The Chateau Diaries #284 PhiPhi, the boy who prepares peas & peaches, now prances like Potty

[Madame de Pompanddoodoo]

This morning she posted fotos of Dinan in France.

So i guess she would not travel from Poland to France via Devon. But who knows...

No but I think her photos are way behind timewise and it is definitely a photo taken from the deck of a big boat (ferry size) so my best guess is after she left Poland/Germany/Austria/Netherlands she took a ferry to the UK and either went to France before taking the ferry or was in France after she returned.

 

[Lady Lindy]

I just found an old picture frame with a still picture from the set of The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, a lovely black and white picture of Warren Beaty and Vivien Leigh from the first version of the film made in 1961, I think. I used to have several movie pictures framed in my youth, those that used to decor the window of old Cinema Theaters. I kept only a few of them.
Anyway, the story of Tennesse Williams came back to my mind and it is kind of a version of Fanny’s life story…
I can see her life going the same way as ”poor” Mrs Stone. Below the poster and the plot. The poster is from the last version of the film produced in 2003 with Helen Mirren.


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Plot
(From Wikipedia)

Karen Stone, an acclaimed American stage actress and her businessman husband are off on holiday to Rome. On the plane, her husband, a multi- millionaire, suffers a fatal heart attack. Karen decides to stay in Italy and rent a luxury apartment in Rome. She has no reason to go home. She shut down her latest play, Shakespeare's "As You Like It", because she realizes she is far too old to play Rosalind. A year later, the Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales, a procurer, introduces her to a handsome, well-dressed, narcissistic young Italian named Paolo, who is one in her stable of professional gigolos.

Magda plots and plans, telling Paolo that Mrs. Stone has just begun to taste loneliness. Paolo and Mrs. Stone go out for dinner and dancing, but no more. Eventually, she begins the affair. She falls in love with him; he pretends to love her. She believes that she is different from other mature women he has known. Her self-deception is aided by the fact that she does not actually pay him, but buys him expensive clothes and gifts, including a movie camera, and pays his bills through charge accounts. They become the subject of gossip columns. It soon becomes obvious that Paolo is only interested in himself. Eventually he is bored by Mrs. Stone's possessiveness and pursues an American starlet.

Abandoned by Paolo, ridiculed by the Contessa, with her only real friend, Meg, on a plane to New York, Mrs. Stone looks over her balcony and sees the ragged, mysteriously menacing young man who has followed her everywhere since the day she moved in, pacing. She tosses the keys of her apartment down to him and walks back inside, remembering what she told Paolo after he tried to frighten her with a story about a middle-aged woman murdered on the French Riviera by someone she invited into her apartment. All I need is three or four years. After that, a cut throat would be a convenience". She lights a cigarette and sits down to wait. The youth comes into the apartment and walks toward her slowly, hands deep in the pockets of his filthy coat, smiling faintly as his shadow fills the screen.

Very much like The Talented Mr Ripley and Saltburn. It would serve Fanny right xx

 

[graciemckitten]

The poster’s info tracks. Here is the September 23, 2021 CD episode with the Downton Abbey glasses guest.


KikiGees 2021 post

The Chateau Diaries #67 focus on Teabag who keeps whizzing on his Patreons and telling them it's raining

Also, did you notice Cat;s comment when he was cutting the bread (so you're giving the nice bit to Natti then?).. they are so together and good for them! Something nice coming out of the circus! [/QUOTE] Marie must scream over there in UK out of frustration... , so she left the hmn, maybe hoping...

tattle.life

Here is CD episode where Cat leaves the Dump
Episode 259 aired October 3, 2021



Cat goes wild for Davy video ( misleading video released by smoke and mirrors Fanny) May 5, 2022. Like the Dana/ Dan photos in Venice .

 

[Beachgirl]

I’ve never been afraid of haggis, much to dad’s family’s horror, lol. I grew up with the boucherie tradition of boudin and boudin rouge, the Louisiana version of boudin noir. There’s really not a massive difference save the spices.

I’m pleased to hear it, they are such cuties so nothing to be frightened of.

