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?

Not at all, I'm not one of those who think it's a con or an ego trip - I think the achievement is fantastic (both completing 5 back to back marathon distances and the raising of 7 million) but I don't think it was dangerous because she will have been screened and assessed before the challenge was put together.

Professional training advice and on-hand physios must make the absolute world of difference.

I couldn't believe she was jogging towards the end!!

Amazing achievement.

Wow - that is and outstanding achievement.
if I were her I’d sleep for twelve hours and spend h to r whole weekend in bed watching films.

Maybe in your mind. I think you just forgot what you'd written. 😂

I remember reading on here that she wasn't exactly lovely.
If that wasn't you then I now have to wonder!

I mean, you would hope so, wouldn’t you? It would be pretty stupid to have her run five marathons in a row and do shitty coverage of it that didn’t maximise donations?

Indeed the purpose is PR for SC and maximise donations and that’s achieved by curating and staging the output
Fatigued But vulnerable✔️
Create good to camera pieces ✔️
Curate the regular lass becomes warrior transformation ✔️
High expressed emotion to hook audience ✔️
Will she?Wont she make it✔️
Ramp up the emotional demanding tone, oh no!is she broken?✔️
This is not point camera for one take, it’s a whole endeavour and she (and her agent) are beneficiaries as is CiN and the BBC. It’s a huge win for all

Scott mills milking the limelight when she went to meet friends and family afterwards . He sat casually back in his chair taking up a layback approach got all day look about him when all Sarah wanted was her family and rest . He carried the whole promotion thing to far .

You know she already has a podcast. And a daily radio show with millions of listeners. And several Books (a memoir and at least 2 novels) published. Running 5 marathons in 5 days seems a rather extreme way to get another appearance on the One Show.

lol exactly! Teen Commandment pod is a must for parents of teens.

Yup, and just now she’s getting talked about +++ as a celeb you need to maintain presence. She’ll obviously do all the shows,podcasts,book to recount the event. Celebs need contemporary. It is favourable PR

Well done Sara Cox! A huge demonstration of stamina and fortitude whichever way you look at it. Well done also to her support team who got her through it, and the publicity machine that helped bring her adventure to public attention ensuring a phenomenal amount of money was raised for charity.

If you are sitting on your sofa at home moaning about this in any way, shape or form at all, get up and take a long look at yourself in the mirror. A woman (whether she is old, young, famous, not famous, etc is irrelevant) has just given up 5 days of her time (and all the prep in the run up) to run 135km over hilly terrain in atrocious weather conditions to raise money for people who have less than she does. If any of you can say ‘yes, and I have done that too,’ fab, well done you. But the main part of the vitriol and unpleasant commentary seems to be personal against a woman no one here even actually knows! Purely because she has put herself out there. Get over yourselves! You look like petty jealous mean girls. Sara Cox, otoh, looks like an absolute heroine.

£9.5m raised, fantastic

Going to leave the thread now as who needs this negativity on a weekend!

heroine? Justify that?
Women can, and should express opinion freely without fans chiding them for their opinions.
You have descended into effusive praise and indignant froth
heroine✔️
stamina✔️
fortitude✔️

I see you’ve utilised the tired tropes that opinion contrary to your own is
mean girl✔️
vitriolic✔️
unpleasant✔️
advising long hard look in mirror✔️

Well it would be fairly ridiculous to use stamina and fortitude if she had done a challenge that was nonphysical but they both seem like perfectly appropriate ways to describe 135 miles on foot in 5 days, much of it on hilly ground.

Im actually a professional PR so pretty cynical about these things. And to an extent I agree with you. But This seems an extreme way to PR yourself. And if that’s all it really is, she’s raised a shit ton of money doing it do I’ll give her a pass.

I gush about anyone who challenges their own stamina. Not just celebrities. I’m reasonably well known for it in my own small circles - I cannot deny I love an endurance sport and have taken part in many events myself for over a decade, reaching a very high level in them (if I told you my name it would not take you long to find me online in the stamina sport I am most associated with.) So I understand the amount of effort something like 5 marathons in 5 days requires. I think pairing it up with fundraising (I did 2 fundraising multi-day long distance events during Covid times, raising money for cancer charities) is a fab thing to do too, and worthy of praise whoever it might be.

@CoffeeLipstickKeys I do actually feel quite sorry for you that you seem trapped in your own little negative spiral of sneering at the achievements of others. You do seem to have expended a lot of energy here trying to knock another woman’s hard work, for no reason that I can understand other than your own personal pleasure at putting someone down. Seriously - life is much nicer for you and for everyone around you when you look at the positives instead of the negatives. So why not have a little try and say something nice (it’s not as hard as running 135km!)

Oh give over. Are you prone to hyperbole

You shouldn’t need to resort to personal attacks to convey your point- it rather detracts.

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Isn't that exactly what you did to sara?

Are you genuinely Advising that women need to be nice and say nice things. How very asinine . Such insightful advice. Smacks of Women know your place, be nice.
The event was a well managed PR event that benefits both CIN and SC. Event Carefully curated, Tearful shots to camera.Managed for maximum emotional leverage, and talked about on all media platforms. Book, podcast and media schlep to follow.

No

The celebrities doing these challenges are constantly filmed so how on earth would they be able to “fudge” it with half the UK press following her every move?

Oh please. You called her an, I quote, ‘arsehole.’