to wonder if there is anything Shona Sibary wouldn't do for some cash?

[northernlurker]

Seriously - has she no shame, no personal boundaries about what she should and shouldn't put out there?

Sorry Daily Mail link here

Basically it's her supposedly tracking down some of her many au pairs and asking what they think of her.
The answers aren't flattering.

[fabricfreeshiner]

If you read the "liberal parent" article though, part way through she starts discussing a "recent article" which, amazingly, completely agrees with what she's just said.

In other words, she is Samantha Bricking us, and changing her own personal circumstances to fit into the brief given to her by the DM in order that all of you will be shocked and click and read it then come on here to moan about her...

I think it's all an act as is Samantha Brick and all the rest of them.

[Echocave]

I don't really believe most of any of her articles. Sadly many au pairs are badly treated and underpaid. Whether or not hers we're is something we probably will never really know.

I reckon I can live without that missing info...

[Plomino]

I always view Shona Sibary as the parenting version of those hoarding or cleaning programmes , like 'how clean is your house ' . Because you look at it and think "you know what , no matter what happens , I'm NEVER going to be that bad "

[SuperFlyHigh]

rookie yes its not nice to discuss her personal appearance but if you read countless articles where she's blethering on - the one about flirting with her DF's friend as a teenager (she had sex with him IIRC?) makes me feel as if she's a leetle bit unhinged...

or maybe not.

I prefer Liz Jones to Shona.

[rookiemater]

Look I totally agree that she does not come across well in this article ( mild understatement) but I really don't think we have to sink to the level of discussing her personal appearance. The only article I read where she came across at all well was one where she says that she knows she isn't attractive, and that's just the way things are.

[x2boys]

Didn't she give birth live on TV too I.m sure I remember an article about it?With flo?

[VivaLeBeaver]

I wonder why she doesn't have the surgery then. Guess maybe it doesn't bother her too much....but for someone who seems so self absorbed and shallow I'm surprised it doesn't bother her more.

[flightywoman]

Quite frankly Barbadosbelle, I would expect a 5* hotel to ask about my newspaper of choice and provide it, not foist upon me a nasty rag with a history of nazi-sympathy.

And as for The Times, it's not the paper it used to be.

[divingoffthebalcony]

I may have some of this wrong and squints can also be treated with patching, but a consultant ophthalmologist told me squints and lazy eyes are different so I have that right at least

[SaucyJackOLantern]

"Who says she wrote it and not a DM ghostwriter?"

She's one of their main female journalists- writes most of the articles on Femail- and she's very good at what she does. Why would we think she wasn't writing her own columns?

[divingoffthebalcony]

A lazy eye and a squint aren't the same thing Viva. IIRC lazy eyes require patching to help the lazy eye see as well as the good eye. Squints are where the eye wanders and is more of a muscle problem, I think? But it can be corrected with surgery.

[Stupidhead]

I just wish she'd get rid of that vile blue patterned wrap dress.

[VivaLeBeaver]

And can I ask a serious question? I'm honestly not mocking because I wouldn't over something like this...

Is her eye thing not fixable? I've always wondered. Is it a lazy eye? I know our neighbours kid had a lazy eye and had to wear a patch for a while. Is this what would have happened if he hadn't patched?

[LilyPotter]

Yeah. Way to go, Flo!

[VivaLeBeaver]

"Last week, for example, Flo told me I was a b, that nobody in the house liked me, and that she could, if she chose, make my life a whole lot more miserable than I was making hers."


I'm quite liking the sound of Flo. I think she has her head screwed on and has the measure of her mum.

[TheHermitCrab]

Shona and her children, is there anything we don't know about her life! she riles me up! lol

[LilyPotter]

Oh no! I'm buying into all this crap. Hate myself for just clicking on two other hideous articles, one about awful summer visitors to their house, and another, much worse, one about being aggressive and emotionally abusive to her husband.

Why? Just WHY would she put all this stuff in the public domain? Surely there must be other, more morally acceptable methods of earning money? like prostitution

[SignoraStronza]

I thought they all went to expensive boarding schools?! Perhaps they're perfectly well behaved there.

[SuperFlyHigh]

OMG Shona in that bright blue print dress! doesn't it make her look a bit unhinged as opposed to stylish. Bitch coming out in me today!

[SuperFlyHigh]

I'm always staggered at how she managed to breed... she's cross eyed and ugly as hell but presumably so is her DH

this beauty also managed to snare her DF's friend when a teenager (see previous Wail article. god only knows how, I think she just dropped her knickers at him

[Stupidhead]

Hahah! Must have been a birthday coming up she needed funds for.

[LilyPotter]

Oh dear God

[Stupidhead]

I can't stand this woman (but have to read her to up my anger levels). I think this whole plot was so she could boast about her massive house/s and her skiing trips and how handsome her husband is - as she was convinced one au pair was after him.

No doubt her funny looking family all got paid too for the photos so this article was purely to up her Christmas fund.

[thornrose]

It is classified as the newspaper favoured by the Middle Classes and Upper Middle Classes

[Barbadosbelle]

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I love reading all the negative comments about the Daily Mail. I have the newspaper daily (along with the Times) and really enjoy both - and the crosswords and codewords. I seem to be the only person in the World who will admit to enjoying reading the Daily Mail. And, reading all the comments on MumsNet it is amazing how many people complain about it and yet are, quite obviously, purchasing it and not just reading links or MailonLine.

It has the second largest sales of a newspaper in the UK (the Sun has the highest with about 500,000 more!) and sells five times as many copies per day as The Times.

It is classified as the newspaper favoured by the Middle Classes and Upper Middle Classes and if you travel by Suite on Cunard or P&O or stay in 5* London Hotels then it is the Daily Mail (and, with the latter, also The Times) that arrives gratis for you in the mornings where available.

When a newspaper is continuously joked/criticised by the likes of Stephen Fry / Hugh Grant etc then it must be a good one to be reading!!
and with a daily readership of nearly 2m it can hardly be called The Daily Fail as one contributor keeps writing (obviously a Sun reader).

Newspaper articles are all about getting you to 'think' and 'discuss' things - and judging by MumsNet the Daily Mail certainly manages to do that!!

And no, I don't work for Associated Newspapers, nor am I a journalist - just someone who tires of people moaning about the Daily Mail in such a way as to imply that they are 'far too superior to read such a rag'.

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