Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[allybongo]

Hi Jack

 

[Yel]

Not surprising at all that she's telling people to be better and not clobber other people on twitter.

But still it's astounding she takes a holier than thou stance

 

[ChilliBean]

Anyone seen her latest twitter rant attacking Barclays Bank for not giving her card back when it was swallowed by their ATM machine? She always tags the company/brand in order to shame them and create as much drama as possible. Anyway, loads of people have @ her and told her it’s policy that they can’t return a different bank’s card to her as it’s a security risk. Inconvenient but unfortunately one of those things in life, no idea why she felt the need to create such a drama about it on twitter she clearly has nothing better to do!

 

[Catwinky]

Just had a quick look through her Twitter feed giving people recipes. Seriously it all seemed to be - mix the ingredients together. Literally that was it.
Why do people still keep giving her air space?

If Jamie Oliver gets his recipes from Jack there is definitely more than enough reason to suspect Jack is getting her recipes from this Kay lass.

 

[emm]

She has been after a tv show for years and it has never got anywhere so obviously, she can't do it very well.
She even went for lessons in presenting which suprise, suprise she asked for donations for as she was skint as always
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paying herself..via her patreon fans..

She describes the show so temptingly... .

she really is just a parody

 

[Catwinky]

Yeah, i liked her too when she first appeared. She's definitely become insufferable over time.

Just scratching the surface and her pinned tweet, for example, is unbearably smug and overcompensating.

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She has always been insufferable and a fucking nasty petty piece of work. She made me feel sorry for David Cameron (whom I despise) when she had a pop at him about 'using' the memory of his son who passed from Celebral Palsy as 'rhetoric'.
You know because no child is worse off than her son.....

It lost her the Sainsburys contract she had. This is why brands stay away.

 

[ChilliBean]

Jamie Oliver had a big controversy a year or two ago when he published a jollof rice recipe, heavily personally adapted. He was accused of cultural appropriation, taking a Afro-Caribbean staple dish, changing it and profiting from that as if he had come up with it himself without any recognition of it’s importance in the community it comes from.

So she basically named and shamed him anyway by mentioning that!!
I imagine the tweets were hastily deleted after an angry phone call from her agent to demand what the fuck she was doing

It’s really quite spiteful to do this in all seriousness and I’m not even a huge fan of Jamie Oliver. All her Twitter followers have piled on as well. I expect Jamie Oliver is mortified

 

[Mustard]

I like her recipes (although very disappointing if she's lifted them from blogs etc) but do find her awfully dramatic on twitter. Eg the other night she couldn't sleep so woke her partner up. Firstly that's an incredibly selfish thing to do. Secondly why tell people? Very attention seeking. Love that she sued Katie Hopkins though.

As I said before, she must be exhausting to live with, and as this case illustrates, she literally is if she wakes her partner up.

 

[rosemarina]

I have firsthand knowledge of a City firm that was considering paying Jack a non-trivial amount of money to come and speak on International Women’s Day before the organisers saw sense. If Jack is broke, then where’s all the money going?

 

[ChilliBean]

Does anyone else feel that she is trying to use the panic of coronavirus to her own advantage and encourage stock piling

 

[TheOrangeFox]

I feel like Jack is all 'woe is me'. I know she's a person who came from extremely little and did well for herself. Her niche and her work is admirable. But come on, not everything is all about Jack, surely? I don't like JO any more than the next person but he has a long standing relationship with Channel 4, has done similar budget meals in the past and is highly experienced on TV. Is she just upset that they passed her over for an offer so she could turn them down or something? Like other posters have said, she's said she's not the best on tv and the way you conduct yourself on social media has a massive impact.

They're also trying to market this to the widest audience possible due to the pandemic and the possibility of food shortages. Jack isn't a household name to most, especially those new to cooking on a poor persons budget. Jamie is a household name to everyone, a lot of people trust him and trust that what he says is good advice and people know he can cook. Instant ratings + helping people in the community live on tins and not stockpile = best choice for Channel 4. Yet all Jack can do is whine and call him 'That Man'. You've got the balls to indirectly slate him and C4's decision, you can bloody well have the balls to name the network and chef by name.

