Ooh la la! The Sarkozy circus continues

It's day three of the Sarko and Carla show in the papers today and nude pics are a distant memory. The Guardian devotes six pages of G2, with 13 pictures, to the gorgeous Gallic first lady, while the Mail tones coverage down from yesterday's six pages and 17 pictures to a mere four pages and 10 pictures. Well done to the Sun, Mirror and Guardian for coming up with the fantastic headline "Je Thames" for the Sarkozys' smooching on board a London riverboat. And another shout out to the Mirror for explaining how impoverished Anglo-Saxons can get the Carla look on "le cheap" - with such glamorous items as a £35 Dorothy Perkins coat and a £15 TK Maxx bag. Over in the Mail, there's an in-depth photo study of how Gordon Brown botched his kiss with Carla and the lowdown on how Prince Philip copped an "Eiffel" of some of the other babes in Sarko's entourage. The Mail also fits in a gratuitous anti-BBC dig, slamming the corporation for pronouncing Sarkozy's name in three different ways. Even Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn is bewitched - but his ardour is reserved not for Carla but for Sarkozy himself, as he revels in the French president's eulogy of Britain. "As chat-ups go, it was impressive," notes Littlejohn. "You can see why Carla Bruni fell for him." And so Fleet Street recovers from its swoon as the Gallic lovebirds disappear back over La Manche. Don't be strangers, now.