 

[Lady Lindy]

Here is Part 1 of a post on chateau unhinged from a B and B guest who posted their experience at the Dump when Amaury just arrived at the Dump. This was posted less than 24 hours ago.


OP•1 day ago•Edited 21 hr. ago

“There are two images above, this is one thread reply:

I went over 2 years ago. I had never been to Paris, and my partner wanted me to see it. He knew I watched the vlog, still watches it with me sometimes. He planned the Paris days, I planned the Crozon-sur Vauvre days from my knowledge from the vlog locations, and we co-planned a stop in Bourge/the way back through Orlean.

When I went, it was when Selmar was just back with Tati for the first time, bringing her to Lalande. There's footage on his channel, he gave us all a dance class that was hilarious bc nobody could dance. Yeah, Tati was as odd in person as she is on film.

It was also the month Dan moved in, and guess what - my partner loved Dan and his new channel at the time, and kept wondering why Dan's green van was parked at the chateau early hours every day of our stay (we could see the parking area from our room), but on the dailies we'd see he kept filming it like he drove into Lalande each day anew for work. When he announced in March he'd been living at Lalande for 6 months, it ALL made sense why he was there so many late nights during our stay/why his van was always there in the morning. Cat was there, we told her how likable she was on the vlog and she was just as likable in person.

It was also the week Amaury and Nati met. We were NOT surprised AT ALL when it was announced in December that they were together, it was obvious it was going down mostly because they'd matched so well in a place like that. Nati confessed at a dinner she'd been driven to seek a therapist bc of how hard her job weighed on her mind - when the whole Selmar slamming her thing happened the March after, I suddenly understood. Stephanie put WAY too much on her 24 hours a day running her building, business, and construction project management. Selmar blamed Nati but the blame falls on the owner here. When I was around Nati, I felt like she thought my partner and I were some of the only other normal people in the whole building of chateau fans. There was also a really cool older Scandinavian lady there.

A retired news anchor from I think CNN was also there during our stay, with her daughter, she was very LA, she did Selmar's head in. The daughter was cool, didn't watch the vlog. Another really cool English couple was there, the husband didn't watch the vlog, but I've spotted them at 2 dinners on the vlog since so they pop through obviously. We meant to keep in touch with them. It was also when the Downton Abbey glasses designer lady was there. Great designs, great lady, we got to try them all on. She had them out to show us other guests at breakfast.

A good amount of guests were really cool types that could share a conversation/were chill/there for the fun. Some, not all, of the older ladies were very "Single White Female" in vibe, like kicked dogs off the street needing to be healed by Stephanie's accepting glow. Wendy Grimwood was there for the first time, not as a volunteer, as a paid guest. And at any gathering, while others were chatting about all sorts, she'd ONLY talk ALL about Stephanie Stephanie OR all about herself, her apartment, and her son. And she was very sweet, so I would just sit there while she talked AT me for LONG lengths, be lucky if she asked me half a question. I made my partner start interrupting/saving me after a couple days of that. It's a shock how seemingly quiet she is on the vlog as a volunteer. There was another odd lady there, stayed much longer, she's on the vlog.

Most of the private areas are off limits, Nati did the main "guest relations", makes the private & public areas very clear from minute one. Like anything past the red room, anything not the fortified wing/BnB area/the grounds, it's for the privacy of the inhabitants. But some of the thicker guests "don't get it" - Wendy was so surprised one breakfast that the Lalanders had been very shocked she showed up in their kitchen bc she sees the kitchen so much on the vlog. I slowly explained to her it's a working BnB kitchen, it's a business, not just the vlog. Nati made it clear where we were allowed to go and not, the first 10 min there, on a small tour. My explanation seemed like a mystery to Wendy. I specifically made sure I did NOT bother the inhabitants much while they were working or otherwise throughout the day, or like "search them out" in their areas, bc it was clear there was a few guests that really thought they were there IN the vlog and glommed onto them whenever possible. I think it affects the mental health of the inhabitants, I'm not surprised Amaury and Nati moved away.

