The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole some detail. The book also contains extracts from Sue Townsend's own diaries together with some of her essays, plus a collection of entries from an unknown teenage girl's diary written in the 1930s in Grantham. Townsend suggests that the girl was called Margaret Hilda Roberts and no one knows what became of her, although most readers will spot that this is a strong and bitter satire about Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Roberts was her maiden name). Townsend originally created this satire in the first few issues of the newspaper "Today", as "The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 13".
Episode 1.1 (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) with people at all... Not allowing herself to "get close" or be "the real me" isn't a call girl's rule for Hannah (like it was for Julia [Roberts] in "Pretty Woman"), it's a twisted compulsion. And that's why I love the show." D'Arminio also praised Showtime, "Secret Diary of a Call Girl"s American broadcaster, for not simply buying format rights, saying "I'm just thankful that Showtime imported "Call Girl" without recasting it like its sister network CBS is doing with "Worst Week of My Life" or ABC did with "Life on Mars"." Episode 1.1 (Secret Diary of a Call Girl)