Dibs

Even celebrity tell-alls have their sell-by dates. Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, is now trying to publicize his second memoir about life with the late royal. But at his latest signing, at a bookstore in the English town of Wrexham, Burrell attracted an audience of — count ‘em — five. “You may have been a royal’s butler but that doesn’t mean you can wear your high and almighty crown,” snickers AllHeadlineNews. His new book The Way We Were follows his 2003 title A Royal Duty. Burrell is clearly no genius when it comes to choosing titles. One belongs to a Barbra Streisand film and the other sounds vaguely associated with toilets. At the sparsely attended Wrexham event, “one of the five, a cheeky law student, then admitted he’d arrived at the signing as a dare and didn’t want the book,” according to The Sun. Who gets the last laugh? Burrell went from servant to millionaire with the publication of his first book. That was after being tried for theft in 2002 (case dismissed). In 2004, he aroused more attention (and loathing) by appearing on the British TV show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Early this year, Burrell appeared on another British TV show, Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes, in which he portrayed … Richard Gere.