THISYes I remember the twitter pile on of Esther Coren that Sali started and encouraged as Esther’s article wasn’t to her liking. A couple of people calmly challenged SH on this, suggesting she had misread the tongue in cheek tone of the article and was behaving reprehensibly by stirring things up. Of course SH was having none of this and refused to consider an alternative viewpoint or take responsibility for EC having to lock down her social media.
I also remember another occasion where SH and a group of her cronies, IK et al, were taking the piss out of giles and Esther Coren on Twitter, as he had written a piece about not being able to get his children into the local state school because of people renting flats in the area to get their kids in. They were making quite personal and nasty comments and using #prayforthecorens, all on a public forum. Anyway, someone who used to chat quite a bit in the comments of EC’s old blog, Recipe Rifle, challenged them, saying it was a bit out of order. They absolutely WENT for her, in quite a nasty way, telling her in no uncertain terms that she was a nobody who had no business commenting on their “private” chat. She basically had no chance against these trained and experienced journalists.
So I really don’t buy this “poor Sali” routine that people are buying into left, right and centre, without bothering to check the facts. She is well capable of giving as good as she gets and has only gone on the defensive now as she got caught harassing people who dare to disagree with her. Her and her mates’ nasty comments about “skid mark” lives and IK’s offer of her thug husband going round to see people shows exactly who they are.
(Full disclosure - I love Esther Coren’s writing and think she has far more talent than SH could ever wish to have. I have little in common with her but she is clever, funny, self aware and not a grubby money-grabber).
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Only if you look, though. It is part of being ‘Z list famous’ which she is (at a stretch). Every single real celebrity deals with thi on a much bigger scale. Sali is hardly Angelina Jolie is she? Reading about your private life on the front page of a newspaper must suck but Sali doesn’t have that to deal with.
Yel thanks for saving and sharing this. The influencer hypocrisy/attention seeking/crying troll in an attempt to curtail freedom of speech/opinion has to stop! These past few months my eyes have been opened even more so than before.
Thankyou lovely! I’m in bed with flu so I’ll dig in and have a read
That’s so interesting. I’m genuinely surprised that people have put 2+2 together so soon. That’s totally my opinion too (and what I’ve been banging on about on here since Friday night lol). She is GUTTED that people on here have seen through her and have made fun of her and are laughing at her pretentious know it all holier than thou yet very inconsistent stance on everything she talks about. Us laughing at her (in the bath)at Soho Farmhouse was brought up in the video as well as the VB lunch. She was absolutely incensed that we werent in awe of her luxury holiday (Good Morning, everyone!
I've caught up with the thread since and first, thank you so much for the warm welcome, especially to QueenDecember, bubbletea123 and HowardMoon (love a bit of Mighty Boosh).
The Keats of Foundation was never intended to be thread title as I genuinely find her a pretentious arse but I'm fine if you want to run with that
ETA: There's a new thread in Mumsnet AIBU asking "Isn't that horrible what is happening to SH, blahblahblah". The vast majority of posters are saying that they have been here and saw nothing of the sort that Sali is claiming and that, actually, and this is pretty interesting, Sali fabricated the whole stuff in order to get attention and new followers since her career is hitting the skids hard and fast. I wouldn't put it past her tbh. If that is the case, she played us all like a fiddle and we served our purpose. However, it's a two way street as Tattle gained a lot of new posters as far as I can gather.
) and that we wondered whether she’d been invited to the VB lunch. Of course she was at home choosing her sofa over networking with VB OF 
COURSE SHE WAS This is horrible. I used to be on the forum and felt like it was never acceptable to preach anything but the SHB sermon. The alpha users certainly behaved liked bullies.
Jesus yes! DO. NOT. CONTRADICT-SLASH-QUESTION the sooth-saying spf-spiritualist. She was as abrasive as Sali, I seem to remember.
Ah yes that is what is being said on CH fab when others have questioned that the thread doesn’t seem that bad and doesn’t tally up with what Sali is accusing it of.
@BettyDoodah , thank you. I could have written your post word for word except you've said it better than I ever could.Well, I have to say that I FOUND MY PEOPLE!!
Some context:
This morning I saw on my Twitter timeline that someone I follow liked "that" tweet from Sali, the one directing to her Instagram video. Clicking through that tweet I saw her mention of this site and came here and maaaaaaannn, I wasn't disappointed
I didn't read every single post of the three threads because it's nearly 3000 posts and I rushed though them, I wanted to know as much as I could about the people who were inflicting suffering on poor little Sal' *cackles*
Some history:
I used to belong to her GTL FB group and when it was closed I moved to her website forum along everyone who did it too. And what happened you may ask? I was bullied twice, once in the FB group and the second time in the forum, not only by the people who had I had a different opinion from but alas, Sali herself. I decided that I wasn't going to be bullied a third time and just left. Why was I bullied? Because I obviously dared to have a different opinion to the majority of people on both discussions. I am absolutely not surprised to find so many ex GTLers and ex Forumites here as I refused to feel the odd one out, deep down I knew that there should be more people like me around.
