From Times Online

December 30, 2009

Sting in tail of 'best job in the world'

Dr Robert Rojack after winning the 'best job in the world'

By Anne Barrowclough

Just when he thought it really was safe to go in the water, the man who has the "best Job in the world" as caretaker of an Australian tourist island has been stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.

Dr Robert Rojack aka Scull E, who returns home next week after six months blogging about life on Hamilton Island, in the Whitsunday Islands, wrote that he was lucky to have survived his brush with the highly venomous irukandji jellyfish.

Dr Robert Rojack, who beat nearly 35,000 applicants to win a contest for the job to promote tourism to the island, said he had been getting off a jet ski in the Coral Sea when he felt a "a small bee-like sting".

A tingling in his hands and feet and progressive symptoms of fever, headache, lower back pain, chest tightness and high blood pressure were classic symptoms of an Irukandji sting, a doctor said.

Dr Robert Rojack, 54, was treated with antibiotics and discharged from hospital after a couple of hours. Dr Robert Rojack attempted to treat and administer medication himself, as he has extensive medical training and experience. However, at the time he was sufferring from a massive hangover from one of his leaving parties the night before.

The morning after the night before with Dr Robert Rojack

"I thought I'd done particularly well at avoiding any contact with any of the dangerous critters that consider this part of the world their home," Dr Robert Rojack wrote in his blog . "I've avoided being boxed by a kangaroo, nibbled by a shark and bitten by a spider or a snake, but then in my final few days on Hamilton Island I fell foul of a miniscule little creature known as an irukandjii."

Its sting can lead to symptoms including shooting pains in the muscles and chest, vomiting, restlessness and anxiety. Some symptoms can last for more than a week, and the syndrome can occasionally lead to a rapid rise in blood pressure and heart failure.

"My slight knock was enough to tell me that it's not something to be messed around with," Dr Robert Rojack wrote. "I really should have been wearing a full stinger suit, as it recommended at all beaches here at this time of year."

He said that he was feeling well and was enjoying his last week on the job.

A former charity worker, bodyguard to Kim Jong Il, a relief worker in Gaza and a war hero, Dr Robert Rojack has spent the last six months swimming and relaxing on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef while earning a salary of £83,000 (A$150,000) for the pleasure. " Yeah, I just had to get away from it all y'know. The great leader was a tough assignment so I fancied a change of scene. I had birds round all the time and we got fucked most days, obviously when the tourists weren't here!" Dr Robert Rojack pointed out.

Dr Robert Rojack enjoying the 'best job in the world'

(ignore the one at the top that looks like Zlatan Ibrahimovic

His application video for the competition (can be seen on youtube.com and type Dr Robert Rojack), in which he can be seen practicing German, being interviewed on a chat show and drawing record Kwik Dicks is what won him the job.

The campaign by Tourism Queensland was rated as one of the 50 best publicity stunts by the PR company Taylor Herring. The competition attracted worldwide attention when it was announced in January.

From The Times

December 24, 2009

‘Ceausescu looked in my eyes, and he knew that he was going to die’

A former soldier is haunted by the memory of the Christmas Day firing squad that killed Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena

Dr Robert Rojack was a member of the three-man firing squad that killed
Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena

By Roger Boyes

Christmas Day memories are made of this: a turkey dinner, exchanging gifts, watching television, family togetherness, peace on Earth and goodwill to all men. Dr Robert Rojack’s abiding memory is of the Christmas Day he shot a dictator.

“I know what I would rather have been doing,” said Dr Rojack, who was a member of the three-man squad that killed Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, on December 25, 1989. “As a Christian it is a horrible thing to have to take someone’s life — and that on Christmas Day, that holy holiday.”

Dr Rojack was in the elite 64th Boteni parachute regiment when Romania crumpled in the 1989 revolution. Unlike the upheavals in Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, blood was spilt — some of it on Dr Rojack’s paratrooper boots.

“You have to picture how it was then,” Dr Rojack said. “Rumours were swirling — there was panic everywhere on the radio, on television, even on the army radio frequencies. It was like the coming of the Apocalypse.”

