Agree @Misbehaving, especially where you say...
"I remember years ago reading her cookbooks and she gave such an impression of a well adjusted blended family that I actually was impressed by them!"
I felt this too... I thought Nadia Sawalha's family was like my own by what I read...
I started watching the Sawalha-Adderleys when they went online and very quickly saw that actions spoke louder than words.
I saw that her words had been lies and her actions showed the reality which is that of a disfunctional, jealous messed up family that was headed by two attention seeking, lying, morally bankrupt, narcissistic and messed up people who NEED daily validation from a bunch of strangers.
I saw animals and children being treated extremely badly and never in my life had I felt so duped by the actual reality of the actions and words of the once perceived lovely girl next door that I wrongly assumed Nadia Sawalha was.
The Web of lies got bigger, their world got filthier, their family became more seperated and the extent to which they need daily reassurance that they are busy but wonderful people grew and grew.
Here we are, holding two very selfish, very deceptive and very manipulative people to account.
I've always hoped that they'd gracefully accept we've seen through their rouse and that they'd close it down to focus on fixing their spectacularly broken personalities and lives but that's never going to happen as their need for massive tax relief coupled with their compulsion for approval, endorsement and recognition is far too important to both Sawalha-Adderleys
Two excellent posts @notSUBmissive and @WoodlandCreaturenotSUBmissive - that is a perfect description of the Catch 22 narcissists have to content with [not that they are aware of this of course].The more exposure they gain, the more their defects become glaringly obvious and the more the attention goes to their heads and then they continue to act in an increasingly grandiose manner and making themselves look worse and worse. A certain Duchess living in a multi-toileted mansion is a brilliant example of this - striding around New York like a character from the Matrix!
Also narcissists, as they age, often end up hanging out with and dating younger people as their peers can see through them. I personally know one elderly narcissist who likes "to spend time with the young folks" - yes of course because they don't see through him and he can buy their friendship with his financial clout but they're not friends just hangers-on! I note that Lee chap is quite a bit younger than Nadia. I don't know about Mark's friends - does he have any apart from his daughters?
.Thanks for sharing again @knickerbockerey
Was all of the NNSS live? Did they have pre-recorded bits? I don’t understand how they would be capable when they can just about manage CM, and that’s when they are sitting still!
I literally only went to give my
and saw that pile of who knows what on a wrap, and then I left. Thank you @knickerbockerey for sharing that with us.
(Or some other such nonsense!).
) and starts muttering away at the camera about how big Nigella's ears are very big (in case you didn't hear it) and then again for added emphasis she says again she has very long ears .. ...So she obviously has to hone in on one tiny detail that she thinks might detract from Nigella's all round and acknowledged beauty!
serves her right that nagging feeling of jealousy she gets anytime any woman is mentioned that may well make her (Nadia,) look like a pauper by comparison!
Coffee Moaning for Sunday. Hope your weekend was good. Today's title is "Hangovers, Volcanoes, Black Swans, Sink Holes, Magic Mushrooms, Praying & Church" Dude is obsessed with being inebriated. Roll call. Pam is sore after painting her bedroom. Nadia suggests stretching while you watch telly. I suggest a bath with epsom salts. 
Mark suggests sex. 
Perv. "How are you all?" Karen has a cough. Everyone has got it. Nadia talking about lateral flow tests detecting non-symptomatic COVID. Mark is on the search for a razor as his 20 have vanished. Flogging the channel and the Member's shite. Special live at 11 a.m. giving away 50 pounds worth of vouchers of anything you want. 
Loads of crap that is or could happen. 10,000 chicken neck wringers getting visas. Eww. Fuel shortages. The social psychologist gets a mention again. Mark went to find some petrol today. Nadia says her heart has been broken listening to the tit lives lorry drivers have. "The fat cats are going to have to cream some of their profit off." Talk about other workers who need their cars. They have a new obsession in Nick Abbott on LBC. More bitching about the gov't. "At the moment we are on our knees, let's face it we are" says Nadia. Is this true or is it a London thing? Nadia gets all animated "OH MY GOD, DO YOU KNOW WHAT ANNOYED ME YESTERDAY? This narrative that is coming out now. Wait for this, what do you think of this? That Boris is going to save Christmas by bringing over 10,000 people to kill the poultry..." She then goes on to say it's his fault we don't have the people in the first place. "He thinks we're stupid." HIT THE LIKE BUTTON UNDER OUR BODIES. Showing off, Mark tells us he has looked into volcanoes in Indonesia and Costa Rica. Nadia asks a stupid question, does every country have volcanoes?
