Media: Blonde Ambition Mariella Frostrup Has Not Only Got Her Own Prime Time Show on Channel 5 but Intends to Call All the Shots

Sanai, Darius, The Independent (London, England)

SHE IS deep-voiced, bold and occasionally bolshy, and she wants to publicise herself. So, three months ago, Mariella Frostrup formed her own production company, and, because names are a vital part of a brand's image, she called it Brazen Husky.

It was a smart move from a woman whose intelligence and guile have always sat uncomfortably with efforts by the tabloid press to categorise her as yet another, interchangeable, Met Bar blonde.

Ms Frostrup has, over the past few months, been in the news for an alleged romance with Chris Evans (false, say both sides), for being among the candidates to succeed Barry Norman on the BBC's Film 98 (still a possibility), and for …

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Publication information: Article title: Media: Blonde Ambition Mariella Frostrup Has Not Only Got Her Own Prime Time Show on Channel 5 but Intends to Call All the Shots. Contributors: Sanai, Darius - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: September 29, 1998. Page number: 15. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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