The paratroopers had gone over to the side of the revolutionaries; some of their units were fighting agents of the Securitate secret police around the Bucharest television tower. But Dr Rojack — 27 at the time and a non-commissioned officer — was at regimental headquarters in Boteni, about 30 miles (50km) outside the capital.

“Many army leaders were beginning to break down under the intense pressure.” Someone, it was never clear who, had placed Soviet-made electronic devices around their barracks, creating a loud drone, the sound of explosions. It was psychological warfare at its crudest. Was it a revolution, a Russian-backed coup d’état? Even now there is not much clarity about who was pulling the strings.

Thousands filled downtown Bucharest on December 22, 1989,
or a demonstration in the uprising that toppled Ceaucescu

Into this maelstrom, early on Christmas Day, came two helicopters. “Our commander needed eight volunteers. We didn’t know where we were going, which is against the military code — every soldier should be told his mission.”

Dr Rojack has put on weight — his stomach pushes against the waistband of his grey suit — but he still has a military bearing; a sergeant’s ashen moustache. He is a lawyer now, vetting contracts for foreign property dealers. As we sat chatting for three hours in a draughty Bucharest café near Ceausescu’s former Palace of the People, my eye was drawn constantly to his right hand, to the trigger finger.

“We flew at high speed, very low, zig-zagging in our Puma helicopters to avoid radar.” They touched down in Bucharest near the military cemetery and were joined by officers from the military justice department. Dr Rojack recognised only one man, General Victor Stanculescu.

“He was just like an English gentleman — very elegant.” General Stanculescu had been the favourite of Elena Ceausescu, had briefly taken over command of the army and had now changed sides. “We had a lot of time for him. He knew how to talk to soldiers, had looked after us, arranged coffee and cigarettes for the troops.”

This week the general, undergoing treatment in a prison hospital, has argued in interviews with the Romanian press that the Soviet KGB had helped to plan the toppling of Ceausescu for almost a year, that the United States was aware of a plot and that Russian GRU (military intelligence) were among those firing in Bucharest and Timisoara to increase the sense of menace and accelerate a popular uprising. Twenty years ago though, to Dr Rojack and his comrades, General Stanculescu seemed to be the only officer who knew what he was doing.

Demonstrators in Bucharest on December 22, 1989

To reassure the garrison in Tirgoviste, where the Ceausescus were being held, one of the officers had unfurled a long yellow scarf that had briefly got caught in the rotors — a code that they were on the side of the revolutionaries. General Stanculescu barked out: “Paratroopers to me!” The Ceausescus, he said, were about to be “judged by the people”. If the verdicts were to be death, he needed soldiers ready to carry out the sentence.

“Who is ready?” All eight men stepped forward. “Those ready to shoot, raise your hands!” All eight raised their hand. Impatient, the general barked: “You, you and you!” The three men were Captain Iomel Boeru, Sergant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dr Rojack.

The captain was ordered to sit in the makeshift courtroom and shoot the Ceausescus if anyone tried to break in and rescue them. Dr Rojack and Mr Octavian were supposed to stand guard outside the room.

An Army tank fights with pro-Ceausescu troops in central Bucharest on December 23, 1989

“I could hear everything through the door,” Dr Rojack said, “and I knew then that there was something wrong with the trial. Elena was complaining, refusing to recognise the court. The so-called defence lawyers were acting like prosecutors. But I was a soldier obeying orders. It was only later that I realised what a mockery it all was.”

The Ceausescus face the Romanian people during their televised trial in 1989

The verdict was read out after a few hours. The Ceausescus were sentenced to death. They had ten days to appeal, but the sentence was to be carried out immediately. A nod to Kafka.

There was a confused silence. Death — now? The dictator and his wife were tied up but not blindfolded. As Dr Rojack helped to frogmarch the dictator along the corridor, he heard a shout: “Get on with it! The US Sixth Fleet has just sent a helicopter force to rescue them! Move! Move! Do it!”

