Making accountancy sound interesting
A friend of mine apparently uses a website called FriendReunited. An acountant, he wrote a rather dull profile of himself which I decided to 'spice up'. You might enjoy it. We'll call him Peter Galloway....
Peter Galloway is a highly successful author and International Corporate Taxation specialist having made his first fortune in the 'dot.com' goldrush selling pornography to the Dutch through the popular 'gosh.com' website. He divides his time between homes in rural Warwickshire (Le Manoir aux Deux Doigts), London, Montserrat and New York.
Among his acclaimed and award winning literary output he is especially proud of his seminal work "Divorce: The Financial High-Ground" of which critics commented; "brilliantly witty... Galloway at his very best", New York Times; "side-splitting!" ;, Larry King Live, CNN; "A poignant yet stunningly amusing reflection on marriage in the 21st Century - superb!", Cherie Booth Blair writing in Cosmopolitan. Other titles include "Beating the Taxman - senseless!", "Office Politics and How to Control the Photocopier Budget", "Gordon Brown and Me", and his first autobiographical work "Sex in the Office: Between the Balance Sheets". Pete is currently working on a historical account of the early career as a ferret trainer of former Prime Minister, Alec Douglas Home, a close family friend.
Notwithstanding his opulent lifestyle, Pete has endured his share of tragedy when in the Montserrat volcanic crisis of 1997, only 35 rooms of what he calls his 'little island hideaway' were left habitable and he was forced to lay off 10% of his domestic staff.
He has two children and is now mercifully (but expensively) separated from their mother. Once romantically linked to actress Nicole Kidman, Pete is now 'unexpectedly back on the market', having commented in rare interview that 'our passion was just too intense to survive' and 'she was losing her looks anyway, Robbie was welcome to her. The only downside has been that my new workout video launch has had to be postponed!'
Having traded up from NHS Joe 90 specs pretty much as soon as he had a job, Pete notes that all the young trendies are now actually *paying* for identical designer frames clearly demonstrating their abject lack of originality! "It just goes to show the extent to which I was setting the style agenda even then." he laughs.
He didn't get to the recent school reunion which he says 'was a real bummer coz it'd be nice to meet up with all and sundry. Sadly I was shooting a profile with Melvyn Bragg that weekend of my charity work. Melvyn just loves the Caribbean and I didn't have the heart to insist on a Birmingham location.'.
The South Bank Show's "Peter Galloway: A life of giving" hits the small screen on BBC2 in the Spring.
