Madame Arcati

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Madame Arcati is a British gossip blog, named after a character in the Noel Coward play Blithe Spirit: [1]. It has been featured in a number of national newspapers (e.g. [2]) and was awarded Time Out magazine's Website of the Week award in June 2007.

The blog has discussed newsreader Jon Snow, writer Allison Pearson and a wide range of other topics, most of them related to the private life and sexuality of media and showbiz personalities.

Quotes

"Madame Arcati is great fun, sort of the News of the World getting off with the TLS at a drag ball." Duncan Fallowell, Prospect magazine

"You may be clever and you may (sometimes) be shrewd, but your mind is diseased. If you were a young man, you would be arrested. Take my advice - get help." Walter Ellis, a Times obituarist

"Madame Arcati is a ... blogosphere celeb" Shane Richmond, Daily Telegraph

"It you like viciousness, the Madame Arcati blog is worth a butcher's. Indeed, so contentious are her comments about Sunday Times deputy editor [sic] Nick Hellen that Axegrinder's Anadin-popping lawyer has refused me permission to repeat a single word of them. Sorry about that." Press Gazette

"[A] mischievous media/arts commentator and gossip-monger..." The Atlantic Online, Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Dish