The players themselves are generally likable and don't produce kiss-and-tell tabloid headlines or tales of conspicuously vulgar consumption.

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But he said the public-interest defence would not protect kiss-and-tell "celebrity lover" stories.

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His former foreign minister, Maxime Bernier, held his seat by a landslide, surviving a kiss-and-tell book by a former girlfriend whose links to gangsters had prompted his resignation.

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One sharp pin in Softbank's formerly inflated image came in the summer of 1997 with the publication of The Distorted Management of Softbank, a kiss-and-tell expos by an ex-Softbank employee.

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