Brooke Magnanti, a scientist from Bristol who specialises in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology, has been exposed as Belle de Jour – the author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl from 2005.

Brooke has a unique position in the working world as an author-scientist-prostitute – so the tools of her trades are a computer (or typewriter), a microscope and….. well… use your imagination.

The author, who now works at the Bristol Institute of Child Health, went on the Game to fund her studies for a PhD in London. I wonder what her fellow white-coated colleagues had to say when she turned up for work today?