Liz Hoggard interviews Ann Summers chief Jacqueline Gold in today’s Independent, off the back of her more-than-generously giving away £200,000 on the new ITV show Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway. The piece is long on the (familiar) history of Jacqueline’s mould-breaking work at Ann Summers (which is very well covered in Jacqueline Gold’s autobiography) but very short on quotes and insights into her views on running a £140m pleasure empire. So for me that’s something of a missed opportunity. Worse is that the piece also makes a heinous (for me at least) factual error. Can you guess what it is?
Yes, it trots out the hoary old chestnut that “the Rampant Rabbit featured in Sex and the City”.
No, no, no, no, no and, for the umptieth time, no. The Rampant Rabbit was not in Sex And The City. This Vibratex Rabbit was the vibrator that turned Charlotte into a recluse.
Yes, they’re the same kind of vibrator, in the same way Pepsi and Coke are the same kind of cola, but Rampant Rabbit is not a catch-all for all kinds of rabbit just as Coke is not a catch-all for all kinds of cola.
Like Coke, Rampant Rabbit is a registered trademark, so it is not only factually but legally wrong to call other rabbit vibrators a “Rampant Rabbit.” So it is incorrect to say the Rampant Rabbit was featured in Sex And The City.
So let’s not get it wrong again, eh?
Maybe I should move to Tunbridge Wells.
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Man, I grew up in Tunbridge Wells and you so don’t want to go there. Though I suspect a lot of your customers come from there. Anyway, it’s my gig to say ‘I’m from Tunbridge Wells, and when I’m angry …’