"It's good for them sometimes just to try to pretend everything is normal, " he said.

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In the bathroom a little while later, we are brushing our teeth when Lamby saunters in, calm, like your college roommate the day after an acid trip, acting like everything is normal.

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"Everything is normal, " he told AP.

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Not to worry, say officials, now everything is "normal" and Farooq is on his way.

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But Hollande, the self-styled President Normal, is doing everything he can not to draw attention to himself.

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However, everything is different in that, unlike a normal non-crisis media interview, you have no margin for error.

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He admitted the revelations had been "particularly bad for his family" but the 68-year-old added "as far as F1 is concerned, everything has gone on (as normal)".

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"There's a generation which is used to a culture in which it's normal that everything has become a commodity, " she says.

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