Max Clifford

The week in TV: Your Honor; Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour? and more

Everyman-on-the-edge Bryan Cranston breaks bad as a judge; David Harewood exposes Britain’s health inequalities. Plus, Max Clifford’s sordid story, and a personal story of revenge porn

Barbara Ellen

07, Mar, 2021 @9:30 AM

Max Clifford: The Fall of a Tabloid King review – scandal at the heart of Fleet Street

Though not quite a hagiography, this one-off documentary – heavy on archive clips – comes close to glamorising the way in which the serially abusive publicist operated

Lucy Mangan

01, Mar, 2021 @10:35 PM

TV tonight: Max Clifford’s survivors tell their stories

A feature-length film focuses on their long fight for justice. Plus: MasterChef is back. Here’s what to watch this evening

Ammar Kalia, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

01, Mar, 2021 @6:20 AM

Max Clifford's conviction for sex offences upheld

Publicist’s daughter continued legal challenge after his death in bid to clear his name

Jim Waterson media editor

02, Apr, 2019 @10:49 AM

Max Clifford ain’t my scamster, say PR folk | Letter

Letter: The disgraced publicist, with his fabricated stories, did a disservice to the honest public relations industry but had no lasting influence on it, says Jane Hammond

Letters

12, Dec, 2017 @7:42 PM

Max Clifford rewrote the rules of PR: a made-up story was as good as a real one

A compulsive liar who prided himself on knowing where the bodies were buried, with Max Clifford you could never rule anything out

Simon Hattenstone

10, Dec, 2017 @8:25 PM

Max Clifford obituary

Publicist involved in some of the most controversial exposés of the last 40 years

Stephen Bates

10, Dec, 2017 @6:28 PM

Max Clifford claims Paul Burrell has lied in high court case

The former royal butler has launched a £50,000 claim that the PR guru passed private information about him to ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks

Staff and agencies

26, Jan, 2016 @1:33 PM

Steve Brookstein, The X Factor’s first winner: ‘Simon Cowell is irrelevant’

It’s nearly a decade since Steve Brookstein became the first winner of The X Factor – not that you’d remember. His new memoir details the miseries of fleeting reality TV fame, and the Cowell-Clifford conspiracy that he believes killed his career

Decca Aitkenhead

05, Dec, 2014 @3:01 PM

Appeal court ruling on Max Clifford shows how far defendants can go | Joshua Rozenberg

Joshua Rozenberg: Clifford’s clowning and protestations of innocence during trial should not have led to an increased sentence, judges ruled

Joshua Rozenberg

12, Nov, 2014 @4:23 PM

PCC censures Sun for harassment after four calls on Max Clifford victim

Commission upholds woman's complaint

Roy Greenslade

15, Aug, 2014 @12:08 PM

Rolf Harris and Richard Littlejohn - time for the columnist to apologise

Roy Greenslade wonders whether the Daily Mail writer will take back his ill-advised words