Yeah, I could go on, it was a trip. We spent most days doing field trips in the area, very pretty. Only place we didn't hit was Aigurande, the goat cheese guy's restaurant, and the swamp village in Bourge farther away (surprised SJ hasn't vlogged that). When Stephanie warned Amaury on vlog a couple months later not to get his head done in by La La Land while she was away on a trip, it just clicked. I left Lalande feeling like the vlog was a machine and the BnB was a set to run the machine. We'd got SJ & Gerry a gift, she opened it like a little girl bot who's opened a million presents, none of what she lengthens out on the Cadeaux channel. Just quickly conferred with the stooges on either side of her for 2 secs and moved on. I IMMEDIATELY wished we hadn't played into the whole gift grab thing. I didn't even watch the vlog after for over a month, but the feeling faded and the escapism set back in.”

Very interesting, especially regarding Wendy Grimbyname and nature

 

[C'est moi]

Still enjoying Cali. Doesn't seem to be following his previous holiday pursuits...

 

[billybudd]

Absolutely right they are trotters. I have eaten trotters in the past and loved them. My dad used to being them home wrapped in newspaper. A few years back on a vacation in Madrid I also had some chopped up in a tomato sauce as part of a tapas platter. So I suppose I'm not grossed out as the notion of eating or using them for stock. I think I'm a real hypocritical carnivore though so maybe the fact that it did look like a BABY cow hoof and leg, and Fanny's dramatization of its use, is what grosses me out big time.

Every chef I know has hit a moral wall sometime in the kitchen, when meat you butcher and eat every day turns into the remains of a creature. My day was the day I was asked to skin eels. I nearly passed out. I traded with the fancy Culinary Institute-trained chef who was going to have to kill himself if he had to cut up rabbits.
There's a famous and absolutely riveting short story by Nobel prize winner I. B. Singer -- a vegetarian the last 35 years of his life -- about this. No accident he was writing to resurrect the world disappeared by the Holocaust. Here's a free copy of The Slaughterer.

 

[Lady Avonlea]

Ratso pees and poops on the furniture, in the hallways, on the bedskirts, in Fanny’s shoes, under his and her desks, on her bed, on the kitchen floor, on the folder with the missing accounts, the steps, on the curtains, behind the curtains, in front of the curtains, in his fenced in area, in Stephanie’s closet, etc. The Dump is 50% discount Ratso’s giant pee and poop pad.It’s like a fairy tale!

Wonder if Fanny has considered that some B&B guests may be afraid of dogs, allergic to dogs or not appreciate stepping in Ratso's dog tit. What happens the first time he nips someone new coming into the shitoo or wakes up a paying guest I doubt Ratso will be locked away from guests. More likely Ratso will be front and center with Snorty juggling him at the dining table whether guests like it or not.

 

[Lochness Monster]

just googled this. Meter comes from the word metron... We have our friends the Greeks to thank for that.
as for mehter is comes from mehteran which means compagnion in Persian....Says google!

God I love history!

And we have the metronome.
Etymology. Wonderful.

 

[UvulaDonor]

Very interesting, especially regarding Wendy Grimbyname and nature

Omg now it's gone???

 

[billybudd]

Woah, so very very toxic. Did you notice the switching back and forwards between first and third person

We can be and are pretty mean. I think we take our licks -- the worst ones used to be from each other. But there's a kind of meanness there that is not a criticism of behavior, or morality, but an assault on being. That's soul murder, entirely unwarranted. And really ineffective.
I am always interested in what you geniuses find immoral, which, arguably, is the redeeming social importance of gossip. For example, I'm not as disturbed about Fanny's parting consenting, if deluded, adults from their own money as I am about her treatment of volunteers, employees, animals, and even Pheeph, who is a young person badly in need of an education in something else besides whoring. Stephanie as Fagin I find much more reprehensible than Stephanie dunning the alleged poor. But your arguments about the nuances of ripping off the grannies are fascinating and compelling.

