Bimbo

by Keith Waterhouse

Now it can be told. The biggest majority of the Debra Chase by Herself series in the Sunday Shocker , which I am sposed to of written, was a load of rubbish, a virago of lies from start to finish.'

Thus does Page Three celebrity Debra Chase set out to put the record straight about her life in the tabloid fast-lane and the early years when she was still known as Marjory Linda Chase, growing up in Seathorpe with her Dad and Step-Mum Babs, 'in those far-off days of the forgotten Seventies'.

Debra tells the story of her climb to stardom from the Donna Bella Rosa School of Fashion and how she met "The Sir", Sir Monty Pratt, the 'bonking baronet' who so adored her and who was so compromised by that story in the Shocker . She reveals the Debra Chase Diet Muffin Scandal and her part in it, as well as her on-off affair with hunky goal-ace, Brian Boffe.

By turns outrageously funny and uncannily affecting, BIMBO is a masterpiece of entertainment and virtuoso characterisation from one of our finest novelists.

304 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Keith Spencer Waterhouse CBE, was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

My opinion of this book depends a lot on what the author intended by it. I’m choosing to read it as a feminist book that features a woman who is ambitious, confident and direct (honestly admirable!!), while critiquing a society that would take advantage of her “air headedness” and judge her for being what everyone wants to be (hot!).
That being said, it’s probably actually meant to be a laugh at the expense of bimbos. Definitely fatphobic 👎🏻