Escape Is Impossible

Among Julia Allison's many achievements, one stands out: the dating columnist landed a gig as editor-at-large of Star magazine, which consisted of reading the gossip blogs and then opining on television as if she knew the celebrities at the center of the week's scandal—and as if she had a job at Star. Her lucky successor—Allison's contract having expired after her sponsor Bonnie Fuller lost power at the celebrity gossip magazine—is charming Aussie Ben Widdicombe (left, with Horacio Silva of the Times.) More »