[purplecatz]

Originally Posted by Radiomaniac

Because Holly is everything she's not - beautiful, young, happy, talented at what she does, well liked and popular.

And most of all - she has 2 young children the lizard has none

[Zone_Out]

This bitter old bitch obviously needs a good hard S**G

[vampyre]

Originally Posted by Zone_Out

This bitter old bitch obviously needs a good hard S**G

Any volunteers?

[tonywilson]

Just reading one of Liz's old articles about homelessness and apart from it being incredibly patronising and offensive she ends the article with this statement/lie.

"At the end of the night, I walk back to my car, to my warm, cosy life, and decide I'm going to go back to that square to find David, and I'm going to try to help him".

What are the chances she she followed up on that?

[Bellagio]

Originally Posted by tonywilson

Just reading one of Liz's old articles about homelessness and apart from it being incredibly patronising and offensive she ends the article with this statement/lie.

"At the end of the night, I walk back to my car, to my warm, cosy life, and decide I'm going to go back to that square to find David, and I'm going to try to help him".

What are the chances she she followed up on that?

I'm a bookie - we don't do odds that high.

[greeneyes]

Originally Posted by Bellagio

I'm a bookie - we don't do odds that high.

Bookie oooh!!! Any tips for Euro 2012 Spain v Italy?

[Lilaeth]

Saw Liz on some daytime show during the week, talking about anorexia. There was another speaker on too, and Liz was not pleased when said speaker dared to contradict her. And generally make more sense. But then, all Liz harped on about was me, myself and I.

Did she even have anorexia, or is that another one of her Walter Mitty episodes?

[Paula Panzer]

Originally Posted by Lilaeth

Saw Liz on some daytime show during the week, talking about anorexia. There was another speaker on too, and Liz was not pleased when said speaker dared to contradict her. And generally make more sense. But then, all Liz harped on about was me, myself and I.

Did she even have anorexia, or is that another one of her Walter Mitty episodes?

There is no evidence either way, but to be fair it is one thing she has repeatedly referred to, unlike many of the other diseases/conditions/problems that she suddenly mentions in reference to someone else's problem and manages to empathise because she shares whatever it is, only usually she's got it worse.

[DeliriumTremens]

Originally Posted by Lilaeth

Saw Liz on some daytime show during the week, talking about anorexia. There was another speaker on too, and Liz was not pleased when said speaker dared to contradict her. And generally make more sense. But then, all Liz harped on about was me, myself and I.

Did she even have anorexia, or is that another one of her Walter Mitty episodes?

She has often claimed she is 'borderline anorexic'. But just recently she's been saying she's 'anorexic'. I don't know why she's changed, but I suspect she's just being more dramatic.

I know, I'm being cynical.

[vampyre]

Speaking of cynical.........
First sentence of tomorrow's diary:
"And then my nephew died."

Yet again everyone else is column fodder for Liz Jones.

[greeneyes]

Originally Posted by vampyre

Speaking of cynical.........
First sentence of tomorrow's diary:
"And then my nephew died."

Yet again everyone else is column fodder for Liz Jones.

And probably no shame she didn't use the £5k ticket to Oz to visit or support her sister if this is true (can't think even LJ would stoop to lying about it). Although last week a comment mentioned hearing no more about it.. She'll be the one expecting all sympathy and saying why does everything bad always happen to poor, poor me.

[MissySmith]

Originally Posted by Radiomaniac

Because Holly is everything she's not - beautiful, young, happy, talented at what she does, well liked and popular.

I hope Holly never has to read this weirdness.

[Rosie Red]

Re the questions about whether she actually had anorexia, I'd guess she did because she certainly looks as though she's had a serious illness at some point and could have lost a lot of weight that she's never put back on. She actually looks very strange.

[greeneyes]

Unhinged even for her own usual garbage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar....html#comments

[Sarah Soreen]

Words fail me folks

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/...s-tragedy.html

[whatever54]

that is pretty bad even by her own low standards, she no longer shocks me any more just sounds a complete biatch. When's she going to see her mum?

[morecowbell]

Originally Posted by greeneyes

Unhinged even for her own usual garbage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar....html#comments

Is it just me or did that make no sense whatsoever? What was the point of it? What was she trying to get across? It's a rambling incoherent jamble. I'd read it again but I'm sure it would only puzzle me further.

[LittlePolly]

Originally Posted by whatever54

that is pretty bad even by her own low standards, she no longer shocks me any more just sounds a complete biatch. When's she going to see her mum?

I had no idea what was happening in the first paragraph. The whole article is completely appalling as is she. My condolences to her sister. I wonder if she will make the funeral?

[spike08]

Originally Posted by morecowbell

Is it just me or did that make no sense whatsoever? What was the point of it? What was she trying to get across? It's a rambling incoherent jamble. I'd read it again but I'm sure it would only puzzle me further.