 

[Gertrude Maud]

Part 2:
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thread reply from 2nd picture:

I did a long reply to Fuefina after seeing the notification, I hadn't seen you replied also. You know how they rent out most rooms only Thurs - Sun night? So a lot of people who are staying show up on the Thursday, very few came Friday. We had a couple rooms switch guests after 2 nights, or vacate entirely. There are 2 dinners on the weekend. But the Thursday, there was no full meal, just the sample of different cheese plates & wine, nibbles. Those of us who ordered them (which is most, except maybe the self-catering folks in the Tack/Marquis, because most people didn't remotely think about food for Thursday or Sunday, but you SHOULD! Else food/grocery stores/any beverage at all besides water are like 20 min away and it's rural) had the option to have the tray in our rooms or on the terrace. Almost everyone chose the terrace, to mingle and experience, great weather, and Selmar was posted but I think the crowd was too LA/American, he's a simple sort, he took off. I suspect we had one of their "younger" weeks, from what I've glimpsed on guest dinners on the vlog, but I could be wrong. Stephanie came down after the cheese trays were brought out to the table, and probably sat for 40 min? Maybe 30?

Other than that, there's just the 2 Fri/Sat dinners, they're 2 hours max? The few older needy ladies that vibe Single White Female kind of make sure they're sitting next to SJ. She also can get called away for work during, so if you think you're going to Lalande to spend time with her or others, they are WORKING. I have spent a lot of time on working properties, especially in the commonwealth, so I was curious to see how these people managed it, with some guests who've only ever lived in one place/haven't lived with many other people ever, and think the communal vlog is the stay they are going to have. DEFINITELY rent a car for day trips, it's a beautiful area, or you'll get stuck with the Single White Females loitering around waiting to catch the staff.

We hadn't seen SJ otherwise, but Nati keeps track to make sure anyone, especially probably patreons, have a 5 minute talk or something. I think Nati keeps track of who's leaving first to last, and when she can get Stephanie down for the chat. Selmar and Tati were around most, watching movies on laptops in grand salon, they did a dance lesson for couple hours one evening. Actually, SJ came down for 10 min the lesson night to vlog the guests briefly, chit chat. Maybe saw Cat/Phil one or two evenings briefly, outside of the dinners. Spoke with guests, Nati & Amaury most at the dinners, very relatable people. If it's evening, and Nati isn't at her post anymore and you need something, you can venture to the kitchen door and they'll totally give you wine or a snack. Amaury was in his workshop a lot but our room could see his door and how many people bugged him, so I told my partner we weren't going to do that. Ran into Dan & Amaury in the garden kind of thing (pergola work), explored the garden with other guests. I think Scandi Marie drove through the area one night, popped in during dinner (she'd moved to England or something). I think Russian Maria made our food but she was brand new at the time? There was less people back then, no Pavlina's/Ombeline's. I think I chatted with Kirsty in the courtyard, very sweet, Ian talked to us at the breakfast table once, very relatable. I think Wendy Grimwood got more the experience she wanted by going as a volunteer after.
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Part 3:

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Nazanin_MezzanineOP•1 day ago

Another block about the stay from a reply:

The layout has been posted a couple times, definitely on patreon vlogs extensively but I'd think at least twice on the Diary vlog? It's actually a file loaded into patreon, I think it was added years ago as a treat. Something tells me if you google it, it's there in google images. Check out April 2020 for 3+ weeks of entire Diary vlogs devoted to one room/one area. Those tours are REALLY what brought the patreon money coming in.

The BnB is basically the entirety of the old wing, minus the grand + winter salons and the storage attics. It's the fortified section that looks older, is a much taller section. The fortifications are kind of like giant dental molding below the roof line around that section, most of the wings don't have that. She's vlogged it a lot. If you drive into Lalande with the courtyard that has the fountain, the BnB's the section to your right. The Tack room (Pott's place that they rent as an apartment) is on your left up one floor, mid-section. To your front it's all public rooms on the ground floor until Nati's desk, private rooms one floor up. Maybe the Peacock room isn't technically under the fortified-wing roof line? The Tack & Marquis have their own kitchens so don't count as the 5-room BnB under French law, and they are rented out all week, not just the long weekend, so the Manor&Maker people stayed for months I think. If you stay at Lalande, and people don't stay the whole weekend, you can go around and see all the BnB rooms people have left. If you're there Monday morning, you can personally tour each room, including the apartments, or at least mgmt encouraged it at the time. It's disturbing there's no locks on the doors. You just have to trust other people won't come in and take tit, no bueno. The staff came into our room during the day, maybe it was to change flowers? I don't know, but we weren't expecting that, and not only had I dragged my clothes out EVERYWHERE getting ready, I think we also had left naughty toys out and definitely made sure the room was presentable to others' eyes from there on. I don't know if there was a place to find this kind of stuff out before we went, but wish there had been.


