Dr. de Jour, I presume?

Anonymity is tricky to maintain, even on The Plashing Vole. It's harder still for successful bloggers, such as Belle de Jour, who even managed to produce books and a not-very-good ITV series based on her prostitution blog without being exposed (fnarr fnarr).

Turns out now that she's a serious research scientist, one who works at the appropriately-named (and important) BIRCH, and outed herself apparently from boredom, though I can't help thinking that the tabloids will have been on her tail (oo-er) for years now. She was a call girl to fund the closing stages of her PhD. Wish I'd thought of that. I was a (terrible) supply teacher and visiting lecturer at The Hegemon, which is prostitution of an entirely different kind.

Update: of course revelation was driven by the tabloids, in this case our friends at the Daily Goosestep:

"We went to the Times willingly, after the Mail had their reporters warned off my work premises by the police"