The Independent's Los Angeles correspondent, Guy Adams lives in sunny Santa Monica, and divides his time between the local beach (home of Baywatch) and the Hollywood Hills. He headed out west in May 2008, and has being trying to make sense of the First City of Showbusiness ever since.

In his previous life, Guy was The Independent's features editor, having joined the paper in 2003 as editor of the Pandora column - a role that saw him physically threatened by Ray Winstone, taken to the Press Complaints Commission (unsuccessfully) by the Rt Hon Jack Straw, and subjected to a series of nuisance phone calls by David Schwimmer.