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| • | "She dumps her Prada bag in the studio where we are to photograph her, slides out of her Ralph Lauren sweater, and lights a Marlboro", Time s of London, Dec. 10, '95 |
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| • | "I am, after all, a woman of letters and thought the whole place totally cool, fabulous and happening until I discovered cigarettes cost Pounds 4 a packet", Sunday Times (UK), Jan. 26, '97 |
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| • | "Dinner was held in the Elgin marbles room in the British Museum, which was all very nice, but we weren't allowed to smoke in there. Absolutely ridiculous - it's not as if the wretched things are going to catch fire. So I and a few other culprits had to keep popping out for a sneaky cigarette around the back", Sunday Times (UK), Oct. 12, '97 |
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| • | "After a short stop for a cigarette, I sped back [to] the house and walked indoors with flushed cheeks", Sunday Times (UK), Jan. 4, '98 |
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| • | "Could she smoke? Ms. Palmer-Tomkinson asked nervously. Alas, she could not. This was, after all, the Oxford-Cambridge Club. ... Taking a drag on a cigarette", New York Times, May 2, '99
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| • | "she smokes and drinks", Scotland on Sunday (UK), May 2, '99 |
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| • | "she was desperate for a cigarette", Daily Record (UK), May 3, '99 |
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| • | "I got to know other residents of the rehab clinic by hanging out in the pagoda, the only permitted smoking area on site", Daily Mail (UK), May 6, '99 |
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| • | "Tara travelled alone across the Atlantic to face her demons. Wearing no make-up and fiddling nervously with her bags, she was met at Phoenix airport by a male staff member from The Meadows clinic and told him: 'I'm dying for a ciggie. They wouldn't let me smoke at all on the flight'", Daily Telegraph (Australia), May 8, '99 |
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| • | "Could she smoke? Palmer-Tomkinson asked nervously. Alas, she could not. This was, after all, the Oxford-Cambridge Club. ... Taking a drag on a cigarette after lunch", San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9, '99 |
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| • | "Smoking is my last remaining bad habit, but my new year's resolution is to give it up altogether", The Sunday Times (UK), Dec. 19, '99
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| • | "Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has already quit drink and drugs ... now she's trying to give up cigarettes, too. Tara has been selected as the face of National No Smoking Day and swears she's trying to stub out her 25-a-day habit. The diarist and celebrity, who went through a high-profile battle against drug and drink abuse last year, did not sound too confident of beating her tobacco craving, however. Speaking at the launch of the Nicorette-sponsored Change Your Life Challenge at London's Hammersmith Palais - designed to encourage smokers to give up - she confessed: 'I've given up quite a lot recently. I would like to quit so I will give it a go'", Scottish Daily Record, Mar. 2, '00 |
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| • | "Tara Palmer-Tomkinson launched the 17th annual No Smoking Day by stubbing out a giant cigarette.", PR Newswire, Mar. 7, '00
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| • | "I was smoking about 40", This Morning, Carlton Television (UK), Mar. 8, '00 |
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| • | "I'm trying, not too successfully, to give up smoking...I've actually cut down so enormously on my fag consumption that I was asked to promote an antismoking product last week", Sunday Times (UK), Mar. 12, '00
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| • | "That just leaves the fags. It's still so far so bad on the kicking the gaspers front, I'm afraid, but then every girl needs at least one vice", Sunday Times (UK), Mar. 19, '00 |
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| • | "she chuckles, lighting the first of many Marlboro Lights.", "she says quietly, lighting another cigarette.", Sunday Express magazine (UK), Sep. 10, '00 |
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| • | her sister is quoted as saying (about their school days) that Tara always got into trouble: "Yet again, she'd be caught having a smoke in the games room, or dyeing her hair pink", Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Magazine supplement) (UK), Feb. 24, '01 |
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| • | "Tara ponces a cigarette", Loaded (UK), Jun. '01 |
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| • | "she was openly smoking a large, hand-made cigarette. Made from extra-length rolling papers with a bright blue cardboard filter wedged in the top, it looked nothing like the Marlboro Lights she usually takes to parties. In fact, even to the casual observer, it bore all the hallmarks of a typical cannabis joint. Miss Palmer-Tomkinson...is adamant that she was only smoking normal tobacco...Even Miss Palmer-Tomkinson admitted: 'I cannot pretend it doesn't look like a spliff'. Her explanation was that she had been rolling her own tobacco for several months under pressure from her boyfriend. 'I am a Marlboro Lights smoker...I want to give up because my boyfriend can't stand the smell but said he wouldn't mind if I rolled my own'", Mail on Sunday (UK), Jul. 8, '01 |
