Gyles Brandreth

You've got a wife.

You've got three kids.

We're moving on.

Never mind.

I mean, you're the guy who called this distinguished person of restricted growth a... I know it's very rude.

I feel I can almost get away with anything.

I know.

But rest assured, I won't push it too far.

So, here you are, the magazine.

What for you is the high point of that, of those five years in that magazine?

Was there a low point because you were sued or when you decided you had to sell?

And Anna Wintour was then what?

And what was your first hit, your first moment of, this is, I've made Vanity Fair my own, this is the interview with or the picture story with?

But you were there on the door welcoming them.

And in the early days, who were the biggest names or the most memorable?

Any difficult encounters, happy encounters?

But it's rather a good Bond film.

You'd hoped to have all of the James Bond, and you ended up with George Lazenby.

Who, in his claim to fame, had been doing an advertisement for chocolates, as I remember.

I didn't know that.