Andrew Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie's burlesque group The Satanic Sluts have scored £2.4m of equivalent advertising space following the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross debacle, according to reputation monitoring firm Ebiquity Newslive. That's 9,570 column centimetres of hot national press action...
And to throw a bucket of cold water over any readers excited by that last item, Pelican PR has been hired to launch the world's first waterproof sock. Yes, really. The Greater Manchester-based consultancy has been hired by SealSkinz Sport to promote the groundbreaking socks...
Last week's Flack took to task a PR campaign by Travelodge's Shakila Ahmed. We repeated a blogger's claim that she'd got regional phrase definitions wrong. Ahmed called us to point out all phrases were taken from experts and that Travelodge would not mistake the word 'piazza' for a Spanish word, as reported. Fair enough, we made a 'jaffa' (jaffa cake = mistake in Cockney rhyming slang).