The Chateau Diaries #8 Nous sommes tous VALERIE

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What the hell was she doing that was so essential that they kept her around after that? That sounds insane.
 
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That's what I thought about Isabelle, I never saw her as hardworking but as a good manager delegating using charm, a girly voice and helpless manner. Same as SJ she just doesn't see all the necessary work which needs to be done better soon than later.
 
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Thank you Clara. I noticed on SJ’s insta that Stephanie did lots of gazing adoringly at her and also they were in Venice for a month, so clearly close friends. She just seemed to disappear from the group and I wondered what had happened to her. Interesting she dated Potty too.
So glad that someone in that circle showed some loyalty to your friends.
 
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What the hell was she doing that was so essential that they kept her around after that? That sounds insane.
I think Clara said earlier the woman was connected to the electrian guy working on chapel at the time.
 
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I wouldn't consider him hard working, just normal working. After all he gets paid and just delivers what he is paid for. Also if you come to a neglected place there is is always the dramatic before after effect. I can't wait to see when he finishes the final touches in the kitchen. He seemed to have started alot of projects on his house but not finished them properly. Anyway if you don't have the money to pay somebody doing it you do have to do it yourselves what other choice is there?
 
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Not entirely fair, she does work hard herself too, mostly on the never ending laundry.

I think Clara said earlier the woman was connected to the electrian guy working on chapel at the time.
Yes, that was her father in law, an 80+ electrician
 
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I noticed that too, I wondered if she was there at all?

Yes,they rent the Cheatux,I'd really don't get them.
I believe they said they rented for a year to see if they could handle it. But meanwhile they own it.
 
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I viewed patron as a cup of coffee - and in general I do
Nothing else

I’m sufficiently curious as to the ins and outs of HOW ... patron worked

However
Neither indeed all 3 patrons haven’t bothered their asses to lick a stamp

I oddly enough - during covid I found 2 other channels ... really needed the distraction

I’ll name them
Prehistoric guys
Patron 1 pound sterling - fascinating discussions on history

Badge received in the first week
Mentioned on podcast !!!

No 2
Mythical Ireland Podcast
Actual author !!!! With a job
Felt I should learn something

Lesson learned

Spend your money wisely

Careful out there there’s charlatan s that will relive you of your generosity
 
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Me too
 
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Just some observations I've made in the last vlog:
- Stephanie doesn't cook anymore, what is she contributing ? Only vlogging, being chef and delegating work to others.
- when she is wrapping the provencial figures in the video: "next year i'll add some more villagers to the set, so the box is big enough to grow in future".........in her mind "you can send more figures to me, there's enough place in the box."
- when Selmar speaks about Jesus in the chapel, there is a sheet of paper lying left of the crib, I wondered if it is his cheat sheet with what he was expected to say for her christian friends

Clara wrote that her friends set up the BnB. They have been there 2014-2017, right ? So from 2009 (Dereks death) to 2014 she lived of renting off her apartment in London and the contributions of Nic ?

Concerning Camilla, Olivers wife, they married in a church in 2014, think her muslim episode is over.

 
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Ah now, this is a bit disingenous, is it not? Carla has cleared stated above that it was not about money, but betrayal. Sending them away when they were the ones abused and wronged, and then gaslighting them that it had never happened. Ouch.
 
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Looks like that is exactly what they did.
We all understand that vlogging and content and editing takes a lot of hours out of the day. That said, SJ has been doing this about 18 months? The BnB never was managed properly and never broke even. Whose job was that? The chateau needs actual unglamorous serious structural work. She is finally making money and instead of paying attention to the long ignored problems that weren’t/couldn’t be addressed in years past she is buying more crap and encouraging her fans during a global pandemic to buy her more crap too.
 
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I'm not sure that the upset felt by these gentlemen is more a result of the way they were treated by someone they felt was a friend. I think that this has probably caused them more hurt and anguish than the financial side of the whole sorry situation (although I understand why this would be a sore point.).
I agree with many of you who felt that after the initial charm of the early Chateau Diaries, that as the layers peeled away, it exposed a rather grubby underlayer.
I wasn't a fan of Tomaz, but I suspect that SJ knew exactly what Brenda was doing and may have instrumental in wreaking some kind of revenge.
I am also curious about who the homophobic volunteer was! So many of the male volunteers have been rather effeminate, I suspect that SJ is probably a gay icon.
 
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Completely agree as i said steffi told us who made her and at times she wants us to know Lizzie's true colours
i see that steffi is confused at times, as if she herself doesnt understnad that to think of anything
this might go against the popular belief and as much as it is also funny, the reverse role comparison doesn't really work,
we can elaborate on why it is different, but I think it is obvious
 
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