The Goss Girls

The Goss Girls is the collective title for British newspaper the Daily Star's Goss column written by the paper's showbiz editor Jessica Brown and reporter Sonja Stephen.

The daily column used to be called The Bitches but is now simply known as Goss. Daily Express owner Richard Desmond launched the column in August 2001. Their tag-line is "Britain's Most Rock'n'Roll Journalists". And they have lived up to this on numerous occasions, by becoming the story during their party reporting. Their tabloid counterparts are The 3AM Girls for the Daily Mirror and Gordon Smart who edits The Sun's Bizarre column.

Jessica Brown made front page headlines on her first week reporting for the paper after glamour model Katie Price flew into a rage and threatened to "cut" her face in Ibiza. Price had mistaken Jessica for someone who works with ex-husband Peter Andre.

Daily Mail reported: "Out-of-control Katie Price threatens to 'cut' woman's face during Ibiza alcohol binge" while the Daily Mirror's front page reported "Katie Price threatens to stab a clubber during boozy holiday in Ibiza".

The Goss' Shh

The Goss is famous for its 'Shh' section, which was formerly known as 'Hush Hush'. Each day, they write a mysterious clue about an anonymous celebrity scandal. Former Goss girls Amy Watts and Charli Morgan wrote about Daily Star Sunday columnist Joe Mott, during a long-running feud. Media Guardian reported: "Goss girls turn on columnist"

First Monkey brought you news of Daily Star music columnist Joe Mott's out of control blog, where he dissed his colleagues Amy Watts and Charli Morgan, who write the redtop's Goss column. Mott, who pens the Hot column, claimed one of the Goss girls "went commando" at a recent wedding and said they often need "the rod of correction" because of all their errors. Now, apparently, comes the exquisite revenge. Now this item has appeared as the Goss Girls' Hush Hush item in their column. It read: "THIS infamous columnist has a huge ego, but the same can't be said for the contents of his trousers. The sleazy hack's confidence has shrunk as well, after word spread around the showbiz world about his little problem. His brain must be just as tiny if he thinks he can sow his oats with a succession of journos without his secret getting out." Who can they be talking about?

External links

• The Goss website
• The Daily Mail reports out-of-control Katie Price threatens to 'cut' woman's face during Ibiza alcohol binge
• Daily Mirror reports on Katie Price threatening to stab Jessica Brown
• Goss on Twitter
• Russell Brand's stand-up about The Goss column
• Media Guardian reports on their feud with Joe Mott
• The Guardian celebrates the column's writing style