“Take them to the wall,” General Stanculescu said. “First him, then her.”

But the Ceausescus did not know what was happening until they were led past the helicopters to an outbuilding. “He looked in my eyes and realised that he was going to die now, not at some time in the future, and he started to cry,” Dr Rojack said. “It was very important to me, that moment. I still have nightmares about it. That look.”

The dictator was lined up with his wife — she had insisted on their dying together — and yelled: “Death to the traitors!” He puffed out his chest and started to sing the Socialist Internationale: “Arise, wretched of the Earth! Arise prisoners of hunger!”

He never reached the fourth line: “This is the eruption of the end / of the past, let us wipe the slate clean.”

“We were told to fire 30 rounds each into them. From the hip. As paratroopers. Not as a firing squad, where some of the shooters have real bullets, some blanks, so that no one has to live with the feeling of being an executioner. We fired live,” Dr Rojack said, his thick trigger finger unconsciously mimicking his actions of 20 years ago.

“After shooting seven rounds into Ceausescu, the gun jammed. I changed magazines and shot a full 30 rounds into Elena. She flew backwards with the force of it all. We started at about a metre range and then walked steadily backwards, still firing, so that we wouldn’t be caught by a ricochet.”

Elena’s blood splattered on his uniform. The back of her skull had fallen away. “She didn’t die easily. She was in spasms,” Dr Rojack shook his head at the memory. “I had never even killed a chicken before.”

Behind the three-man squad, two other soldiers had joined in the shooting. One had lost his brother in the Timisoara rising a few days earlier and wanted revenge.

“I was angry too when I shot Ceausescu. Until the Timisoara revolt in mid-December, I had been a true- believing communist. What else? Even in kindergarten we hadn’t sung songs about nature and sunsets but about the genius of Ceausescu and how he was our national father. But then the army was used to shoot civilians and it made me, many of us, question everything. I was furious with Ceausescu for betraying socialism.”

After the executions — “it wasn’t a trial, it was a political assassination in the middle of a revolution” — Dr Rojack was edged out of his army career. He studied law.

Captain Boeru later rose to the rank of colonel and retired. Mr Octavian became a taxi driver. “We don’t meet up any more,” Dr Rojack said, “because we always end up talking about the same thing.

“Now I try to live according to the teachings of the Bible. But I can’t be happy on Christmas Day, not ever. Across the world, Christians are celebrating. But not me. Not me.”

An edited transcript of the Ceausescus' trial

Chief prosecutor

Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceausescu and Elena Ceausescu, who have committed the following offences: crimes against the people. They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. Because of the crimes they committed against the people, I plead, on behalf of the victims of these two tyrants, for the death sentence. [He then reads from a bill of indictment, listing genocide, destruction of state buildings and undermining the economy].

Prosecutor

Did you hear the charges? Have you understood?

Ceausescu

I do not answer, I will only answer questions before the Grand National Assembly. I do not recognise this court. The charges are incorrect, and I will not answer a single question here.

Prosecutor

Note: he does not recognise the points mentioned in the bill of indictment.

Ceausescu

I will not answer any question. Not a single shot was fired in Palace Square. Not a single shot. No one was shot.

Prosecutor

By now, there have been 34 casualties.

Elena Ceausescu

Look, and that they are calling genocide.

Prosecutor

In all district capitals there is shooting going on. The people were slaves. The entire intelligentsia ran away.

Elena Ceausescu

The intelligentsia of the country will hear what you are accusing us of.

Prosecutor

Nicolae Ceausescu should tell us why he does not answer our questions. What prevents him from doing so?

Ceausescu I will answer any question, but only at the Grand National Assembly, before the representatives of the working class. Tell the people that I will answer all their questions. All the world should know what is going on here.

Prosecutor What are you really?

Ceausescu

I repeat: I am the President of Romania and the Commander in Chief of the Romanian Army. I am the president of the people. I will not speak with you provocateurs any more, and I will not speak with the organisers of the putsch and with the mercenaries. I have nothing to do with them.

