In early 1991, having had a few drinks in The Bulldog, my friend Chris Criddle spotted a poster for an Alternative Miss Brighton competition and suggested that he make a costume and that I should wear it. And so Miss Divine Retribution was born… A month or so later in a big top at Brighton Station, Simon Fanshawe, was compere with Lily Savage, Philip Salon a judge, Hugh Jelly as cabaret and a huge audience, I appeared from the back of the tent to Ima Sumak… and won! The prize was cash and two weeks in Gran Canaria.