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| • | "society girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, photographed smoking a roll-your-own cigarette, denies it contained marijuana. 'I am a Marlboro Lights smoker. I want to give up because my boyfriend can't stand the smell but said he wouldn't mind if I rolled my own... I feel guilt and shame even though I know I haven't done anything wrong - and that's horrible.' Indeed it is. I feel a little guilty myself, studying the picture of Tara's spliff-like cigarette. It reminds me of one handed to me through the window of a cab in Kingston, Jamaica, by a cheery, dazed-looking youth at traffic lights. My two companions and I paid him five dollars, thinking we were encouraging local cigarette makers, and lit up the stogy for a laugh'", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 9, '01 |
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| • | "Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, erstwhile It Girl, was photographed stuck in traffic and smoking a large, hand-rolled cigarette which, to the casual observer, bore a remarkable resemblance to a joint. Palmer-Tomkinson swiftly scotched the suggestion, explaining that she had been forced to switch from her trademark Marlboro Lights to roll-ups after her boyfriend complained about the smell. 'It was such a big one because I couldn't do the little ones, which are so fiddly, and I put a filter in the end otherwise it gets all wet and disgusting'", The Guardian (UK), Jul. 10, '01
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| • | "What are your bad habits? Smoking.", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Jul. 21, '01 |
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| • | "She hesitates and says: 'I wasn't a pretty sight. I'd thrown up and I was covered in burns, because I couldn't reach the ashtray so I put my cigarettes out on my hand. If you use a lot of coke, it makes you very numb, so I used to blister myself when I got in a hot bath because I couldn't feel it'", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 6, '01 |
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| • | "We used to sneak out of our respective schools to meet for cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 7, '01 |
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| • | "smoking a clumsily hand-rolled cigarette", London Evening Standard (UK), May 31, '02
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| • | "Tara is wriggling around in the shallows most days (no different to breaking the ice on the school swimming pool), coping happily with short rations and damp mattresses (at least not horsehair), complaining only about the absence of fags", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 30, '02 |
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| • | frequent references to her nicotine cravings in the jungle survival series, "I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!" (ITV) (UK), Aug./Sep. '02 |
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| • | "A more pressing question is whether Tara will be able to survive another seven days in the Australian jungle without fags among the lavish attentions of spiders, snakes, Uri and Darren", Scotland on Sunday (UK), Sep. 1, '02 |
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| • | smoked in the jungle survival series, "I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!" (ITV) (UK), Sep. 2, '02 |
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| • | "When P-T asked the silent model for a cigarette there were suddenly signs of life on planet McAndrew", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 5, '02 |
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| • | "When Miss Palmer-Tomkinson moaned about not having any cigarettes and stormed off, [fellow contestant Nell McAndrew] told her: 'If you can't survive on what you've been given, then you leave and that's it'", Daily Mail (UK), Sep. 5, '02 |
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| • | "her unfulfilled longings for sex and cigarettes reduced her to childlike tears and tantrums", Sunday Express (UK), Sep. 8, '02 |
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| • | "She later admitted to a friend that her addiction to cocaine had become so bad that she stubbed out cigarettes on her hand to avoid having to find an ashtray", The Observer (UK), Sep. 8, '02
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| • | "[Fellow jungle contestant Nell McAndrew] About the second day in, Tara was really upset, struggling and craving cigarettes," News of the World (UK), Sep. 8, '02
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| • | "Much of the problems he puts down to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Darren Day's withdrawal from nicotine", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 10, '02 |
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| • | "Cigarette-addict", The Mirror (UK), Sep. '02
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| • | "[Fellow jungle contestant Christine Hamilton] [Day One] Already she is desperate for a cigarette and is given some nicotine patches. [Day Three] Tara is in desperate need of nicotine and says she can't stay the week without cigarettes, but doesn't want to be seen as a spoilt kid throwing her toys out of the pram. In a sweet gesture, Rhona [Cameron] makes her a fake fag from a piece of bark. She happily draws on it", Sunday Express (UK), Sept. 15, '02 |
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| • | "[Fellow jungle contestant Christine Hamilton] [Day 8] She is having another nicotine dip. [Day 9] Tara was desperate to leave but she was placated with more cigarettes", Daily Express (UK), Sep. 16, '02 |
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| • | "But even the most ardent class warrior was hard put not to feel a twinge of something - pity, empathy, grudging admiration - as she repeatedly gritted her teeth, sans make-up, sans tobacco, sans safety-nets of any type, on the gruesomely fascinating I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here ... before rehab in the Arizona desert, following the cocaine overdose in her flat which left her lying close to death, stubbing out cigarettes on her hands because she couldn't reach the ashtray", The Observer (UK), Oct. 20, '02 |
