Drugs,hot-tub parties, escorts: it’s another perfect tabloid storm for former Co-op boss Paul Flowers. In his first newspaper interview since the initial scandal, or he explains that the problem is he’s too kind and generous
It was about 12 hours after the Sunday papers went to press final weekend that the Reverend Paul Flowers got in touch. “The Sunday Mirror has had a gentle recede at me nowadays,” began the email, inviting me to interview him about how he had ended up in the tabloids once more, and after yet another male prostitute secretly filmed him at what was described as a drug-fuelled party in his Salford home.
The double-page feature included a picture of the methodist minister and former chair of the Co-op bank asleep,half bare, with crisps balanced on each nipple, and the headline: The Crispal Methodist. It was a pun on the nickname he was given the first of the three times his peccadilloes have been publicly exposed in recent years,when he was caught on camera buying crystal meth in November 2013, six months after quitting the Co-op when a £1.5bn black hole was revealed in its balance books.
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Source: theguardian.com