Can there be a more cosy television confessional than the Richard and Judy sofa?
Mrs Blair gives her first TV interview Channel 4’s King and Queen of daytime chat don’t do confrontational. Their show is all about empathy. The only cross word is likely to come from Judy Finnegan herself, rolling her eyes as her famously gaffe-prone husband and co-host puts his foot in it again. Little wonder then, that Cherie Blair chose Richard and Judy for her first television interview. The last time the prime minister’s wife spoke on live television it was at the height of the Bristol flats affair, when she had to tearfully explain to a hostile press pack that she was not “superwoman”. There would be no tears this time. Goldfish bowl Mrs Blair had broken her own self-imposed TV interview ban to plug her new book on prime ministerial spouses, The Goldfish Bowl. But as a media experience, this was not so much a goldfish bowl as a warm bath of mutual appreciation. The trio nattered away, and laughed, like old friends. For someone notoriously shy of the TV lens, Mrs Blair gave a tho
