[Paula Panzer]

So, let's see. Liz has had plastic surgery, regular Botox, procedures on her teeth, is an advocate of all women owing it to themselves to follow her shining example, and believes that no woman should show her face in public without make-up. Yet when she sees a woman who looks good at over 40 she has to point out that do do so she must have had plastic surgery, Botox etc. and must be unhappy with herself to have done so. It is a DM thing that a woman who is not too fat must be too thin, an older woman showing signs of (horror!) cellulite, bingo wings or other natural aspects of ageing is letting herself go, and essentially it is impossible to achieve the beauty ideal (unless of course you are Samantha Brick), so I suppose she's toeing the party line. But please, Liz, what chance has any woman got if we aren't allowed to age naturally yet we aren't allowed to look good without accusations of cheating and still not looking right being thrown at us?

[cathrin]

Hi Kimberley and welcome to the thread! Sounds like you had a very lucky escape there, if LJ's previous "interviewing-young-women-in-good faith" articles are anything to go by!

Originally Posted by KimberleyEscada

Hey everyone,

I expect to see an article online soon. Who knows it may be complimentary, but I would place money on it being a long the lines of, Is Poundland for Chavs, or something equally judgemental.

I feel sorry for anybody who isn't familiar with LJ, answered her questions in good faith, and had their photo taken. On top of what she could write, there's the fact that the public can comment on articles on the Mail Online.

!

BiB: Yes, that sums up in a nutshell what makes these articles such uncomfortable reading. Anyone helpful and co-operative enough to take part would be running the risk of being portrayed in print as some sort of insulting caricature of a "typical Poundland shopper" (whatever that might be!) Let's all keep a lookout for a forthcoming Poundland feature and see just what Kimberley missed!

[Leicester_Hunk]

Originally Posted by Fatsia

Hahaha! And here it is - put your food down before following the link

Looks like a bag lady.

Christ on a bike.

[KimberleyEscada]

Originally Posted by cathrin

Hi Kimberley and welcome to the thread! Sounds like you had a very lucky escape there, if LJ's previous "interviewing-young-women-in-good faith" articles are anything to go by!

BiB: Yes, that sums up in a nutshell what makes these articles such uncomfortable reading. Anyone helpful and co-operative enough to take part would be running the risk of being portrayed in print as some sort of insulting caricature of a "typical Poundland shopper" (whatever that might be!) Let's all keep a lookout for a forthcoming Poundland feature and see just what Kimberley missed!

Hi Cathrin,

Yes I will definitely be keeping a look out for any Poundland articles. I just hope that they didn't take any photographs without my knowledge? We were only in there a minute tops and I didn't give permission so I'm really hoping not.

I think Liz was wearing the Poundland uniform but i'm not 100% sure as I seem to recall her saying that she usually only wears black/dark colours anyway.

I just hope that if anybody was helpful enough to answer questions and have their picture taken, that she doesn't ridicule them in her article.

[DorisMorris]

Originally Posted by Mrs BBV

They've changed the picture. Probably due to Easy Living Magazine having copyright over the photograph. Still a nasty piece of writing though.

Originally Posted by Sarah Soreen

The main picture is completely different, the central one has changed from the long flowing locks earlier to a pink dress with short hair. We have lost the name of the plastic surgeon attributed in the second pic, the small younger pictures of her have disappeared too. And the comments about her being a gap toothed schoolgirl have gone from the pic along with the cover of Easy Living mag.

All the text in the article is word for word, it is the insert of her in the pink dress where the changes are. I wonder if the plastic surgeon objected to being named too as her name has disappeared from the insert altogether

So the DM cares more about the possibility of being sued by a plastic surgeon and Condé Nast magazine group, than Amanda Holden......... [ Thanks, Sarah, for reading the thing twice to satisfy m..our nosiness ]

[DorisMorris]

Originally Posted by KimberleyEscada

Hey everyone,

Thought I would venture into your thread as I met Liz Jones today.
Well I say met, I got myself out of there sharpish.

A narrow squeak . We can be pretty sure how the Poundland article is going to play.... Although it sounds like the store managers were on the ball in ensuring that customers gave their permission to be photographed/interviewed, so I reckon you'll be OK. In the absence of real live volunteers, LJ will probably find herself 'bumping into' a young man carrying a bunch of tulips, or that old faithful: the friendly cabbie.