Mark says no, but lots of countries have dead/inactive ones. Every continent has volcanoes and the US has the most. Nadia hugs Mark saying "I just love you, you're just so clever." Nadia starts talking about being in Iceland and the earth bubbling. "It's a little like when you fart in the bed" says Mark. 
She tells him to shut up and then starts combing his hair with her fingers. 
Pick, pick, scratch, scrunch. Nads says we needs a change in mental health medicine. Excuse moi? WTF does she know, Ms. Box of Sugar Water Vials. Mark says I think so Mr. I don't take meds long enough to know tit from shinola and has yet to participate in therapy on an ongoing basis. Mark says MDMA was devised to help couples. Always with the sex. Actually, it was German chemists who created it to control bleeding, found that it had a psychoactive effect. It was initially used for therapy, to get patient to open up. Nadia is under the impression that MDMA is still in use in medicine, when it isn't BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL IN MOST COUNTRIES. Pen clicking. Mark waxes on about the earth holding all kinds of cures and Nadia saying Mother Nature created everything. 
Nadia in her gobbledegook language says she used to use guided meditation, but since reading the Ruby Wax book, she can do it on her own. She has taken the training wheels of her meditation bike people! Talk about "9 Perfect Strangers" and microdotting. Mark says prayer is a form of meditation. Well no, prayer is having a conversation with a higher power, meditation is the listening. Mark used to do prayer in school and didn't understand it. Nads says she went to religious schools. Huh? "Give us our daily bread" and Nadia said that always made her hungry and that she is a carb addict. 
Rachel Spain endorsement from Nads. Mark says something about using prayer and getting away from organized religion. Nadia says she uses it to deal with her ego as she has a huge one. Young people are more likely to pray than over 55s, it's through other faiths and the pandemic. "Oh how lovely" says Nadia. She says the yoof need movement and meditation to deal with mental health. 
Mentions waking up in a prison cell and Nadia looks like this ---> and says Oh yeah. Must be the DUI incident. 
"What was it like? What did you feel like?" Awful and a fool says Mark. Nadia regrets her hangovers and the damage to her body. Nadia was shaking and crying, feeling so ill having to go to work. Dina gave her a homeopathic remedy, ginger tea and brushed her whole body with a bristle brush to get rid of toxins and then ran her a bath with aromatherapy. I would have shoved her into an ice bath, but hey ho! Nads says she didn't feel any better from it. Mark says he was a great drunken texter. Nads says no, he was a phoner. Lucy hates blackouts. Stewart broke his leg in 2 places on sambuca, put on pain and no hangover, RESULT! Nadia mentions the episode of Below Deck when David was drunk out of gourd and slipped out of the hot tub, wacking his leg onto the side of the boat. Nadia tells us of their first date when Mark the night before was partying and ended up with practically a broken nose, "wearing dark glasses like an idiot." Yet, she still continued seeing him and had children with him. The mind boggles. 
I thought it would be the whole family, yes and by that I mean daughters, nephew, sister (singular) her parents all having a nice Sunday roast, welcoming the SUBS to their world of fakery, luring them into a so called perfectly functioning family. Well at least they were decent enough not to do that.I literally only went to give my
From what they’ve been saying the last few days, it was going to be completely live. I can’t imagine it was worth watching!
What an incredible breakdown of what must have been something very frustrating to watch. I can’t understand why her parents keep putting up with her? Do they feel sorry for her? If so why? She had the same chances in life as the other two. Or do they feel guilty for not seeing what an out of control, spiteful little girl she must have been? But that woudln’t make sense, because surely they should be fawning over Dina & Julia and telling Nitty to sort herself out?Thank you @knickerbockerey for sharing that with us.
The first thing that struck me was how bad the picture quality was really grainy and not clearly defined at all!
Another one was yet again how out of control her compulsion to over feed her father is!
This from the woman who by her own admission has recently lost weight!
Yet her offering to Nadim is one of waffles with bacon followed by lasagne and followed then by chocolate cake!
Yet she admires his longevity and his strength (She's a flatterer even with her own family) while at the same time offering him food that has very little nutritional value!
It's not as if he doesn't have taste either he talks about eating pickled aubergine and hummus and following a middle Eastern diet (Which as he explained do have health benefits)
Nadia who is so obsessively proud of her Jordanian heritage that she pays very little heed to it!
Yeah Nadia you could have learnt something from your dad if you bothered to take him seriously instead of your usual condescending pat him on the head the man done good attitude!
Ditto with Dina who is inspired by her heritage and culture in a good way and who cooks with care and passion and discrimination!
I fully believe now that being in close proximity to Mark and Nadia really does bring out the (regressive) worst in people!
