Minnie was due to arrive in an hour and the interview was going to take place face-to-face live at seven forty-eight, just after the commercial break. The network had been flagging it all day: ‘Tonight Minnie Maltravers speaks exclusively to the Seven Thirty News about that adoption.’Minnie’s people had sent over a new list of demands that made Barbra Streisand sound like a hermit.‘She wants her dressing room decorated with white roses and white curtains, it’s got to have an MP3 and DVD player,’ Alexa read incredulously from an email. ‘There are to be two boxes of Pop Tarts, a box of Fruit Loops and a “bowl of fresh tuna salad, with Hellmann’s mayo, eggs, relish and tuna (albacore, solid, white, in spring water)”. The only acceptable brand of water is Volvic.’ This is even madder than in Scotland. Are you sure this isn’t a joke?’‘I wish,’ said an ashen-faced Thea. She’d been up all night again, negotiating terms with Leanne, eventually triumphing by insisting that Minnie be not allowed to see the questions in advance.
