You have to be reeeally talented or famous to get away with behaving badly/being difficult in the media. Jack is neither. She's not telegenic and has a terrible voice, plus she is bad at cooking skills and demos, isn't actually insightful or properly informed about social issues, and also is unreliable. None of those things endear you to producers. I can't think of any good reason why I'd put her in a tv or radio show at the current time, unless it was a panorama about dodgy crowdfunding and the grift economy lol
Jack Monroe #478 “Well perhaps you should have kept your legs shut!” chortled Thomas
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Im just chucking at KNOBSWORLD appearing on someones card statement
This one, Marm!
Has very strong vibes of someone else who it turns out shares Jack’s love of a nice blouse and cardigan combo and a lovely grey pov jumper.
I hate to say it, but I think Rose wears it better too.
Has very strong vibes of someone else who it turns out shares Jack’s love of a nice blouse and cardigan combo and a lovely grey pov jumper.
I hate to say it, but I think Rose wears it better too.
I’m not awkward to work with, I do my own washing up on set. This absolutely makes me want to face palm. I bet she actually does do her own washing up, even though there’s probably someone whose job that actually is, or there’s a dishwasher and everything she washes goes through it when she’s gone. I also bet she makes a huge deal of it making sure everyone knows. As a former crew member ‘talent’ who think they’re being helpful or want to look like they are are the worst. All we actually want is for you to turn up on time, be civil but not try to be matety with us (because thats always cringe) and be professional. I very much doubt Jack manages any of those things.
I honestly thought we were back doing Jack as fish for a second.
"I'LL DO IT WHERE'S THE FAIRY,I MEAN SAINSBURY'S BASIC 29P WASHING-UP, LIQUID, I'M SUCH A KOOK ME" she says, trying to wrestle a mug off the potwasher before somehow leaving it muckier than it was to begin with
I've just been introduced to a peripatetic worker and I'm softly, gently 
on the inside.
on the inside.
Oooooh first pic in this collage is DEFINITELY botox-wearing-off-forehead, I’ve got friends who have it done regularly and two of them get that same pattern of diagonal/vertical striations when they’re a few weeks off their next appointment.
I've suspected for some time that her kid is only allowed over is because grandma and grandad are round the corner.
I was so struck here by Jack’s description of herself as THE MOST polite, obliging and happy person in the room when we’ve never seen any evidence of her being any of these things (and no we are not counting lights ON life beyond wildest dreams Jack in “happy”) that I went looking on the interweb for all the other times she’s told us she’s done something “very politely”.
I haven’t found them yet, but this came up in the search for some reason
A new nice blouse shot
and also this
Which then reminded me of this
why does she have to describe her lewks in such random and frankly bleeping stupid ways that very strongly suggest she’s never 1. Met a supply teacher and 2. Set foot in a pub or met an uncle? ETA and that’s not a pub uncle, Jack. You’re LITERALLY dressed as Will from The Inbetweeners.
Also, why is she so thick she doesn’t realize her friend is LITERALLY calling her a bleep?
and also this
Which then reminded me of this
why does she have to describe her lewks in such random and frankly bleeping stupid ways that very strongly suggest she’s never 1. Met a supply teacher and 2. Set foot in a pub or met an uncle? ETA and that’s not a pub uncle, Jack. You’re LITERALLY dressed as Will from The Inbetweeners.
Also, why is she so thick she doesn’t realize her friend is LITERALLY calling her a bleep?
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I am actually hooting 
1970s newsreader Jack here..
1970s newsreader Jack here..
FBPE Uncle who has loud opinions about the negatives of Brexit by the fruit machine in a gastropub in Chipping Norton, maybe.
Ha, yes, she looks like the big phone on her desk has just rung through with some disturbing news about Mr Brezhnev.
ETA:
ICYMI, you can watch Jack being extremely uncomfortable right here...
Trigger warning: IIRC, she talks about EDs.
I think you're right, in that photo she's really straining a frown, so you have some lines appearing, albeit oddly placed ones. Every other facial expression in that collage, forehead is dead smooth. She must have been drunk buying botox as well as sideboards
.There is a house on Rightmove for rent that went up on the 13th. I don’t think it’s Jack’s bungahouse but in the same area & on for £1395
I'm writing from the past to speculate that Jack uses "hired help" (which I agree sounds awful, like the off-hand way a Southern belle would refer to her African American housekeeper in some made-for-tv adaptation of George Church Suppers set on a 1950s ex-plantation) because it sounds and reads a bit like "home help", and therefore suggests the association of care workers sent to help look after those who struggle to do so themselves. In other words, that Jack is trying to turn a sign of her financial privilege into a reminder that she is actually a smol crumbly invalid. Or maybe she's just a twit who constantly puts her foot in her mouth because words are interchangeable 
.
Also, took great pleasure in imagining her organising a bookplate and pasting in a form signature/acknowledge but being too lazy to fill it in according to the specifics of the person in question and sending out 100s of Patreon gifts that read "Dear paypig/squig" instead. Like in Catch-22, when the squad's commander has the genius idea of form letters for bereavements or notifications of missing airmen being found that all read "Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms, I am delighted/saddened to inform you that your son/husband/fiance has been KIA/WIA/found."
Back to grunking - as you were, and TOOT TOOT!
.Also, took great pleasure in imagining her organising a bookplate and pasting in a form signature/acknowledge but being too lazy to fill it in according to the specifics of the person in question and sending out 100s of Patreon gifts that read "Dear paypig/squig" instead. Like in Catch-22, when the squad's commander has the genius idea of form letters for bereavements or notifications of missing airmen being found that all read "Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms, I am delighted/saddened to inform you that your son/husband/fiance has been KIA/WIA/found."
Back to grunking - as you were, and TOOT TOOT!
Babe, same. Free lessons/clubs from school aside. (Which at my school was basically piano using the schools piano and football - deprived area, I know some offer things like violin and flute and what have you with free borrowing of the instruments)Outing myself as POV as duck but I used to consider all after school activities as middle class. We never had extra curricular activities. Once my mum gave me money to go Irish dancing but I bought 10 Lambert and Butler instead
Which is why it grates when the line from celebs is “my parents couldn’t afford X” when they mean “couldn’t afford another extra curricular on top of Y, Z” purely because they know that doesn’t generate the same level of “aww look the most working class celeb that ever lived”.. Because the reality for a lot of children is their parents cannot afford it, and even with the free ones, can’t be arsed to arrange it/take them/aren’t able to pick them up later due to work etc.
Most are doing it to a lesser level than Monroe, but it’s all part of how she gets away with it. Nobody with influence will want to publicly call her out for it because so many of them are at it and it enhances the media need for the acceptably working class darlings who still have “relatably middle class” experiences.
It’s Dame Viv’s memorial service today (genuine ‘rest in peace’, bless her). Is our smollest of smol pixies quiet today because she’s been invited? 
. One of Viv’s best customers is Jack Monroe.
(On her abandoned Tumblr, she references a Westwood fisherman’s jumper (although she was wearing a coat and scarf over it) - has that been added to the growing list of designer Westwood clobber @That Forensic Man?)
. One of Viv’s best customers is Jack Monroe.(On her abandoned Tumblr, she references a Westwood fisherman’s jumper (although she was wearing a coat and scarf over it) - has that been added to the growing list of designer Westwood clobber @That Forensic Man?)
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