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| • | "her craving for cigarettes reached boiling point. She had been using nicotine patches, but ended up convincing Nigel and Nell to give up their luxury items so she could get her hands on the real thing", her personal website, '02
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| • | "I could give up smoking for the hundredth time, but I think I'll give up giving things up", The Times (UK), Mar. 17, '03
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| • | "I'm so looking forward to a chocolate pudding and a cigarette, and staying in hotels", Sunday Mirror (UK), Apr. 27, '03
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| • | "[on the show 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here'] last year Tara pleaded for just a handful of ciggies", Daily Record (UK), Apr. 30, '03 |
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| • | "Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was telling me how desperate she got in the camp last year on 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', that she was rifling through cameramen's bins for cigarette stubs", Daily Record (UK), Apr. 30, '03 |
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| • | "I know how bad our clothes stank after the first show - because I have kept my own jungle suit, unwashed, in our basement. It reeks of the camp fire, the mud, Tara's cigarettes and damp canvas", Daily Record (UK), May 10, '03 |
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| • | "smokes, drinks and drives like Emerson Fittipaldi", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jun. 6, '03
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| • | "Chain-smoking Tara Palmer Tomkinson is to be the new face of Nicorette. Tara signed a deal to promote the anti-smoking treatment despite often lighting up herself. Part of the deal includes a lifetime's supply of Nicorette patches. And in her trademark husky voice - which owes much to her fondness for Marlboro Lights - she promised to do her best to kick the weed. Tara said: 'I like nothing more than a challenge, so God knows I'm trying. I'm single at the moment, so I'm hoping it will help me find a man with nice fresh breath.' Her last attempt to quit smoking was in 2000 after she went into rehab and successfully kicked her cocaine habit. And the 31-year-old admitted that at her lowest point while addicted to the drug, she would stub out cigarettes on her hand rather than look for an ashtray", Sunday Mail (UK), Jun. 22, '03 |
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| • | "Retired It-girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is defiantly refusing to give up smoking despite becoming the new face of Nicorette...'I love smoking and I said that when I signed up with them. I don't know why people are making such a big deal about it. I never said I would give up, I just agreed to the deal'", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 10, '03 |
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| • | "Our old friend Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, the ageing It-girl who recently signed a lucrative deal to promote Nicorette's anti-smoking products, is back in the news. (Well, the gossip columns.) It seems that TP-T, who has also been used to publicise No Smoking Day, is unable to give up her favourite Marlboro Lights. Tara was seen in Selfridge's café last week lighting up in the no-smoking area. An observer noted, 'A waitress had to tell her move her to a nearby table. She was almost chain-smoking and over the next 15 minutes got through three.'", Daily Telegraph, Jul. 29, '03
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| • | "It is with heavy hearts that we dole out a Cut the Crap to our favourite It Girl, Tara PalmerTomkinson. She's been the face of Nicorette for only a few weeks but already she has been caught lighting up. An onlooker in London's Selfridges store reports: 'Tara came into the cafe with a male companion and lit a cig.' At least try to practice what you preach please Tara", Daily Star (The Goss gossip column) (UK), Jul. 30, '03 |
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| • | "this week, she got herself into trouble by being caught chain-smoking in a department store, despite having just recently agreed to front a campaign for Nicorette patches. Aside from smoking, she includes streaking among her other favourite pastimes", The Guardian (UK), Jul. 31, '03
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| • | "At less than four inches high, it is hard to find a more recognisable fashion accessory. From Kate Moss to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson...the white and gold box of white sticks has been a constant companion. No more. Marlboro Lights, along with all other cigarettes claiming to be 'mild', 'light' or 'low tar', are to be banned from sale under the 'lights' banner next month under new laws from the European Union", The Observer (UK), Aug. 24, '03
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| • | "Tara Palmer Tomkinson's stint fronting a quit-smoking campaign didn't convince her - she's still puffing away happily. She lit up as she yacked on her phone outside the Richard Ward salon in central London - and showed off her toned tummy and a sparkly G-string", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 2, '03 |
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| • | "Tara, 32, wearing a skimpy bikini, gave an impressive display as she hit the beach at Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast. First she threw her arms back, plunged her hands into the sand and arched her spine to perform a perfect crab position. She then did a series of cartwheels along the shore and a handstand. Sadly, she spoiled her super-fit image by lighting up a cigarette", The Mirror (UK), Jan. 23, '04 |
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| • | "Tara recently got herself into trouble for chain-smoking in a department store, despite having just agreed to front a campaign for Nicorette patches", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 25, '04 |
