Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

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

500 replies

CarlaVeloso · 05/02/2015 11:46

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.

OP posts:
Bakeoffcakes · 05/02/2015 16:03

lovelove what has MK's rent got to do with anything?Confused

Inkanta · 05/02/2015 16:03

Read it - these 2 mums were wanting a class gift!!!

Myleene did right to speak up and hopefully nip this in the bud.

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:04

'I think she was entirely right to shame these money-grabbers. If they hadn't been so cheeky and greedy in the 1st place there'd be no issue, would there?'

Why would they be shamed if that's standard practice for the school? All she's done is made things awkward for her child.

Inkanta · 05/02/2015 16:06

And the fact these 2 mum's were acting like it was the most normal thing in the world for their kids to get an expensive class gift is outrageous

SunnyBaudelaire · 05/02/2015 16:07

ffs it probably IS the 'most normal thing in the world' round there tbh.

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:07

If she really had an issue the sensible thing would have been to take it up with the other parents. Posting a passive aggressive post on Twitter just makes it seem as though she was looking for some internet attention.

MistressDeeCee · 05/02/2015 16:09

No excuse for greed

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:10

Wow, deep.

Inkanta · 05/02/2015 16:10

Well it isn't normal. Good on Myleene giving the reality check.

Bexicles · 05/02/2015 16:11

I don't think it's a bad idea, I would happily contribute £10 to a present I know will be used by the child. I think MK comes across as very stingy for a millionaire!

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:13

Your normal isn't everyone else's normal. It's probably normal for that school.

And she won't have given them a reality check, they're probably all in agreement that she used this opportunity for a bit of greedy self promotion.

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 05/02/2015 16:13

Inkanta apparently it is normal at that school

Look back at lovelovelove's post

SunnyBaudelaire · 05/02/2015 16:14

yeh really if you want to epitomise greed, look no further than our MsKlass!

SurlyCue · 05/02/2015 16:20

If it is standard practise in her school then why would she single out this email to publish it? Surely she'd have been participating throughout the years if it was normal? Or is she new to theschool?

Davsmum · 05/02/2015 16:23

Well it isn't normal. Good on Myleene giving the reality check.

Myleene has no sense of reality,..she objects to paying the Mansion Tax. Has millions but thinks she should not pay. She is a tight fisted, selfish miser.

Inkanta · 05/02/2015 16:24

Squoosh seen that post thanks. Maybe it's self promotion, but maybe she's genuinely irritated, and wants to change this 'normal practice' by drawing attention to it in this way. Some cliques are difficult to penetrate via normal one to one communication and sledge hammer is best.

SunnyBaudelaire · 05/02/2015 16:24

"why would she single out this email to publish it? "
for the publicity that she craves like a junkie?
good grief, MK would attend the opening of a book if it meant she would get photographed!

Inkanta · 05/02/2015 16:28

I don't know Myleene. I sense a lot don't like her - that's another issue.

Crumblevision · 05/02/2015 16:28

So what if she lives in an £8k per month house? If she can afford it, and whatever else she chooses, that is her business. That doesn't affect the stupid email asking for money. I have no feelings about her either way but I think she was right to say what she did.

Zipporah · 05/02/2015 16:29

Good on you Myleene! i'm not the only that's had enough of this nonsense.

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:35

I'd forgotten about Myleene really, she's just one in a crowd of mildly irritating celebs who seem to not do much except be a bit famous.

I think she has every right to find this annoying or grabby or whatever I just do not think she made a good decision in making her irritation public as the only person it will affect is her child.

Shortsighted.

KissyBoo · 05/02/2015 16:38

It's tacky and greedy expecting gifts let alone outlining what you want and the amount of contribution expected.

A token from a small child to another is more than enough for their birthday.

This reeks of grabby, entitled behaviour.

Particularly irksome is the standing around with your hand out waiting for envelops on a given date-like debt collectors.

I think she actually responded pretty well. She did it with humour whereby I would have been straight out with it.

I wouldn't want my children around people with these values.

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:41

'I wouldn't want my children around people with these values.'

Right, so you'd remove your children from the school over this?

squoosh · 05/02/2015 16:43

There seems to be a lot of 'that would annoy me, I'd do the same', would you not pause and think 'hmmmm, publicising this to the nation might make things awkward for my child'.

hackmum · 05/02/2015 16:43

It's a bit crass asking for money in this way but £10 isn't very much (not for people who are paying £12k a year to have their ids privately educated), it saves the parents from having to buy a present and it means the child gets something she wants rather than 20 small gifts that will just end up as clutter.

So while it's not something I would do I don't think it's that bad. I do think it's ill mannered to complain about it to your x thousand followers on Twitters, however.