No stranger to tabloid gossip, soap star Eileen Weathers is keen to put pay to the rumors about her murky past. She wants to reveal the true, unadulterated story, or so she says. But some of her stories don't quite add up. Did Eileen commit murder? Did she really used to be a man? It'll all come out in the wash . . . Rupert Smith, author of Physique: The Life of John Barrington, is a TV correspondent for the Guardian in London.