Consequently, the spotlight is hogged by Alexander, who shimmies across the floor, droops like a lovelorn dandy and gazes soulfully at the front row, where Salome and her friends are gazing back.
Pugh's father, Simon, confirmed his son, a barman and Huddersfield University student, was involved in the incident.
Alexander made clear the Liberal Democrats' deep unease at the prime minister's plan when he warned of the dangers posed by those who "put anti-European ideology ahead of our national interest".
But Simon Cowell made a fleeting appearance at the talent show's glitzy launch event in London on Thursday – and thanked the media for making him "loads of money".
"The whole-life tariff is against all principles of international law as it denies any possibility of reform of rehabilitation," says Bhatt Murphy's Simon Creighton, the solicitor representing the prisoners at the European court.
When asked to respond to Simon Cowell's recent comment that Clarkson "started to fight against what made her successful … one minute she wants to make pop records, and then she doesn't," she laughs loudly again, but there's a distinct flash of anger as she says: "Everyone's aware that My Life Would Suck Without You and Already Gone were huge pop hits, right?
Labour's Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, talks "a lot of sense on Europe", he said.
Gwyneth Paltrow's coming … she's going to see my bits!!! Michelle Olley's performance diary The late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen induced writer Michelle Olley to lie naked in a glass box in 2001 as the coup de theatre of a fashion show.
For Herbert Girardet, the author of a dozen books on urban theory, this isn't the most urgent concern.
But Danny Alexander, the Treasury chief secretary, was less insouciant saying " Obviously, if something has caused offence, obviously that was not right.
Charlotte looks after guests in the day, Simon at night, where the often-raucous (but non-compulsory) communal dinners provide a wonderful way of making friends and picking up the local gossip.