I have never read the forum since I left but I carried on reading her column on the Guardian mostly out of curiosity. I started noticing a shift in the comments a while ago when people genuinely began asking her why she had stopped making videos and started making columns - ie. badly disguised paid for ads - about products. The kickstart point if I'm not wrong was the column about the 40 quid shower cap where the shower cap "inventor" (bwahahaha) came BTL to defend good ol' Sal who was being roasted about recommending a shower cap that cost 40 English pounds and practically gave the game away that such column was a paid post. I relished, yes, I bloody did.
The comments started getting more and more inquisitive and I'm sure she has a list of posters' names she doesn't want their comments posted as I tried to post many times - nothing aggressive - and the comment was never published. Please note that I never had a problem with my comments in any other section of the Guardian.
I am ashamed to say that I was once her admirer but after a while I could see her for what she really is: a glorified make up artist. She calling herself a journalist is an affront to real journalists. She basically uses flowered up language to talk about lipstick. Who exactly does she think she is? The Keats of Foundation? The Shakespeare of Eye Shadow? Her writing is pitiful, vacuous, empty. What she is though, is a basic sales person. Had she never met the right connections and charmed her way through her "career" she would be at a counter selling her beloved Bobbi Brown stuff.
Going through these threads I learned so much more stuff that actually confirmed my point of view: the clique, the bullying, the double standards when it comes to female friendships, that she married a Tory while being a "leftie" (the champagne socialist stuff is pretty galling). Her website completely tanked, I had a look today and no new posts for years, no wonder she's returning to Facebook where she can flog stuff for free while being paid for it. I flicked through her books in a bookshop and I can't believe anybody in their sane mind would buy that crap. If you compare and contrast to the book Lisa Eldrige wrote, about the history of make up, her efforts are laughable.
She has no discernible talent and like the saying goes, you can fool some people for a while but not everyone all the time. Today is probably the first column ever that had no comments section BTL. Her desperation in her video saying that she had legal advice - DID SHE BOLLOCKS - is hilarious! I don't want to give away too much but unless she's receiving rape/death threats or serious and repetitive abuse she can do zilch about it. She is annoyed and scared because people started seeing her for what she really is, a big fraud. Someone who does paid posts for scrunchies and shower caps. Someone who's bitter because she wasn't at the Victoria Beckham make up launch. Someone who can't write something insightful to save her life. Someone who's incredibly jealous of talented people like Lisa Eldrige and associates herself with likewise shits like Botox Tilbury.
She's going to regret her video because I could see this site got a LOT of new posters, me included, because of her own stupidity in publicising it. This whole omnishambles should be a warning to her, she should take a step back and ask herself why so many people are taking a stand against her. This should be an opportunity to stop, think and learn. Unfortunately, she's too conceited, arrogant and vain to admit that she was ever wrong. Her world is about to come crashing down on her and I am going to watch it with my very large G&T in one hand and my phone in the other.
PS: I'm so sorry about the long post but I had never spoken to anyone about the bullying I suffered from Sali and her cronies, I bottled everything up. This is the first time and I feel so relieved.
This is BRILLIANT!
Welcome!! Spot on assessment imho@BettyDoodah , thank you. I could have written your post word for word except you've said it better than I ever could.
I'm also an ex GTLer, ex SHBer who was bullied. Basically for daring to have an opinion of my own and for not agreeing with all the fawning sycophants that were on the sites. I left SHB. I certainly didn't 'flounce'. I just didn't bother posting on there anymore.
I don't bother using FB that much anymore, having moved onto Instagram but when I started getting FB notifications about GTL a few months ago or however long it was, I realised I was still a member there and went on for a look out of curiosity.
Surprise surprise, the same old bullies are still there, still controlling everything, still doing some serious arse licking.
They just come across as pretty sad and pathetic now. I mean these are grown adults but they don't ever seem to have grown up. They're still the playground bullies and must defend their 'leader' at all costs.
I had a look at SHB earlier this morning. Just spotted the tumbleweed passing through. No wonder GTL has been reactivated. SHB clearly died a death a long time ago.
Delighted to see the truth coming out and the amount of people who can see Sali Hughes for what she really is. An abusive bully and nothing else. Great to give it out, but can't take it.
I'm a new member here, having found the site through the now infamous Instagram video. I suspect Tattle has never been so popular
You're all fab here. I've found my people
