To think Myleene Klass will win no friends with this...

[CarlaVeloso]

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11391753/Myleene-Klass-Ill-be-collecting-unicorn-money-for-my-daughters-birthday.html

She has tweeted two emails from mothers at her daughter's school asking for cash donations for their children's birthday parties. She's changed their names but clearly they are still recognisable to anyone with children in that class and presumably the whole school will know about it nowthat it's been published in the papers and online.

I agree the emails are completely crass and I would privately think the same but they haven't committed any crime or sent her an expletive-filled rant about something. I opened it expecting to see a request for an actual kindle when they are just suggesting £10. Crass, vulgar, materialistic etc etc, yes, but I think her response (shaming them publicly) is really nasty and may not win her or her DD any friends at the school gate.

She may be irritating but I agree with her.At one time you used to have small parties with real friends and they handed their parcel over and saw it opened and were thanked. It was very personal.

goodbye genuine question but why do you all need to go to the hassle of buying a collective amazon voucher?

Fair question. I think it prevents disparate pockets of vouchers? Although Amazon seems standard. I think it started as getting a big Lego thing and then evolved. At least this is how it happened around here.

I think there's a lot that could be said about kids getting vouchers these days, another "character building" exercise eliminated (coping gracefully with unwanted presents), more entitled behavior, etc.

The outside eating story was even better iirc: bloke was looking at MK, who was preening. Bloke approached her, MK clearly preparing to graciously give autograph. Bloke asked her the time. MK crestfallen. MNer laughed. MK informed her she would never allow HER child to eat that shit.

For the phantom burglar story, and indeed other MK gems, try Marina Hyde's Lost in Showbiz column in the Guardian. I think she may be a MNer...

I bet you didn't post a picture of that invitation on Twitter/FB noddy

I think it's fair enough if you think another parent is being a pain or grabby or OTT. It's another thing to shout about it on social media and humiliate another person who's views/outlook are different from yours.

You put your invite in the bin - end off. MK could have done the same and that for me is the problem. Her belief that she has the right to humiliate and demonise another parent in such a public way.

It's also great that we have yet another mum basher in the world.

teawamutu thank you! I knew I'd get it wrong. Excellent .

A school birthday party on a monday?!

Anyway, Myleene is a cunt.

She really is. I'm kind of fascinated by her sheer twattery.

Interestingly, every major story i can think of featuring her is either proven to be a lie (most of em) or just makes her look a fuckwit (mansion tax). I draw certain conclusions from that.

No I certainly didn't! I think part of the problem I have with all of this is the rise of the 'professional parent'. It really is like years ago no one knew how to be a parent and we have this endless etiquette re their play dates sleepovers and parties which is frankly bollocks and creating a generation of entitled brats with awful kiddie egos!

I don't think that the kids have the egos as they are probably oblivious to the behind-the-scenes present deciding, but it is the parents that have the egos.

I think the parents give them the egos with their persistent over doing every bloody thing. It is a part of this endless sell in the media of the John Lewis lifestyle which is seen as the gold standard today. People managed perfectly well years ago with a few kids after school and whatever bloody present they were given Its competitive crap

Noddyholder I cannot believe the talk about kids birthdays Websites to donate for presents really? OTT and ridiculous These sort of children have an over inflated sense of themselves and how important their birthday is. A party and a few friends and presents is nice but this parental organisation etc like its a bloody 'event' is not good or necessary. I had an invitation once to one part of a 6 yr olds birthday 'weekend' which went straight in teh bin!

Parents have no hobbies, fill up their lives by living them through their children.

I agree Chandler way over invested in things that are quite meaningless in the big picture.

I must admit I have no experience of the wishlists for a birthday party as it wasn't around when my dd was little and you did just turn up with a present. Perhaps I am just out of the loop with respect to this so that is why I find it hard to imagine.

My dd is 18 now so birthday presents tend to be vodka based!

Me too dexter my ds is at uni and when he was little we had a few of his mates round and tbh I have no idea what presents he got and certainly was never a topic of discussion! I do know some people now with under 10s though and the way their manage the social calendars of their dc is mind boggling and so boring

MK's daughter is at the age where you invite the whole class (20 at her daughter's school) to a birthday party and this was just a way of saying, let's not all bring small gifts, let's club together and get something that may actually be useful. Also, I know it may sound a lot to many people, but the parents at this school would not be spending just £10 on a present - it would be £15 at least. Plus a card, wrapping paper (another £2 - £3). So in fact if you joined in the group present you saved a lot and the child got a decent gift rather than lots of craft sets etc. It was very clearly optional and wasn't from the party-givers so what was the problem? It was just a suggestion amongst the other mothers, that's all.

And let's not forget, happened A YEAR AGO. And was safely forgotten until MK decided some headlines might flog a few more of her piss poor polyester catalogue dresses (which she made a point of wearing for the press...)

And lo, did MK write an article for The Telegraph about the "real meaning of birthdays", so earning cash from a year old e-mail, the embarrassment of others, and her children's social life.

I can't bear MK. Attention seeking, fame hungry, look-at-me kind of person. Her tweet was passive aggressive at best and just plain nasty at worst. For all her degrees and education, she's just a complete twat

Indeed Lostincumbria! Annoyingly (as I have been very anti-MK on this - having had no real view on her previously - although catching up on the Marina Hyde stuff has been fab) I can see now merit in some of the arguments she makes.

The facts still remains that if she wanted to make these points she could have done so without reproducing emails that she had no business circulating.

So she kept the emails for a year first

Having read that she made gifts out of scraps of loo roll (which she tried to pass off as belonging to the pope), I can understand why £5 a gift outraged poor old Klass.

Still, enough of all that. What did she do with the Holy See loo paper? "I made Christmas presents out of it," Myleene explains. "I stuck a piece of tissue, and I'd write, 'Papal loo roll; a tissue. Bless you.' It's so bad it's good, right?"

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/sep/22/myleene-klass-popes-loo-roll

I cannot believe the talk about kids birthdays Websites to donate for presents really? OTT and ridiculous These sort of children have an over inflated sense of themselves

Not like this at all - we use it to take the awkwardness out of asking for cash, actually. and comments about children having an over inflated sense of themselves, whatever that is - they get something they actually want and need rather than piles of crap. everyone happy. www.patchworkpresent.com

Thanks for that link umizoomi

Don't the Telegraph LOVE her

It's because she can play piano. Seriously. That's a measure of Character and Good Breeding. Now, my gels are going to get to grade 8 as long as I have breath in my body but I am going to do my damndest to make sure they're not wankers