Em Clarkson #2

It can’t just be me that thinks Em’s husband looks like the annoying twat in the dodgy lawyer ad

Keely93 said:

I haven’t commented before(I don’t think) but I was listening to her podcast where she talks through her birth story, the baby was born at 37 and a half weeks and she calls her premature? My son was born at 37+3 and he wasn’t considered premature??

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Isn’t 37 weeks just early? Not sure when premature is classed but surely 37 weeks isn’t it. 35 weeks or earlier sounds more like it or is it earlier than that?

unwanted.opinions said:

Isn’t 37 weeks just early? Not sure when premature is classed but surely 37 weeks isn’t it. 35 weeks or earlier sounds more like it or is it earlier than that?

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Full term is classed as 38-42 weeks.

unwanted.opinions said:

Isn’t 37 weeks just early? Not sure when premature is classed but surely 37 weeks isn’t it. 35 weeks or earlier sounds more like it or is it earlier than that?

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From the NHS website

“Premature labour is labour that happens before the 37th week of pregnancy. About 8 out of 100 babies will be born prematurely.”

I was always told 37 weeks completed was term just pre-due date.

Did that workout video really have to be shot from behind?? Surely a side view would show just as much without having to squat directly to camera?! For someone who said she hated all the incel / Andrew tate style men in her DMs….

Em’s content is so thoroughly boring.

she steals ideas from others and repurposes them - boring, nothing new. She doesn’t add in anything particularly insightful.

her work outs are boring. The symprove ads are tired and boring and so transparent. She’s not convincing anyone this product is any good and she just comes across as soulless when she advertises it.

her comment section just seems to be full of people offloading and using it as a therapy session. E.g. she tells people to not care about wearing shorts and people are like “no way I can’t wear shorts I was born with a green coloured leg that was then mauled by a rabid dog and has scar tissue that I was bullied for in school because it was green and also I had to have surgery that time to remove a kidney stone in my knee, and then pirates stole it in a horrendous hostage situation I was held captive for three years and they replaced my leg with a wooden peg. I haven’t worn shorts in years because I just don’t have the confidence”

Like chill out huns, she’s just encouraging you not to be self conscious. No need for the life story and medical history.

you get the odd normal person commenting that wearing shorts isn’t a big deal and of course em responds with a bitchy comment and bullies her into apologising.

Give me strength…Agony Aunt who needs her to “solve” their problems?!

I sound so mean saying it but despite her saying she doesn’t want things given to her because of her dad she sure capitalises off of it. There’s a lot of influencers that have a lot more to say, some actual real life experience. She has no idea about money problems or trouble with your new boyfriend/girlfriend/coming out to your parents, having been with the same man since they were a teen and having access to daddy’s money(which regardless of what she or others might say I don’t genuinely think Jeremy would leave his kids without some income knowing their life is very different than your average). She is going to struggle to put herself in other peoples shoes I think. Lots more deserving people than her I genuinely believe.

She’ll answer the questions that make her look good. She won’t answer the tough ones and I pity the people relying on her for advice.

She needs to come back when she’s had a few problems.

No one in their right mind would ask sheltered, narrow minded em Clarkson for advice. Surely she’s making these up and submitting them herself? Surely?
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Working out with her private PT in a mansion in the Cotswolds

She’s just one of us guys, totally one of the people. Totally able to relate and offer meaningful advice from her own vast life experience of getting manicures in Balham, and struggling to find a dress from COS to fit her postpartum.

not a chance in hell she got that column off her own back. Her dad has either pulled strings, used his influence or It’s based on her previous writing (which again, sponsored by dad).

if she didn’t have her dads financial and career backing, and let’s face it she’s not the brightest, where would she be? Probably still a deliveroo driver tbh

I think Daddy Clarkson just saw that his little talentless daughter isn’t creating meaningful content, it’s clear for everyone the quality just gets worse and worse, I’m sure Em herself realises. It’s the same “don’t look at my bum but here it is” , “wear the shorts” , “I’m breastfeeding” content daily.
He’s decided to pull a few strings to help her out. As would any other parent in his position I’m sure!

lisa.mekh890305 said:

I think Daddy Clarkson just saw that his little talentless daughter isn’t creating meaningful content, it’s clear for everyone the quality just gets worse and worse, I’m sure Em herself realises. It’s the same “don’t look at my bum but here it is” , “wear the shorts” , “I’m breastfeeding” content daily.
He’s decided to pull a few strings to help her out. As would any other parent in his position I’m sure!

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Would any other parent do this though? At what point do you realise that by stepping in and propping up your adult child you are doing more harm than good?

he’s instilling awful values; nepotism, entitlement and hypocrisy.

Em has never seriously applied herself to anything. No attempt at an education, no real attempt at philanthropy or travel. No attempt at a meaningful career. She relies so heavily on Alex and her parents. No real experience in life to build character which is probably why she is so throughly lacking in character.

