I so wanted to like Sali but found that I never could. First there were her regular forays onto Mumsnet to berate people for criticising her and her Twitterati mates. She always came across as exceptionally snippy and with barely concealed contempt for ordinary, non-famous, non-media types simmering under the surface. Then came The Pool, which I also really wanted to like, but invariably found myself hating Sali’s articles whether they were about beauty or not (although I got the impression The Pool let her write about whatever she wanted, and she didn’t want to write about beauty).
The final nail in the coffin was Twitter. Just ugh. Sali and her “who needs texting when we can have public conversations on Twitter” mates are just loathsome. I wonder which one is the queen bee? There’s always one. Lauren, Caitlyn, India or Sali?
I used to be such a fan of Lauren Laverne right back to her Kenickie days in the 90s. Well, several weeks of her and Caitlyn Moran (another person I wanted to like but actually can’t stand) clogging up my Twitter feed with their inane banter killed that stone dead.