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Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

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morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:18:35

[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4962988/Julie-Myerson-and-the-extraordinary-ca se-of-the-copycat-column.html Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

"There have been rumours on the MumsNet website, but she is adamant that it is not her," a spokesman for the author, pictured, tells me. "It is no more than a coincidence."

oooer!

morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:18:53
morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:19:34

(Although actually the claim was already in her Wikipedia page, I'm sure the rumour didn't surface here)

Ponders Tue 10-Mar-09 10:21:11

Who believes it? (I don't think Tim Walker does grin - I love the use of "uncanny")

morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:21:43

lol I thought that

Sounds preeeety likely to me. There aren't actually that many of us journos who would publically document our own family's lives to that extent whether anonymously or not.

It is certainly an extraordinary coincidence that the two families are so similar.

KingRolo Tue 10-Mar-09 10:26:01

Love use of the term 'uncanny similarities'.

They have the same agent.

It was her.

Poor kids.

Ponders Tue 10-Mar-09 10:26:20

Although actually, if it was her, I imagine Jake would cheerfully dish the dirt on her now...oh, unless he's covering up for the sake of the other 2? (ie demonstrating that he has some family integrity even if she doesn't)

Publicly
Arse, one week into mat leave and can't spell already!

BitOfFun Tue 10-Mar-09 10:28:24

...and they have the same agent grin

Nice plug for us though- people will come over for the gossip!

theyoungvisiter Tue 10-Mar-09 10:29:06

Was it TheDullWitch said not? I wonder if/how she knows for certain?

morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:30:46

Wikipedia says:

"Julie Myerson is widely believed to have been the anonymous author of 'Living with Teenagers', a Guardian column that detailed the lives of a family with three teenage children. The column was stopped after friends identified one of the children and they were ridiculed at school."

Ponders Tue 10-Mar-09 10:35:49

It was TheDullWitch. Maybe she also has the same agent wink

Mintyy Tue 10-Mar-09 10:42:19

It would be a really questionable thing to do though, wouldn't it? Deny it now? Surely the truth will out?

If you find her agents website - used to be Rogers Coleridge & White, not sure if thats changed - and look on Gill Coleridge's page, there will probably be a complete client list there, and someone with 10 minutes on their hands could have a good guess at who is the LWT author if it isn't JM.

UnquietDad Tue 10-Mar-09 10:47:19

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

theyoungvisiter Tue 10-Mar-09 10:47:58

well I doubt it's the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire so that's one client down...

morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 10:48:56

There are some differing facts but you would have to weave a few in, wouldn't you?

Someone will confirm or deny pretty swiftly....

Dottoressa Tue 10-Mar-09 10:52:52

LOL, youngvisiter!

dittany Tue 10-Mar-09 10:55:04

Norty journalists picking up and reporting rumours off the internet.

theyoungvisiter Tue 10-Mar-09 11:01:55

what do you think journalists did before there was Mumsnet - did they actually have to out and (gasp) research stories?

bagsforlife Tue 10-Mar-09 11:08:34

Perhaps the real LWT's author will out themselves to save JM's reputation (throws gauntlet down).

bagsforlife Tue 10-Mar-09 11:09:55

Perhaps it's Jonathan Myerson...

theyoungvisiter Tue 10-Mar-09 11:11:45

Perhaps it's a hairy-handed trucker and all fiction?

morningpaper Tue 10-Mar-09 11:13:51

oh it might be Jonathan - that could be why the father is painted as calm and reasonable and the mother as useless and hysterical grin

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