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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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foslady · 30/10/2014 22:47

Personally I think this is a Daily Fail method of trying to stop them there foreign people coming and taking our jobs ie - look, this is how crap we'll treat you if you dare to work over here........

divingoffthebalcony · 30/10/2014 23:06

That article is tame compared with the one about how she trapped her husband into marrying her by getting pregnant, or the one about slapping her elder daughter around the face.

northernlurker · 30/10/2014 23:32

Oh crumbs - just read the one about the marriage. I can't think WHY you would ever think publishing that was a good thing for you, your marriage or most critically your kids.

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ILovePud · 30/10/2014 23:39

love your theory there foslady I think you're onto something!

meltedmonterayjack · 31/10/2014 00:25

She only liked 2 out of around 10 au-pairs. And even they didn't have anything nice to say about her.

Why on earth you would feel ok with people reading that you have allowed your kids to grow up firing urine at people and how you treat employees like slaves, I have no idea.

She sounds a real piece of work.

wowfudge · 31/10/2014 00:50

OP the answer to your question is: shut up and go away.

Her, not you. That's what she wouldn't do.

mrscynical · 31/10/2014 06:47

It's just the DM hoping to get other women's knickers in a twist. They love giving space to unhinged* women so that other women can hate them.

She and others like her will be in print there soon with other daft articles.

*These female journos are well aware that being 'outrageous' pays their bills.

Andrewofgg · 31/10/2014 07:35

Who says she wrote it and not a DM ghostwriter?

Barbadosbelle · 31/10/2014 11:03

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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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thornrose · 31/10/2014 11:11

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

Stupidhead · 31/10/2014 11:19

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.

LilyPotter · 31/10/2014 11:43

Stupidhead · 31/10/2014 11:46

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

SuperFlyHigh · 31/10/2014 11:47

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

SuperFlyHigh · 31/10/2014 11:49

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!

SignoraStronza · 31/10/2014 11:52

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

LilyPotter · 31/10/2014 12:14

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

TheHermitCrab · 31/10/2014 12:15

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

VivaLeBeaver · 31/10/2014 12:16

"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.

LilyPotter · 31/10/2014 12:18

Yeah. Way to go, Flo!

VivaLeBeaver · 31/10/2014 12:19

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?

Stupidhead · 31/10/2014 12:21

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

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divingoffthebalcony · 31/10/2014 12:24

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.

SaucyJackOLantern · 31/10/2014 12:25

"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 · 31/10/2014 12:26

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

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