So now we know. Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger and author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, finally unmasked herself this week – as a now Bristol-based medical research scientist, Brooke Magnanti.

As we revealed three years ago, Belle was our Belle, who during an online interview fondly recalled Friday nights at her grandmother’s, Jewish youth summer camps and felafel in Israel.

Her career as a courtesan behind her, she told the Sunday Times that she had taken it up after running out of money as a student. “My mother’s family are Jewish: there’s this hoarding thing, saving, being prepared — if you’re in debt, somebody could come and knock at your door and take it all away tomorrow.”

When she spoke to us, she mentioned that she used to enjoy visiting a London synagogue somewhere along the Jubilee Line — and that she also had a Jewish client who used to pay for her to throw pillows at him.

The two, we assure you, are not connected.