Sali Hughes #69 a voice for print and hair for radio

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

New Sali thread! Title was by @Jade Mitzi and nominated by @MakkaPakka

Sali has completely transformed her appearance since her earlier threads here. Blonde and wrinkle-free. She's just turned 50 and had a wonderful time.

Can anybody else add to this? Cannot think of anything else on the spot!

Previous thread: https://tattle.life/threads/sali-hughes-68-i-have-a-weak-dilute-you-have-a-tambourine.48087/

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

New look (picture from @Aude )

 

[Jade Mitzi]

Thank you @MakkaPakka - had actually forgotten I even said that, must have been a while back

 

[MissHavisham]

omg she looks like some kind of pageant mom from Arkansas.

 

[digsydelilah]

New look (picture from @Aude )

And to think we thought she’d made some big changes just over three years ago: Sali In A Mac (and ecstatic #founder, obvs) to Beach Barbie Sal. Whatever next for Tiny S?!

 

[Foxvint]

omg she looks like some kind of pageant mom from Arkansas.

The transformation is INCREDS as she would say.

 

[Jelly Bean]

And to think we thought she’d made some big changes just over three years ago: Sali In A Mac (and ecstatic #founder, obvs) to Beach Barbie Sal. Whatever next for Tiny S?!
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Hahaha that picture
I wonder if the truth is she always was envious of blonde girls? Despite her love of Elizabeth Taylor because they were both busty and brunette. Now Sali wants to be willowy with long blonde hair (not grey) like Lauren Laverne, Jo Jones, Nadine for eg.
I've never known anyone go from quite quirky to generic as comprehensively as her tbh (there probably are others I know). It's quite bizarre.

 

[Mselvista]

Flicked through SH's interview with Lauren Laverne in supermarket. Lots of mentions of what good mates they are shoehorned in. And it turns out the interview trails a new Good Housekeeping column...for Laverne. Lauren who actually does have the about five jobs SH has often claimed - Radio 6 show, Desert Island Discs, The One Show, Glastonbury and now Good Housekeeping columnist. Poor SH's only regular gig still being The Guardian paragraphs after all this time must smart. SH's most recent and now ended columns (The Pool* and Empire) were given to her by friends let's not forget.
*The demise of which in murky circumstances is not listed by SH as part of the catalogue of bad luck which befell Lauren since her 40th birthday, before you ask.

 

[Mselvista]

Apologies that last sentence is torturous

 

[PunkyMonkey]

Apologies that last sentence is torturous

I had to Google that, had no idea about it, just vaguely recognised the name. Interesting.

 

[Clovis]

Good grief, she has chinned all those medically essential tweakments and I shall brook no riposte for having that opinion!

 

[Aude]

Hahaha that picture
I wonder if the truth is she always was envious of blonde girls? Despite her love of Elizabeth Taylor because they were both busty and brunette. Now Sali wants to be willowy with long blonde hair (not grey) like Lauren Laverne, Jo Jones, Nadine for eg.
I've never known anyone go from quite quirky to generic as comprehensively as her tbh (there probably are others I know). It's quite bizarre.

I'd had the same thought - which led me to look up an article I vaguely remembered where she says she was glad to have been a plain mousy-haired child rather than a beauttiful blonde-haired child like her friend Rebecca. Maybe she hadn't been that glad after all?

Sali Hughes argues why plain women have more sex appeal | Sali Hughes

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Interesting that Rebecca - Becky - is the name she gives to someone later in life.

 

[Foxvint]

Good Housekeeping is a real granny rag. Does anyone under 70 read it. Seems a weird fit for a dj who tries for urbane cool.

 

[PunkyMonkey]

I'd had the same thought - which led me to look up an article I vaguely remembered where she says she was glad to have been a plain mousy-haired child rather than a beauttiful blonde-haired child like her friend Rebecca. Maybe she hadn't been that glad after all?

Sali Hughes argues why plain women have more sex appeal | Sali Hughes

archived 27 Mar 2025 08:20:36 UTC

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Interesting that Rebecca - Becky - is the name she gives to someone later in life.

I feel that if you have to proactively state that you're glad about something like that, apropos of nothing, then the opposite is probably true. It reads as envious and an attempt to convince yourself as much as others.

 

[Stillwater]

Good HK probably trying to reach a particular reader if LL is doing a column from now on.

SH is very centred in it but I spose that’s the framing, a really close friend to talk to about some very personnel things. She’s had a couple of right stinker interviews has LL which is why I think she doesn’t do many.

There was a Hadley Freeman where I think she was herself and got done for some views on motherhood - Hadley F had fertility issues (a conflict therefore an over reaction I thought at the time).Then there was a Times Mag interview maybe, where she had no personality or views, due to the NF one I imagine, and got shredded for that.

 

[Foxvint]

I just remember useful and relevant advice from it about getting your pearls restrung annually and how to be assertive with the au pair when I've picked it up in a waiting room.

 

[melfish]

I feel that if you have to proactively state that you're glad about something like that, apropos of nothing, then the opposite is probably true. It reads as envious and an attempt to convince yourself as much as others.

Ugh, she's so obnoxious and judgmental. Another cool-girl diatribe masquerading as something else, like the mums at the school gates piece. Always wanted to be a journalist but hasn't done any actual journalism. Just beauty, celebrity puff pieces and endless opinions. I'd love to drop her into a busy newsroom. She wouldn't know which was was up.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Ugh, she's so obnoxious and judgmental. Another cool-girl diatribe masquerading as something else, like the mums at the school gates piece. Always wanted to be a journalist but hasn't done any actual journalism. Just beauty, celebrity puff pieces and endless opinions. I'd love to drop her into a busy newsroom. She wouldn't know which was was up.

That’s not fair melf. I’m pretty sure the journos covering wiki leaks tweeted their mates, offering to let them have a listen to the interviews with Assange
and Chelsea Manning shortly after, and claiming they pretended to be nice to them to get the info.

 

[bracrumbs]

Ugh, she's so obnoxious and judgmental. Another cool-girl diatribe masquerading as something else, like the mums at the school gates piece. Always wanted to be a journalist but hasn't done any actual journalism. Just beauty, celebrity puff pieces and endless opinions. I'd love to drop her into a busy newsroom. She wouldn't know which was was up.

This is far too early…. Say it again in 50 pages…

 

[Aude]

There's a comment piece by Matthew Syed in The Times today which articulates something that's been on my mind. The context is the reported arrest of a couple who had made critical comments about their child's school but he makes a much wider point:

He notes how the meaning of words associated with distress has been rapidly expanding in recent years.

which has led to:

Why this matters, he argues, is that resources (e.g. police, mental health services, welfare budgets) become spread too thinly to address instances of real harm.

The reason I think this is relevant here is that I think SH played a part in devaluing the language of harm. I don't know if she was actually the first to misdescribe here as 'trolling' and 'bullying' but she was certainly one of the first and the most prominent. Tattle was then described in the same way by other influencers and the mainstream media, including the broadsheets and the BBC.

It now seems that any social media criticism of women can be described as 'bullying', 'trolling' and 'abuse'. A recent example was Millie Bobby Brown's Instagram video describing negative comments about her appearance as 'bullying' and 'trolling'. When Radio 4's Woman's Hour then discussed it, it seemed to accept unquestioningly that it was bullying. Another example was Davina McCall describing (a very small number of) comments on her weight loss as 'abuse' - language which was again adopted seemingly unquestioningly by the mainstream media.