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AIBU?

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

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northernlurker · 30/10/2014 08:14

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.

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TSSpectreDNCOntheParanormal · 30/10/2014 11:19

She has the face of a woman I'd never tire of slapping.

TSSpectreDNCOntheParanormal · 30/10/2014 11:20

And yes, Shona, you can quote me on that.

mommy2ash · 30/10/2014 11:43

how is she not utterly ashamed of the things she allows to be printed about her. I hadn't heard of her so googled some article's,
her kids sound out of control and both her and her husband awful parents. it's terrible she uses her children as fodder her these stupid articles they will really resent that as they get older.

CuttedUpPear · 30/10/2014 12:22

Just because the article is written by a woman doesn't mean that it doesn't fall into the category of misogynistic claptrap (see: Samantha Brick).

Reading the article on the DM, and commenting on whether you think her daughters are attractive or not, means that you are adding fuel to the fire.

You won't see any articles assessing the handsomeness ratio of some D lister's sons.

Because males aren't subjected to it.

TSSpectreDNCOntheParanormal · 30/10/2014 12:33

mommy you're missing the obvious. To be a journo on the Fail you must have been born with no shame gene.

sourdrawers · 30/10/2014 12:34

Samantha Prick, wasn't she the one who reckons women hate her for being so pretty?

chipsandpeas · 30/10/2014 12:48

i dont know what her aim was with the story but she doesnt come across well and her rebuttal about the au pairs was piss funny at times

Marylou2 · 30/10/2014 13:32

Oh Thankyou OP!! She's truly ghastly isn't she. Her poor children. You are right that she has no shame in what she'll admit to for money.

TheAmyrlin · 30/10/2014 13:45

She has the face of a woman I'd never tire of slapping

fabricfreeshiner · 30/10/2014 13:56

All the "au pairs" seem to speak suspiciously good english! The style of writing of each of them is exactly the same, which leads me to believe it's all been rewritten by the same person. Meh.

oldgrandmama · 30/10/2014 18:54

As an retired journalist, I would have thought the DM had, at the very least, a sort of duty of care, in that even they should baulk at letting the awful Sibary use her kids as column-fodder. I shudder to think what the Sibary kids go through at school, especially the teenage daughters.

As for how the au pairs are treated - Jesus wept! Poor people - and Sibary thinks it OK to relate how her brattish son fired a water pistol full of urine at an au pair? I'd be totally ashamed, of the child, of myself for having allowed the brat to think that was 'fun', and certainly not something I'd want to relate in a tabloid rag.

Still, we're talking about a newspaper group that employs Liz Jones. I rest my case ... but as for Samantha Brick, at least what she writes is, whether she means it or not, directing mirth and scorn at herself and her husband, and not at others.

hackmum · 30/10/2014 19:02

"Reading the article on the DM, and commenting on whether you think her daughters are attractive or not, means that you are adding fuel to the fire."

I agree. I think it's really off to comment on the attractiveness or otherwise of her daughters. She may exploit her daughters by putting them in the newspaper, but there's no reason why any of us have to go along with it.

I agree we probably shouldn't read the articles either. It's just that I have a appalled fascination with the woman.

Tryharder · 30/10/2014 19:09

I quite like Shona.

runs

treadheavily · 30/10/2014 19:14

Having had the misfortune to work with Shona, I can confirm she is less offensive in print than in person.

LittleBairn · 30/10/2014 19:15

As an ex nanny she's the sort of parent (along with her husband) that we have nightmares about worse still they are happy to tell us all about the dreadful behaviour of their children and don't seem to realise its unacceptable and a bit of discipline needed.
Ex bosses of mine had 15 nannies in 5 years. It wasn't the kids behaviour that made us leave...

LittleBairn · 30/10/2014 19:17

tread I could well believe that about her.

heartisaspade · 30/10/2014 19:20

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Itsfab · 30/10/2014 19:22

Way to remind your kids you don't want them around.

I was an au pair - left because of the mother.
I was a mother's help - left because of the mother.
I was a nanny - left because they moved away, had another baby and needed different help, never because of the mother.

Itsfab · 30/10/2014 19:30

I nannied for a baby aged 10 weeks. Less than 6 weeks later they went off on holiday leaving me with her. We were both fine as I was a great nanny but I can't imagine doing that myself. Everyone has different priorities and maybe they thought the baby wouldn't care.

She didn't and when she was older and got dropped on her head by daddy it was me she cried for. Sat on mummy's lap crying for 15 minutes before she finally gave her to me. Instant stop.

Getting good child care is so important and both parties need to bond. Doesn't sound like most of the au pairs did bond with these kids.

The male au pair was sweet though with a photo of the baby in his wallet.

treadheavily · 30/10/2014 19:49

heartisaspade lordy, where to begin... think classic wankery, shouting into her mobile phone in a train carriage, name-dropping, gobbing on about private schooling. She is entitlement embodied.

I truly believe she has a raging personality disorder. There can be no other explanation for her sheer awfulness and lack of insight.

MrsToddsShortcut · 30/10/2014 19:52

When I worked in publishing many years ago, my editor was at a press junket with Lynda Lee Potter. After a couples of drinks my boss approached her and asked her how she could live with herself writing the sort of articles she did.

Apparantly Lynda shot back (with a tinkly laugh), "Oh, I don't believe any of that stuff that I write. I'm paid to write what our readers want to hear. It's what they believe".

It made me feel slightly better about her and slightly worse about the DM readership.

But I think it's probably true. The DM know their readership very well and they give them exactly what they want.

heartisaspade · 30/10/2014 20:03

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northernlurker · 30/10/2014 20:09

Tread - Are you one of the au pairs?

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Aeroflotgirl · 30/10/2014 20:30

She is vile isent she! An au pair Is there to look after your children, not be your slave. Isent she embarassed how she treats them, and how she parents, it doesent in this case. My dd 7 years who has ASD has more manners than those children.

treadheavily · 30/10/2014 21:54

northernlurker good god NO! how ANYONE could bear a day in that woman's house is beyond me. They all deserve medals - and a year's supply of therapeutic treatments.

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