Just HOW pathetic can Liz Jones get?

[itchyandscratchy]

at MILs today and made the mistake of picking up the You magazine.

here

There really is no limit. The woman is a bottomless pit of self-obsession, and sometimes it feels like the newspapers that print her tripe are failing in some sort of duty of care to allow her to say things in public.

SHe makes my eyeballs itch. If she weren't so vile I would feel sorry for her

This is delicious:

If you are single, not in the first flush of youth, have a cat and are child free, it seems you are fair game. Well, I?m sick of it. Whenever my ex-husband made an ageist comment I would retaliate by saying, ?At least I?m not fat and ugly.? To which he would reply, ?Count your blessings, eh?? Totally missing the point that my remark was aimed at him.

SHe is the epitome of crazy cat lady. I think her and SuBo would get along

interesting littlelamb.
She makes my teeth itch.

I have nary read anything so bog boring ever (except for the slummy mummy column in the times.)

Agree. She writes as if she's shallow, self centred and a complete bitch.

Perhaps that's what she's aiming for though? She's certainly keen to show us how much money she has to spend on everything.

Awful woman.

Blimey.

That's really very sad. In both senses of the word.

the levels to which she will go to in revealing every single tiniest detail of her life and self-pity is almost gynaecological.

It's much much more car-crash than kerry katona or anyone like that. It's just that LJ's is literary (if you can refer to all that drivel as 'literary') rather than the comic book-style cataloging of KT's life in photos

bleurccccchchhhhhhhhhh

I've never been her greatest fan, but I do agree with you Rolo, what a sad sad article.

The bit about becoming even more selfish at the end made me chuckle a bit though.

yes, KingRolo - agree. I said that to dh and when he read it he said 'sad because she's so pathetic or sad that the MoS pay her for writing it or sad that Mother still sees fit to buy this crap every Sunday?'

lol

Do you reckon she makes the point of calling the dog Carmen at the end because that's the name of the ex-friend she "lavished"?

I bet it is.

Shes always going on about a handsome married farmer too. Wonder what his wife makes of that? Oh and the times the Vet gets called out to her house.......... bet he makes a mint from her!

Is she actually a real person, i just assumed it was a made up column as its such drivel.

'Fur Baby' Gawd help us!

I feel really sorry for her.

I nearly emailed her yesterday but then realised that was probably a bit twatty of me seeing as I don't actually know her.

I only found out this morning she's an ex-editor of Marie Claire, that can't be right Marie Claire was always a good magazine

I used to read MC when she edited it and always assumed she was on top of her game, successful, career-minded, girl-about-town, etc.

and then she started writing her column (did she start it in the ST Style section many years ago?) all around the time she and her ex-husband started seeing one another, when eh was still the boyfriend and it was all romantic...

and it all seems to have gone pear-shaped from then on in. She obviously was a bit flaky to begin with anyway but it just didn't come across. But her subsequent blogs and columns just went mental when she was married and then I think he did one as well - and he is a self-centred, egotistical bore as well - cataloguing their split. Proper car crash stuff.

and now she's just mad.

It is sad. but I can't drum up any sympathy I'm afraid: there are so many other people who deserve it more.

She is the WORST

oh i think if she really aims for the sky she could be a total sad bint. She is well on her way. She just needs to focus on the home stretch

The article made me feel like hiding under my desk, it was embarassing. I feel I should write something to defend her - her "friend" was mean saying to her that she was playing at being mummy etc.

I have no idea at all who liz jones is - should I?

No, Yurtgirl; for this you should be eternally grateful.

So how is it that you all know?

I am confused!

I'm quite amused by the links below the article though

Catch up on Liz's journals

• In which I count the ways I have been downright insulted
• In which the weather breaks, along with my resolve
• In which I grapple with a baby stoat

The last one is quite tempting, particularly if the stoat has some chance of winning...

I don't know who I find more annoying, her or her ex. I had to stop reading any articles written by him because I literally wanted to punch him in the face. At least they found each other rather than inflicting themselves on innocents.