Grace Beverley - Grace Fit Uk

[Frinkfronk]

Ok, so this will likely be the only post I ever make on a forum like this but I felt I needed to share my experience discovering, following and subsequently not trusting and unfollowing grace/tala in the last few months.

First time I saw Grace, she came up on my LinkedIn. I read the article about her that was shared and was amazed - an influencer that had tried to use her business acumen for more than merch, but to create a sustainable affordable active wear brand. A girl the same age as me, doing amazing things and making big moves in a hugely male-dominated business world. Inspiring! All I had were feelings of respect and admiration. I sort of forgot about her after that, but followed her on LinkedIn to keep up with her success.

Now, I should explain: I'm VERY into sustainable living. I'm a climate activist, vegan, don't buy brand new clothes apart from ethical small brands kind of girl. I've been working on ethical fashion projects for 6 years. I follow a lot of sustainability influencers, including @sustainablyvegan. She posted about Tala underwear and how great they are for a young company. I remembered who that was made and followed Tala. Initially with plans to make an order as I'd recently started getting really into fitness and was looking for good-quality, sustainable fitness gear I could afford as a broke, renting student. I also followed Grace. This is when it starts to unravel.

Firstly, her insane wealth flaunting bothered me. I wondered how she could be SO wealthy from her businesses/influencing, so did some digging - she comes from some dirty, powerful money. Nothing ethical about how her family got rich. Doing up her house, there was NO focus on "sustainability". She absolutely has the coin to source second hand and be more responsible about her choices. That struck me as odd given the image she tries to portray. Didn't love it. As an older follower, I also felt she has a responsibility to her younger followers to stress that her lifestyle is abnormal and is more of a result of her privileged background than anything else (who does an internship with an investment bank at 16 without some SERIOUS connections - my friend with a 1st class master's degree in international finance can't get one of those because they're SO competitive).

She talks about being vegan, but then posts non-vegan sweets, selfies in her mirror with her non-vegan/cruelty free perfumes etc. in the background. Again, seems like she's suddenly blind to sustainability when it's Chanel she wants. That REALLY bothers me. Privileged white girl using sustainability like it's a disposable trend when the lives of indigenous people are being destroyed by the environmental actions of the companies her and her family are associated with. Green washing gets me SO mad. So at that stage, I unfollowed her as I was sick of her.

Now, TALA. I'll keep this brief. Customer complaints constantly not being addressed, poor quality, "finished" in Portugal (likely made in china, to be finished somewhere you could literally just be putting the tags on), saying bamboo fabric is sustainable (it isn't) and £25 bamboo cutlery. Never answered any of my genuine questions as someone who cares about sustainability and wanted to know more. It's sinister how much they lie/bend the truth/practice green washing. It preys on the good faith of young girls who don't know better and think they're making better choices. Unfollowed them too.

So, there you go. My two month journey through following grace. 0/10, would not do again.

 

[Efgosss123]

She's now posted a day in the life summary on her own Instagram feed, clearly wasn't all that happy with how the Hello one portrayed her.

