The founder
gossip columnists covering the London social scene were
Nicholas Haslam,
Frances Lynn, Stephen Lavers and
Amanda Lear. Haslam, an Old Etonian
society decorator, wrote about his
British aristocratic and
Hollywood movie star friends under the
pen name Paul Parsons. Lynn wrote the 'Bitch'
gossip column about
café society. Lavers, who moonlighted as Head of Films at
A&M Records was the
Music and Media columnist. Lear gossiped about the international glitterati. Lavers and Lear even interviewed each other.
Richard Young was initially hired as Lynn's photographer, but eventually took photographs for all the columns. The four gossip columnists sometimes attended the same parties and wrote about each other. Haslam invited Lynn to all the parties he organised for his celebrity friends like
Andy Warhol, so that she could report about them in her column. Film producer Cat Villiers (then known as Catkin Villiers) began her career on the staff of the periodical. Although ''Ritz Newspaper's'' policy was to avoid paying their contributing editors, including photojournalist Clement Barclay, established writers like
Clive James and
Peter York contributed to the magazine, as occasionally did established pop and rock stars such as
George Michael. ==Fashion==