"Perhaps the smell of his skin, something so fleeting, a little flicker, but definitely there,'' she says.

"Until that moment it had genuinely never crossed my mind that he was anything but a rival. The truth, I began to realize, was that he was a very good-looking young man, tall and slim, yet broad in the shoulders. A really strong body.'' [Bloomberg News]

Who is the politician, now outed as a total stud by his wife's juicy memoir? Here's a hint:

Nope, it's not Dame Helen Mirren, silly. It's another British hottie, former Prime Minister

Tony "The Looker" Blair!  

Apparently, the poor bastard's wife received a 1.5 million pound advance to write the garbage you read an excerpt from above... and below:

"This year I had been a little more circumspect and had not packed my contraceptive equipment, out of sheer embarrassment,'' she writes, referring to how security staff had inspected her bags during earlier visits.

"As usual up there, it had been bitterly cold, and what with one thing and another ... but then, I thought, I can't be. I'm too old. It must be the menopause.'' [Bloomberg]

All kidding aside, Cherie ain't a bad writer... it's just... it's just, you know... TMI, yo! 

"Speaking For Myself" by Cherie Blair is available now from Little Brown & Co. Try not to all leave Scanner for Amazon all at once, people...