It's long so I've whacked it in a spoiler

Spoiler

7.30am: wake up in the mornin feelin like p diddy! this is a fun work from home luxury lie in, sometimes I even push it to 8.30 (I know calm down grace). I wake up to a radio alarm which is nice because it slowly helps you realise that ur alive and the world exists
8am: workout! I do a really short 20 minute session and hardly ever longer than this - this helps me focus (working out gets my brain going so if I’m not careful I end up writing some sort of project on my phone instead of training), it also helps me not burn out
8.30am: I end the workout with a 2 min plank which is the first time I go on my phone if I’m being good (spoiler alert: this has a low success rate). very aware I sound like a psychopath rn. Head upstairs to shower & change into something presentable on my top half #zoomlyf
9am: another coffee & plan my week - I split my to do list into quick ticks, emails/messages, tasks & projects. This helps me stay on top of everything without getting overwhelmed, and helps me time block to work on projects rather than just ticking off quantity rather than quality. I try to keep this as skeletal as poss at this point in the week. I then had around 30 mins to do some quick ticks & respond to messages
9.50am: briefing call for 10am
10am: recruiter call for some roles at @wearetala - time to get scaling baby!
11am: approvals: I receive 2 approval emails per day split into quick approvals & projects which can be anything from approving collection designs, to app updates to PR interviews. I still approve the large majority of movement at both TALA and @shreddy (incl. @b_ndstore), so this makes movement a lot more succinct & allows the teams freedom to operate whilst still enabling me to be a lil bit of a control freak. Other things done before füd inclüd
* Sent out emails - shreddy post-challenge plans, review of the new Condé Nast Sustainable Fashion Glossary & and a summary of how covid-19 has highlighted irresponsible business practices in fashion, and the ways the industry could change going forwards - sent to team TALA
* Looked at rewiringfashion.org, a very interesting analysis of how the fashion industry should look re sustainability and its calendar - again, sent in write up to team TALA
12.30pm: made me some truffle mushrooms on a bagel for breakfast (weirdly boujie but truffle oil addict) - I don’t intentionally intermittently fast but it helps me to regulate my funky blood sugar for longer in the day & I’m most productive in the morning so I get distracted with work. In my lunch break I watched some youtube (some days trashy some days interesting financial/business - depends on my mood)
1.30pm: prep for 2pm call and sent out a few more emails based around my project approvals
2pm: weekly call with the whole of TALA HQ where we touch base on eeeeverything
3pm: ticking things off: a quick touch base call here and there, review of a few samples, actually no clue what else I did in this time. Definitely ate a chocolate bar. Should have taken a longer lunch break because brain was too fried at this point - had a little music loud boogie round the kitchen to help
3.45pm: prep for my call & made a coffee, ate another chocolate bar
4pm: call with TALA operations & creative about future collection plans and release structures
5pm: called a TALA partner for an update chat following this Harvard business course I’ve been doing - needed to discuss website updates and release plans from previous call, then reviewed next B_ND restock plan
6pm: TALA team quiz! Rescheduled from last week
7pm: dog walk
8pm: collapse on sofa for trashy tv and dinner

Grace's Day in a Life:

7.30am-9am: I get up, fuck about a bit, do a quick plank while looking at my phone and get dressed. I don't feel ready for the day unless I workout for 20 mins and you should feel pretty bad about yourself if you do anything less than a 2 minute plank EVERY morning. Oh did I mention I have an app for that? For some reason there's no time for breakfast. #fitnesslyf
9-9:50am: I chat to some people for a while. I'm pretty important so they make time for me like 24/7. But this is the best job they have ever had so they should be thanking me, really.
9:50-10am: I get someone to brief me on the meeting that's about to happen. Yes yes yawn yawn just remember to mention the CEO is on the call.
10-11am: I listen to everyone chat about the mundane world of fair wages and sustainable practices. I reply to a hater on twitter from my sister's account.
11-12.30am: Approved the colours of the new 100% sustainable bamboo cutlery. Then I had a spare half hour to kill so read a blog post.
12.30-1.30pm: I push my lunch break back so I only have a full hour. It's a sacrifice worth making for this CEO boss babe.
1.30-2pm: half an hour briefing for the next meeting. I take some selfies of my bum and suppress another yawn.
3pm: ate some chocolate. I should've let myself have more than an hour lunch break! I'm exhausted from all these meetings and ignoring angry customers' emails can be tiring work.
4pm: meeting about another release and before you say anything, YES! We are sustainable! We make sure everything sells out in less than 10 mins. It's called thoughtful marketing, look it up.
5pm: I call someone about this online course I'm taking - can I just skip to the end and pay for the certificate now? I wrote some ideas I have in my journal about some more products I could release... I'm manifesting some funky bamboo pencils rn.
6pm: quiz! This counts as overtime and it will absolutely be reflected in my paycheck this month.
7pm: walked the dog. Shit, I forgot he was here. I'll get my roommate to take him out tomorrow.
8pm: finally!!! Some me time!!! Trash TV and dinner. Ahhh what a day. I order a new golden plaque to put on my piano. I deserve it after all.

 

[klkl]

Ok so I clearly have way to much time on my hands and did way too much research on miss #bossbabe. Some of this stuff has been said but all of this is evidence based research with public sources.

And thought I'd be nice to have it in one post.

Once I started digging I realised she not even middle class she's upper class 100%.

I assumed she was upper middle class too but after finding out what I did and reading definitions it's undeniable.

There's so much info so I'm going to and summarise as best I can.

Scholarships made my education affordable
-The lowest amount grace's parents have spent on her (and her 3 sisters) is a MINIMUM of £810,000 this is education up until age 18. So uni isn't even factored in!