Part 4:

You seem to have enjoyed your stay. Have you changed your mind as sometimes you don’t have positive things to say about CD?

Were you at the selmar/tati party? When she arrived


OP•22 hr. ago


I've changed my mind. I still watch obv. I wish I didn't sometimes, sometimes the escapism is enough. France is France. All the vlogging with Cat & Dan over New Years, all that damage control, all the YT comments shadow-banning, turned my stomach and drove me here.
Do you see now why I've written up and down this subreddit that Dan & Cat had an affair? What Dan did to Annalise & their kids happened to my partner, hardcore, by a family infamous for it's narcissism - we'd watch Dan and it's like we'd SEE the signs. Even when we chose not to believe he'd screwed over his family, we kept seeing the signs. Cat like sidling into a vlog, no introduction, like she lives at Chaumont was the nail in the coffin. Maybe I'll find the footage and post here, their faces say it all. Cameron's and Nick's too.

I enjoyed the stay, I think the memory is fonder because it is France, after all. I've only taken some tiny trips since, we've been doing too much reno the last year or so. But I DEFINITELY drove out of the courtyard believing I'd never stay again and never watch the vlog again, for a month. The "machine" feeling really cut through the escapism. And now with more recent events it's cutting through the escapism for I think a growing amount of people - this subreddit has gained so many members in the last 2 weeks.

I don't think I was at that Selmar party, I think I remember recalling it happened not on the BnB days but just before. And yes, she mixes footage from different days. If anybody needs that CONFIRMED. Just because she posts it that day, it doesn't mean she didn't shoot certain sections 2 weeks ago or even 2+ months ago. She mostly doesn't mention it unless it's REALLY obviously not recent footage or something is telltale. If you visit, it's really obvious because she doesn't change her clothes THAT much during one day. Or how certain rooms were situated. When visiting, her filming vs editing days are very clear. Editing days are when she stayed in the bathrobes. There was footage she shot while we were there, but she used it 2 weeks after we'd left, and some 2 months later. Could tell from the outfit & accessories, topic, little clues, I'd have to look at the footage again. Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think she was posting dailies at the time, but Dan definitely was (I remember the fake green van morning drive-ins too well). Maybe she posted just twice while we were there, we'd chat with other guests about it. While actually staying there and watching the vlogs it seemed like most days were spliced footage from different days, but that was 2 years ago. Not sure if that's what it would be now with the newer dailies.

Some are saying she's currently in Vienna right now with Phil, hiding her usual January trip from viewers now, due to being called out for luxury traveling too much and not project managing her project. That the last few diaries were filmed last week or before, and being used to show like she's staying home being a good donation-money recipient. Wouldn't want the patrons to catch on, they'll all end up on reddit or hate sites. But we all know the woman takes 1-2 trips each month every January, February, and March, just like the last 3 years of vlogs

I find it curious she says nix about Philip.
Nor does she say anything positive about Stephanie.

P.S. This should be stored in Wiki.

 

[Lochness Monster]

Good spot @Thebirdandthefrog
Felicitations @On Repeat VIP lounge tomorrow night then leave the empties by the back door, the bin men will be round to collect them

The mention of bins reminded me, Natty and Bunman were…going to make some sort of screen to hide those hideous big bins from chateau view in their SPARE…time. Did not happen.
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This is gold! 🫢

And… after all,Tats has not sold her air bnb in Suffolk , The Broken Dish . It was a ruse to dump poor Selmar. She is not getting good reviews either!
I always had my doubts about her ‘ story’ about bullying allegations. She is a storyteller and has a vivid imagination. I believe she was hoping for a different outcome and one that would see her have a more prominent role at the dump.

