But if the public has been forgiving, will the tabloid press be so also?
While Hawk has been dragged through the tabloid press with his latest divorce, he has kept his image clean.
How heartwarming it is that the sword of truth and the defence of society are in the hands of the tabloid press.
Her many romances have ensured her presence in the tabloid press, including a high-profile relationship with U2's Adam Clayton, to whom she was once engaged.
The tabloid press often failed to show "consistent respect for the dignity and equality of women", and there is a "tendency to sexualise and demean" women.
In short, like other personae in the Murdochian drama, she scarcely exists outside the appetites of the tabloid press and there, you might expect, she would remain, as safe a standby as Christine Keeler was.
Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press.
In a witness statement at his appearance at the Leveson Inquiry in November, Mr Jefferies told of a "frenzied campaign to blacken his character" by the tabloid press which had "decided he was guilty of the murder".
Nevertheless, they caused an uproar, on the Tory backbenches and in the tabloid press: even though crime has broadly been falling for over a decade, surveys affirm that Britons fret more than others about law and order.
The arrival in Britain this week of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the world's top Islamic scholars, drew furious denunciations from some members of Parliament and the tabloid press.
How do we stop these tabloid excesses but without restricting press freedom?
This forced the closure of the News of the World tabloid and prompted an inquiry into British press standards, led by Lord Justice Leveson.
Tonight on Decision Time on BBC Radio 4 I chair a discussion with a tabloid editor, the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a campaigner for Hacked Off, a former Culture Secretary and a senior mandarin.
Last November, he introduced her to the public by taking her to Berlin's press gala, which got him on the front page of Bild, Germany's leading tabloid.
The Leveson Report examined the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
The Leveson Inquiry was set up by Mr Cameron to examine the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
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