Sali Hughes #4 The Keats of foundation

[DCICassieStuart]

Yes, she's one of the latest acquisitions. Shame, she seems like an absolute sweetie.

I was never a fan of Marian Keyes. I always found her a bit sickly sweet.
I've met her a couple of times and she's incredibly false.
Personally I don't like her at all.

 

[Pianoplayer]

Just seen all the old tweets re DP. I am appalled. What childish, bullying behaviour by so called adults. I've actually gone through my Instagram deleting all these so called 'influencers'. Sick of seeing posts of their large houses, latest free hair cut, handbag etc. I don't follow many, and did so because I love make-up but its becoming boring. Sali and her 'gang' don't allow any criticism of each other and IK needs to keep her violent partner under lock and key

 

[BettyDoodah]

I was never a fan of Marian Keyes. I always found her a bit sickly sweet.
I've met her a couple of times and she's incredibly false.
Personally I don't like her at all.

Another one here who can't stand Marian Keys. She's a Strictly Come Dancing "thoopafan" and so am I, so invariably her tweets end up being retweeted on my timeline when it's something SCD related. She was absolutely vile and wrote a lot of awful stuff about one of the dancers. Sadly for her it's a dancer with one of the most "dedicated" (obsessed) fanbases. The amount of abuse she got back was deserved

 

[HowardMoon]

Another one here who can't stand Marian Keys. She's a Strictly Come Dancing "thoopafan" and so am I, so invariably her tweets end up being retweeted on my timeline when it's something SCD related. She was absolutely vile and wrote a lot of awful stuff about one of the dancers. Sadly for her it's a dancer with one of the most "dedicated" (obsessed) fanbases. The amount of abuse she got back was deserved

Ooh. Didn’t know that. From what I saw of her on SH ITB from a while back she seemed very mild mannered and quite nervy. Obsessed with giving people medication too (weird) but her trying to gift Sali all the designer shoes she was admiring in her wardrobe was sweet

 

[OneLineResponse]

Those tweets about Dawn O'P have made me so cross and upset. If I had known of them before not for one second would I have thought of joining SH's fb group or buying things she recommended. I feel cheated tbh.

Fairly new to this thread. What did Dawn do to provoke the vitriol?

 

[Mustard]

IrishViolet I noticed that too. She was tweeting Marian Keyes assuring her that she would have a seat at the top table at her wedding and I thought how odd.. isn't the top table for your closest family / friends? She and Marian had only just met! Marian had recently posted about going to London to meet the cool girl gang of Twitter for the first time and how nervous she was. Deeply weird.

Just seen all the old tweets re DP. I am appalled. What childish, bullying behaviour by so called adults. I've actually gone through my Instagram deleting all these so called 'influencers'. Sick of seeing posts of their large houses, latest free hair cut, handbag etc. I don't follow many, and did so because I love make-up but its becoming boring. Sali and her 'gang' don't allow any criticism of each other and IK needs to keep her violent partner under lock and key

are there screen grabs of Eric Joyce’s (and IK) ridiculous violent and nasty twitter threats re last week. I’m sure a newspaper would be interested.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Fairly new to this thread. What did Dawn do to provoke the vitriol?

Genuinely no one knows. Not sure if there was a specific thing or 'her' generally. Dawn is a classy woman and appears to have not commented as far as I know. Must've been tit though and she knew about it as her husband tweeted about her being called Prawn.

 

[Twittrerisyouroffice]

I don't see that anything written in these threads matches what Sali alledged in her video. In fact, it was a group of people speculating on aspects of her professional and personal life, based on info that Sali made available herself in the public domain. People doing so anonymously as they risked actual abuse and doxxing if they did so publicly.

I talk to my very close friends about my sex life, my children, etc. I tend to do so in private. But imagine tthat we were all in the pub and I was loudly saying my husband was a great shag and a Tory. The table next to us overheard and moved to the beer garden, where they started laughing at what the woman next to them was boasting about. I wouldn't go to the authorities if I happened to find out they'd be mocking me.