[DorisMorris]

So why do I, someone who has never been content with her body, now find myself posing in a bikini for a Daily Mail photographer?

Good question.

[DorisMorris]

..and quite enough posts from me

[StressMonkey]

Originally Posted by Leicester_Hunk

Looks like a bag lady.

Christ on a bike.

She was meant to in that photo. Well, sort of. She was living on £65 a week. Thus dressing 'the part' in Liz world.

Ta-da

And today.......Bikinis!!

I have to admit, she doesn't look bad! Could be some airbrushing going on, plenty of tan (fake or otherwise) and she has found a make-up artist and photographer that are very good.

Didn't read the article though. I find her stuff so hard to read between the poor grammar and non-sequiturs that I don't often try anymore.

[Sarah Soreen]

She doesnt look too bad in that bikini at all. Kind of makes a mockery of the continual body dramas we are subjected to, time after time when she is perfectly presentable in one.

LOL! Almost 400 comments under the article. Does Liz in a bikini really warrant that number? I guess I'll work my way through them for the laugh lol

[morecowbell]

Make up - a 100% improvement. I'm willing to bet my house, nay, my LIFE, that the next picture we see of her she will be back under the black eyebrows, eyeliner and eyeshadow.

[bigluke1970]

She has a nice body

Tomorrow SAMANTHA BRICK in a bikini.

[lotty27]

She's got better legs than Marie Helvin!

If she really has had hang ups about her body all these years - I know, take everything she says with a pinch of salt! - but if so it's a shame because there's nothing wrong whatsoever with it and her bigger boobs that she had 'cut off' would have made her proportions really nice. But I agree she is improved 100% just by the lighter make up and better hair.

[Seabird]

Well done Kimberley; you managed to avoid being in this article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz1zt0ex5Yo

Hopefully you eat a lot of fruit as well as Crunchies as Liz so charmingly says: "But there’s no escaping the fact Poundland caters to the lowest denominator: I imagine I’d get scurvy if I shopped here for long". You really have to pity her.

[Paula Panzer]

Originally Posted by Seabird

Well done Kimberley; you managed to avoid being in this article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz1zt0ex5Yo

Hopefully you eat a lot of fruit as well as Crunchies as Liz so charmingly says: "But there’s no escaping the fact Poundland caters to the lowest denominator: I imagine I’d get scurvy if I shopped here for long". You really have to pity her.

Interestingly there are absolutely no pictures of customers (did they all refuse to face the camera, even the best looking traffic warden Liz has ever seen?) but plenty of Liz wearing those ridiculous shoes. No wonder her feet were hurting.

And as for:

"I certainly don’t blame anyone for shopping here..."

Why should anyone be blamed for saving money, especially if they are forced to by their circumstances? However, the one thing I do agree with is the fact that big chains like Poundland compel their suppliers to accept ever lower amounts for their products, so while the shops make loads of money the suppliers struggle along on the breadline in many cases.

[cathrin]

Surely the entire (flimsy) premise of this Poundland article is fundamentally flawed? The purpose of Liz's mission, she says, is "to discover if this discount pleasure dome is the future of shopping, or whether working here is, as student Cait Reilly — who was made to give up volunteering in a museum to work for nothing at Poundland or risk losing her Jobseeker’s Allowance — so famously put it, ‘like slave labour’.

[/i][/b]

But that quote is being misleadingly used, surely? Cait Reilly wasn't claiming that working at Poundland is slave labour per se. Her argument, if I understood correctly, was against being made to work there for nothing or lose her benefits. I know that fact is referred to parenthetically in the quote above, but the way it's worded implies that Cait Reilly called working at Poundland slave labour in itself.

[KimberleyEscada]

Originally Posted by Seabird

Well done Kimberley; you managed to avoid being in this article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz1zt0ex5Yo

Hopefully you eat a lot of fruit as well as Crunchies as Liz so charmingly says: "But there’s no escaping the fact Poundland caters to the lowest denominator: I imagine I’d get scurvy if I shopped here for long". You really have to pity her.

