All conjecture of course, but… Jack’s in Southend, she’s just split with PoPo, she’s living rent free in a house a friend is selling that she knows is going to be very short term.
I’d bet a substantial amount of money that she read this article and it ticked a
lot of boxes in her mind, each of them with a kaaa-ching!
sound (single, famous, posh and minted, MASSIVE house, no parents, kid the same age as mine, somewhat sad back story, in the “food industry like me”
) and in the hard. cold, light of this, ol shark-eyes decided to get “her son” a goldfish and name it Allegra. There’s a vast amount in that article and the story around Allegra’s book that a narc like Jack could use to “bond” with Leggy.
Seriously, no way that Allegra being
all over THE NEWSPAPERS/media with this story in late 2013 isn’t related to Jack going out of the way to put herself exactly where Leggy couldn’t miss her even if she tried.
Losing her mother’s recipe book was a terrible blow to Allegra McEvedy. As she recreates it for her daughter, the chef talks to Alison Roberts about drugs, divorce and Dauphinois
www.standard.co.uk
Have never bought that, even the compulsive shopper that she is, Jack had a copy of Economy Gastronomy and clocked Leggy back there in 2010-11. She didn’t give two fucks about food or cooking back then. Nigella, Gordon, Jamie, Delia books that she could pick in WHSmith or Sainsburys, maybe. Allegra, not so much. I reckon Leggy came on radar for other reasons, and much later on…