 

[Chinwag]

Also, the hilarious thing is Jack only got the growing Twitter attention from blue ticks and their sycophants because of the constant virtue signalling and butting in to online conversations that had absolutely nothing to do with food.

There has been a pattern of Jack jumping in to whatever is popular in the moment and desperately trying to gain attention, jobs and followers from it and shamefully that’s exactly how Jack is using this coronavirus crises.

 

[Jelly Bean]

And the thing with liars is when they are tripped up they cry 'troll!'.
Common pattern.

 

[Yel]

During every recession there's been a handful of budget cooking shows. Sit down jack and stop being a brat.

 

[pink321]

The problem is that the more viewers she has watching the show then the more likely that she’ll have have time on tv extended #nothanks I don’t want to watch an unwashed looking unprofessional food assembler (she’s no chef!) on tv awkwardly going ‘um, ah’ every two seconds and having a smug gloating smirk

 

[MHB28]

Timid!!! Then how can you have your own TV programme!!?! I’m lost for words

 

[Yel]

I have firsthand knowledge of a City firm that was considering paying Jack a non-trivial amount of money to come and speak on International Women’s Day before the organisers saw sense. If Jack is broke, then where’s all the money going?

I can imagine she's paid £2000-4000 for attending a corporate along side free lunch and executive transport from her door so she doesn't have to brave public transport. Not bad for a few hours work.

She's worrying about losing these events so seems to be trying to hoover up as much money as possible right at the start of this while people still have it.

 

[pink321]

I've noticed that too! .... she also puts on a fuggly filter that makes her hands look veiny, blue and a bit shit and then when someone says something it's "I have arthritis" and "I was born prematurely so I have weird excess skin" (I shit thee not!) instead of admitting to filters for either making her slop look better or to get attention when some noob pops up and asks about her mangled looking hands...

Mary Berry has a disability w.r.t. one hand. I've never once heard her complain, moan about, or even noticed it until she had that country show once where they went through her life history. This jack idiot is the biggest melt and professional victim around (on-par with Jameela Jamil)!

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

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.

My sister (funnily, my foster sister) is a compulsive liar and it’s a weird unspoken about thing in the family so I’m not surprised? My (foster) mum doesn’t believe a lot of it but daren’t call her out as she has a temper and she knows it’d mean reduced contact, (foster) dad is a bit dim and laps it all up and lets her run circles round him. I can’t explain how uncomfortable being around someone like this, I’m a gobby opinionated woman but I can’t bear to call it out because it’s just SO uncomfortable.

Her whole family are probably hostage to the same shit she inflicts on the rest of Twitter tbh

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

Sorry to post twice but I do think this is a very MC saviour complex and really quite a fucked up thing to say. After my wedding my foster sister went to the pub with a few of my friends & most embarrassingly my husband’s oldest mate and said similar to them, detailing how she helped “save me”. It’s one of a handful of things that have caused us to no longer have a relationship tbh.

 

[poppycat]

Shappi Korsandi is another absolute dose. The fact she has the nerve to describe herself as a comedian is the funniest thing she ever said.
I agree that Jack is a bully - especially when for some unfathomable reason she appears to have Nigella, Ricky Gervais partner' Jane Fallon, and the ghastly Allsop all in her pocket. Hopefully Jamie finds it laughable and a bit tragic - but her intention is to undermine and belittle him. If a man was doing this to a woman the blue tick brigade would be up in arms.

She seems to have so many of the blue tick brigade in her pocket, very strange. Saw a tweet yesterday from Irvine Welsh extolling her virtues and insinuating that she was saving the nation with her nonsensical 'recipes' (my words not his). I can't believe that any of these people actually cook, a glance at the recipes on her blogs shows that she has no understanding of how to cook, I think it's extreme virtue signalling, look at us, we all love Jack, she's teaching the poor how to eat. So patronising.