The Bodyguard?

Rebekah Brooks has had everything thrown at her since hacking scandal became a scandal, with the revelation that a private investigator had deleted answer phone messages on Milly Dowler’s phone so giving her distraught parents false hope that she was alive.

Yet through out this time, she walked tall by the man who made her his chief executive.

All manner of adjectives and probably abuse -you can hear something in that tape of her speaking to departing staff at the News of World though it is not clear what – has been thrown at her and still she seems unmoved, and her boss remains calm, even managing to smile.

Take your pick – Helen of Troy or medusa, perhaps a bit of both.

My guess is that a woman like Ms Brooks who has clearly made it on talent and hard work, whose backbone would put any man’s to shame, is seen by her boss as an ideal person to distract attention away from him as he plots his next move in his bid to realise his ambition of owning BSkyB.

At the moment, he seems to have got it right.