I looked at their YT account for the first time a couple of days ago - it was the Easter one where they were eating some kind of cake for breakfast. For some reason I'd thought they were the family that bought a chateau to renovate in France when I'd seen them mentioned before.
Couldn't work out the accent at first, seemed like they were American then it was all very 'top o' the morning' Irish
The father rivals Chris for the Creepy Try Hard Father of the Year award. On the surface the father seemed very involved with the children but boy does he love his face on camera. For every interaction with the youngest he then play to the lens (look at me look at me look at MEEEEE!).
Anyway, long story short loads of people in the comments were saying it was a really bad time of year to go there due to the heat. There was some speculation that it was a #gifted holiday so they couldn't go at a better time of year.
Only made it about 10 (or less) minutes into the vlog because the father was very strange.
The Saccone Jolys (well the Dad is J. Joly and Mum is A. Saccone started their channel when they were a boyfriend and girlfriend living in Ireland but in 2014 they moved to the UK, ostensibly to get away from the 'hate' they received in Cork for vlogging and because of a supposed murder threat against their children, which many argue was faked for views. It is also is more likely that they would have got the social media deals that Zoella and others had if they lived in the UK. Jonathan met Anna when he was 26 (I think) and she was 18 in a nightclub. She already had a bf at the time but J's talk of being in some pop group as a dancer wooed her away from her boyfriend towards him. They had previously moved to the UK for further education then moved back to Ireland.
Anna's mixed accent is because she was born when her father was teaching at an Ivy League university in the USA, but she moved to Ireland several years later. Her father was Italian and a specialist in Italian literature and her mother was born in Germany to a German mother and an Irish father and her father managed to get a professorship at Cork University. She is a Kardashian fan, so maybe that's why she wants to sound more American.
Jonathan does sound like a leprechaun/plastic paddy in many ways! He purports to have ADHD which could explain his behaviour. There was an odd vlog last year in which he picked up his Deliveroo/Just East delivery from somewhere called 'Bill's Takeaway' and he sang an odd dick-joke song 'Billy Willy's on a Friday night. I've got a willy, so I'm having some Billy's. Does that mean Anna can't have Willy's' and he giggled then said 'just treat ourselves to some Willy's. Cause everyone loves a good willy, that's how you make babies!'
The Easter cake is something called 'colomba di Pasque' or 'colomba pasquale' which means 'Easter Dove' and is an Italian cake for Easter Sunday. The parents feed the kids pancakes with loads of chocolate spread every Saturday and Sunday for breakfast after they have already had chocolate cereal as a 'treat' in contrast to their non-sugary cereals on weekday mornings. Anna is obsessed with healthy foods like organic, gluten-free and dairy-free and the gluten-free cereal has, in fact, more sugar than Cocoa-Pops etc. !! This dove cake was also severed with hot chocolate (and they had dove cake on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday if I recall!) and they gave the 2 year old baby it first cause they wanted to avoid one of her tantrums. Weird parenting.
But I guess there’s no such thing as stooping low enough for Lazy eh?!