If good parenting is raising a healthy, contented, capable, well adjusted adult then it looks to me like the aforementioned is bad parenting, because it encourages an over reliance, doesn’t encourage self confidence (only arrogance) and keeps Em reliant on others around her.

propping your kids up well into adulthood is shitty parenting.

What did she actually ‘get famous’ for? Like what was the thing?

I think she used to have a lifestyle blog and then a book called Pretty Ugly Me or something like that. But both had vanished by the time I first heard of her (outside of dad mentioning her on QI nearly 20 years ago: it was the one with the magnetic letters and he said "mine at home on the fridge say 'Emily is a wee and a poo' and I still think of that every time I see her)

heretoclear said:

What did she actually ‘get famous’ for? Like what was the thing?

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tbh, it’s mainly through her association with her dad.

she was born in July 1994, so she’s about to turn 29.

She left school in 2012. she met hubby as a teen at Glastonbury and were a couple by jan 2013, so shes been with him since she was 19. They probably met at Glastonbury in 2011 (there wasn’t a Glastonbury festival in 2012) sooo she met him when she was 16 and presumably started dating from then.

He’d been in a boy band and studying in Dublin I believe

She followed him and lived in Dublin for a year (I think it was 2013, so basically as soon as they become “official”) working as a deliveroo driver. 2013 is the only gap she includes on her LinkedIn so… reading between the lines.. they met in June 2011, kept in contact and she moved to Dublin to be with him in January 2013 and became a couple then.


Then he moved to London later for work and she followed. She briefly worked as a marketing consultant but I don’t think that lasted long. It wasn’t a proper full time job, more a scattering of internships and freelance work which she never held down for long (see LinkedIn above)

She started blogging in 2015 so that’s when she was, what 21? I don’t think it was especially popular or widely read.

again in 2017 she got a book deal but… I don’t know much about that book. Never seen it, don’t know anyone who read it. It’s got a 3.65 rating in good reads which is very low for there. She’d only down a handful of pieces of the likes of the sun and teen tattler, and these seemed to focus largely on her being Jeremy clarkson’s offspring.

her blog was www.prettynormalme.com and was active from late 2014. It was very cringe and imo, badly written. You can see for yourself on the internet archive;


she started using Instagram from around 2018 I believe, and had management involved straight away.

she had a full blown media kit, literary agent AND publicist back in 2018, at a time before social media management was a big thing. She most certainly benefit from her parents influence and contacts at that point.


basically, she’s never done anything that substantial or remarkable.

She is in the news semi-regularly because of the connection with her dad. Even in the early days of her Instagram she would frequently pointed out the connection to her dad and tag him.

I’ve pointed it out before but there’s no way they can afford a townhouse in Balham on their joint wages. She is financially totally propped up by her family. Her “career” exists because she’s propped up by others.

she’s basically never had a real job and gets thrown the odd bone likely because her mum or dad has had a word with someone and pulled in a favour.

no doubt she’ll hover around the media circuit taking the odd, low key piece of work that’s thrown her way, coasting along talking about feminism and smashing glass ceilings, when basically she’s an unemployed housewife? Grifter? with lucrative side hustles from her dad/mum.

Not sure if anyone follows Lalalaletmeexplain (I know some find her intolerable too) but she put an 'Ask Me Anything' question box on her insta yesterday and one of the first questions she answered was from someone asking if she thinks people should be allowed to become agony aunts when they have no qualifications, experience or education in any relatable field to that role. Just found it funny how she answered that question minutes after Em announced her new venture. They're also supposed to be friends .

Beepbopbooploopdoop said:

Not sure if anyone follows Lalalaletmeexplain (I know some find her intolerable too) but she put an 'Ask Me Anything' question box on her insta yesterday and one of the first questions she answered was from someone asking if she thinks people should be allowed to become agony aunts when they have no qualifications, experience or education in any relatable field to that role. Just found it funny how she answered that question minutes after Em announced her new venture. They're also supposed to be friends .

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she has a weird frenemy relationship with Em I think.

she had a bizarre rant a little while back about sweaty Beaty and returns. SB asked her for her details and she made a big song and dance about her insta being private (couldn’t she have just… asked for a return privately instead of making the connection to her insta and posting it all on her stories…) it was such a non issue.

then a few minutes later she’s on her stories again, saying she has nothing against sweaty Beaty and she knows Em is an ambassador for them. Weird.

the thing is, what could these two women have in common?

em has been with the same man all her life, has a wealthy background and has never had a job.

Lala has had a ton of unsuccessful relationships with what sound like abusive men. She’s been a single mum and she’s spoken about the struggles of that and getting on the property ladder. She’s presumably had to work hard and juggle child rearing with her professional job at one point.

it must be a little galling for Lala to be in the same room with Em when shes had to graft and fight her corner whereas Em gets a publicist and a book deal age 21 because daddy says so. they talk about v similar experiences but it’s Layla’s lived experience whereas Em has just co-opted it.

What do Em’s siblings do? I know she’s shared them once in a whole on her insta.