This is Ruthywriter’s thanks to Potts in the acknowledgement section of The Estate:
“Thank you Michael for being my sounding board, Always ready to help me break through.my writer’s block, to work through plots and characters, and give me a boost and encouragement when I need it the most. And thank you for all those trips to France, helping feed my imagination.”
( emphasis added).
Looks like Potts plays both sides of the fence: help Ruthywriter throw Fanny and the Dump under the bus in The Estate with the thinly veiled depiction of shallow, greedy influencer A, etc. to help her make money ( who knows, he may get some free vacations from Ruthy in exchange for his “ help.”)
Then Potts runs straight from likely videoing Ruthy trumpantly visiting and dancing around her book in various London bookstores to the Dump, where he eats rare white truffles, does many takes of his cd video appearance to get it “ just right” and follow his script properly ( joyfully hugging Marie and honing his kitchen table gestures similar to Uncle), takes a few photos of the chapel, and creates the greedy, distasteful adopt a star grift scam campaign to post to the LieLande website. I bet Potts personally gets a cut out of the money off each star “ sold.” F1 photography doesn’t pay for all of his bills and vacations. It was probably Potts’ idea to do buy a star scam. Greedy, superficial, shallow, stupid, lazy, grifting Potts and Fanny are all about the easy, quick $$$$$.
A’s boyfriend in the book is an untrustworthy, cheating, lying, corrupt, lazy sleazeball.
Meanwhile, the 40% co owner of the Dump is wearing a bag on his head and is likely in a corner playing 90’s Nintendo games.
FYI: In the book, A plans and stages all her videos, creating scripted scenes and dialogue to advance a storyline, manipulate viewers, etc. ( secret project, we discovered……, oh no, what shall we do?……) Just like Fanny staged her yearly awkward Mummy and son creepy kiss outside the kitchen.
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Interviewing Ruthie about her latest book would have been easy Advent content. If only they could avoid talking about the main character, the setting, and the plot……..
When was the last time Ruthie was spotted at the Dump? Was she at the Dump for Easter?