You can take the girl out of the gutter...

Cherie cashes in on husband's fame with £1.5million memoirs' deal

She often complained that being the wife of Tony Blair was "like living in a goldfish bowl". But faced with the prospect of earning millions for her life story, Cherie Blair has shown she is more than willing to invade her own privacy if the price is right.

The former Prime Minister's wife has signed a £1.5million deal to write an "intimate" portrait of her family's life at Downing Street.