This.
I didn't understand a word of it, it's like someone writing down the ramblings of a very very drunk person.

[elven62]

Originally Posted by morecowbell

Is it just me or did that make no sense whatsoever? What was the point of it? What was she trying to get across? It's a rambling incoherent jamble. I'd read it again but I'm sure it would only puzzle me further.

For the last few weeks I've thought that the 'style' of Liz' writing has become so weird (weirder than usual incoherent ramblings). It's as if the column is being written by 2 or 3 different people like in local freebie papers where the journos have to take turns writing the horoscopes!

[cathrin]

The story of the nephew is terribly tragic and heartbreaking....but the way Liz uses it in her column makes very uncomfortable reading. Does she have her sister's permission to reveal such personal details about her and her grieving family, I wonder? Coming so soon after yet another ultra-intrusive description of her ailing mother's plight, the details about the nephew's illness just seem horribly inappropriate and disrespectful in print. A devastating tragedy like this shouldn't be described in a column by someone on the other side of the world.

....And after starting the Diary with "And so my nephew died", was it really necessary to press the pause button on this for a moment and launch straight into a couple of paragraphs about her holiday with the FRS?

There's also an interesting comment on the DM page about the weirdly detached way she writes about her own family; the poster points out that it sounds almost as if it's being written by someone completely unconnected with the family (the nephew's mother is described as "the most beautiful of all HER sisters..." ...why not "all MY sisters?" Reminded me of when her mother told her "her father" had died (why not "my grandfather"?) And in the midst of such tragic news, why does she feel the need to mention that her sister got married in a Next dress?

Lots of comments on the DM website about the fact that Liz had bought a £5000 air ticket to Australia to see the FRS, and then decided not to go when he told her not to. (Previously she had said she couldn't afford to go to visit her nephew).

I just hope she has been given the sister's permission before making the details of this tragedy so public.

As for the MoS column....it's completely incoherent, swerving around from one jumble of unconnected subjects to another!

[greeneyes]

Originally Posted by cathrin

The story of the nephew is terribly tragic and heartbreaking....but the way Liz uses it in her column makes very uncomfortable reading. Does she have her sister's permission to reveal such personal details about her and her grieving family, I wonder? Coming so soon after yet another ultra-intrusive description of her ailing mother's plight, the details about the nephew's illness just seem horribly inappropriate and disrespectful in print. A devastating tragedy like this shouldn't be described in a column by someone on the other side of the world.

....And after starting the Diary with "And so my nephew died", was it really necessary to press the pause button on this for a moment and launch straight into a couple of paragraphs about her holiday with the FRS?

There's also an interesting comment on the DM page about the weirdly detached way she writes about her own family; the poster points out that it sounds almost as if it's being written by someone completely unconnected with the family (the nephew's mother is described as "the most beautiful of all HER sisters..." ...why not "all MY sisters?" Reminded me of when her mother told her "her father" had died (why not "my grandfather"?) And in the midst of such tragic news, why does she feel the need to mention that her sister got married in a Next dress?

Lots of comments on the DM website about the fact that Liz had bought a £5000 air ticket to Australia to see the FRS, and then decided not to go when he told her not to. (Previously she had said she couldn't afford to go to visit her nephew).

I just hope she has been given the sister's permission before making the details of this tragedy so public.

As for the MoS column....it's completely incoherent, swerving around from one jumble of unconnected subjects to another!

She mentioned before that she pays someone to type out her copy from dictaphone ...so it might just be a case of the lacky who's transcribing confusing the context of the relationships.

On the other article...this is my take on it. When she threatened to stop writing the column (probably a clever ploy) when it was still popular the DM editor gave her a golden handcuff contract deal worth a few hundred thousand a year on the basis that she write x amount of column words. The editors have recently become concerned about the quality of the writing and also the amount of duplicate articles which are mostly cut and paste efforts. Someone has had the audacity to take her to task and she has decided that she has them over a barrel with her cast iron contract, so can do what she pleases. Note the last line of the article aimed at the editors.

[cathrin]

She certainly does seem to rub her editors' nose in things in print, e.g. smugly flaunting the fact that she's cutting and pasting the FRS's email into her column which, she says, is like a holiday.

And some of her MoS columns are so bizarre and unfathomable, the headlines often give the impression that even the editors don't quite know what to make of them or how to present them in a soundbite. (Just look at the headline a few weeks ago: "Having 'a family' is no excuse for being smug (...or for failing to damp dust on your skirting boards)"....It makes absolutely no sense, just like the article! What on earth does "failing to damp dust on" mean?

[mariets]

Where's the piece she had to write about tanning while she was in the £1700 a night room with the RS? If we can trace it then maybe we can put a timeline on her to see when the supposed trip took place.

[pink15]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...et-orange.html

1st june it seems