That’s what Ashley Dupré did, and it’s been the making of her. Since being named as the prostitute who led to the downfall of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Ashley Dupré has become a megastar. She can’t even leave her house anymore without people recognising her and shouting encouraging messages like “I know you! You’re that whore!” and “Hey Little Miss Grubbyknickers! Here’s some money! Eat this!”

In fact Ashley Dupré is now so famous that she’s got her own episode of 20/20 coming up where she gets to reveal that she doesn’t feel responsible for Eliot Spitzer’s resignation, the emotions she experienced as the scandal unfolded and the way that she feels ‘connected’ to Eliot Spitzer’s wife – which we think might be code for crabs or syphilis or something, though we couldn’t say for certain.

We have to tip our hat to ABC at the moment. We don’t know how it’s doing it, but somehow it’s managing to find all the stories that everybody cared about half a year ago but don’t any more and give them all super-long documentaries for no apparent reason whatsoever. ABC, you deserve a medal.

Seriously, thanks to you we’ve learnt all about Peter Cook’s divorce from Christie Brinkley several months after it stopped being interesting, and we’ve learnt all about the pregnant man long after he stopped being even vaguely controversial – so what now? Oh, that whole ‘Eliot Spitzer banging a whore’ thing! Nobody’s thought about that since about April, so it must be time to drag it all out back into the open again, right?

Apparently so. Despite doing her best to lay low since being implicated in the vice ring that brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer by only being endlessly discussed by Donald Trump and appearing on a low-rent soft pornography DVD and almost getting her own TV show, Ashley Dupré has finally decided to break the silence that we’re told she’s apparently been keeping on a special edition of 20/20.

Perfect. This Ashley Dupré interview will have something for everyone, provided that a) you’re into the human interest side of political scandals, b) you’ve been in a coma since April and all of this still seems like news to you and c) prostitutes! Woo!

So what shocking and still completely newsworthy nuggets of fact does Ashley Dupré reveal in her 20/20 interview? ABC has more. And remember Ashley, extra points if you can phrase your answer in an unfortunate way:

Dupré told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that she does not feel responsible for Spitzer’s downfall. “If it wasn’t me, it would have been someone else,” she said. “I was doing my job. I don’t feel that I brought him down.”

Very good. That was an impressively unfortunate way for a prostitute to discuss one of her clients. Full marks, Ashley.

But what of the future? Well, even though she’s so famous that she could probably live quite comfortably on a handful of blowjobs a year now, in the interview Ashley Dupré reveals that she has actually quit whoring to concentrate on establishing her singing career full-time.

It’s foolish for Ashley Dupré to want to switch from being a prostitute to being a pop star – the two professions are so far apart. After all, being a pop star involves brutal, near-constant degredation that saps your will to live and often leads to habitual drug use and grotty bunk-ups with middle-aged men who promise that they’ll help your career and… oh, wait.

Ashley Dupré’s going to be a brilliant pop star.

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The interview is to be broadcast tonight – a fact which has got Christie Brinkley into a flap. Christie Brinkley has tried to take a restraining order out against Peter Cook because he’s due to have their children this weekend, and she’s worried that he’ll spend that entire weekend showing them his interview.

But a judge has rejected the restraining order, partly because Peter Cook plans to take the children on a trip this weekend. But what Christie Brinkley doesn’t know is that the trip is to the television department of an electrical goods store, where the children will see their father explaining what a cold-hearted witch their mother is on 50 giant HDTV screens at once, and all in crystal-clear surround sound. Eat that, Uptown Girl!

What sort of a world do we live in when a divorced man who had extramarital sex with a teenager can’t even go on TV and whine that he only did it because his wife didn’t hug him without repercussions, eh?

It makes us feel for Peter Cook, it really does. True, his marriage to supermodel Christie Brinkley may have ended when he shagged an 18-year-old girl he met at a toyshop and then started spending $3,000 on porn a month, but that doesn’t mean he’s not allowed his own highly-publicised television interview where he blames Christie Brinkley for everything, does it?

That interview is broadcast tonight, and it already looks a doozy. Not least because Peter Cook gets to check his self-awareness at the door and try to explain to the world that he’s not a pervert, but also because there’s a bit in it where he tears up and calls all the stuff he’s been accused of “the elephant in the room for my kids” even though – if we were Peter Cook’s children – we’d quite like an elephant in the room to distract us from the mental image of our dad constantly beating himself off in front of the computer where we do our homework.

However, two people who won’t be watching Peter Cook’s Christie Brinkley interview are Brinkley children Sailor and Jack. The main reason that they won’t be watching the interview is because they’re young and all the close-up shots of Barbara Walters‘ nodding cadaverous head will scar them for life, but also because Peter Cook is taking them away on a trip tonight to keep them away from the interview.

That’s not good enough for Christie Brinkley, though. She’s already sent a screechy retaliatory statement about Peter Cook after news of the interview got out, but now she’s followed that up by filing a restraining order attempting to keep Peter Cook away from the children in case he decides to show them the interview anyway.

But it was all in vain, because a judge has rejected the restraining order, giving Peter Cook’s attorney the perfect opportunity to call Christie Brinkley a stinkybum poohead in the process, as E! Online reports:

“They wanted to suspend Cook’s visitation for this coming weekend because they had word that there was going to be an interview with Barbara Walters tomorrow evening with Mr. Cook, and they didn’t want the children exposed to that,” Cook’s attorney, James Winkler, tells E! News. “It was a silly application. Obviously, there are TVs all over the place, and Mr. Cook had no intention of exposing his children to any interview.”

Yes, those children are never going to find anything out about that interview at all, unless they happen to watch TV, read a book, pick up a magazine or look at anything on the internet in the next few weeks. Talk about lucky escapes!

Having said that, though, we’re glad that Christie Brinkley’s restraining order against Peter Cook was rejected. Peter Cook would clearly never dream of sitting his children down and make them watch his TV interview. Because, come on, that’d really bite into his wanking time, wouldn’t it.