Brown Says Britons Are Bored With Celebrities: Can He Really Be Serious?

(Bloomberg) -- Gordon Brown, Britain's prime minister-in-waiting, is known as a solemn, thoughtful man. When he said that the U.K. was tiring of celebrity trivia, many gossip- loving Britons asked: Can he be serious?

Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, got people talking with an April 14 interview in the Guardian newspaper.


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