Richard Desmond was surprisingly unforthcoming at Monday's 15-minute unveiling of his latest philanthropic effort, the Health Lottery. So Monkey was surprised to see the famously spiky media tycoon turn up on Jeff Randall's Sky News programme just hours later. It didn't take long for Randall to go off-script, however, asking Desmond whether Channel 5's forthcoming reality TV show set in a Soho lesbian bar was his idea. To which the Red Hot TV owner replied: "Definitely not! But I shall be watching it with, with, er ... and watching the viewing figures." Watching with a cushion on his lap, perhaps?
