Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Yel]

At £10 a pop, looks like she’s doing great

+ £5 delivery

So the cheap frames she was charging £8 for.

Who would want a photograph of a some tinned beans, sweetcorn and potatoes for £15

 

[Thecatsmother]

Somethings doesn’t add up about this woman. I’m sure she’ll relish in the attention and of having her own thread on here though

 

[Ellabella]

Can you imagine having the time to delete 36,000 tweets? How much you must be shitting your pants about what you've previously said?

 

[Yel]

If she's begging for money she should release details of her finances quite frankly.

She has many fingers in many pies so she's either wasting the money or lying about needing it. Either way she shouldn't be accepting money from lots of her followers who say they don't have much themselves.

the patreon money alone is probably more than someone on Min wage makes. I wouldn't be surprised if she's pulling in 5 figures each month.

 

[Yel]

I really wonder if she will be as "woe is me" on TV as she is on twitter? If so I don't think that is the content anyone wants to see, things are negative enough for so many people what most people want is positivity/escapism

I don't think she's capable of turning off her life draining dementor personality.

Imagine if someone else poor was on the show, she wouldn't be able to stop her self from trumping them with that she had been poorer. No one has struggled as much as jack. Those two years where she couldn't buy a cople of £160 bottles of perfume were a hell hole that no one else can comprehend.

If she trips herself up so much with her lies on twitter imagine how much worse live TV is. Deleting her own tweeting history alone won't stop her from getting tangled up in contradictions.

 

[JellyWobbles]

I think she’s got some screws loose.
Her arrogance is hilarious. You didn’t invent tin can cooking you moron. Stop referring to JO as ‘mister millionaire’ (bitter much) or ‘him’ get a grip. I really hope moving forward from this that she loses all opportunities. Her professionalism is non existent, she’s just an entitled twat. Go work your 30 hour day and pay yourself 5p jack.

 

[ChilliBean]

And as if that all isn’t after money has been put aside for tax etc.

Not to mention £8/hr doesn’t need to stretch as far when you are being sent free stuff all the time.

It’s almost like she’s still trying to plead poverty even when she’s now probably quite wealthy

 

[Wobblehead]

If Jack is doing a dozen jobs and barely scraping a living she must be really shit at all of them. Perhaps she should find one job and stick to that. What I can say is she won’t be getting a Job with anyone who needs a social media manager

 

[Excuse Me Laydeh!]

6 days ago she posted she was immunocompromised and couldn't leave the house.
All immunocompromised people recieved letters saying not to leave the house for 12 weeks.
But now its ok for her to go out??
She's such a fucking liar.
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Somebody please please please tweet her and ask if she's going to be ok filming the new TV show with her compromised immune system...non-sarcastically obviously! I'm literally dying to see what her response would be! As always I'm sure she'll have some obvious response that the rest of us foolish and insignificant people will be unaware of. It really must be dizzying right up there, so high on that pedestal she's managed to fool everyone into thinking she's on!

 

[Ellabella]

And she's blaming Tattle for her not doing her larder lockdown yesterday. She has an insufferable "I'm such a victim" persona.

 

[Satisfying Click]

And I get very strong 'poor people cosplay' vibes from her shtick, much like that Cash Bird who got loads of backlash from the mouth frothing instahuns.

I can imagine her having two accents growing up - the one for home, the one for school.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

I love this thread, it’s all so true. I know everyone’s journey is their own and we all get given a different set in life but I’ve found how much she has to complain about really, really odd...

It wouldn’t take much for her to get on insta live and do a few Q&As or live stream herself cooking her dinner as a proof of concept for producers. She just doesn’t have it in her, I really don’t see any work drive at all just a lot of talk.

There’s no way she’s functioning on 4 hours sleep, isn’t she in (12 step) recovery too? No one listening to the program would be living like this. Although arguably the program makes you deploy vigorous self honesty which is also clearly missing here

 

[Jelly Bean]

Would she not actually just grow up and be grateful there is such a programme going out? Doesn't matter who presents it? There will be a knock on effect to her book anyway. Maybe just think of people who might be grateful for inspiration in canned food and don't be such a fucking prima Donna.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Too timid for YouTube but wants her own tv show on the BBC. How does that work then?

 

[Mustard]

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.

I saw the headline of that article but could not be bothered to read it. I often wondered about her son’s father. Jack wrote in the last year or so how she suffers from various health problems Inc Arthritis. Perhaps she should apply for PIP, or perhaps she already has DLA. I also used to wonder why, if she was so impoverished, that she could afford to get the amount of tattoos she has.

 

[sineadf]

Bizarre, it's like someone claiming copyright on the act of showering or something. What on earth does she think people did before? I was a student and then single mum in the 90s living on a pittance and I learned to cook cheap healthy meals from cookbooks, relatives, friends, the usual channels. No internet or Jack and her "niche"!

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Ahhh so here we go. I bet she thought this ‘hint’ would lead to some sort of collaboration with Jamie so she could ride his coat tails. He’s ignored it, she’s taken it as rejection and decided he’s now on her shit list.

 

[emm]

1. She has to commute to London
2. The commute gives her anxiety due her being 'immunocompromised'
3. She's struggling to pay for her train fares
4. Jamie makes more money than her
5. Other cooking shows get more views than hers and its not fair as she is the 'store cupboard pioneer'.
6. Due to commuting she is struggling to make time at home for anything.
7. Other cooking shows are stealing her ideas. She invented the jackfruit and chickpea, aren't you aware??
8. Jamie is more popular than her
9. She's physically and mentally exhausted. She cares for a son, commutes, runs a house and writes recipes.
10. Please donate to paypal she's skint on the breadline.

The list could go on.

Can you make this into a bingo card and we can watch the first episode and see how many we are able to immediately tick off?

 

[Jelly Bean]

Always looking for a fight and to kick up a stink ... it’s not classy is it ?

81 recipes? Why not have about 12 decent ones? Would she not do this stuff as a public service rather than the pathetic one sided competition she has going with Jamie?
As I said I seriously hope he hasn't got a clue who she is.
Her craving and fishing for adoration and approval and pity is a bit sad isn't it? Most of us grow out of that as a teenager.

 

[ChilliBean]

I have found a lot of her tweets joking about coronavirus in poor taste especially as she seems to be using it as an excuse to self promote and encourage stock piling

But I cannot believe that she, as a celebrity who has written best selling cook books and appeared on This Morning, is hard up enough to tweet her PayPal and ask for donations! I’m sorry but I just don’t buy it!!