Welcome to Jack Monroe Wiki 5
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Wiki 1, where we have lots of info at the top for new frauen / herren.
Page 5 of this wiki is dedicated to Jack's antics in 2025 - highlights and any corporate bookings / appearances.
⭐2025 highlights - in progress!⭐
#WhatHappenedInDordrecht? Small amount of tea about Jack and Harold (#602 onwards)
In June 2022, there was the "Dordrecht Incident" where Jack went on a trip to Dordrecht in the Netherlands with her then-boyfriend "OH" (Old Harold to us.) When Jack got back, she went to Scotland to an awards ceremony, and then a day or two later announced that OH had broken up with her. This led us to question what happened in Dordrecht that led to the breakup.
In thread 602, a frau or herr came forward with new tea! They could not say much, in order to protect the innocent (not Jack) but can reveal that they know someone who was on the train with her when she came back from Scotland. They suggested that Jack was either flirting with someone on the train, or having a romantic call with someone who clearly wasn't Harold! However, it seems very unlikely this would have got back to him (presumably, no one on the train knew him), which still suggests that the breakup was because of something that happened in Dordrecht. Once again we ask #WHID?
Amandaland - Scriptwriters remember Jack and Allegra? (#604 onwards)
On 5 February 2025, the BBC released the first series of
Amandaland (available on iplayer here), a sitcom spin-off from
Motherland focused on the character Amanda. A subplot involves Amanda's attempt to befriend celebrity chef Della for clout. Tattlers, and squigs on social media, quickly noticed that Della and her wife Fi have many similarities to Allegra and Jack:
- Della specialises in cooking meat (as does Allegra) and runs a meat-focused restaurant (Allegra ran a pork restaurant at the time she was with Jack)
- Fi is much younger than Della, has hypocritical liberal politics, and is fixated with buying and hoarding tat. She frequently tries out new projects, ventures, and artistic endeavours but is hopelessly incompetent at all of them
- The characters brag about getting married after their second date (Jack and Allegra got engaged after less than a month together and told the world that Jack moved in after only one date)
One or two of these things might be a coincidence but
all of them raises the question of whether one of the writers met Allegra and Jack back in the day, and used them as "inspiration" for the characters. We may never know, but it is amusing to wonder if Jack left that much of an impression on someone!
Nepo Baby? Jack accused of nepotism by local Reform Party Councillors (#605 onwards)
On 20 February 2025, an anonymous Twitter account shared
evidence that Jack, now using the name Jack Hadjicostas, is employed by Southend Council as a Policy Advisor to the Leader of the Council (Cllr Daniel Cowan.) This certainly explains why she has been quiet on social media! Jack's father is a landlord and runs a charity, both of which she will have to declare as a conflict of interest when advising on such matters as housing, development, and charity donations. Her Patreon remains open, which leaves her open to accusations of bribery now that she is in a taxpayer-funded job.
It had previously been reported in the press in December 2024 that Southend Council wanted to hire
three "political assistants" at a cost of £200,000 - one each for Labour, the Conservatives, and Independents. The anonymous account alleged that the proposal was made with the intention of securing a job for Jack. Why this would be done now, at a time when Southend City Council is due to be merged into a larger local authority, is questionable.
When the news of Jack's new job broke on Twitter, local Southend squigs on Twitter questioned if the job was advertised and what was the selection process for the role. It was indeed advertised and you can see the job description
here. Some of them said they had submitted Freedom of Information Act requests asking for more information about how and why she was hired, especially given her friendship with Labour Councillor Matt Dent. She
has been chummy with him for years and he sent her some
peculiar tweets back in 2020. He has been a Councillor since 2018; why did he think it appropriate to tweet this from his official account? It's especially interesting in light of the question of whether he had any say in the decision to hire her - however, he has stated on Twitter that he did not.
Council chaos - That Southend council meeting! (#605 onwards)
On the evening of 20 February 2025, there was a meeting of Southend Council to discuss the budget. The meeting started late and with no video feed as there were "technical difficulties", we question if this had anything to do with the scrutiny around Jack?
You can listen to the
audio here - start at 1:58:04 to 2:03:56 - where the Mayor shut the conversation down in order to speak to the CEO!
Tony Cox, the Reform Party Councillor for West Shoebury ward,
proposed an amendment to delete Jack's role. The amendment confirms that she is a permanent employee on a salary package worth £60k. (This will include pension and benefits - Tattlers with local authority connections estimate her actual base salary is around £45k-£47k.) He suggested that Jack was hired through nepotism, as the Council had vetoed the proposal to hire taxpayer-funded assistants. He also confirmed that he has reported the matter to the Council's Head of Fraud and Internal Audit. Cllr Cox alleges that after the budget meeting, Jack
threatened to have him sacked from his "day job." If that's true, evidently she is very confident that she carries weight with important people!
