and Strictly Come Dancing, had been harassed by an obsessed fan who followed him on-set and confronted his pregnant wife.
"We organised a sting operation at a flower show," he tells the paper. "Alan, me and some ´óÏó´«Ã½ producers tried to lure her in. She always positioned herself right in front of the camera.
"Once she was there, we had her."
After she was confronted in front of the cameras, the stalking ceased, according to Mr Gavin.
Paper Monitor is very happy that this troubling episode is over. But this column cannot help but picture the two gardening presenters, best known for their gentle bonhomie, angrily facing down the stalker in the manner of Mr Jeremy Kyle.
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