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| • | "My last memory of cocaine is of me hunched over a toilet bowl, vomiting; of lying on the sofa unable to reach the telephone which was just a few feet away; of seeing burns on my hands from where I had stubbed out my cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 28, '04 |
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| • | "In the bar, Tara has a coffee, a fag, and a plate of chips - her current addictions", The Times (UK), Jul. 17, '04 |
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| • | "When fag fan Tara Palmer-Tomkinson became the face of a stop-smoking treatment, she promised to try and give up her Marlboros. But despite being offered a lifetime's supply of Nicorette patches, Tara was spotted lighting up during the anti-smoking campaign", Sunday Mirror (UK), Aug. 1, '04
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| • | "It is easier to give up cocaine than cigarettes...I don't have them by my bed. I'm not, like, early in the morning and I don't smoke the whole cigarette down to the butt. I'm the most uneconomical person; I don't know why I smoke... they have to be multicoloured so they match my outfits... those multicoloured ones are just so elegant...(How long after you took the money from Nicorette did you start smoking again?) While I was cashing the cheque!... I had a rather naughty one in my dressing-room and I know that's not allowed... When you introduced me as Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, correctly, a woman who smokes 20-a-day, it does fill me with shame. I really don't like the fact that I smoke, but I'm so undisciplined", "What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson" (BBC1 TV), Jun. 24, '05 |
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| • | "I like to smoke different coloured cigarettes to match my outfits", Sunday Mail (UK), Jul. 17, '05
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| • | "Currently filming Cold Turkey for Channel 4 - a documentary in which she tries to quit smoking", Daily Express (Saturday magazine) (UK), Nov. 26, '05 |
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| • | "Catwalk queen Sophie [Anderton] is also set to star in New Year Channel 4 show Cold Turkey, along with It Girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. In it, the girls will resort to extreme measures in a bid to kick their habit, including smoking continually until they both throw up", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Dec. 21, '05
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| • | "[TPT and Sophie Anderton] are both up for becoming the face and teeth for a teeth-whitening company, Teethwhite. And with the fact that both appeared on the Channel 4 show, Cold Turkey on Tuesday night, which saw them trying to give up smoking, they could probably do with some help ridding themselves of the tobacco stains", InTheNews (UK), Jan. 5, '06
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| • | "[Tara] also sneakily told us the truth behind Channel 4stop-smoking show, Cold Turkey, on which she and model Sophie Anderton, 28, were supposed to give up the cigs. 'I used to sneak off for secret fags behind closed doors', she confessed. 'I thought the show would use hypnosis but it wasn't like that. I still smoke. Honestly, it was so stressful trying to give up I felt like smoking crack by the end of the show', she joked", The Mirror (3am gossip column) (UK), Jan. 13, '06
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| • | "there's still one addiction Tara has left to beat: nicotine. She recently took part in Channel 4's Cold Turkey to beat the habit, but told the 3am girls how she nipped off for sneaky fags during filming", Sky News (UK), Jan. 13, '06
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| • | "Life's a real drag for stars Vic Reeves and Tara Palmer Tomkinson, who prove smoking really isn't cool. Despite once being the face of National No Smoking Day and enduring aversion therapy in Channel 4's Cold Turkey, Tara, 34, can't kick the habit. And retail therapy didn't work for the stressed-out It Girl, who dropped her clutch of designer shopping bags to light up after a taxing time at the cool Richard Ward hair salon. She confessed: 'I'm chewing nicotine gum like it's going out of fashion. I tried not having fags in the house and lasted an hour. I'm not ready for my halo'", w/pic holding, Daily Star (UK), Mar. 22, '06 |
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| • | "I need a cigarette before I go on stage and a Martini as soon as I come off", Sunday Mirror (UK), Mar. 4, '07
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| • | "Yes I get p***ed, I get merry, I slur my words. I smoke too much, I drink too much", Anorak (UK), Apr. 13, '07
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| • | "revealed a flat packet of cocktail cigarettes amongst the contents of her bag, saying 'If you're going to smoke, at least smoke chic ones'", The Alan Titchmarsh Show, ITV1 (UK), Oct. 17, '07 |
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| • | "having a smoke outside the Ivy, London", Daily Mirror (UK), Oct. 23, '07
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| • | "stretches out an elegant, well-tanned arm to reach for a cigarette... has 'people', such as Rene who hands Tara her cigarettes and finds her phone and is in charge of hair and make-up... flounces her way through the photoshoot looking rather sexy, and spends the rest of the time dashing off to smoke and pose for photos with the builders next door, who can't believe their eyes", Irish Independent (Ireland), Sep. 28, '08
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| • | "Last thing at night I always have a cigarette and then say my prayers", Sunday Express (S magazine), Sep. 28, '08 |
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| • | "it was 'lack of sex and nicotine' that has driven Tara into such a foul and hysterical frame of mind", Tarapt.com
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