Another Reform Party councillor, Cllr Darryl Jones, supported Cllr Cox during the meeting and was told by Cllr Dent that Jack's role does not actually exist. Cllr Dent later justified this in a Twitter exchange,
suggesting that Cllr Jones said "political advisor" rather than "policy advisor" (a very obvious splitting of hairs.) Cllr Jones
replied that he has evidence that the advertised role was changed
after Jack was hired, and that the responsibilities of that role are not being carried out.
Of particular concern to Cllr Cox (which he shared on Twitter) was Jack's response to a local resident who had emailed Cllr Cowan on 7th January 2025:
8:57pm - Jack replies to a Southend resident who has emailed Cllr Cowan. Although the email header makes it clear that she is replying on behalf of Cllr Cowan, in the text itself she speaks as if she
is him, including signing off with his name.
10:23pm - The recipient has evidently asked who Jack is and why she is replying to them. Jack apologises, saying she "should have introduced (herself)" and that she assists with some of Cllr Cowan's correspondence.
There are several concerns here:
- Jack stated she is a Policy Advisor to the Leader of the Council. She is also described as such in the Council's email system. However, according to officers of the Council, she is a Senior Policy Advisor. These are separate roles; one is partisan (advising only the Leader of the Council), while the other is non-partisan and works with all members of the Council regardless of political party. She cannot be hired for one role while doing the other.
- Admin work such as answering a Councillor's emails is the job of an executive assistant, not a Policy Advisor. Jack should be doing the role she is hired for - the Council should not make changes to her role after hiring her (as Cllr Jones suggests they have.) If she proves unsuitable, then she would not pass her probation period.
- Replying to emails from residents is outside her remit and therefore raises questions over data protection. If it is not in her job description to do this, why does she have access to Cllr Cowan's email account and why did she need to access it outside of office hours? What personal information does she have access to through that email account?
We wait to see what Jack's response will be and if the media will pick up the story, especially given previous concerns over Essex County Council's funding of Jack's fellow Southend-based grifter
Simon Harris - Man Behaving Dadly.
UPDATE: Around the same time this was going on, Jack's father advertised in a Facebook group, looking for people to buy properties worth £1.5 million that his mother owns in Cyprus. Coming from this level of generational wealth, we certainly hope Jack will
not plead poverty any time soon!
UPDATE: In a council meeting on 20th March 2025, Cllrs Cox and Jones again raised questions around Jack's role. The following answers were given:
- Jack is a Senior Policy Advisor and works for all Councillors
- She was hired due to a lack of team capacity
- She is one of several people who have access to Cllr Cowan's email inbox in order to manage his workload. The email she was answering was a specific policy-based query.
The Council published
a list of questions and responses from this meeting, including a list of the areas of policy that she advises on. Among these are employment rights; sewers; clean air; English devolution; child welfare; and rough sleeping. That's a lot of subjects in which Jack has no professional or academic background. Notably not on the list is anything to do with food or food poverty, her supposed area of expertise.
UPDATE: On 6 April 2025 a member of the public raised an
FOI request to Southend Council regarding the role of 'Policy Advisor to the Leader'. This is ongoing but you will note in the rather cagey responses from the council, that the job they refer to is that of 'Senior Policy Advisor' - an established role - not the role Jack says she was doing (or is still doing - somewhat unclear). The murk continues! Just how did Jack get this unadvertised role, of which there is email evidence of her in action during January 2025.
r/jackunmasked as u/EleniChatzikozta on reddit! (#612 onwards)
On 6 July 2025 and after months of people suspecting that Jack may finally have gone quiet on socials because of her council job, she suddenly popped up on reddit
here.
Frauen scanned back over Eleni / Jack's 1000s over the last 9 months and it soon became apparent that all the old classic topics were present, including AA, slops, mistreatment of pets, previous jobs as pharmacy assistants, dentists and teeth, inmates, Viv clothes, Stawberry Thief, train fatalities - the list goes on...apparently she has also been mourning the death of an unknown someone (previous lover) for the last 10 years - is it herself?
Her posting stats
here and
here showed that she'd been a busy bunny whilst also working on her council job (here are her
karma stats as of 6 July) - interestingly she
upped her game from 13 June 2025, which was the date that the owner of Tattle was unmasked in the news - a coincidence or not?!
It didn't take long before some people on reddit - because she posted on a thread that had 12m viewers, started to ask if it was indeed her (to which she replied 'technically no'). That then led to a massive overnight posting deletion spree, although she left the photo up until last. There is suspicion that she hasn't yet deleted her account because she's sliding into many neckbeards' DMs and doesn't want to lose the high.
There was also mention of 'we' + a lodger, a teen and multiple pets including guinea pigs on the scene in the bungamansion, along with that old classic, which means it's definitely Jack: 'thankyou'!
And most grimly, she also shared the definition of a 'pursey' in prison parlance (you'll have to look that one up for yourself).
