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Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 17 2009, 11:15 AM BSTI'm deciding on wearing a beret or not. And which one.
Do you ghost-write Liz Jones' columns, Dolly? 
GRRR Liz Jones.
Annoying woman.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 17 2009, 11:18 AM BSTDo you ghost-write Liz Jones' columns, Dolly?
Yep, I made up the divorce stuff.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ September 17 2009, 11:19 AM BSTGRRR Liz Jones.
Annoying woman.
She's even more vain than me.
"Why are people so upset with me. Could it be the fact I write about the people around me in my column? Like when I wrote about lusting after my married neighbour so that his poor wife and her friends and family can read it or when I wrote all about my "private" divorce or when I ripped the shit out of the very people around me and the area I live in. How did they know?" BECAUSE YOU PUBLISHED IT IN THE PAPERS YOU MORON.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 17 2009, 11:21 AM BSTYep, I made up the divorce stuff.
She's even more vain than me.
In the new issue of Private Eye there's a very good 'Diary' parody of Liz Jones by Craig Brown. Worth a read. 
...and then she has the nerve to play victim, like over her divorce. If you husbands leeches of you money wise, puts you done, cheats on you with lots of different women, you kick him out, you don't put up with him for over a year and write a f**king column about it. Nice message you are sending there Liz to women in bad relationships.
*SMACK*
By the way, who the hell wants to read about your leg waxing?
Anyone want a cup of tea?
In Oliver James' 'They F**k You Up' (a brilliant book) he has a chapter entitled 'Self-revealation as a way of not knowing' about that sort of journalism, in particular Kathryn Flett and her lack of personal insight, despite publishing very personal details about her life (and that of other people in her self-help group!).
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ September 17 2009, 11:28 AM BSTBy the way, who the hell wants to read about your leg waxing?
You, since you must have read about it! 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ September 17 2009, 11:28 AM BSTBy the way, who the hell wants to read about your leg waxing?
In the parody column, she realises that she can get a lot of writing mileage out of cutting off a limb. Then changes her mind and instead decides to skin herself to have something to write about. 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ September 17 2009, 11:28 AM BSTAnyone want a cup of tea?
Yes please. Milk, no sugar thanks.
It's not the fact she writes about her life that annoys me, it's the fact no matter what she does wrong, she is always playing the victim. Like when she writes about people in the village being upset with her because she wrote about them and she behaves like the hurt party. It winds me up.
Quote: chipolata @ September 17 2009, 11:30 AM BSTYou, since you must have read about it!
I have only had access to it because my folks are Daily mail readers and reading their you magazine is a way of avoiding conversation while waiting for my sunday lunch!
And I normally try to avoid that page because it also have the worlds worse cartoon strip.
I read the Daily Mail online to make myself angry.
If you read Jonathon Coe's excellent What A Carve Up, there's a great depiction of a cake-and-eat-it columnist in that. In the Radio 4 adaptation of the novel she was played by Rebecca Front.
Quote: chipolata @ September 17 2009, 11:37 AM BSTIf you read Jonathon Coe's excellent What A Carve Up, there's a great depiction of a cake-and-eat-it columnist in that. In the Radio 4 adaptation of the novel she was played by Rebecca Front.
The grape peeler?
When I do read a paper it tends to be the Independent.
I have a tee bearing the legend "Hated by the Daily Mail". I love it!