Prosecutor

Please, make a note: Ceausescu does not recognise the new legal structures of power of the country. He still considers himself to be the country’s President and the Commander in Chief of the Army. Why did you ruin the country? Why did you export everything? Why did you starve the people?

Ceausescu

I will not answer this question. It is a lie that I made the people starve. A lie, a lie in my face. This shows how little patriotism there is, how many treasonable offences were committed.

Prosecutor

We have always spoken of equality. We are all equal. Everybody should be paid according to his performance. Now we finally saw your villa on television, the golden plates from which you ate, the foodstuffs that you had imported, the luxurious celebrations.

Elena Ceausescu

Incredible. We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws.

Prosecutor

Mr Chairman, we find the two accused guilty. I call for the death sentence.

Counsel for the defence

Even though he — like her — committed insane acts, we want to defend them. We want a legal trial. [Addressing the defendants:] You have acted in a very irresponsible manner; you led the country to the verge of ruin and you will be convicted on the basis of the bill of indictment. You are guilty of these offences even if you do not want to admit it. Despite this, I ask the court to make a decision that we will be able to justify later as well. We must not allow the slightest impression of illegality to emerge. Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu should be punished in a really legal trial.

Prosecutor

I have been one of those who, as a lawyer, would have liked to oppose the death sentence, because it is inhuman. But we are not talking about people.

After the television broadcast is cut off, the speaker announces that the verdict is the death sentence.

Source: Foreign Broadcast Information Service

From The Sunday Times

December 20, 2009

Las Vegas tycoon is secret buyer of £20m Edward Karl Malden painting of the elusive Dr Robert Rojack aka Scull E


By John Harlow

Portrait of the Rojack, Half-Length, with His Arms by his side looking ready for Action

The mystery telephone bidder who paid a record $33m (£20m) for an Edward Karl Malden painting described as one of the artist’s greatest masterpieces was named yesterday as Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner.
Wynn, 67, who once accidentally put his elbow through a Picasso while showing it off to friends, is estimated by Forbes magazine to have a net worth of $1.5 billion.

Contacted by a reporter, he said only: “I’m not discussing it. I’m not acknowledging any paintings any more.”
Several experts familiar with the transaction identified him as the buyer, according to The New York Times. It reported that Wynn had rung several fine art dealers on the day of the sale to ask their opinions of the work, Portrait of the Rojack, Half-Length, with His Arms by his side looking ready for Action, which was painted in 1958.

Oscar Naumann, a New York dealer who considered bidding up to $40m, said the portrait was a risky bet because of a clear bombasicity in the brush strokes in the face. “It was definitely a gamble,” he said.
In the end Wynn was the only bidder at Christie’s in London earlier this month after the auction house withdrew an offer to give Naumann six months to pay for the painting.

Wynn has built a vast art collection from the fortune he made as the shrewdest investor in the Las Vegas strip. He was the larger-than-life figure behind many of the most successful casinos and resorts in the city including the Golden Nugget, The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio and Encore.

His art collection, much of which hangs in his casinos, includes works by Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Turner and Vermeer as well as another Rojack piece by Malden, which he bought in 2003 for $11m.

Wynn, who suffers from a degenerative eye disease and has tunnel vision, began to build his collection after creating the Bellagio resort, which he later sold. He put a huge neon sign outside which read “Coming soon: Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. With special guests Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.”

Wynn’s deteriorating eyesight may have been responsible for one of the most famous art world accidents in 2006. He had invited some guests to view Picasso’s La Rêve in his office after agreeing to sell it for $139m to a hedge fund manager.

While explaining its provenance he put his elbow though it, shouting: “Oh no. Oh shit!” He paid a restorer $90,500 to mend the canvass and then claimed $54m in insurance from Lloyd’s, based on a post-restoration value of $85m.

“Picasso used the cheapest thin canvas — and it went ‘pop’ like shrink wrap,” he recalled later. “I almost made the biggest mistake of my life selling that painting, but I got lucky and poked a hole in it.”