(Not adjusted for inflation because thet all went at diff times and didn't include all the sisters nursery because I couldn't find everything)

I even subtracted the 'scholarships' that she says she has had and gave them to her sisters as well. I also assumed they didn't stay in halls even though there's a 99% chance they did (So the total is likely to be 1 million and up).

How tf are you going to say you had scholarships and a "fortunate" upbringing when you've been in private education before you could talk.

Mummy dearest
-Her mother also went to private school surprise surprise at least £250,000.

-Her mother's net worth from her businesses is £17.2 million

NOT including her inheritance OR her day job salary.

Granpapa

- Her grandfather had 50% stakes in a business that had a net worth of £76.5 million this was a BAD year (adjusted for inflation). It's renevue was 946 million.

-Her grandfather was knighted. Which explains how she most likely got that invitation to the palace.

-He received inheritance from HIS grandfather. Her mum's side is definitely old money.

-He was a political ally to Margaret Thatcher and was considered one of her favourites

Daddy

-Her father is a senior business consultant basically he's the one CEO's call for advice.

-He's a specialist, they pay a lot of money + bonuses for him to work with them for a short amount of time

-Dealt with accounts totaling £915 million he doesn't make this amount but he receives a hefty bonus on top of his salary.

End thoughts
They are filthy rich and have many connections. I knew Grace came from money but the more I researched the more annoyed I became. She has had everything she needed to succeed and yet she was too lazy to even make a legit business and partnered with Genflow yet brags about it as if she succeeded against all odds.

I'm going to finish with my fave grace fact-
At age 15-16 she did work experience at a billion dollar bank . That doesn't have a work experience program.

Grace Beverley=

Also this article is my fave thing ever
https://www.google.com/amp/s/medium.com/amp/p/13c26f9f9a08

And omfg was just looking at stuff last minute and her grandad had a commissioned painting of him done when he was younger wearing a suit and leather gloves because of course .

If you want anymore fun facts let me know I feel like I've spammed here enough. Hopefully this helps any new thread members (I came from gg).

 

[Neville12345]

At oxford for some courses they can drop and exam and have a second dissertation and some of the extended essays are close to 10,000 so it’ll have been for 4-5 modules

The funniest thing is that this is not unique to Oxford at all. I went to KCL and in my final year I had a mandatory 10,000 dissertation, another optional 10,000 word dissertation that could be taken instead of four shorter essays and 2 x mandatory 5000 word essays. So 40,000 words in total. I don't remember anyone bragging or even giving a shit about this. I think most students in their final year end up producing similar amounts of work. Typical oxbridge student who takes every chance to brag about how intellectually superior oxbridge and its graduates are but misses the irony that if they were that smart then they might have a more nuanced view of oxbridge>all other uni's. It reminds me of when she said in an old vlog that the libraries at Oxford are open 24hrs because the workload is so intense....um most UK uni's have 24hr libraries lol

 

[lauren96]

Tempting, so tempting

 

[Chickentikka]

Wow I’ve got a big arse and mummy and daddy are minted. Big flex hun, doing the lords work

 

[ween.wh009]

Hello everyone, I'm new here! Wow I am so amazed to find likeminded people like me lmaooo. So this is going to be long because I've been needing to get this out and didn't know where to. I have been hardcore following, analyzing, and checking on Grace bc first I was genuinely interested in her development of Tala (you know..when we all used to like her) and how she does business and it has just turned into seeing and noticing all these horrible things.

1) Just for rant, she has changed so much from way before but we all knew that. She was so genuine, honest, hardworking AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, EXTREMELY TRANSPARENT (aside from the privilege shit). I'm literally so mad that she made all her old videos private because they were just fun. She herself admitted though, "it'd be strange (or something along those lines) if i didn't change in these last few years and I'm sorry if I've changed into someone you don't like blah blah blah feel free to unfollow me" whatever. Point is, we all get people grow up and change. But the problem is how she was such an honest, genuine, down-to-earth person. She was so transparent from being honest about sponsorships to working with Aflete to make her bands to making shipping prices as low as possible unlike now. Everything she is now, is what she always said a person should not be, as someone pointed out. Also what pisses me off is turning off all her youtube vids, she became famous, was financed, and popular from youtube videos. At least have some dignity, integrity, and honesty and keep the videos up and own up to your opinions changing if that's what actually happened?

