“If you close your eyes after reading his email, you can almost see Nicholas Hellen sitting at his desk, masturbating furiously, imagining he’s Carl Bernstein phoning John Mitchell during the Watergate scandal…  ‘Sir, this is Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, and I’m sorry to bother you but we’re running a story in tomorrow’s paper that we thought you should have a chance to comment on… and… um… we’d like a picture of you in a cocktail dress.’”

For the first in my soon-to-be critically acclaimed series of video interviews with people from the Book, I sat down with formerly pseudonymous sex blogger, turned journalist, turned soon-to-be New Yorker, turned Qik star, Zoe Margolis. I was supposed to be buying her lunch, but I forgot.

Subjects include: being outed by Nicolas Hellen, penises in Second Life, how often she gets laid post-outing, using Qik for noddies, why San Francisco is better than New York and so much more besides. It’s also pretty sweary so – yunno – you’ll probably want to use headphones at work.

Here’s how shit went down…

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