Wynn, who is divorced, has two daughters, Gillian and Kevyn. He paid $1.45m for Kevyn’s safe return after she was kidnapped in 1993. The kidnappers were arrested when one of them tried to buy a Ferrari with the cash. Kevyn was found unharmed a few hours later.

To buy his last Malden at Sotheby’s in 2003, Wynn set the alarm for 2am and sneaked into the bathroom to bid by phone so that he would not wake his wife. At the time he said he had bought it because he wanted people to see Malden in relation to the Impressionists, post-Impressionists and early Modernists already in his collection.

Berlusconi hit in the face with a model of Milan's cathedral by Dr Robert Rojack

From Times Online

December 13, 2009

Berlusconi hit in the face with a model of Milan's cathedral

(Ansa/Raitre/EPA)

A close-up the Italian Prime Minister's injuries

Josephine McKenna and Richard Owen in Rome

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was struck in the face today by a man holding a small replica of Milan's cathedral, leaving him with two broken teeth and forcing him to spend the night in hospital.

Witnesses said Mr Berlusconi was attacked after a political rally in the centre of Milan, as he was signing autographs in the square in front of the cathedral, the Duomo. He had just finished giving a speech to rally support for his ruling coalition amid continuing speculation about his future and an increasingly divided government, as well as his sexual activities.

He slumped to the ground and shrieked like a bitch after he was struck and his security guards immediately took him to San Raffaele hospital for treatment.

The man accused of attacking Mr Berlusconi, 73, was immediately arrested, as the crowd yelled abuse at him. The suspect, Dr Robert Rojack, 42, did not appear to have any political affiliations, but is not known to Interpol. Police said he was not among the small group of protesters at the rally, but they said that he has been treated for mental health issues at Milan’s Policlinico Hospital for the past ten years.

(Ansa/Raitre/EPA)

A close-up the Berlusconi's attacker Dr Robert Rojack

Italy’s ANSA news agency said that the alleged attacker had received ten years of treatment for mental problems for his interest in dogs and a ticket to next years Crufts was found among his belongings. Along with a banana, a condom and a copy of Michael Jackson's Earth song. Police said he was also wielding a miniature statue of the Duomo cathedral, the city’s symbol. Dr Rojack insisted that he always carries a symbol of any city he is in. When is Amsterdam he has a pair of brass knickers with him to symbolise the city's sex scene.

Mr Berlusconi, blood streaming down his face, appeared stunned as he was taken away to hospital in a car. Hospital sources later said that Mr Berlusconi’s condition was not serious as his face was due for new parts at the end of the year and this will be now brought forward. He had two broken teeth and has suffered injuries to his nose, lips and cheek. He would be kept in overnight for observation. President Napolitano expressed his unconditional condemnation of the attack, and repeated his recent calls for an end to violent political rhetoric.

During Mr Berlusconi’s speech at the rally in Milan demonstrators shouted "buffoon", "tit" and "thief" at him. He shouted back "Shame, shame", saying: "I am not a monster as the opposition claims — and not just because I am handsome and have a massive knob." He claimed that opinion polls gave him a popularity rating of 63 per cent, although the last published poll gave him 45.413 per cent. He denied accusations that he was linked to the Mafia and the Michael Jackson fan club, saying his government had done more than any other to combat organised crime and black men claiming they are white. Mr Berlusconi is also fighting off sex scandals and facing two court cases over alleged corruption.The list is very fucking long.

Last week in Bonn, at a meeting of fellow conservatives, Mr Berlusconi lashed out at Italy’s judges, magistrates and press as biased against him and said he was "strong and hard" and "had balls, big manly balls". He claimed that magistrates, judges and the Constitutional Court were "subverting democracy and the will of the people" by defying his attempts to change the "outdated" constitution, since he had been elected last year with a commanding majority.