2) Has anyone noticed how she is more transparent about Tala than B_ND and Shreddy? Like she almost seems more invested in it, she has more control over it, she cares more about it? Like when Tala's having its launches, they are even sharing their screen, which shows how many visitors there are, who is checking out, etc. but that same level of showing off is not present with B_ND? They feature staff from TALA but not B_ND or Shreddy? I feel like there's something going on there. Also someone found details of Tala's registration and the names the company is registered with (through their FAQ info) do not include Grace. I'm not sure what the laws are but if anyone could shed light on that, that'd be great.

3) Also for how Tala is selling millions, I genuinely am convinced it's like the same few thousand minions who feel like they need to grab everything they can despite screaming sustainability (excess is anti-sustainability but what do we know right)? I saw this one girl comment she bought all the Zae t-shirt colors and I was like is that necessary? Their sales are based on ethics - meaning they've convinced people that if people purchase their products, these people are doing the good in the world. Unfortunately that is not how reducing your carbon footprint works. In fact, it's arguably the opposite. It is not racially or size inclusive. I'm a (brown) Southeast Asian and I chatted with some fellow brown Asians and her featuring literally one east asian girl (and maybe 3-4 other east asian girls from reposting their instas lmao) do not mean anything for us. It's called tokenism. It's literally one of the most minimal, worst, fakest things you can do in showcasing "inclusivity" and achieve the complete opposite. People buy for her and their ego, not the quality of the products. Girlfriend Collective's sizes go to 6XXL.

4) Do people actually think Shreddy is effective? Like there is no way. So I've been working out for 6 years now and am an active human - heavy lifting, fast circuits, sprinting, basic yoga, hiking, swimming whatever. I test different influencers' programs just for fun. Kayla's still kills me (it's what I began with) but I fix them a bit to be more challenging. Natacha Oceane, Sarah Day, Krissy Cela etc. love them all and I think these women have figured out good plans for a wide variety of fitness levels. But Shreddy....omg. There is literally no fucking way that shit is anything more than an active warmup. I understand that everyone has different fitness levels, but anyone reading this and doing Shreddy - please trust me - you are so much more capable than that. I genuinely can't believe people comment with sweat emojis and say Shreddy workouts look hard and are tiring. No disrespect if you do find it hard, but I think it's a huge waste of money and I promise you will achieve a far greater progressive overload looking elsewhere, and just skip this gigantic waste of time and your hard earned finances. Also calories in vs calories out, focus on low caloric dense / volume heavy foods, learn from all the great free advice on youtube, you don't need her "professionally certified" nutritional plans. Also who are all these idiots literally lifting nothing with her shitty looking belt? I deadlift 100 kg with no belt and no gloves. Omg I can't handle how poor the quality of Shreddy is. Also it was not #1 in the health and fitness charts as they were saying lmao.

5) Don't get me started on her whole move on BCAAs.

6) Anyone who pretends any of these products are good, aside from B_ND bands (which I must say, the Jordyn Woods bands failed me and were way weaker than the strengths I bought them for) are probably dying for Grace to just post them on her story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Though I bought a lot of Tala products before, so yes I was one of those who contributed to that "6 million revenue".

7) Remember that time on Twitter she posted how it's time for her to buy "something nice" and how she has not treated herself to anything nice, when literally she wears cartier bracelets, prada shoes, balenciaga sweaters, YSL handbags (yeah I know my luxury shit bite me) random ass expensive gold chains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

8) Did you guys see how her sisters were making fake accounts and sending hate messages to people or something? If anyone has examples or receipts, please do share. I saw these claims on youtube.

I have so much more to say but I'll just leave it for now lmao.

 

[4everb1tchin]

This is going to sound so sad and apologies in advance for my shocking spelling and grammar



I used to sit and look at her home account and just get really sad comparing my life to hers. We’re the same age and she’s graduated from oxford, travelled the world, owns multiple businesses and has the most perfect house in the middle of London. Meanwhile I’m a uni drop out, still living at home, working a minimum wage job, can’t remember the last time I wasn’t in my overdraft let alone had enough for a holiday abroad. I felt like a failure looking at her perfect life and ‘boss babe’ attitude. I would always say to myself ‘if someone your age can do all that why can’t you’ and really beat myself up about it. Reading here has been refreshing I honestly didn’t know she had grown up in such a privileged family and had help from her management setting up her businesses. I didn’t follow her that much when she was Oxford (think I watched the odd video) but always found her funny and humble. Thought her brand was an amazing concept. Only started keeping up with her more recently because I stumbled across her house tour video and then her home account. I know she’s worked hard and I would never want to take that away from her however I find the fact she puts on the whole ‘self made boss babe’ really disingenuous. Not a lot of people in their early 20’s would be able to do half the things she’s achieved without help, especially financial help. I don’t get why she doesn’t acknowledge that at all. Used to really look up to her but now I’m heavily side eyeing

