Category Archives: Publications

Amy Winehouse

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Amy Winehouse Article copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2007 Updated August 2011 It is a strange thing to be updating this article, having been genuinely saddened, as have been a great many people by the news that Amy Winehouse has indeed … Continue reading →

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Goldie Hawn

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Goldie Hawn Interview copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2005 Goldie Hawn is blonde, bubbly, giggly, girlish, and goofy.  She became famous in the 1960’s as a wide-eyed kooky kid in teeny weeny mini-skirts, first in ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In’ on … Continue reading →

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Peter Doherty

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Peter Doherty Interview Vogue Hommes International Spring Summer 2007 Copyright Victoria Mary Clarke When I arrived at Claridge’s, Pete Doherty was already there, elegant in a black Dior Homme cape and stack-heel boots.  Elegant, but nervous. I asked him if … Continue reading →

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Bob Geldof

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  Bob Geldof Interview L’Uomo Vogue Africa Issue copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2008 Bob Geldof is accustomed to feeding people.  Sometimes the people are starving, sometimes not.  Today, when he walks into his Chelsea office, he brings some chocolate cake … Continue reading →

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Xiaolan Zhao

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Xiaolan Zhao Interview copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2006 This article appeared in the Irish ‘Sunday Independent’ in 2006 Xiaolan Zhao did not intend to become a doctor. But she was born in China, and her career was chosen for her. … Continue reading →

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Dadi Janki

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Dadi Janki Interview copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2005 When I was a child, I adored my grandparents more than anything in the world.  The fact that they had been born in 1916 and had lived through the fight for Irish … Continue reading →

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Adi Roche

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Adi Roche Interview copyright Victoria Mary Clarke, 2004 Adi Roche was not somebody that I liked.  To be fair to her, she was not somebody that I had ever met.  I was judging her on an impression formed several years … Continue reading →

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Ali Hewson

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  President Hewson? Copyright Victoria Mary Clarke 2008 I have never given much thought to the Presidency of our glorious country, if the truth be told.  As a child, I had very little interest in politics, and as a teenager … Continue reading →

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