 

[KiKiGee]

The mention of bins reminded me, Natty and Bunman were…going to make some sort of screen to hide those hideous big bins from chateau view in their SPARE…time. Did not happen.

The Chateau Diaries #217 This Superbowl you've mentioned, is it by Wedgewood?

I was thinking the same thing! 😆 Dan called PhiPhi at 1:00 am on Valentines Day because he “knew that Philip would be the only one up and not doing anything!” Clearly PhiPhi wasn’t attending to m’lady in the boudoir! 😆 Please tell those of us who choose not to watch is vlog, why he had to call...

tattle.life

 

[Lochness Monster]

Mummy gave Snorts spending money for a trotter and sent him on his way.

For supper Snorts had a glass of red wine and a cup of red? Sorbet.

I have every belief that the dairy allergic child had a Macdonalds whilst he was out and just look what he is cradling in his arm. MAGNUMS and yes Snorts those are dairy and have vanilla in them.
Snorts will have the trots whether in the cassoulet or not.!

 

[C'est moi]

Okay. The second post that I submitted and was posted in this thread less than 10 minutes ago is also missing. It was explaining the first post about why I put the B and B guest info here was deleted or missing and noting the new Tattle account that responded to the two posts about the B and B guest. 2 posts have been deleted.Let’s see how long this post remains.A dump crew member may be reporting this post?

I can see your post 1 and post 2. Repost from reddit (?) of a lady that stayed in liars world. Is that the ones you're referring to?

 

[billybudd]

For those of you who couldn't stomach watching, here's a summary of Snorty's very mature response.
Eventually the petulant child broke away from his very "busy" schedule online auctions and go shopping in person for dinner ingredients, but I suspect there are nun's who have more happily given up their virginity than Snorty agreed to go shopping for a pig's trotter.

I think this is a good example of Pheeph's scamming talents. I can't speak French. The shops will be closed. Etc. And Stephanie berates him on cam again -- his utility to her.
Interesting that this scam of his should be around food, again. And the china is all about food.

 

[huydecirku]

They should send one of the videos of PhiPhi in this hilarious hoody to the company which sells them. I'm sure they will pay PhiPhi handsomely if he promisses to never again appear on video with him wearing the hoody - not a good advertisement...

 

[YoungAtHeart]

Okay. The second post that I submitted and was posted in this thread less than 10 minutes ago is also missing. It was explaining the first post about why I put the B and B guest info here was deleted or missing and noting the new Tattle account that responded to the two posts about the B and B guest. 2 posts have been deleted.Let’s see how long this post remains.A dump crew member may be reporting this post?

They’re both still there for me. Have guddled and refreshed a few times.

 

[Luna20]

We can be and are pretty mean. I think we take our licks -- the worst ones used to be from each other. But there's a kind of meanness there that is not a criticism of behavior, or morality, but an assault on being. That's soul murder, entirely unwarranted. And really ineffective.
I am always interested in what you geniuses find immoral, which, arguably, is the redeeming social importance of gossip. For example, I'm not as disturbed about Fanny's parting consenting, if deluded, adults from their own money as I am about her treatment of volunteers, employees, animals, and even Pheeph, who is a young person badly in need of an education in something else besides whoring. Stephanie as Fagin I find much more reprehensible than Stephanie dunning the alleged poor. But your arguments about the nuances of ripping off the grannies are fascinating and compelling.

Lying! I don't have a problem with patreon. However if you claim to use all that money for renovations while crying poor with properties all over the world + b&b + youtube income and traveling all over the world whilst shopping?
I find that immoral.

The volunteers however, they had a choice to leave. When mommy didn't provide food, I would have said, bye witch and left.
Working longer than 5 hours or not what you were suppose to do? I'd leave. It would be my choice to stay. They allowed the grifster to exploit them and she did.