Then imagine your colleague, who you don't know very well, shares aspects of her life with you in the office. She talks about her difficult relationship with her mum, her ex boyfriend, running away, her divorce, talking to her children about porn, (insert other articles from the Pool SH has written). One day, you and some other colleagues go out for coffee and discuss some inconsistencies in her stories. Or speculate on other details of the stories. This is gossipy, but surely not illegal?

Or imagine colleague A gives a contract to client xyz. You're not sure xyz deserves the contract and xyz is always taking your colleague out for expensive lunches. One day you and some other colleagues wonder if there is something underhand going on. One of you mentions it to colleague A. But A goes batshit and refuses to talk to you anymore.

Sali has long said Twitter is her office given she works from home. She also makes a living from writing first person accounts of her family, parenting, childcare, husband and her HONEST advice on buying beauty products.

This life was her choice and she has said it's afforded her freedoms that other jobs wouldn't. But Twitter is a public space. The internet is a public space. Her articles are published on public platforms.

It can't be nice to read people talking about your personal life and loved ones. I'd hate it. So I don't publicly share photos from my dead friend's funeral. I don't share intimate details of my sex life on my open Twitter feed. I don't write about the difficulties of my childhood or share photos of my children on my public insta.

You can't have it both ways Sali.

 

[Mselvista]

Yes More than once. So ridiculous isn’t it. One of her complaints about Tattle is, to paraphrase, that ‘bad things are on the internet about me and my children can read them’. But you obviously don’t mind your teenage children (and everyone else you know) being subjected to tales of your epic sex life on one of the biggest sm platforms in the internet?

are there screen grabs of Eric Joyce’s (and IK) ridiculous violent and nasty twitter threats re last week. I’m sure a newspaper would be interested.

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are there screen grabs of Eric Joyce’s (and IK) ridiculous violent and nasty twitter threats re last week. I’m sure a newspaper would be interested.

Yes.

 

[Keepitw0nky]

I don't see that anything written in these threads matches what Sali alledged in her video. In fact, it was a group of people speculating on aspects of her professional and personal life, based on info that Sali made available herself in the public domain. People doing so anonymously as they risked actual abuse and doxxing if they did so publicly.

I talk to my very close friends about my sex life, my children, etc. I tend to do so in private. But imagine tthat we were all in the pub and I was loudly saying my husband was a great shag and a Tory. The table next to us overheard and moved to the beer garden, where they started laughing at what the woman next to them was boasting about. I wouldn't go to the authorities if I happened to find out they'd be mocking me.

Then imagine your colleague, who you don't know very well, shares aspects of her life with you in the office. She talks about her difficult relationship with her mum, her ex boyfriend, running away, her divorce, talking to her children about porn, (insert other articles from the Pool SH has written). One day, you and some other colleagues go out for coffee and discuss some inconsistencies in her stories. Or speculate on other details of the stories. This is gossipy, but surely not illegal?

Or imagine colleague A gives a contract to client xyz. You're not sure xyz deserves the contract and xyz is always taking your colleague out for expensive lunches. One day you and some other colleagues wonder if there is something underhand going on. One of you mentions it to colleague A. But A goes batshit and refuses to talk to you anymore.

Sali has long said Twitter is her office given she works from home. She also makes a living from writing first person accounts of her family, parenting, childcare, husband and her HONEST advice on buying beauty products.

This life was her choice and she has said it's afforded her freedoms that other jobs wouldn't. But Twitter is a public space. The internet is a public space. Her articles are published on public platforms.

It can't be nice to read people talking about your personal life and loved ones. I'd hate it. So I don't publicly share photos from my dead friend's funeral. I don't share intimate details of my sex life on my open Twitter feed. I don't write about the difficulties of my childhood or share photos of my children on my public insta.

You can't have it both ways Sali.

this. Why is this such a hard concept for them to understand.

