To like Kirstie Allsopp?

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Pretty much all of my friends and colleagues seem to hate her! Something about setting women back 60 years.

I like her - and all the craft stuff. I don't see that she is setting women back or being anti-feminist. Surely feminism is about choice so she is choosing to live the way she does - and has the freedom to do that.

In interviews she always seems pretty straightforward and doesn't hide who she is. She is a bit posh but that is who she is - no point hiding the accent! Maybe I am biased because I love all the crafty homemaking type stuff. (And her clothes.)

"For some women, the wedding-veil canopies, crocheted jellyfish mobiles and calli-graphy place cards in Kirstie?s Vintage Home (more recession-friendly than her previous books and television series, it has tips on how to transform old fabrics and furniture into modern-day treasures) are not only off-message but demeaning. Sally Bercow called one of her shows 'condescending, too-good-to-be-true, middle-class nonsense?.

Allsopp is unflustered by such criticism. 'When people call me a 1950s housewife trying to take us back ? that?s so wrong,? she says. 'I consider myself a feminist. I have the most balanced and equal relationship with my husband. Likewise at work with Phil [Spencer, her 'TV husband? of the past 13 years]. He?s paid the same as me and I expect to get paid the same as any of the men on Channel 4.?"

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9599318/Kirstie-Allsopp-televisions-crafty-lady.html

Vile Tory hausfrau.

If we ever get a public enquiry on the housing crisis in Britain then she'd be one of those on the stand for her part in inflating the bubble.

I like the fact you can tell when she dislikes a couple on Location, Location , Location. She's not very good at hiding her impatience.

I think she is positively ghaaaastly.

I used to think she was all right - she is certainly knowledgeable on Location and very engaging with Phil - but then I saw a show where it had outtakes of Location and she was unspeakably nasty to some crew members (odd that they showed it, or perhaps it was revenge ha!), then she made a comment in the Times that 'come on let's stop talking about the recession now and the bankers, it is all rather tiresome' and then to top it all she made that godawful show making lampshades and candles. She sums up some kind of terrible zeitgeist - the hubris of the property market in the last decade, the arrogance of the bankers and the tory elite to normal people living in the recession and the fact that women can soothe all of this by making some hideously twee shit to decorate their houses.

I'm sure she's married to a banker. Unsurprisingly.

I like her, despite her being a Tory. i disagree with much of what comes out of her mouth, but that doesn't make her less likeable. I hope that she is as jolly and warm irl, as she is on Location.

I think the craft series was a mistake - people find it irritating and smug, especially when they have real things to worry about, other than whether their embroidery turns out okay.

I think it's unfair to condemn her for property advice she might have given back in 1992 (or whenever the repeats hail from). She gave the best advice she could , with the information available at the time. If she's still telling people to stretch themselves, then fair enough to be critical.

What she peddles isn't art its craft

It's not even craft. It's tat.

I know . I am amazed at all the defenders here saying 'just cos she speaks posh' when I think her voice is irrelevant A lot of my rl friends speak like her but there the similarity ends

holiday homes do have a detrimental effect on the ability of locals and their children to afford a home it is a huge problem as the people who live and work in those locations just cannot compete with the money from outside.

Well, I do like a posh accent, same reason why I "like" Nigella. It is rather unlikely that they'll be both relevant to my life, apart from an entertaining half an hr on the telly.

To transform that house she would have employed an army of builders plumbers plasterers electricians etc etc and her fiddling with felt and candles had nothing to do with it. Nice to waste an hour on watching if you have the time but innaccurate in terms of buying an old house and transforming to a holiday let

lol lol lol: "To transform that house she would have employed an army of builders plumbers plasterers electricians etc etc and her fiddling with felt and candles had nothing to do with it."

I haven't seen this problem, but this has made me

problem? program!

Yes she transformed it from 'dilapidated' with rag rugs felt rosettes and a bit of glass blowing.

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Don't underestimate the power of some well arranged candles...

franca v amused that you like Nigella

Italian DP has been sooooos scathing of her new Italian series

but watches the whole 30 mins anway!!!!!

meattza, LOL

despite her being a Tory

Very gracious of you to deign to like someone form the dark side.

I like her. But then I love all that vintagey stuff and would love to give up work and move to a pretty village and spend my days making cakes and going to jumble sales and growing herbs and decking my picturesque kids out in flowery wellies so we could go for a walk on the village green.

Meanwhile, back in the real world...........

And with her being Tory gentry, I'd bet half of those tradesmen are still waiting for a cheque.

I don't know because she never mentioned them.The kitchen transformed from water logged hovel to cath kidstons finest with just hearts strung up with bleached twine.

I don't think anyone has said that?