Welcome to Jack Monroe Wiki 4
If you're here and you are new to Jack, please go to
Wiki 1, where we have lots of info at the top for new frauen / herren.
Page 4 of this wiki is dedicated to Jack's antics in 2024 - highlights and any corporate bookings / appearances.
⭐2024 highlights - in progress!⭐
Return of the Jack! She's back on Twitter (#563 onwards)
Jack had been absent from social media since August 2023, amid much public mockery and discussion of her grift on Twitter. On 30 January 2024 she tweeted again for the first time in five months, talking about Duolingo and learning Greek. Jack said she was, "still
Sober, still alive, still cooking. Just, quietly" and was
enjoying the peace from not being on social media so much. She shared her Duolingo user name, which showed that she created the account in December 2023 and had barely used the app in the last couple of weeks. She also posted pictures of recipe notes she had written in Greek - perhaps working on a Greek cookbook, which she's said for a while she wants to publish.
It was a convenient time for Jack to post because she first gained a huge number of Patreon subscribers in January 2022 after Nigella Lawson promoted her; many of whom paid for a year in advance. Posting in January might stop them cancelling their subscriptions just before it auto-renews. She had also been getting some praise because Laurence Fox had recently lost a defamation suit against three critics he had called paedophiles in a tweet. They were represented by Mark Lewis (who was Jack's lawyer in the Katie Hopkins case), and some people were under the false impression that Jack had set some kind of legal precedent.
A week later, she
tweeted a photo of Cooper the cat. Because of the caption we questioned if she was breadcrumbing some kind of tragedy that led her to want snuggles with a pet, and/or trying to prove Cooper still lived with her (the canal has speculated many times that he now lives with Jack's son and his dad.) Jack also removed her agent Adrian at Kruger Cowne from her user bio. She still has a profile on Kruger Cowne's website, however, it's not up to date as it was written before
Grifty Kitchen was released in January 2023.
UPDATE: Jack made a new, private Instagram account and reactivated her old Facebook page. She has added a personal email address to her Twitter bio - one that she's previously used for people to approach her directly about interviews and event bookings. Does this prove she no longer has an agent?
UPDATE: At the beginning of April Jack suddenly deleted all the new tweets about Cooper and learning Greek. She returned to comment on a football match (she's a lifelong Liverpool fan didn't you know?) and post a
photo of her dog "Laurie Lou" (formerly just Laurie) frolicking in a patch of bluebells. Coincidentally, Jack's ex Louisa Compton had just shared pictures on Insta of her current partner's child playing amongst the bluebells in their garden. We're sure this has nothing to do with Jack's desire to show the world that she is living her best TOOT TOOT! life, or Laurie now being named Laurie Lou.
Jack to the Future - old TV appearance resurfaces (#567 onwards)
A Twitter user
posted a clip from a 2016 TV debate between Jack and the feminist Julia Long.
(Warning - the video discusses rape and sexual assault.) The debate was about whether the UK should adopt "self-ID" laws, where everyone is legally recognised as whatever gender they say they are, and transgender people don't need a Gender Recognition Certificate. (Jack had recently come out as non-binary at the time.) Julia expressed concern that allowing anyone to legally identify as female could lead to sexual assault in places like women's prisons and refuges. Jack's response was, "I've been assaulted by two non-trans people but we shouldn't ban
them from facilities." She came across as offensive and dismissive of women's concerns, including other survivors of sexual violence.
The Tweet got a lot of engagement and Jack's name began trending. People on both sides of the self-ID argument made fun of her poor presentation, obvious failure to prepare, and inability to keep up with Julia - saying things like "bang out of order" in a serious discussion. Actor James Dreyfus retweeted the clip and laughed at Jack, causing it to circulate further. There was also much discussion of Jack's grift including Patreon and failure to Sue Lee. Further proof, if any were needed, that she's become a laughing stock and it will be very difficult for her to make any kind of comeback.
Jack (maybe) Claps Back! Appearance on Mumsnet {#567 onwards)
In April 2024 a Mumsnet poster started a thread criticising Tattle. Jack, or someone trying to give the impression they were her,
posted saying that she had been bullied on Tattle. She suggested, among other things, that Tattlers had shared her address publicly, been to her house, sent her death threats, taken photos of her and her family out in public, and that her threads here mostly consist of "body-shaming." Also saying she'd had to close her business because Tattlers would "turn up to report back." Maybe this is justifying why she hasn't been hired for any public events - she wants to pretend she was forced out because members of the canal have booked seats at a couple of her festival talks? While she did have a legitimate court summons delivered to her house by the person bringing a CCJ against her (see wiki page 3), this had nothing to do with Tattle.
Mumsnet users did not believe her, and pointed out that Jack has, in fact, grifted rather a lot of money from vulnerable people. Whether or not it was actually Jack is uncertain but the
suicide-baiting certainly sounds like her. Some people on the thread speculated that it was Liz Frazer (who has her own thread on Tattle.)