Why doesn't she just put safety gates on the doors and bring her own set of pacifiers with her! (Oops I forgot that's what food is for).
While everyone gets over excited about what's your favourite sandwich (short of a picnic) and Nadia gets to outdo her mother (that'll show her) about how she should try a bagel with very thinly sliced red onion or capers because that's what she had at the ivy!
So yes she's in her element is Nadia!
Show off has to know better than her mother (or so she thinks) and has to subtly flatter and control her father by being in control of the food chain!
So same old same old right?
Oh but don't worry because as she tells us she is the common man's Nigella!
Then Mark tells her about he once saw into Nigella's ear to which Nadia (Gets very jealous very quickly it's actually quite funny
Ha ha
That's what you get when your so ultra competitive and view others (especially women) as a potential threat!
I think we can all feel right now how Julia must have felt like?
Caught in the eye of a storm sensing always hidden hostility trying to brush away snide remarks that come from resentment and most of all trying to rise above someone who would gladly drag others down just so she could feel better about herself!
Well what goes around comes around and her spitting resentment is her own self inflicted punishment (As if Nigella would give two hoots!) and a reminder that no matter how gorgeous she thinks she is there will always be others who are more gorgeous!
So there! This being in all probability the only genuine discomfort she ever feels about anything ever and a not so subtle reminder that she ain't all that! (And a bag of potato chips)!
Serves her right.....
Betty certainly didn't think it was worth it as she spent a lot of it scrolling through her phone.I literally only went to give my
From what they’ve been saying the last few days, it was going to be completely live. I can’t imagine it was worth watching!
Then Mark tells her about he once saw into Nigella's ear to which Nadia (Gets very jealous very quickly it's actually quite funny
Ha ha
i do wonder if she has real issues with him. I don't understand for example why mank does not go to a gym to workout. also there was a time when he suggested they do boxercise in the park with a trainer, and she was like, no, you can get the stuff on amazon and do it at home. i do think she is worried he will stray......and i do also question the whole he was drinking and he stopped drinking beacuse he received an ultimatum over it, and whether a part where he cheated on her is being purposefully omitted.View attachment 781738View attachment 781739
She can witch about Nigella all she likes, but it won’t change the fact that, given half a chance, Mark would much rather tuck into her spaghetti than Nadia’s
Thank you @chipmunk yes it really was more than a little nauseating watching that! It's clear that for whatever reason she rules the roost and has been given too much power (dominance) over other family members (and maybe has for a very long time)?I thought it would be the whole family, yes and by that I mean daughters, nephew, sister (singular) her parents all having a nice Sunday roast, welcoming the SUBS to their world of fakery, luring them into a so called perfectly functioning family. Well at least they were decent enough not to do that.
What an incredible breakdown of what must have been something very frustrating to watch. I can’t understand why her parents keep putting up with her? Do they feel sorry for her? If so why? She had the same chances in life as the other two. Or do they feel guilty for not seeing what an out of control, spiteful little girl she must have been? But that woudln’t make sense, because surely they should be fawning over Dina & Julia and telling Nitty to sort herself out?
Reading the Nigella section literallly gave me the chills, and my word yes, little Julia having to grow up with little Nitty, a spiteful older sister and then deal with that spite as it matured and manifested into womanhood. Goodness knows what she was put through, no wonder she lashed out with that Tweet; and yet after Julia’s ‘long talk’ with her father which was in an article there was no doubt, Julia was clearly trying to get people to read between the lines, that she was the one who got the telling off, not Nitty.
Nitty seems to have destroyed all the love.
I do wish Julia would be in a fabulous show again, so she could outshine that woman once and for all!!!!
Thank @Misbehaving for your clarity and insight.
I always feel Julia posts because she wants to share, whareas her big sister wants attention and to be dame of the DM sidebars!
Julia is telling us how wonderful her friend is; Nitty would be all about the subtext of how wonderful she is!
That's what i feel...... Nadia whores out every aspect of her private life and that of those around her, and it's all ok you're wonderful; Julia breaks cover once and it looks like her dad told her off. If nadia wanted the twitter post taken down, she should have made a heartfelt apology. otherwise, Nadim should have been fine with Julia keeping it up. I honestly think there is much worse Julia could have said, and what she did say was dignified and respectful.
'If you've got the sort of brain that doesn't come back' Nadia Sawalha on CM 26.09.2021
Yes that's an interesting point @afrozenpea and I also wonder if her estrangement and rejection of Julia is not only because of jealousy over Julia's beauty and success as an actress and intelligence but also because she sensed that Mark was attracted to Julia?
and I don't know if anyone else read it but there are a couple of pictures of Julia and a kind of homage!
