{"id":338737,"date":"2025-08-12T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338737\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:11:11","slug":"nicola-sturgeon-went-clubbing-in-glasgow-with-hollywood-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338737\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon went clubbing in Glasgow with Hollywood star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In her memoir Frankly, the SNP MSP told of nightclub days as a law student at Glasgow\u00a0University.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She tells how she was shy and introverted when she first arrived at uni and lacked confidence and had a miserable time at first.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/news\/25380166.xsite-braehead-host-wrestling-event-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free &#8216;action-packed&#8217; wrestling event coming to Braehead &#8211; what you need to know<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/news\/25381336.carlisle-judge-sentence-benefit-cheat-hijacked-68-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paisley benefit cheat raked in almost \u00a3170k of Universal Credit payments<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She mentioned how, as a young aspiring lawyer, she met two women, Caroline Summers and Claire Mitchell, who became her lifelong friends and who were much more socially active.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sturgeon wrote: \u201cThey were also both much cooler than me and would encourage me to experience some of the social parts of uni life that would otherwise have passed me by.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a chapter about combining her studies with her growing interest in the SNP\u00a0and politics she recounts her time at the Glasgow University Student Nationalists Association.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She tells of \u00a0frequenting some of Glasgow\u2019s nightclubs at the time. \u201cFury Mury\u2019s being the favourite.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25381776.fenian-b--nicola-sturgeon-tells-sectarian-abuse-campaigning-govan\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Fenian B******&#8217;: Nicola Sturgeon tells of sectarian abuse campaigning in Govan<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25381925.nicola-sturgeon-tells-shame-racism-tactics-campaign-team\/?rel=cl_mra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Sturgeon tells of &#8216;shame&#8217; at racism tactics in campaign team<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Of the crowd she was mixing with, she said: \u201cOne of those in the law-student nightclub scene was a guy in the year above us called Gerry Butler.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cCaroline knew him from Paisley, where he also came from, which put us into his orbit.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While others may not have been aware that Sturgeon would go on to become a dominant force in Scottish politics, she said this student was set for a different life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cHe was always the life and soul of the party, the centre of attention and seemed destined to live a life less ordinary \u2013 these days he is better known as Gerard Butler, the Hollywood actor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her memoir Frankly, the SNP MSP told of nightclub days as a law student at Glasgow\u00a0University. 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