Nigel Dempster (born 1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist known widely for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers including the Daily Express (1963-1971) and the Daily Mail (from 1971 to 2003) and Private Eye magazine. He left the Eye when Ian Hislop suceeded Richard Ingrams as editor, reportedly because Dempster thought that he should be in charge. As a result of the their differences he was nick-named 'Nigel Pratt-Dumpster' whenever he was subsequently mentioned.
His first wife (in 1971) was Countess Emma Magdalen de Bendern, a daughter of Count John Gerard de Bendern and the former Lady Patricia Sybil Douglas. Following their divorce in 1974, in 1977 Dempster married Lady Camilla Osborne, former wife of Robert John Brownlow Harris and a daughter of John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, and his second wife, Audrey Young, painter. Dempster and Lady Camilla divorced in 2002. By his second marriage, Dempster had a stepdaughter, Emily Kate Godolphin Harris (1972-), and a daughter, Louisa Beatrix Dempster (1979-).
Dempster retired from editing the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday diaries bearing his name in 2003 and now lives with Lady Camilla, who is helping nurse him through ill-health.
― acrobat, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)
Does the demise of the Dempster column signal the end of the aristocracy?
― acrobat, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)
He always made sure that every day his page featured a photo of a pretty socialite lady, doing a bit of shopping or something.
― blueski, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)
Now we have Amy Winehouse and Lindsay Lohan. I'm not happy and I'm not sad.
― acrobat, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)
I wonder what he thinks of Kate Middleton. I wonder what he thinks of Frank Lampard.
― acrobat, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)
He was a raffish and glamorous
no
― stevie, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)
Who is the Nigel Dempster of indie?
― acrobat, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)
Calum was great in retrospect, I think he would be received very differently these days
-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, July 6, 2007 4:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)
my bad
i thought you'd be all over this thread 4 weeks ago
― acrobat, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)
i got nothin'
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)
a hack you don't have an opinion on?!
― acrobat, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)
what am i, suzy?
― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)
SHIT RIP BIG MAN
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)
Seriously!
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)
spooky.
or have you been at the wiki again, dom?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)
I've hacked Sky News rolling news bar, yep.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)
BREAKING NEWS: PRIME MINISTER BROWN RENEWS CALLS TO BAN J$NOT
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)
Has this man died in vain? WHERE ARE THE TRIBUTES PEOPLE?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)
Virginia Tech students react to the news:
http://www.11alive.com/assetpool/images/07417101013_vatechvigil400.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)
The Muslim world hears:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/461/mourning.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)
Why I have mixed feelings about my mixed race baby 'I love my mixed race baby - so why does she feel so alien?' asks TV presenter Lowri Turner. 'Don't get me wrong, I love her...but when I turn to the mirror to admire us together, I am shocked'
This is higher up the website front page than Demp-death
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)
wow.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)
ah, i see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,,2120604,00.html
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)
wait a minute is Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman dead as well?
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)
Hanged himself in a shed after a moderation beef, pour one out
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 12 July 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)
RIP Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, heaven needed your warm Midlands vocal tones for its podcasts.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)
He would have wanted to go at the same time as the Demp. These things usually go in threes though, right?
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)
Prediction: DENNIS STAMP
DEATHWATCH:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/images/2006/04/11/wrestlemania_22_11_470x360.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)
ban british people on noisethreads mourning the death of talented journalists
-- strongohulkington, Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)
Strongo spitting a little TRUTH JUICE in the faces of the anti-Daily Mail masses there.
bruvs i'm the link here, it's gotta be mangan who goes next.
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)
Or the guy who played Adrian Mole in the 80s.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)
Or Rivers Cuomo
Or one of the dudes from Revenge of the Nerds
Nah jokes bruv, you're no bodrick.
anyway, RIP heaven's gossip column is gonna look amazing.
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)
ITEM: Alma Cogan and The Birdman of Alcatraz seen stumbling into a taxi at 3am last night after St Thomas Aquinas's birthday party.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)
"This is a song by a gay guy"
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)
OTM
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)
"According to those in the know Lady Diana Spencer, the Princess of Hearts herself, has been stepping out with none other than gangta rap bad boy Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace. My sources say that this one is going to be "Juicy""
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)