What a legend, Ms Jones! Liz looks back on some of her most memorable columns

My first column for YOU.  Incredibly, I was still happily married

March 2006 …then he did the dirty on me

October 2009 ostracised by the locals in Somerset

August 2010 sweet music with the Rock Star

September 2018 my very lonely big six-oh

CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER I never, ever envisioned the day I would do reality TV. But in 2014 I was being hounded by HMRC, and I saw this as my only way out of a deep hole. I threw up with stress every night in the loo. I had no idea what anyone was arguing about as, being deaf, I couldn’t hear a word. The day I got out, my agent called, said he had to see me… Bad news. I’d been sacked from a job I loved.

A TATTOO? WHY NOT! People think I do crazy things because I’ve too much time on my hands. I don’t. Getting a tattoo in 2012 was an assignment the same as any other. I guess I’m famous in the business for never saying no. As I was features editor on a daily newspaper for years, I always appreciated writers who did as they were told, never complained, instead of saying what one was famous for whining when asked to interview an author: ‘But the book’s really looong!’

DISASTER IN SOMALIA IN 2011 a humanitarian crisis was happening on the border of Kenya and Somalia. The editor asked me to go. Thinking it would be life-changing, I jumped at the chance. When I got there, someone in the UK started impersonating me on Twitter, saying, ‘Oh, I’ve lost my Vuitton suitcase.’ Then I fell out with the photographer as my deafness meant I needed two translators. And I wrestled an iron pipe off a child when he was beating a donkey…

MY SPAT WITH RIHANNA In 2013, this made all the big news bulletins in the US and was the most retweeted story for days. I had criticised her for drinking champagne from the bottle while in skimpy undies. My line was, well, most young women don’t have security guards to ensure they get home safely. She called me a ‘menopausal mess’. At least she didn’t say ‘postmenopausal’…