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This is just silly. The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model. It would be like searching for info about (UK supreme court president) Lady Hale by Googling “barmaid”.

Try instead searching for “Boris Johnson technology lessons”, or indeed “Boris Johnson thigh”. Has his team SEO’d that yet?

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> The last thing anyone would know about Arcuri is that she was very briefly a model.

Sky News: "Boris Johnson: 'No interest to declare' over links with former model Jennifer Arcuri"

The Mirror: "Boris Johnson 'had affair with ex-model Jennifer Arcuri while London mayor'"

The Sun: "Who is Jennifer Arcuri? Model connected to Boris Johnson"

The Independent: "Jennifer Arcuri: Boris Johnson repeatedly refuses to deny affair with ex-model awarded public funds and access"

Fair point. Looks like I read the wrong newspapers!

Anyway... BREAKING: this particular ex-model's just had her laptop stolen while she was in the UK... containing 6 years of emails, documents, photos and personal who-knows-what from the time when she was reportedly giving technology lessons to our now Prime Minister.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522877/Jennifer-Ar...

Arguably it should be the last thing anyone would know about Arcuri - treating everything else a woman in tech has done as irrelevant because she once modelled would normally be a fringe and controversial opinion, to put it lightly - but that's not how the press is framing this story.

In tabloid speak "model" has elements of "nudge nudge wink" here.

A story about Lady Hale is currently the top hit for me in Google News if I search for "barmaid".

He can SEO the "thigh" one with some sort of sentence along the lines "nobody ever got sick eating the thigh of a chlorinated American chicken!"

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