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?

What are we going to do about systemic inequalities with super rich and the royal family who don’t pay adequate tax? How should we tax them and take that money and give it to health and social care? So they don’t have to rely on a minor celeb to generate donations

Exactly where did I say she hadn't actually done the runs? I actually said that much of it will have required a few rehearsed bits, several different takes of the same shot, some staged shots etc.

Did you think all the images, video footage, interviews, phone chats etc happened completely spontaneously with no prior planning?

the event will have had health team for safely,plus producers,production staff ,camera opearatives,sound crew all to get the best shots,the emotional leverage. The literal money shot. It’s managed and curated to get the best coverage

Agree it’s a curated and managed output. It’s not point camera and and hope for the best.

Quite. But it appears that people genuinely think that everything we see just happens spontaneously off the cuff and in real time?

To be fair, @bunsnroses1 that poster doesn't necessarily NOT have a successful career. How do you know this and why is that accusation always flung at people? Maybe the poster has been mean, but challenge that without accusing them of being low down the pecking order in the achievement stakes. For all you know, the poster might be Rachel Reeves ... oh wait ...

Charities should commission management report into the inequities within their tax system and how the super rich proportionately pay considerably less than they should . How the royal family play considerably less than they should and what the royal family take from the public They could then identify what the short falls are in health and social care provision. Having identified the inequality and shortfalls in the charities budgets, the royal family et al should be compelled to pay more so that the charities don’t have to go with a begging bowl for monies.

When registering with the Charities’ Commission, a charity must say what its objectives are. Then when it raises funds (from donations or services - many charities are service providers to government) and then gives out those funds, it must all be in accordance with those objectives.

Very few charities will have “changing the tax system” or “ compelling the royal family to pay more” in those charitable objectives… so I don’t see the mechanism by which this could happen from charitable funds.

Or - in tl;dr - if I want to change tax policy, I can use my democratic right to vote to help do that. If I want to contribute to Alzheimer’s research or furniture for a women’s refuge, then I can use a charitable donation to do that (on which - oh, there’s that tax policy - both I and the charity will receive a tax benefit)

I read a book years ago by someone called Mandi Norwood, called How to be No 1 in your own world. Nobody is in competition with Sara Cox. It's about achieving highly for yourself in your own arena. Being a radio presenter doesn't make someone better or more successful than a senior partner, head of department, or whatever are in their own industry.

FWIW I think these challenges should now stop and they should do something more sensible.I don't know what, though, but that's not my job!

It’s unhealthy to over venerate a celeb to that extent that you’ve created a pecking order. You might benchmark yourself against a celeb, I however do not.

Btw, you’re all over the place with the dreadful metaphors and over embellished descriptions of boiled piss and rocks chucked from sidelines

Thank you so much, that is so kind, and helped enormously

What are you so angry about - and what’s with all the name calling? Just because I disagree with you doesn’t make me ‘an arsehole.’ I’ve met Sara Cox. Twice. And neither time was a pleasant experience. That’s my reality, and the previous poster is right, you don’t need to go on a personal attack to try and achieve online point scoring.

I also don’t happen to think anyone is a ‘lesser person than’ someone else just because they’ve not done x or y or z. It’s a really horrid competitive attitude.

So youre not an arsehole but based on 2 vague meetings you determined sara was an arsehole??

Wow - 7 MILLION pounds raised for children. What an achievement, am in awe. I couldn’t run to the bus stop and I’m younger than Sara. That was amazing

Yes well done to Sara! 😄

She did incredibly well. I was convinced she'd not finish it- I've only done a 50km ultra and could barely walk for 3 days afterwards. How the hell she did 135 miles, I have no idea!

I assume that the challenges are set to be hard but not impossible starting from a point of assessing the fitness and ability of the one taking on the challenge.@ Add in a specially tailored training programme for 3 months beforehand and they would be fairly confident that the 'star' is capable of taking on the challenge. No point in setting something they are highly unlikely to complete because that wouldn't pull in the money.

I didn’t say it was a vague meeting at all? And I didn’t call her an arsehole. And that poster has never met me.

Faint praise indeed - of course they’re not impossible (except maybe for me, definitely impossible) but why the need to piss on people’s chips? It’s a tough challenge and she did it. A woman over 50. It’s ok to just say well done

£9.5m current total - she is a legend and deserves every bit of credit she gets for what she has done. That money is going to make the world of difference to so many kids.

Pardon......

Specialcrumpets · Yesterday 21:42
I’ve met her. Twice. And she was not nice. So, meh

Specialcrumpets · Yesterday 21:55
You think it’s out of the kindness of her heart? Threads like this are the reasons why….pull some heartstrings, fan base.
As I say, she was an arsehole when I vaguely knew her but that was a while ago

I think she’s done incredibly well. I live not far from the Yorkshire bit of the route, and some of it is brutal. Pool Bank in particular is very very steep, it’s not fun to even drive up, let alone walk or run.

There are some very odd comments on here from people who clearly do not like Sara Cox. And who clearly haven’t been following her progress as she’s been pretty famous for the best part of 30 years, had book deals, has a podcast, presents various tv shows, and one of the main radio shows in the country which is massively popular. I’m not a radio 2 listener, but suggesting she’s doing this to get a book or podcast deal is pretty funny really.

’vaguely knew her’ is pretty different from a ‘vague meeting.’

the first suggests a brief relationship where one could get the measure of someone. The second could be bumping into someone in Tesco.

Nice semantics

So you accept you called her an arsehole then and then denied it