Cuddly Paxo
SIR: In his tribute to Jeremy Paxman (January issue), John Lloyd refers to the latter's ‘roasting skills’.
I was lucky enough to encounter a much more benign Paxman. A good many years ago, I was speaking for an oil company on breakfast television.
The oil industry was being criticised for its pricing policy; I imagined I was about to be filleted by Paxman and was duly apprehensive. While I waited, it seemed likely that my only benefit would be the opportunity to gaze at his co-presenter, the lovely Jill Dando.
When Jeremy Paxman turned to me, his manner, far from being aggressive, was courteous throughout, and that of a man who just wanted to establish the facts of the matter.
When we had