Edit: also, I know it’s been said but duck me that IG rant video who the hell does she think she is?! It’s like something from an aspiring actresses showreel, Tanya burr would be quite proud of that.

 

[J4n0Z]

Yeah - it's a weird one, because most people in this world have been nasty or said/done things they now regret, often getting swept up in something without fully thinking about it. This is (I hope) how Sali feels about the DP (and maybe Lauren Luke/Esther Walker) saga. I guess the issue here is that Sali makes a point of saying she would never be nasty online about someone because she wouldn't sink to those levels. It's just so hypocritical, and a bit of self-awareness wouldn't go amiss.

This

Fairly new to this thread. What did Dawn do to provoke the vitriol?

Hello from a fellow newbie! I think there's quite a few of us on here.

According to Sali, "someone" said "something" about Dawn that wasn't true and that's what prompted it all. But who knows? Her alleged crime seems to be that she exists and the gang didn't like her.

 

[BettyDoodah]

I don't see that anything written in these threads matches what Sali alledged in her video. In fact, it was a group of people speculating on aspects of her professional and personal life, based on info that Sali made available herself in the public domain. People doing so anonymously as they risked actual abuse and doxxing if they did so publicly.

I talk to my very close friends about my sex life, my children, etc. I tend to do so in private. But imagine tthat we were all in the pub and I was loudly saying my husband was a great shag and a Tory. The table next to us overheard and moved to the beer garden, where they started laughing at what the woman next to them was boasting about. I wouldn't go to the authorities if I happened to find out they'd be mocking me.

Then imagine your colleague, who you don't know very well, shares aspects of her life with you in the office. She talks about her difficult relationship with her mum, her ex boyfriend, running away, her divorce, talking to her children about porn, (insert other articles from the Pool SH has written). One day, you and some other colleagues go out for coffee and discuss some inconsistencies in her stories. Or speculate on other details of the stories. This is gossipy, but surely not illegal?

Or imagine colleague A gives a contract to client xyz. You're not sure xyz deserves the contract and xyz is always taking your colleague out for expensive lunches. One day you and some other colleagues wonder if there is something underhand going on. One of you mentions it to colleague A. But A goes batshit and refuses to talk to you anymore.

Sali has long said Twitter is her office given she works from home. She also makes a living from writing first person accounts of her family, parenting, childcare, husband and her HONEST advice on buying beauty products.

This life was her choice and she has said it's afforded her freedoms that other jobs wouldn't. But Twitter is a public space. The internet is a public space. Her articles are published on public platforms.

It can't be nice to read people talking about your personal life and loved ones. I'd hate it. So I don't publicly share photos from my dead friend's funeral. I don't share intimate details of my sex life on my open Twitter feed. I don't write about the difficulties of my childhood or share photos of my children on my public insta.

You can't have it both ways Sali.

Absolutely brilliant post, what a well written metaphor.

Still on the Marian Keys subject, what I find it more galling with her is that she is someone who's been very public about her long periods of depression. So imagine my surprise when she started that vile pile on on AJ, a pro dancer who is less than half her age, cute and a great professional. I was looking at my laptop screen and thinking "Is she having a funny turn or what?". Unbelievable.


And I find utterly weird that a person has to brag about what a great shag her husband is on social media. Every time I saw a person going on a virtual soapbox and start announcing "I'M SO FINE, I'M LIVING MAH BEST LIFE, INNIT?", it's because it comes from a place of insecurity and needing approval, adulation or acceptance. Weird. Like I said it before, it's all very playground, very 12 yr old mentality, "I'm going to tell everyone that he's wonderful and people will be well jel, I'll be prom queen, sod the hataz, lolz!"

ETA: I am sure 12 year old girls don't talk like that, this is just me making a tit of myself

 

[HereWeGoAgain101]

this. Why is this such a hard concept for them to understand.

