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JEREMY PAXMAN was hailed as the "lovely Jeremy" by organisers of last night's auction of short stories by wellknown authors in aid of Bookaid in Bloomsbury. That didn't stop the BBC's University Challenge quizmaster from treating the assembled grandees like a bunch of quivering students.
"Come on!" and "Get on with it!" he yelled, whenever the bidding slowed down. And he was equally bullish in his bidding, buying several works for himself. Despite some furious hand-waving, Paxo chickened out at Pounds 1,500 for the work he really wanted, four pages from award-winning novelist David Mitchell's notebook. He consoled himself by buying a drawing by Ian Rankin for Pounds 880. He later grumbled "that's a week's salary just gone".See the full content of this document
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