to wonder why Kate Middleton is shortlisted for mum of the year?

[FBmum]

Nothing against her at all, but surely it's a bit early if not actually dare I say risky (the poor woman is only just into her 2nd trimester for gods sake), to be shortlisting her for Mum of the Year?????? Give her a chance to actually be a mum first, SURELY??

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

Who?

[FBmum]

Sorry - Duchess of Cornwall for all you Royal diehards!!!

[Bobyan]

Its because she's has so much experience

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

ok, yeah, it is silly to call someone mum of the year who hasn't had their baby.

[Johnnysknickers]

Wasn't Kerry Katona a previous mum of the year?

[FBmum]

at Johnnysknickers - I'd forgotten about Kerry Katona - do you think we will see Kate advertising Iceland in years to come?

[RichardSimmonsTankTop]

What? How can she be the list when I, who actually have children and have put in a reasonable amount of effort at mothering, is not! How insulting!

[Johnnysknickers]

It's all downhill from here...

[Viviennemary]

Errm Duchess of Cornwall. That's Camilla.

[Bobyan]

I can't imagine her eating anything, let alone Iceland's stuff!

[FBmum]

Ooh blimey, I'm getting my Duchesses mixed up. Mind you that really WOULD be a story!

[Cuddlyrunner]

I saw this earlier and thought it was dreadful , a hundred years or so ago when I had ds1, a baby mag (possibly Mother and Baby) had a page of celebrity babies born that month. Obviously they do the mags a couple of months before publication. Annie Lennox was congratulated on the safe birth of her child. She had actually suffered a stillbirth.

[catus]

Who cares? Really?
And I quite like her btw.

[Viviennemary]

That's just what I was thinking FBmum!

[hiddenhome]

Mum of the Year should be given to somebody who's struggled against the odds in some way, not a pampered Royal who will never have to do a great many of the things that normal mums find themselves doing year in year out

[missorinoco]

I have no problem with a Royal getting the title, but I cannot see how you can be Mum of the Year if you have no children, dependants, or foster children. Why not William then?

[FBmum]

Next year, it will be given to whichever piece of totty illustrious young lady Harry is knocking about with...

[cocoachannel]

What do you win?

[HazeltheMcWitch]

Fearne Cotton and Dame Sarah Storey are also on the list - neither have yet given birth.

[FBmum]

Oh, it's ok everyone, it can't be a real thing - I managed to find an article about it in the Daily Fail (Google made me read it, honest), and
previous winners have included Stacy Solomon, Kym Marsh and Sharon Osbourne, while Katie Price and Kerry Katona have both been Mum of the Year on more than one occasion.

Obviously, it must be some sort of wind-up.

[Itsjustafleshwound]

Hey, the reigning queen is Katie Price ...

[HazeltheMcWitch]

Look, the thing is - these things are just shite made up by public relations (PR) companies, to get the name of their client (in this case, Foxy Bingo), talked and written about. And to position it 'just so' in the minds of their target audience. It's all just made up...

The shortlist is just appealing people, who can appear in the first swathe of articles. Probably with pictures. Putting Kate Middleton's name in anything will get it press.

Phase 2 will be announcing the winner. Here, they'll need someone who will show up and pose with trophy etc. So it needs to be someone a bit fame-hungry. Looking at the shortlist (www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2281783/The-Duchess-Cambridge-heads-star-shortlist-2013-Celebrity-Mum-Year-title.html?ito=feeds-newsxml statutory DM warning, etc), I predict that Una Healey will win. I an't imagine the rest of them being arsed with it all. Unless Lily Allen wants the press (she's back in the studio recording new music). The Sats will always do stuff for press.