Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex and the City review – racy, raw and riotous

London Palladium
The fabulously gifted raconteur charts her stellar career with plenty of spit-out-your-wine moments and empowering life lessons

‘Do you want to hear the story of the real Mr Big?” Candace Bushnell, the 65-year-old Sex and the City creator, is prancing around her pink boudoir in Manolo Blahnik heels. She has her hand curled around a theatre full of mostly women like a cosmopolitan glass that’s about to need topping up. Of course we do. We want to hear all the fabulous dirt she’s ready to dish.

Everybody here is a fan of SATC – the culture-shifting 00s comedy-drama about Carrie Bradshaw and her single thirtysomething friends in New York. It was a show that changed women’s lives, the sex and beyond. It still does. Just last week, down the road at the Savoy, a woman barely in her 20s sat next to me to watch Plaza Suite, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, who played Carrie. “Are you here because of SATC too?” she asked. She wasn’t even born when it started; I had to sneakily watch it on the telly. The “of its time” flaws have rightly been debated in the 25 years since it first aired, but its relevance is for the ages.