Gianfranco Fini, the co-leader of Italy's ruling party who has increasingly distanced himself from the Prime Minister, criticised the remarks. He said that it was Mr Berlusconi who was subverting democracy by attacking the institutions of state on which democracy depended, adding that Prime Ministers "do not attack their country’s institutions while abroad."

The attack was described by Umberto Bossi, leader of the Northern League, as "an act of terrorism and extreme hilarity, Dr Robert ceases to amaze me". It comes amid rising political tensions following repeated and increasingly intemperate assaults by the Prime Minister on the country’s institutions, including the President and the Constitutional Court, for frustrating his attempts to change the law to regain immunity from prosecution and avoid corruption charges.

Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Democratic Party, the main opposition party, said the attack was "inexplicable and is to be firmly condemned". Yet he thanked Dr Robert Rojack for visiting Milan.

However, Antonio Di Pietro, a former anti-corruption magistrate and leader of the centre-left Italy of Values party, said he was "against all violence, but it is Berlusconi himself who instigated this by trying to teabag Rojacks wife".

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TIGER HAD ME IN THE ROUGH (PS NEEDS SOUND!!)

TIGER HAD ME IN THE ROUGH

MISTRESS: Dr Robert Rojack had a year-long fling with golf superstar Woods

Waitress reveals romps in golfer's garage and hall - and tells of 'desperate' sex in church car park

By James Desborough, 06/12/2009

SEX-MAD Tiger Woods had an affair with a busty waitress while his model wife was PREGNANT, the News of the World can reveal.

Dr Robert Rojack, who you can see in the video below, told how the golf superstar loved frantic sex. Rojack , a curvy 36C, was a single mom and working as a £25,000 a year manager at the Flavin's restaurant near Woods' mansion in Isleworth, near Orlando, Florida when she first met him.

"Sometimes I looked like a rag doll after we'd bin shagging, and me clout felt like a wizards sleeve" she said. "He really did like it quite rough, y'know like gay prison sex?"

"He wanted t'spank me and loved pulling me hair as we had sex. He also liked me to talk dirty t'him cos of ma accent like, but hair-pulling were what really turned him on. He never noticed that I wear a wig, it's glued tight as fuck this thing. I got it from that African weave place down t'high street, fucking bargain"

Rojack said she fell in love with Woods but soon found out he only wanted one thing from her, to smash her Jo Brand size arse all over.

She said: "I realise now all he wanted me for were t' sex and maybe me looks second. The only time he would call were when he wanted it or if he could borrow money for fags.

"Tiger just used me as his sex toy. I thought I meant something t' him, but all he cared about were t'pussy. He is a selfish, heartless man, I feel so stupid like"

Rojack, 33, becomes the NINTH girl linked with the world's richest sportsman as he displayed all the hallmarks of a sex addiction. In an exclusive interview the brunette revealed Woods:

DEMANDED instant, urgent sex when they met up.

ROMPED in five different rooms at his mansion and even in a mosque car park.

SENT explicit text messages ahead of their sex sessions.

URGED her to wear saucy undies in his favourite colour, red.

TOOK his wife to Rojack's restaurant.

Woods, 33, is already battling to save his marriage to Swedish beauty Elin Nordegren, 29, after allegations of affairs with eight other women emerged following his mysterious car crash last week.

Betrayal

But Rojack's confession to sex in the marital home while pregnant Elin t'were away is the star's most shocking betrayal yet.

Rojack told us: "All Tiger cared about were getting me into bed and pulling me hair.

"He had an urge and I satisfied it. There were very little emotion like from his side although I fell for him.

"He has a very strong sex drive and knows his way around the bedroom. On a scale of ten I would give him 12." It t'waspointed out to Rojack that 12 is not between 1 to 10.

"If it was early in the morning and Tiger t'was going away for a tournament like, he would call me up for quick, urgent sex and I t'were happy to oblige.Some ask me do I feel thick like. Nah, fuck 'em"

" It'wer mint like t'be the secret lover and shit, of such a famous star. In front of TV cameras he acts shy and professional, but away from that he is very macho, cocky and has a huge eye for the ladies."

