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Kirk McCambley
Attitude wants Iris Robinson's 40 years younger lover on its cover
Gay lifestyle magazine Attitude wants to put homophobe MP Iris Robinson's 21-year-old ex-boyfriend on its cover. Kirk McCambley was 19 when he began his affair with the then 59-year-old fundamentalist Christian.
Attitude editor Matthew Todd said: "Kirk is incredibly hot and we'd love to see him on the cover of Attitude. We think our readers would go as wild for him as Iris obviously did. We'd love for him to get in touch. We've put in a few calls to the Lock Keeper's Inn but no one has answered the phone."
Robinson, the MP for Strangford in Northern Ireland, is currently embroiled in allegations that she broke parliamentary rules by not declaring the £50,000 given to her by two property developers, which she then handed to McCambley to allow him to set up in business, and that she did not declare her interest when the local council she sat on awarded the lease of the Lock Keeper's Inn to McCambley.
It is also alleged that Robinson took £5000 of the money for herself, and that when the relationship broke down, demanded the loan returned and wanted £25,000 paid into the account of her church, the Light and Life Free Methodist Church in East Belfast. She is also accused of lobbying on behalf of one of the property developers, Ken Campbell, for a building scheme he was involved with in her Strangford constituency.
Robinson's husband, Northern Ireland's First Minister, has denied claims made on last night's BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight documentary that when he became aware that his wife had secured the loan to McCambley, he insisted the money should be repaid, but did not inform the authorities about it.
Iris Robinson began her affair with McCambley in 2008, the same year she was the subject of a police investigation after complaints were lodged with the BBC following her comments on a Radio Ulster programme. She had told listeners that homosexuality was "disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, wicked and vile", an "abomination" that could be cured by therapy. In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph, she described homosexuality as "comparable" to child sex abuse.
The Spotlight documentary reported her solicitor as saying that she was too unwell to respond to questions, but this morning the Belfast Irish News reported that Robinson is leaving for a week's holiday in a luxury chalet in the ski resort of Chamonix.
