Irresistible Rise of the Converter ; so How Did a Boy From a School for Maladjusted Children Become the Favourite Friar of the Rich and Famous,Private Priest to the Blairs and the Lord Levy of the Roman Catholic Church?

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RORY BREMNER posed for the paparazzi. Roger Moore chatted to waiting reporters. The Duke and Duchess of Wessex waved to the crowd. Pop Idol's Darius Danesh burst into a impromptu song-and- dance routine.

It looked like just another Hello!style opening night in London's West End but the man choreographing the photocall for "A Night Under the Stars" was not Max Clifford. He was a short, bespectacled 50- year-old, wearing a plain black suit, dark shirt and a dog collar.

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Irresistible Rise of the Converter ; so How Did a Boy From a School for Maladjusted Children Become the Favourite Friar of the Rich and Famous,Private Priest to the Blairs and the Lord Levy of the Roman Catholic Church?

In the rarefied world of high Catholicism, Father Michael Seed is about as close as you can get to a celebrity cleric.

Although the Grazia-reading classes may not have heard of him until last weekend's revelation that he has been celebrating private Roman Catholic Masses for the Blairs in Downing Street, he is well- known in religious and Establishment circles as "the paparazzi priest".

Wherever he goes, politicians, pop star...

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