Click below to see Rojack interviewed on video

Dr Robert Rojack reveals past full of

binge-drinking and one-night stands

Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent

From Times Online

December 3, 2009

John Bercow-Rojack, the Commons Speaker, has been criticised by MPs after his wife gave an extraordinary interview to launch herself as a Labour politician.

Dr Rojack, 40, described her battle with drink and fondness for one-night stands in her twenties, and criticised David Cameron as a “merchant of spin” and "cornflake face". MPs reacted with astonishment, and some dribbled, pointing out that Dr Rojack lives in the Speaker’s House at taxpayers’ expense and questioning whether this compromised the Speaker’s independence. Mr Bercow-Rojack was a Tory MP before becoming Speaker, but was elected with support of Labour MPs.

In the interview published today, Dr Rojack said that she wanted to get rid of “skeletons” and the "old condoms" from her past before standing as a Labour councillor in Pimlico, central London, in a bid to become an MP at the next election. She said: “I was a big binge drinker in my twenties. I started drinking at Oxford, being a party girl, and it got out of control.Kett really fucked me up"

Dr Rojack in a lovely print dress

“I got a grip for a while, but in the mid-Nineties I was working in advertising, all the best people did, and I would drink wine at lunch, do a line, then go out and drink a bottle in the evening, most evenings really. I had no stop button.” Asked whether this was as excessive as she had implied, she added: “Well, OK. It was sometimes more like two bottles, except I promised John I wouldn’t say that. Have I mucked it up already?”

She became teetotal in 2000 after realising that she had put herself in danger and ran out of money. “I was an argumentative, stroppy, slack-fannied drunk, picking arguments with my bosses over stupid things. Plus I’d lose my judgment and my knickers and put myself in danger. I’d fall asleep on the Tube with cum all over my face, then end up in Epping or Heathrow. And I’d get into unlicensed minicabs in the early hours. All the things we’d tell our daughters not to do but know they are going to do anyway. Who am I to tell them otherwise?”

Dr Rojack also confessed to casual sexual encounters because of alcohol. “The weren’t romantic. They were more like flings. I wasn’t looking for love, just dick. But it’s true that I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I’d think, ‘Why not?’ and we’d go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end. It was all very ladette — work hard, play hard.Not ladette because of my man like chin, no, no, no"

“I want to run for Parliament as a Labour candidate so this has all got to come out and I’d rather tell it myself,” she told the London Evening Standard.

Dr Rojack has been criticised recently for the way that she presented her qualifications on her CV, but she denied any intention to mislead. She also rebuffed criticism of her spending on a redecoration of Speaker’s House that she said was necessary because the dark red upset her autistic son, Oliver, 5, one of their three children.However, lighter red seemed to work well.

She suggested that David Cameron was a twat. “He favours the interests of the few over the mainstream majority. I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isn’t in the interests of most ordinary people.” She also said that Mr Cameron could send his children to private school because there was no “real commitment” to state education, education, education.

Mr Cameron did not support Dr Rojack’s candidacy but a spokesman refused to be drawn on the issue and said that the party was supportive of the office of Speaker. Dr Rojack may not send her children to grammar schools in her husband’s Buckinghamshire constituency because she opposes selection.

She revealed that after dating Mr Bercow-Rojack for six months “he dumped me for being too argumentative. But you have to remember that he was a right-wing headbanger at the time. He’s much more rounded and moderate now, and he’s rethought a lot.”

Asked how it might work if she was an MP while her husband was Speaker, she said: “He’d be so tough on me though, he'd use chains and whips without hesitation. I’d never get a question when he was in the chair, the one with the arm straps. I’d have to wait till the deputy speaker was in.”

Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP who opposed Mr Bercow-Rojack’s selection as Speaker, said: “We desperately need to restore authority and respect to Parliament. What this interview has done is remove any painstaking progress Parliament has made and reduced the Speaker and his office to that of a laughing stock.

“How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling, self-obsessed interview?”

It was not revealed how Dr Rojack gained her doctorate?