Most amusing was that "Jack" said she had never given away anything about where she lived except for the county. This is the same woman who has:
- Repeatedly said, in press interviews and social media, that she lives in Southend and what area
- Repeatedly said she lives near her parents, whose address is on public record because her father uses it as a registered business address
- Publicly mentioned which branches of supermarkets she shops from
- Had photos of her house featured in the national press, and shared pictures of just about every room in the house on social media
- Shared photos of her garden and a landmark at the back
- Shared photos/video of her local area, the street she lives on, and a distinctive feature in a neighbour's garden
- Shared photos of local businesses
- Shared photos of her son in school uniform and an award he won from his school, including the name of the school and what class he was in
- Shared a photo where her phone number was clearly visible on her dog's collar, then excused this by saying it's a work number
- Named a council estate near her and said how far away she lives from the estate
You do not need to be Inspector Morse to figure out where she is, especially if you know the local area! Nevertheless,
we do not and have never shared her address here.
Jack Hacked? Jack blames it all on a stalker (#569 onwards)
On 24 April 2024, after a week or so of tweeting about "kickyball" and Agatha Christie, Jack announced the return of her website; which had been shut down a month previously after the domain name expired. She said that she had
lost the website and everything else, including her income, Patreon, Paypal, and all her social media platforms, because a "known stalker" had hacked into every single account. Conveniently, she currently
couldn't say any more because of the ongoing police investigation. That's
not when she was saying back in January when she claimed she was just enjoying some peace and quiet away from social media! She also claimed she had lost thousands of pounds, implying without saying outright that it was her Patreon income (so she's got room to deny it.) And yet she never paused her Patreon or tried to warn her subscribers.
It's unclear as to when the hacking supposedly took place. Jack's Patreon was hacked in December 2023, but she'd been quiet on social media since August 2023, and deleted all her own tweets from January to early April 2024 - are we supposed to believe that was her or the hacker? She
had fans offering her money almost immediately, so at least her PayPal seems to be working. Jack's now
getting back on her calloused feet and determined to carry on. She
wishes the alleged stalker nothing but peace and love, because she doesn't hold grudges, like her
dedication to her former high school teachers in
Grifty Kitchen.
She seemed to be suggesting that the squig who shared her hacked Patreon information online was the stalker - a potentially libellous claim (they have stated that they did not personally hack her account.) When the squig said that they were considering legal action, she made a
snarky comment giving their real name. Then hastily deleted it and replaced it with a tweet saying she
"just wanted peace" and wasn't going to name the perpetrator, who is "unwell." In no way was any of this based on
Baby Reindeer, a currently popular Netflix drama based on Richard Gadd's experience of stalking, which Jack encouraged her followers to watch.
Meanwhile a number of Twitter accounts suspiciously popped up defending her. One of these drew the canal's attention as an obvious sock and people also started commenting about this on Twitter. Jack swiftly deleted the account only a day or so later.
If I Could Turn Jack Time! Jack at the local elections (#571 onwards)
On 2 May 2024, local elections were held in the UK. For a couple of days previously, Jack had been tweeting about Tory cuts and accusing the Tories of "state-sponsored manslaughter"; giving a list of names of people who had died after losing their benefits. In other words using the dead to score cheap political points. On the afternoon of the local elections, she began tweeting excitedly, saying she was
"geekily crunching data" and
intended to sit up all night. No one sits up all night for a local election unless they are running for office or involved in counting the votes! She also posted a picture of the
polling station she went to. Local Tattlers observed that she either hasn't moved out of the bungamansion (more than two years after she said she was going to) or hasn't moved very far. The photo didn't feature her dog Laurie/Laurie Lou/Content, despite it being a popular trend in the UK to post photos of your dog at the polling station. As we suspected, this is further evidence the dog lives with SB and his father, not with Jack.
By early morning she had been sitting with a VERY OLD AND VERY GOOD friend
"crunching the sample numbers" all night. She also delighted us with a brand new slop: some
pasta that had apparently been soaked in cold water then microwaved, as using the stove was too much effort. She intended to
head out on the school run (walking a teenager to the school gates) after a "power nap." It had now become apparent that Labour had made big gains in the election and Jack was keen to make it sound like she was personally involved.
She
stated that after months of being "literally immobilised" by poor health she was now back to being a simple politics/cooking blogger like she was in 2012. Almost as if she hadn't been on a 12-year-long grift since then. She
amended her Twitter bio to say "occasionally on your tellybox" and "bylines everywhere." In fact, she hadn't been on TV since
Question Time in June 2023, and hadn't had any articles published for over a year. Evidently she was very confident that her tweeting spree was going to get her media attention.
Farmed Salmon Fiasco - Jack called out on food ethics (#572 onwards)
On 7 May 2024 Jack shared a photo of her
breakfast of choice, which included cheap tinned salmon. She was subsequently called out by a number of squigs over farmed salmon being a very unethical choice both for the salmon and the workers involved. Jack responded calmly and politely, and said that while she wasn't actually promoting farmed salmon (simply mentioning that she had used it) she would avoid it in future and encourage others to do the same. This led the canal to question if her recent absence was enforced, as it's out of character for her to respond like this rather than losing her temper or making some snarky comment.
