If there is any one person reponsible for the birth of celebrity culture, it is the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Patton Dempster (1941-2007). From the early '60s to the mid '80s he was the editor of 'Dempster's Diary' on the Daily Mail. His diary, with its scurrilous revelations about the great, the good, and the not-so good, was the only page to read. For many years, for many people, Dempster was the Daily Mail. In this riveting book, Tim Willis charts Dempster's bibulous journey through old Fleet Street and society as a tragic-comic romp. In so doing, he provides a portrait of an age.