 

[righthererightnow]

Ive been watching the tala staff takeovers on instagram and they all seem like lovely girls but i think everyone of them has emphasised how grace lets them have the evenings and weekends off - well i should fucking hope so? They work for a clothing company ffs not in politics. Why does that even need to me mentioned?

 

[Ihatemylife]

But... this is literally you?????

The replies to the original tweet literally describe Grace to a tee... talking about how much easier it is to start a business when ur already financially stable, when you already have a wealth of family connections etc.

Her lack of self awareness infuriates me.

 

[Alexandra876]

Little late to the party, but seen this comment and out of interest, searched on CH and there are only entries for "shreddy" and "rose appellations" whatever that is?

Don't really understand how CH works though, as Arianna Ajtars Mars the Label brand recently came up as dissolved on there, but it looks like they are actually still trading?

Rose Appellations could be a parent company for TALA/BND etc or BND could come under shreddy. Just had a quick check of both websites and nowhere on either one does it state TALA Ltd or BND Ltd so we can assume neither are limited companies in their own right and will be operating under another company.

Similarly, Mars the Label was placed into liquidation last year and has recently been dissolved so cannot still be trading. However, as with Grace's two, Arianna could be operating the business under a separate entity or has set up under a new, non limited company i.e. she's now a sole trader etc.

Hope that makes sense!

ETA - actually, the privacy policy on BND's website states

"This privacy policy is for the B_ND store which is a product of Rose Appellations Limited - any reference to “B_ND” in the following articles is in reference to Rose Appellations Limited."

Strangely enough, there's no reference to Rose Appellations Ltd or Shreddy Ltd in TALA's privacy policy. However, in the T's & C's they make reference to Group Seventy One Limited (who they state run the WEARETALA website) and 360 Consultancy Limited in relation to notices.

Could be nothing but it does raise more questions about how much Grace actually has to do with TALA.

ETA - AGAIN (I've well and truly fallen down the rabbit hole)

The only trademarks listed under Grace's name are Grace Fit UK, B_ND and Shreddy.

The TALA trademark is owned by Group Seventy One Limited. This company own another trademark, 'Nuvoletta', a quick google search shows this is Anna Saccone's pyjama company.

No matter how much BS Grace tries to spin, she categorically does not own TALA, she's just the face of the brand.

Actually, Mars the Label is now under AIF Fashion Limited

 

[SilentSue]

TWENTY FIVE POUNDS ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME. For some wooden utensils.

It is truly the end of days. Capitalism has finally eaten itself. Vive la révolution.

 

[Lauradoraxx]

Grace loves to be woke and be seen as an ally to black people. However, she hasn’t hired one black person in her teams. She uses black models in her shoots but I’m sure it’s done for her to be seen as diverse, as told by her management or Genflow.
Shes a champagne socialist

 

[OneNightInGeorgia]

Grace is a fucking arsehole. I used to really look up to her, before all this BND, TALA and shreddy shit started.
She did a Q&A recently on her instagram story and her replies were SO POMPOUS! Someone said “have you thought of tala swim” and she responded with something like “too busy navigating a global pandemic” or something equally as sarcastic and rude. Why do a Q&A dickhead? If you’re just going to be rude. She is a capital fool.

 

[Veronica.xoxo]

The more I read here the more disappointed I get.
As a freelancer wanting to build my own business, I really looked up to Grace and took inspiration from how hard she worked to "be self made". Honestly I feel completely cheated. I wouldn't care one bit if she was transparent about Genflow, because actually that's working smart and could help other influencers etc. But I used to feel so confused as to why my business is so small and still in the works and I'm still learning stuff and fixing things after 2 years, and she's earned 6 million from one of hers (I work in consultancy rather than clothing so it's a bit different, but you get my drift). She was so successful so quickly and I was like "God if I just worked harder, slept less, wrote more To Do lists, I'd be that successful." but the cracks have started to show and I feel so cheated. I don't have anyone in my family who owns a business or is high up in a company and I've started working for myself out of a passion but had very little knowledge or pointers to work from from anyone else, and I really thought Grace was the same from the way she talked about her businesses but no, she's had a privileged education (again, would be fine if she referenced it) all the connections she could ever want, an agency to help her and a band of minions to shield her from constructive criticism.
I always want to support female led companies, especially younger women, but God we need some transparency about how they got there because I wanted to be like Grace for so long but all it did was make me miserable and feel like a failure.

