La Cieca is frankly gobsmacked that Our Own Vicar of John Wakefield has remained mum about the most important sex scandal of the 21st century, and possibly in Western Civilization taken as a whole.  Definitive mezzo-soprano Anne Howells has apparently fingered author and TV presenter Clive James as her illicit lover.

James, whose name Ms. Howells cleverly veils as “Clyde” in her memoir, supposedly “invited her to his Docklands flat and, after they had shared a couple of bottles of wine, he peered across the table at her and said: ‘Be my mistress’.”

Howells responded: “All right, I’ll give it a go.”

La Cieca has obtained the following exclusive surveillance video of the pair’s first furtive meeting: