I wonder what made her consider acting in the first place. How was that her “dream”? I think I first heard it through Zoe and I was surprised. And did (or maybe still does) Jim want to be a director or something? Did they want to become a power couple? 🥲 I guess all I want to know is how this started, did she just announce it one day? Sorry if it’s been discussed before
Yeah, she basically just announced it one day claiming it'd been her lifelong dream. Except she'd only been involved in a theater group when she was a literal child. Most people who want to be actors are in plays and theater troupes their whole lives. She blamed it on her anxiety (it was around that time when she was claiming to have crippling anxiety).
Jim wanted to be a screenplay writer, still claims to have a project in development but no one has heard from that in years.
Both delusional people who thought because they'd managed to strike gold with YouTube they could translate that into mainstream fame and success. But they didn't have an ounce of talent between them.
I remember when she and Jim lived in the London flat she announced she was starting acting lessons. A woman came round to give her private tuition. As usual Jim announced 'yeah I'm really proud of my wife'.
So wierd. I just had a flashback then to when she and Jim lived in a house before they bought their little Norwich house. It was a sort of barn conversion with beams everywhere. Just at the start of the Gleam Brit YTer phenomenon, before influencing was acknowledged as a 'thing'. I even remember being slightly envious because their lives seemed so sorted. I suppose that is how the whole influencer culture crept in - sort of attainable envy.
Exactly this. I also remember this era and I remember thinking it seemed like a really nice, cosy life and they seemed successful but in a normal way. They weren't getting invited to awards or getting literally everything sponsored or gifted, or at least they weren't forced to disclose it so we didn't know how much they got for free. It seemed like we could all achieve that, not necessarily through YT or social media, but it just seemed like a good "normal" life. Not what they became with their million pound houses, their Dior this and Chanel that, their endless waste, their fakeness.
