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Warning - child abuse. To not understand why this woman is not the social pariah she should be?

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Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 14:15

Started reading an article in a magazine about home and Christmas when I realised it was written by India Knight. Presumably PR for the new lifestyle book she’s written called ‘Home’.

India Knight shares a home with convicted sex offender Eric Joyce, who was found guilty in 2015 possessing films showing the sexual abuse of children as young as 12 months old. Babies. The film was classified as “Category A” (the most serious category for indecent images of children), meaning it involved penetrative sexual abuse of very young children. Yet she is still with him. At the time of his conviction she had a daughter age around 11.

Why the fuck would anyone want to read a book about home written by someone who CHOOSES to share their home with a man who likes watching babies being sexually abused? Why is someone like her given any air time at all? Completely get that she was probably unaware of her partners perversions and not judging her for that but completely judging her for staying especially as the mother of a young girl herself.

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Possiblyfamous · 08/12/2025 11:33

Imagine being that desperate to be in a relationship - how can she even bear to look at him?

LoudSnoringDog · 08/12/2025 09:55

The woman has no shame. I’ve just read his Wikipedia, he’s an absolute THUG.

Possiblyfamous · 08/12/2025 09:46

That is brilliant - well done Julie! Thank you for posting this!
Apologies - I’d intended to attach this to the Julie Birchell article post!

Peripain · 07/12/2025 22:18

I cancelled my sub years ago over this. So sickening. Lives are destroyed by those crimes. Yet the way nepotism works she gets to support that pedophile ( including over her daughter living at HOME), then wang on about all things lovely in life and HOMEs. We don’t have to pay to read it.

OliviaBonas · 07/12/2025 21:55

DramaAlpaca · 07/12/2025 17:24

I refuse to read anything by that woman because of this. Revolting, the pair of them.

Same! No more The Sunday Times.

OliviaBonas · 07/12/2025 21:54

MrsSkylerWhite · 07/12/2025 14:19

Immediately knew your thread would be about that woman.
Why the hell would a publisher take her on?

Me too!

Glowingup · 07/12/2025 20:29

Sadly I think she’s one of those women who has inner feelings of insecurity because she has never been pretty or attractive, even when she was young and she moves in circles where attractiveness is considered important. So she gets her self-worth from getting a man, seemingly any man with a pulse, doesn’t matter how shit they treat her or how awful they are, she got a man and therefore in her eyes she is better than single women. I’ve met other women like that and they will literally overlook anything and to them nothing is worse than being single. Whereas to most normal women with an ounce of self-respect, being single is totally fine, whereas living with a paedophile, not so much fine.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 07/12/2025 20:28

Now I know

I didnt know of her but will block her on social media

Disgusting woman. See also: nicki minaj. Her husband is a nonce or rapist or something.

I dont even listen to Monster anymore 😔 🤢

NotrialNodeal · 07/12/2025 20:25

I find her just as vile as him. Blows my mind that anyone would happily line her pockets but nowt as queer as folk ey.

PollyBell · 07/12/2025 20:21

Woman harbours sex offender this is not news sadly

Glowingup · 07/12/2025 20:18

Elsvieta · 07/12/2025 20:14

She's always been extremely contemptuous of women who are single and / or child free. (They have "small, unpeopled lives", apparently). So unable to go without cock even briefly that she's married a gay bloke, had a baby by one man while married to another, and then shacked up with a nonce.

At least she now seems to have stopped doling out relationship advice.

And also put said nonce ahead of her child to the extent that her daughter had to move out. Wow, such a great mum, motherhood was really her calling.

Elsvieta · 07/12/2025 20:14

She's always been extremely contemptuous of women who are single and / or child free. (They have "small, unpeopled lives", apparently). So unable to go without cock even briefly that she's married a gay bloke, had a baby by one man while married to another, and then shacked up with a nonce.

At least she now seems to have stopped doling out relationship advice.

PantaloonMad · 07/12/2025 18:34

I read ‘my life on a plate’ when I was about 12 (nicked off my mum and hen we were on holiday) and I loved it. V inappropriate for a child but I there we go. Later I enjoyed her beauty writing and once ended up sending her a pr gift from a perfumery I worked for which she had mentioned in her column. I remember my boss/the perfumery owner (another awful woman) berating me because I’d embarrassed her by called it a gift. Posh people are weird and operate on a different plane.

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 07/12/2025 17:42

A few years ago she posted something on Twitter about Prince Andrew bringing his family into disrepute. The cognitive dissonance was staggering.

Strider55 · 07/12/2025 17:39

I had absolutely no idea, that is disgusting. I don't understand how anyone could stay with such a monster. And I don't understand how he isn't in prison?!

Why on earth would this woman continue to get publishing deals?! Do the publishers know and just not care?! I've just checked and you can get the book on audible, I'd want to know why any bookseller/platform thought it was suitable to publish the work of a paedophile supporter.

Lostthetastefordahlias · 07/12/2025 17:33

It’s so odd. Although her Times column was completely undeserved, she has things going for her - why would you choose to ruin your life by saddling yourself with him? They did promise an “explanation” when it all came out but that has (perhaps mercifully) not been forthcoming. They have moved house, not sure where to - I wonder if people are just polite when they meet her so she thinks people don’t know/ care? It looks like she is making a pretty substantial income off her substack called “Home” which is mind blowing frankly.

TooBigForMyBoots · 07/12/2025 17:33

KTheGrey · 07/12/2025 17:20

It is a total mystery. Still writes for The Sunday Times, too. Very icky.

She's a nepo baby.🙄

IsItBeesThoughLooshkin · 07/12/2025 17:32

I completely agree, OP. I never read her in the Times because she makes me sick but she’s got friends in high places apparently!

Decemberweeds · 07/12/2025 17:26

Thanks for link to other thread.

How does she not feel ashamed to show her face in public? I mean I’d ask the same of him but I wouldn’t expect any kind of decency from a man who has behaved as he has.

I assume that anyone who buys her book is doing so not realising who its author is and that her standards of what makes a house a warm, safe, cosy home might be somewhat different to those of normal people ie the vast majority of society who would be repelled to be in the same room as the repulsive Joyce let alone share a bed with him.

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DramaAlpaca · 07/12/2025 17:24

I refuse to read anything by that woman because of this. Revolting, the pair of them.

KTheGrey · 07/12/2025 17:20

It is a total mystery. Still writes for The Sunday Times, too. Very icky.

MrsKeats · 07/12/2025 17:15

She’s well connected is why. Her daughter moved in with her father because of this too.

BoredZelda · 07/12/2025 16:17

JK Rowling has not been cancelled, not even close. Get a grip.

I’m sure Knight is also receiving threats, it’s what people do to women, particularly when they are being blamed for the actions of men. I wouldn’t want to buy anything she wrote either, but just like with Rowling, if there continues to be a market, her publisher will continue to buy her work.

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 07/12/2025 16:16

There was a thread about them a few weeks ago when their house went on the market. I'm surprised that a lot of people know who she is but not about her relationship with Joyce.

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