Edit: also, I know it’s been said but duck me that IG rant video who the hell does she think she is?! It’s like something from an aspiring actresses showreel, Tanya burr would be quite proud of that.

Classic example of sadfishing

 

[Jelly Bean]

I don't see that anything written in these threads matches what Sali alledged in her video. In fact, it was a group of people speculating on aspects of her professional and personal life, based on info that Sali made available herself in the public domain. People doing so anonymously as they risked actual abuse and doxxing if they did so publicly.

I talk to my very close friends about my sex life, my children, etc. I tend to do so in private. But imagine tthat we were all in the pub and I was loudly saying my husband was a great shag and a Tory. The table next to us overheard and moved to the beer garden, where they started laughing at what the woman next to them was boasting about. I wouldn't go to the authorities if I happened to find out they'd be mocking me.

Then imagine your colleague, who you don't know very well, shares aspects of her life with you in the office. She talks about her difficult relationship with her mum, her ex boyfriend, running away, her divorce, talking to her children about porn, (insert other articles from the Pool SH has written). One day, you and some other colleagues go out for coffee and discuss some inconsistencies in her stories. Or speculate on other details of the stories. This is gossipy, but surely not illegal?

Or imagine colleague A gives a contract to client xyz. You're not sure xyz deserves the contract and xyz is always taking your colleague out for expensive lunches. One day you and some other colleagues wonder if there is something underhand going on. One of you mentions it to colleague A. But A goes batshit and refuses to talk to you anymore.

Sali has long said Twitter is her office given she works from home. She also makes a living from writing first person accounts of her family, parenting, childcare, husband and her HONEST advice on buying beauty products.

This life was her choice and she has said it's afforded her freedoms that other jobs wouldn't. But Twitter is a public space. The internet is a public space. Her articles are published on public platforms.

It can't be nice to read people talking about your personal life and loved ones. I'd hate it. So I don't publicly share photos from my dead friend's funeral. I don't share intimate details of my sex life on my open Twitter feed. I don't write about the difficulties of my childhood or share photos of my children on my public insta.

You can't have it both ways Sali.

Very well put. I actually haven't seen all the video (stopped when she mentioned people dislike her and want her to lose her job - I certainly don't dislike her, want her to do TG like she used to and thought it a bit rich anyway in the light of Lauren Luke) but I was wracking my brains trying to think of anything here that wasn't already in the public domain. As you say it must be unpleasant but I am continually amazed at the amount of personal stuff (not just SH) share online and in print. I wonder (no idea) if the Gleam lot get any advice re how to handle this aspect of SM as they on the whole seem able to realise for the huge amount of upsides to their job, public scrutiny can be a downside.

 

[FrannyGallops]

So imagine my surprise when she started that vile pile on on AJ, a pro dancer who is less than half her age, cute and a great professional

What happened, exactly? I love MK and I’m surprised at that. It seems so unlike her.

 

[jiffy]

First post here, mumsnet have infuriated me. That's the 5th thread I know about they've deleted in 24 hours about Instagrammers all with a lame excuse. They think we are all so stupid.
I've read the threads here and gone back to watch Sali's video and its clear shes lying like there is no tomorrow. I've really seen her in a whole new light and she isn't a nice person at all.
Instagram is where she makes money, so if she's taking photos during a funeral it's valid to question what her motives are. Can you imagine taking photos at a funeral and sending around work emails?
I can't wait for this silly thing of influencers to fade out, most are totally unscrupulous and will do anything for more likes. Unfollowed the lot of them.
So many on mumsnet said they are now canceling subscriptions and won't be buying things Sali or India are involved with anymore.

 

[Nimblepimble]

Marian Keyes blasts Strictly dancer AJ Pritchard

The Irish author, 53, lashed out at AJ, 22, on Twitter during Saturday night's show, saying that she 'can't stand' the dancer and said she'd even repeat her comment on It Takes Two.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Hate to link to the Daily Fail but....this is nasty.

