Top spin

Popular tabloid The Goss led the coverage of Marcus's story. Afterwards, they had a field day. Front page stories for four days. Meanwhile, inside they milked the events on so many levels. The quest for relatives provided rich ongoing narrative and it could have stopped there, but the story spun out to a quasi-medical study of skin on pages four and five, then a saucier feature on erectile tissue in men and women and a centre spread feature with a top skincare company on the physiology of skin and how to look after it.

Meanwhile, Marcus remained on ice.