 

[blackberrypie]

Fuck off. Just fuck off.
(Also hi, moved over to here from GG!)

 

[xxxxxx124]

I thought she might have been reading here but apparently this is about a comment on the Hello instagram page asking for a real CEO as Genflow and group seventy one are the owners.

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Someone’s having a little tantrum because they’ve been caught out aren’t they Yeah it might be about this comment

 

[Stephg264889]

Has anyone else seen the video she did for Hello magazine? She comes across so badly. Plus that Tala outfit is

I’ve just watched it (only 4 mins long guys) but it’s so weird. The whole title is day in the life of a ceo and she has one meeting, one email she needs to reply to and spends the afternoon doing the Harvard course.
Felt very immature the way she kept posing and doing peace signs in the mirror, and that other one with her hands under her chin.
She spoke about a to do list in the morning and the tasks she named were finding books for her coffee table?

I don’t know, I just thought the whole set up was weird and not sure what she wanted to get out of it. I tell you one thing, please give me her job. If that is what being ceo of three businesses looks like, hell let me have six. Had more going on when I was attempting to selll Avon lol

 

[Branched]

The funniest thing is that this is not unique to Oxford at all. I went to KCL and in my final year I had a mandatory 10,000 dissertation, another optional 10,000 word dissertation that could be taken instead of four shorter essays and 2 x mandatory 5000 word essays. So 40,000 words in total. I don't remember anyone bragging or even giving a shit about this. I think most students in their final year end up producing similar amounts of work. Typical oxbridge student who takes every chance to brag about how intellectually superior oxbridge and its graduates are but misses the irony that if they were that smart then they might have a more nuanced view of oxbridge>all other uni's. It reminds me of when she said in an old vlog that the libraries at Oxford are open 24hrs because the workload is so intense....um most UK uni's have 24hr libraries lol

I agree with everything you've said about Grace but I just want to put it out there that not all Oxbridge students are like her. I went to Oxford (back in the day lol) and like to think that I'm not as insufferable as she comes across sometimes. I didn't do music and don't really know the structure of the course but I laugh at her each time she mentions the 40,000 words thing. The Oxford workload is intense but it's not like students at other unis are just sitting round doing nothing all day. Long story short, Grace is just an exaggerating idiot as usual.

Actually now I've started, Grace pretty much embodies what I hated most about Oxford. I worked my ass off as a first gen student to get there, never took anything for granted etc. Then you have Grace who get missed her grades (twice I think?), no doubt had unbelievable help with applications from her school, doesn't seem to give a fuck about her subject and never does any of the 'Oxford-y' stuff that makes the place what it is.

Sorry for the little off-topic rant, I just used to see Oxford as so inaccessible before I applied and Grace's attitude towards her education and Oxford specifically drive me mad. There is so much more to life than Oxford but I've mentored people from less privileged backgrounds who have literally been crying down the phone to me after not getting a place, so seeing Grace fail to acknowledge any kind of privilege she has in this respect really gets to me.

 

[Branched]

She pays for nothing. Beauty treatments, travel, food....she is such a beg. If she ever does you’ll know about it such as the time she boasted that she’d transferred her sister like £200 for holiday drinks and wanted to the world to know. She never said why her ex dumped her, quite embarrassing how she plastered him all across social media then played the privacy card

I actually find it really disgusting the way that Grace (and other influencers) continue to be gifted an absolute ridiculous amount of stuff in the current climate. It’s even worse when they ‘ask their followers for recommendations’ aka beg for gifted things. Brands must have to get in contact to find out addresses, meaning they’ve had to actually accept the gift

Like the amount of coffee which Grace was gifted recently after asking for recommendations. It’s so wasteful and really puts me off the brands that send it to her for free. There are so many more worthy causes at the moment. I keep seeing news along the lines of “Cadbury donate Easter eggs to ICU at [x] hospital” so the publicity is still there from a business perspective.