Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Mustard]

Came across this thread - and am so glad! This woman gets right on my nerves - making out like she lived in the depths of poverty and it's all the Tories fault. I don't believe a word she says. She's happy to be raking it in now and I dare say she has PLENTY of good advice on how to minimise her tax bills don't bite the hand that literally feeds you Jack!

I see she's become all 'Instagram friendly' looking now too.

She’s feminised herself now. It all seems to have happened since she quit drinking. Her wife to be is something at Channel 4. I didn’t understand that non gendered period. She changed her prefix to Mx. I remember when she moved in with Allegra McEveedy, one of the founders of Leon

I had a massive dingdong with her on Twitter over the firefighters strike that took place years ago. Since then I've always watched from a distance and remain very suspicious of Jack.
Things for me just don't add up.
Jack wrote in great detail about the poverty her and her young son faced, due to the Tories, and it was real heartbreaking stuff. Yet, this week she wrote a big 'thank you' article to her son's father. I just can't buy into Jack.
And I find her very aggressive on Twitter.

Yes. This. And she has her parents too. Quite a lot of safety nets. She didn’t like it when people asked why she quit her job at the Fire Service.

 

[slugella]

What is she trying to prove? The amount she bangs on about how long she works is so odd, and unbelievable.

 

[Mel Donte]

Her Mum must know she's a serial liar, maybe she just lets her get on with it! Didn't they foster a load of kids as well? Maybe Jack has issues with that who knows.

Oh that reminds me! She also posted this on Twitter:

She apparently 'co-parented' her parents' foster kids from age 7.

 

[CoconotLoco]

She is the Jameela Jamil and Sam Smith of the cooking world.

 

[FrannyGallops]

Doesn’t read here

Of course she’s not going to name the forum. Because just learned from the likes of Sali Hughes, and every other influencer/celeb who’s got a thread here. She doesn’t want people coming here and finding out the truth about them. All the influencers who have cried on SM about ‘nasty’ Tattle have had more folk come here and had their eyes opened to the lies these people spout. It’s always backfired spectacularly, so better for Jack to keep it vague and keep deleting her past tweets so she can control the narrative. Good luck with that one. The truth will always out, especially when even she can’t keep up with her own falsehoods.

 

[Mel Donte]

It’s a two week gig. She just sent out an email. A very disingenuous and faux reticent about everything including talking about how she will still only draw the living wage.

She could pay herself more and stop begging for PayPal donations, but where's the fun in that?!

 

[rosemarina]

She’s definitely not reading !

 

[Mustard]

If I was her I'd be at least slightly embarassed by the fact that I got a job for not my own merit, but because of my fans being bullies, of course she has no sense of self awareness

She must have known this was in the pipeline so why all the farking vitriol towards Jamie?

 

[PineappleQueen19]

The time spent on live tv is the tip of the iceberg, wow really? I had no idea

And... no one’s forcing her to do tv appearances. If she needs to invest 4-5 times as many hours as someone else then for the sake of her mental health, she probably needs to give it a miss and invest that time elsewhere.

 

[emm]

also if YouTube isn't in her "skill set" in what way could she be a presenter?!

 

[JulieScoobyDoo]

Clearly doesn’t remember Delia’s Chest book where she made shepherds pie with tinned mince in gravy and frozen mash. The idea that Jack invented these recipes is laughable. Recipes can’t be copywritten for a reason, ie you can’t claim it as your own so this is just a joke

 

[Yel]

She just can't help but overegg the pudding. Claiming she had no TV while she went to a food bank and writing her blog while bombarding national press for attention.

I'm convinced nothing about her is real, why would you resign from a job with dependants with no savings and no job to go to? I wouldn't be surprised if she planned it all out with a friend from the far left media.

She was only ever a poverty tourist, it's not desperate poverty if you know one phone call could end it all.

Budget isn't even her brand anymore, as said earlier her vegan sausages use £5 worth of ingredients. No vegans were crying out that a non vegan had jumped on the bandwagon and as a result "distroyed their entire lives work" and "stolen their job".

 

[Kofi Annan]

I'm absolutely disgusted with her tweets these past few days. The pile on that she initiated against Jamie Oliver was nothing less than a hate campaign. #BeKind my arsehole. Biggest hypocrite and money-grabbing bitch I ever had the displeasure to follow on social media.
And chickpeas and rice ISN'T a fucking meal you twat!!!

 

[Jelly Bean]

I don't really know much about Jamie Oliver, but I feel sad for him with this. "Be kind" is clearly only when it suits people..

I'm all for people being called out when they have done something shitty, but all he has done is accepted a job? If she was in the ring for the job and they decided they didn't want her then why should he not take the job? I really hope she doesn't end up getting a show/co host out of this. Really disgusting behaviour.

Exactly. He was offered a job and accepted it. Why on earth should he look around to see if there are other candidates? Frankly I would trust his recipes far more than her's anyway. Her food is, well, joyless. As Crocodile Dundee said - 'Yes you can eat it. But it tastes like shit'.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Translation: she bulk buys her picture frames from Wilko.

 

[rosemarina]

It’s like she’s cos-playing poverty.

I didn’t grow up poor (we had our moments, but nothing like what many people live through), and whose mum didn’t try to find a million things to cook with mince, and try to stretch it further with carrots and breadcrumbs and stuff like that? It’s as old as time, making do with what you have.

 

[Horatio]

She’s so entitled!! I couldn’t work out who she was referring to but all of her followers have piled on and are now slagging off jamie Oliver in the comments. I don’t particularly care for Jamie Oliver but seems really spiteful of her to do this

Oh ffs
Even she knows “I’ll probably regret these tweets”
The things is, we all know how it feels when someone is praised for something you feel is your work, or even worse if you are passed over a job in a similar scenario.
But twitter is not the place to share those feelings. Your perspective on it is not objective and there may be plenty of perfectly good reasons they went with Jamie. For one she’s clearly a pain in the arse to work with.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Oh god she’s being such a cunt about it I’m sure Jamie now wants nothing to do with her

I would absolutely love it if he is ever asked about Jack, Jamie Oliver would look genuinely puzzled and say 'who'?

 

[my_escape_from_the_ads]

Exactly this. I follow a TV producer on Twitter who said the thing about Jamie is that he knows what’s he’s doing. He can nail it one take and can film three or four shows back to back. Jack’s a novice. There’s no way she could do that. It would have taken days, if not weeks, and required a studio etc.

as you say Jamie has probably done this at home

and she would have gone on and on and on about “I’m doing a thing” for fucking days an said how nervous she was and she was up for 72 hours straight and omfg it would be fucking painful

 

[kirkvanhouten]

I think at this point it is helping her victim complex, she is ALWAYS looked over because she is POOR and WORKING CLASS.

The point is, she caused a real stir and has too many opinions. JO obviously took away twizzlers but he never polarised the right and left. Im not sure if that makes sense but i know what i mean..

she doesn't want to do youtube because she WANTS the tv show. Nobody would care about the lighting if she was a good presenter/made good food