The 3AM Girls was the collective title of the gossip columnists for the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper.
[3][4] Their tabloid counterparts are The Goss Girls for the Daily Star and Dan Wootton who edits The Sun's Bizarre column.
[5][6] In September 2004, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles highlighted the made-up news stories and quotes on his then-afternoon music and chat show.
The Mirror asked Moyles to call off his listeners, which he did, claiming he had won the battle by doing this.
[8] In 2007 Private Eye reported former 3AM girl Jessica Callan as saying that quotes for interviewees were made up by journalists: "The conversations celebrities had with us often bore no relation to the words which were printed in the column.