Is anyone else worried about Sara Cox?

[MsSmartShoes]

She looks broken! I’m really worried about her. This is an extreme challenge and I’m questioning why we need to watch someone suffer and struggle for charity?
I’m in awe and admiration of her, but I also want to give her a HOT bath and tuck her into a big cosy bed with a gallon of tea and a dozen hot buttered crumpets.
Is it just me?

I am not ‘trolling’, where have you got that from? I don’t work Fridays - I do 5 in 4.

Calling women a sexist and misogynistic term like ‘spiteful bitches’ is the opposite of lifting up and empowering women. You can’t demand one thing whilst doing another.

I didn't know she got lots of hate. I think she is not very British with her exuberance and positivity so people don't believe it's genuine but I think it is as I know a couple of women like that, it's nice to be around but exhausting if you are a bit of a cynic.

Completely agree. The cult of celebrity under pressure, celeb at break point for entertainment and for their self promotion. Inevitable close up of tearful fraught celeb. Commentary about their fortitude. All to elicit an emotional response. It clearly works. As this thread attests

It is all so very, very calculated and heavily scripted and rehearsed. With lots of the producer saying 'Sorry Sara, we're losing the light, can we quickly go back to that last corner and re shoot you stopping and holding your thigh? We're going to keep the camera longer on your face this time.'

Same with Celebrity Race Across The World. There's actual zero urgency involved because the producer and camera people staging certain shots, then getting the Slebs to do several different 'takes' of asking directions from a local, or flagging down a bus etc.

Cannot believe that people think it's all genuine and actually happening in Real Time.

There is a tick list to this faux on the edge tv. Formulaic and inauthentic
Tearful & fraught close up✔️
Hyped up commentary✔️
Will they,won’t they make it editing✔️
Create tension and worry to emotionally hook viewers✔️

Why would anyone be concerned about a celebrity taking part in a publicity stunt?

She’s a performer and entertainer. The added drama performed by her is to add to the publicity.

You’ve nailed it.

Some of the naivety concerning celebrities is astounding!

Like that would happen 🙄

Don't worry.You have evidently not fallen for any be nice or sisterhood propaganda

Nor have I called the sisters spiteful bitches
sisterhood is myth another way to control and judge women. An external imposition of an unrealistic behaviour

Can we go back to the fun charity challenges please. The Chris Moyles 52hrs radio show for Comic Relief was actually entertaining and it raised a stupid amount of money.

Aren't you judging sara? You think you know her and her motivations.

The public wants what the public gets, there is an appetite for faux celebrity on the edge tv. There is an appetite for this schlocky rubbish

And if they did a 52 hour radio show nowadays there’d be just the same amount of Mumsnet threads moaning that the DJ they hate is on the radio constantly for 2 days. They can’t win.

Of course I’m judging, read my posts it’s self evident
in the same respect others are favourably judging and praising her fortitude
We are all ascribing values & judgement to her motives
i think it’s look at meee tv, others think it’s brave & raw. We are all judging

in pr terms, job done. We are all talking about manufactured inauthentic tv ,celeb on the edge , but hey! It’s for charity tv

But yet you think that sentiments such as women supporting women, ie sisterhood are an attempt to judge women, and you don't agree with that type of judgment. Make it make sense.

No. I’m saying i wont be mandated to support women,because they are women
This thread is a value judgement of SC charity marathon. The judgment vary from its self serving to it’s magnificent fortitude to panic that she is broken
Let’s not pretend we don’t judge, The Mn platform is online judgement about a situation, event or person. That is to be expected in a discursive medium. No one posts impartially. You’re not neutral, you’re making judgments @21ZIGGY

Sara is a warrior, CIN aside, she is giving women the confidence to say we are not to be written off because we are 50 or over ffs!

Ffs maybe I should have read the thread updates from this morning before posting 😂 oh well, it is still my opinion.

She’s nearly there, yay!

So you are saying that she hasn’t actually run the 135 miles. Is she taken by car to the outskirts of each village or place where there are people and just does a little run through each one to get back in the car? Are all the people who have turned up to watch her run though BBC stooges then? You’ve seen all this rehearsed production for yourself?

@LadyKenya I am being real. These type of events go on all the time - multiple marathons. I did one in Cornwall that is on every year, it’s not that uncommon in the running community. Lots of people do much harder challenges (I know people who have done 7 in a week and so on) but they just don’t go on about it.
im not dissing Sara Cox btw, just saying I have done similar - ish sort of things and actually so do a lot of other people and it’s quite achievable- none of us were super human remotely, and there were all ages there (in fact I’d say most were over 45 as we were more likely to have the time to train)

There is the difference you are already a runner and had more than 10 weeks to train… I think Sara was already fit and active but not a marathon or any type of long distance runner from what’s been said.

I can't believe the amount of moaning about someone doing something to raise money for charity. I knew mumsnet was full of miserable grumpy people, but honestly a few people here could do with having a think about why someone doing something that is meant to be positive brings out such a negative reaction.

I like her praise of other 50 plus women and saying we aren’t vintage etc I like that her and Zoe Ball are flying the flag big time! The other day I listened to radio 4 and heard multiple women talking about current affairs and it was normal main stream. 10 years ago we would have always had a man interjecting etc or mansplaining. It still happens but we call it out.