Yes I think I made the right call!
By fruit surely you are referring to cadburys fruit & nut? I shopped in pound land (well I tried to till I saw liz) so of course I don't know any other kind ;-)

She looks so much more petite in the photographs than in person.

[newbaby]

Originally Posted by cathrin

Surely the entire (flimsy) premise of this Poundland article is fundamentally flawed? The purpose of Liz's mission, she says, is "to discover if this discount pleasure dome is the future of shopping, or whether working here is, as student Cait Reilly — who was made to give up volunteering in a museum to work for nothing at Poundland or risk losing her Jobseeker’s Allowance — so famously put it, ‘like slave labour’.

[/i][/b]

But that quote is being misleadingly used, surely? Cait Reilly wasn't claiming that working at Poundland is slave labour per se. Her argument, if I understood correctly, was against being made to work there for nothing or lose her benefits. I know that fact is referred to parenthetically in the quote above, but the way it's worded implies that Cait Reilly called working at Poundland slave labour in itself.

Cathrin, yes: misleading and rather thrown into blender of ingredients that get whizzed up for a recipe of non-result.

[KimberleyEscada]

Originally Posted by Paula Panzer

Interestingly there are absolutely no pictures of customers (did they all refuse to face the camera, even the best looking traffic warden Liz has ever seen?) but plenty of Liz wearing those ridiculous shoes. No wonder her feet were hurting.

And as for:

"I certainly don’t blame anyone for shopping here..."

Why should anyone be blamed for saving money, especially if they are forced to by their circumstances? However, the one thing I do agree with is the fact that big chains like Poundland compel their suppliers to accept ever lower amounts for their products, so while the shops make loads of money the suppliers struggle along on the breadline in many cases.

The shoes were probably very expensive and designer. I think she wore them to differentiate herself from the actual pound land staff as she clearly thinks the place is beneath her.

And yes I wouldn't be surprised if you were right that nobody wanted to have their picture taken. When we politely declined the girl sighed very obviously and didn't even bother to say "ok thank you anyway."

Liz has been on This Morning quite a few times lately, and I think that's lead to more people recognising her face, and subsequently her sharp tongue.

[vampyre]

Originally Posted by KimberleyEscada

The shoes were probably very expensive and designer. I think she wore them to differentiate herself from the actual pound land staff as she clearly thinks the place is beneath her.

And yes I wouldn't be surprised if you were right that nobody wanted to have their picture taken. When we politely declined the girl sighed very obviously and didn't even bother to say "ok thank you anyway."

Liz has been on This Morning quite a few times lately, and I think that's lead to more people recognising her face, and subsequently her sharp tongue.

Regrettably not matched by her intelligence. Yes I know she's manipulating and making a fortune but it was delightful how easy it was for Schofield to play the player.

[Sarah Soreen]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...net-might.html

[Sarah Soreen]

Words fail me. Half the column from a private family email. Dreadful

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/...elebrated.html

[morecowbell]

Originally Posted by Sarah Soreen

Words fail me. Half the column from a private family email. Dreadful

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/...elebrated.html

Words fail me to. I mean I am literally

So the first part is an email from a brother about the funeral. The gut wrenching funeral of a young man. Taken way before his time.

And she goes from that to "Anyway, because of Lizzies frequent foot absesses" Really? Really? REALLY!!!!!

If my eyes don't deceive me she then progresses to tell us about her homeopathic horse healer and its bone realignment and an unfortunate case of one of the cats sitting on something a bit sticky.

Then the possibility that Nic reckons she has a demon in the house ending with the phrase "She don't do demons"

It's early, I may still be dreaming this. I may be having a funny turn and am imagining I just read that utter waffle. But every time I check, it's still there! This is actually the total sum of her copy for the Diary this week. Shoot, I need to have a lie down!

[morecowbell]

Originally Posted by Sarah Soreen

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...net-might.html

She really is a frightful jealous old bore. It's just the DM using her to troll to up the click figures. Is it worth it Liz. Is the short term pay packet actually worth it?

[newbaby]

I am speechless. Beyond even trying to comprehend such a dreadful, contemptible juxtaposition from apparently quoting an e-mail about the funeral of a young man to My Life Is Miserable And Full Of Worry at home. And now there's a demon. Oh, for heaven's sake. Has the woman no sense and sensibility?