Originally Posted by Suzy_Cat:
“With such incisive subeditorly observation we now have proof that splodgesmum can't possibly be Liz,
If I may speak for someone else: of 100 per cent of those who read LJ's columns, all of whom are technically "DM readers", the 20 per cent of the readership that believes what she writes are the type of person who reads the Mail completely at face value and treats it as a normal newspaper. Everyone else reads it because it's so bad it's good.
Personally I'd say it's more complex than that - I believe about 80 percent of what Liz writes, but I don't trust her observations. So when she says she's near-bankrupt, I believe that. When she says Person A said or did something I doubt it's accurate, or if it is it's been decontextualised to such a degree that it can't be taken at face value.”
Agree, Suzy_Cat - I read the Wail and Wail on Sunday because, as you so succinctly point out, it's so bad it's good! Their fascination with the Kardashians ... and any Z- lister in a bikini. And their limited vocabulary - 'stunning', 'curvy', 'sweet', 'revealing', 'charming' etc. etc. ad nauseam. Their 'sidebar of shame' seems mainly to consist of 'curvy' backsides in thongs. Maybe someone on the picture desk has a bit of an, um - fetish for 'curvy' bums?
As for Jones's 'Diary' and her 'Farticles', I can only think of two reasons why the 'Fail' group keeps her on: first, that she knows where some 'bodies are buried' and they daren't do the merciful thing and let her go. Or ... she is such wonderful click-bait for the likes of us, to see how more dire and incoherent her ramblings become week after week.
Personally, given that a previous post showing some statement that she gave to creditors that everything she wrote is 'fiction', I think that a LOT of what she writes is sheer rubbish (perhaps after a few too many mugs of Prosecco) , especially when it comes to totally unbelievable stuff abut the waiter chasing her out of the restaurant because she 'didn't talk to him' or something ... oh please! I do believe she's in dire financial straits in that she's subject to an IVA (it's on record). And that she has to sell her house. As for The Baker, I am coming more and more of the opinion that that's a sort of Faustian pact between the two of them ... I mean, how would ANY man put up with her horrible comments about him, his ex girlfriend/wife? And come back for more?