Britain's most senior auditor, who set up a judge-led review into the "sweetheart" multimillion-pound tax deals between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and corporations, appeared to undermine the process before it began by telling the country's most senior tax official that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".
He doesn't drink, isn't covered with tattoos, and lives quietly with his childhood sweetheart Emma Rhys-Jones and their baby daughter Alba.
A sweetheart of a woman and a talented director".
Serving 120 hours for assaulting a lavatory attendant in 2003 did nothing to slow the metamorphosis of Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud into Cheryl Cole, solo star and, for a short while, the nation's sweetheart.
She's as hard as nails and as brittle as pressed flowers, a mouthie from southie who, after getting fired from her dollar-store cashier job, tries to get work from her ex-teenage sweetheart Mikey – a man from the same mean streets as her, but who's become a successful doctor and upgraded to exclusive Chestnut Hill.
These were sweetheart deals that JP Morgan bragged about.
This came to a head in 2007 over the bleak My December, an album that opens with the girl who was meant to be America's sweetheart snarling " I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green" over grunge guitars, and ends with Irvine, a bare, flickering lightbulb of a ballad that sounds like a nervous breakdown in song form.
"Usually Patrick is on leave from 22 December up until new year, so he would be home for almost two weeks," she says of her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Gomes, the lead steward on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The $20 United States gold piece was given to Dixon by his sweetheart, Queenie Bennett.
He did not speak a word of English and he and his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Marina, enlisted in a Tayside college to pick up the basics.
A report by MPs on the Commons public accounts committee praised Mba for exposing the "sweetheart" deal and called for further scrutiny of HM Revenue's use of Ripa powers.
