But spare a thought for the good residents of Rochdale, who have to live with the acrid stench of this scandal festered by the prurience of social media, and a town which will no longer be famous for the Biggest Aspidistra in the World.
In 1944, no longer as famous or as popular as he once was, suspected of Communist sympathies, and on trial for transporting a young actress across state lines for immoral purposes, Chaplin, Ackroyd tells us, "had deep faith in his own abilities to persevere and to overcome all impediments.
Popular Publications was the biggest pulp publisher, which helped their titles last a little longer, but Famous Fantastic Mysteries finally ceased publication in 1953, only a couple of years before the last of the pulps ceased publication.
Those days are long gone, in part because Grant is no longer the immensely famous figure he once was.
There seemed little doubt, as Le Monde, the French daily, put it some days ago, that Mozart is no longer the most famous Austrian.
The EU's reaction to the upheavals in the Arab world, and particularly to the Libyan crisis, has been humiliatingly divided and ineffective…The question for outsiders needing to know what Europe thinks about world events is no longer Henry Kissinger's famous "Who do I call?" but "Why bother to call?"The full column can be read here.
Diego Armando #Maradona is no longer the most famous person in Argentina as Jorge Mario Bergoglioo becomes first Latin American #Pope — Mark Boultwood (@GAdv_Boulty) 13 Mar 13 The Argentinian #NewPope once shook hands with Diego #Maradona, thus he has been touched by The Hand of God for many years already.
Brazil legend Pele spent longer on the famous turf fulfilling half-time promotional duties than Liverpool's 34-year-old captain did after he was sent on to salvage a faltering performance.
Many traditional British fruit and vegetables may no longer be grown, famous dishes are banned as "unhygienic," and other national practices are ruled out as contrary to the principle of "convergence" on which progression to the European superstate is based.
