Martha Stewart Stole From Prison

Martha Stewart - for those of you who don’t know - is an American version of Delia Smith. But where Delia spends her time away from cooking getting drunk and shouting at football matches, Martha likes to spend her free time being convicted of lying about a stock trade and going to prison.

Now there’s an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, where Martha Stewart admits that she stole from prison.

OK, it wasn’t as if Martha spent her time pushing keys into bars of
soap in prison. She smuggled some ginkgo pods out as she was released, in
order to grow the plant in her estate.

Elsewhere in the interview, Stewart revealed that her nickname in
the slammer was M. Diddy, and that she’s named a dog after "an
odd-looking lady with no hair" that was a fellow inmate at Alderson
prison.

She’s finished the first part of her sentence - the five month spell
in prison - and now she has to wear an electronic tag on her ankle to
monitor our movements for a further five months. She’s not a fan: "it irritates
you", she told the magazine.

Now she’s out of prison, Martha Stewart (Books) is rebuilding her status and
career by launching two brand-new television shows. First comes a
one-hour daytime show called Martha, then a spin-off to the Donald
Trump reality series The Apprentice. By acting as a steel-balled head
of a corporation - after all, that’s what Martha really is - might be enough
to move her public image away from her current spot as a
super-resourceful flouncy cooking lady.

And if it’s successful, it might not be too long before we in the UK
get to see The Apprentice: Delia Smith - Let’s Be ‘Avin’ Yer!

[story by Stuart Heritage]