 

[Blackdiamonds]

Just saying hello. I came over from Mumsnet after reading the threads there about SH and wanted to see for myself what was true and what wasn't. Shame the MN threads were closed as discussion re. influencers was interesting.... I think the threads were getting too critical of SH for MN's liking.

I used to like SH's columns and videos. Find them largely dull and samey now. I've read all the threads on here about her. Seems obvious from her first video that it is almost entirely based on her reading of posts here. Claiming she doesn't look on here is laughable. On Twitter, she and her husband even keep quoting directly from here, "podgy nonentity", etc... Which, apart from describing him as a "Tory wanker" is the only way (having read all the threads here) I can see that her husband has been "attacked" (SH doesn't seem to understand what trolling or attacking is AT ALL. It's not the same thing as "describing"). There is also zero substance to her claims that her children have been attacked that I can see and that is a terrible accusation to make if it is false. One mention of SH being someone who would sell her kids for money is not remotely the same thing as she's suggesting in her video. She's using her kids herself to garner support in that video from what I can see. I honestly wonder if SH sat down and read every single post on her threads here in one sitting before firing off that hysterical video. It seems like a knee-jerk response anyway. Not very well crafted or thought out and contradicting herself throughout.

Her bullying of Dawn O' Porter makes really upsetting reading. It's proper playground mean girls stuff. Really bleeping nasty. SH should be thoroughly ashamed of herself. Must've been a panic deleting her past tweets (her mates haven't done the same though, so you can see what's been said). It's like her mates are falling over themselves trying to out-witch each other and impress her with their bullying comments about DP. Awful, awful behaviour. These are middle-aged women and men. It's not pretty when you can see how little they've evolved since their bullying school days.

Anyway a hysterical, teary video and empty threats from her bullying mates aren't going to translate into much, if anything, happening to anyone here. God knows the Internet needs forums that are critical of the work and role of influencers. Oh, and don't think anyone should worry about a visit from India Knight's husband. "Motherwell Rules" though if so Eric. That's about his level.

If Eric visits, start the ball rolling by saying you want to paint him like one of your french girls

 

[Nimblepimble]

Marian Keyes blasts Strictly dancer AJ Pritchard

The Irish author, 53, lashed out at AJ, 22, on Twitter during Saturday night's show, saying that she 'can't stand' the dancer and said she'd even repeat her comment on It Takes Two.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Hate to link to the Daily Fail but....this is nasty.

She's free to say what she likes but she can't then turn around and act devastated when things less harsh than this are posted on a far less high profile forum about her darling cool girl friend.

 

[HowardMoon]

Absolutely brilliant post, what a well written metaphor.

Still on the Marian Keys subject, what I find it more galling with her is that she is someone who's been very public about her long periods of depression. So imagine my surprise when she started that vile pile on on AJ, a pro dancer who is less than half her age, cute and a great professional. I was looking at my laptop screen and thinking "Is she having a funny turn or what?". Unbelievable.


And I find utterly weird that a person has to brag about what a great shag her husband is on social media. Every time I saw a person going on a virtual soapbox and start announcing "I'M SO FINE, I'M LIVING MAH BEST LIFE, INNIT?", it's because it comes from a place of insecurity and needing approval, adulation or acceptance. Weird. Like I said it before, it's all very playground, very 12 yr old mentality, "I'm going to tell everyone that he's wonderful and people will be well jel, I'll be prom queen, sod the hataz, lolz!"

ETA: I am sure 12 year old girls don't talk like that, this is just me making a tit of myself

It reminds me of when friends of mine were talking a lot in real life and on sm about their recent weekend away and all the sexy times they had in a bit too much detail tbh and about a month later announced they were divorcing! Like if you block out what’s really happening with something louder it’ll make it go away. It doesn’t work, obvs. Im OF COURSE not saying Sali and her husband are unhappy or divorcing, just that if you have to shout from the rooftops about something then maybe it’s disguising a lack of something?!