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Imagine my surprise when I was clicking through The Guardian's picture slideshow of the Kate Moss Topshop launch, to see that I had made one of the photos. Yes, little ol' me. I feel rather like that guy whose bosses saw him at in the crowd of a cricket/football/whatever match on TV, when he should have been at work, and promptly fired him. Only in reverse. As in: I'd told my bosses that I'd gone to Oxford Street to cover the Kate Moss event - and look, here's evidence in the national press that I did! (Admittedly, the photos I came back with of crowds, queues and KM in the window might have given it away, too. But, still).

So, here we all were around 7.30pm, waiting with feverish anticipation (and on the part of foreign tourists: slight bemusement) for La Moss to appear in the window. And as for which one's me? Well, granted, it's a bit like 'Where's Wally?'. And the only reason I could actually spot myself was because the nice girl next to me in the crowd (who I got chatting to - turns out she was a journalist covering the event for People magazine) had very distinctive strawberry blonde hair and black Alice band. And if you can spot her, you'll see me. The brunette right at the edge of the frame (it looks like it's my grey arm that's sticking out with a camera in hand, but in fact it belongs to that girl next to me).

Ah, fame at last. Now I know how Kate Moss feels. Please, no pictures. Well, no more, at least.

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