Gyles Brandreth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyles_Brandreth
Does he count? Should he be here? Like Sebastian Coe he was a celebrity before dabbling with the dark arts by becoming a Tory MP. Like Coe he was always a thoroughly unlikeable type (I was very much in the Ovett camp) before coming clean about his twisted outlook on life. And Coe is not represented here. I suppose it is because Coe is still technically a politician. And because Coe never came on like he was dressing as a Russell Grant tribute act, whilst gurning in an inexplicably self-satisfied way at the cameras and firing out an endless murky stream of fifth-form public school boy frippery. So Gyles, for your few years as a paid-up failed Tory politician, and your lifetime as a bit of a c#nt, you make the cut
(You wouldn't get that kind of lowest common denominator gimmickry from the Tories these days - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6900326.stm )