Giles Coren.....AIBU to want to punch him in the face?

[DeloresJaneUmbridge]

Fucking arsehole.

Not content with fat shaming his son and using the word “retarded” because he is an arsehole. His only worry about his son is that he might grow up far. He isn’t worried if this happens to his daughter as “there are uses for fat women”.

Fucking arsehole.

Latest article in Esquire magazine.

No Giles, you’re not funny or satirical....you’re a fucking arsehole.

www.esquire.co.uk/life/a18073/giles-coren-overweight-son/

I don’t care what MY son becomes as long as he isn’t a dickhead like you.

twitter.com/gilescoren/status/929051785184137217
What a bellend. This commenter is right : "Oh you think this makes up for it? Think you can say the things you say and get back in everyone's good books by dressing adorably, with a cute little waistcoat, pretty little smile and........sorry, what was I saying?"

Poor little boy. It seems neither of his vile parents wanted him in the first place:
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2245681/Its-taboo-admit-I-wish-unborn-baby-wasnt-beastly-boy.html
Sorry for the DM link...

Also, reading that article with GC's disgusting holiday article in mind, makes it even more disturbing that he was so disappointed he was having a boy.

I agree that they are both exactly as bad as each other. A total match made in heaven and for the PP who said she is a fantastic mum- no she really isn't.

Oh that poor sweet boy. :(

An old friend of mine has written in Giles' defence on social media. She has suffered with eating disorders for much of her adult life, largely due to her own parents' fat shaming. Amazing and so sad that someone could be so lacking in self awareness.

Just the first couple of paragraphs of that article made me cringe for that poor child. What an arse!

Wildbluebells, what a vile woman. She can’t tell her sister but she can publish an article to the world that her son can find and read, when he’s old enough.

However some of the comments on this thread are not very kind, are they about wanting to punch in the face and the parents being vile.

I consider wanting to punch Viles Coren in the face a perfectly natural reaction. I'm surprised he doesn't walk around wearing a motorcycle helmet.

It's the people who actually like him that you need to worry about.

Did you read what she said about her son in that article? To write publicly about the disappointment over your child’s sex is vile.

I remember him trashing Bowie just after he died. Apparently he hated Bowie because he made Coren feel uncool and inadequate while he was growing up at his toffs school. Bowie is still dead and Coren is still breathing; sort this out God, there's a love.

There must be a place somewhere where all these people learn to write their columns/blogs/jokes. Giles and his DW, Katie Hopkins, Shona Sibary, Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle..

But who is commissioning this? For the hits/audience? Is it because we are talking about it? I just don't get it...

A thread on here proves it’s being talked about. Rightly or wrongly

That's what I meant - no publicity is bad publicity and all that...

For those explaining slowly and clearly in words of less than one syllable that it's satire..... it's not. At all.

Vonnegut, Orwell, Voltaire, Bulgakov or Ian Hislop and his colleagues available every Friday at all good Tescos do satire. Coren does spite, muddled thinking and avarice.

Jonathan Swift was a satirist. But he was funny and actually had points to make. Maybe he thinks he is a modern day satirist who will one day be taught on English lit courses? 🤣

Their son is a disaster waiting to happen; with a pair of narcissistic, attention-seeking, co-dependent children like that for parents, he stands not a chance.

They have no respect - for themselves, their children or anyone else.

When Alan Coren died, Giles and Victoria spent time compiling an anthology of his best writing, because they wanted to pay fitting tribute to his memory.

Imagine what fun that would be for Giles' children. Jesus.

This is Katie-Hopkins-Daily-Mail-Shock-Value offensive.
What a complete nobber. I'm being too polite.

RebelRogue Fri 10-Nov-17 18:26:54

I would so sit on him until he became a “victim of fat people” statistic.

You would be doing the world a massive favour @RebelRogue

I remember reading an article by him before he had his son basically saying that he didn't want another child because he wouldn't love another child the way he loved his perfect daughter.

I remember thinking his son was fucked before he was even born - the uninvited guest and all that.

Poor boy.

I completely agree that if this is satire then it's so ill-conceived and poorly executed that it completely fails.

I do think that him and his wife must have an agreement that their writing is totally just fictional personas, unrelated to their real lives. For instance, her piece on how she didn't want a boy and was upset at the 12 week scan when she thought it would be - I thought 'well, you've obviously never had a pregnancy go wrong', only to see his really nasty 'she only went and miscarried!' piece, complete with it's 'we then thought about aborting the next one because we didn't like its birth dates'. I get that that piece was supposed to be on some level funny (I can't say it made me laugh myself), but there's something so detached from the fact these are their actual lives there. I just don't think that they can possibly really, actually believe anything they write, and I think they just convince themselves it's separate from their reality. Let's hope the kids agree when they get old enough to read it.

If I were their children, I would be livid when I found those articles. I would be livid if I found out either of my parents had talked in private about me being fat or unwanted, let alone broadcast it to the world.

The thing is, these sorts of articles are a relatively new phenomenon. I don't think there were columnists in the 80s using their family and children (including photos) telling the world what losers, how fat and how much of a disappointment they were. Therefore, this is uncharted territory. Giles and Esther are probably dumb enough to think that their kids will totally understand they did it for the money etc. I would not be so sure. They will no doubt come across the articles long before they reach adulthood and the damage will be done.

I think adults can write what the hell they want and ridicule themselves but when they involve their children and use them as material in the way Shona Sibary et al does, it becomes very inappropriate.

She also spoke on instagram recently about how she didn’t want to go on holiday because of her “difficult child” sam and how he might behave, I wonder why he’s so “difficult”.

There was a female columnist who I think used to write for the Saturday edition of The Times, who used to write about her son all the time. The trials and tribulations of his teenage life were broadcast to the nation. I think he majorly resented it and it sounds as though their relationship really suffered as a result.

I just can't think of her name!

Julie Myerson!

squoosh, she wrote 'Living With Teenagers' in the Guardian but anonymously; she was only unmasked after her column had finished.

Her family life sounded like a nightmare; there was one where she thought her teenage son looked bored in the school holidays, and offered to pay for a holiday (surfing, I think) for him. He said it sounded 'lame' and would only go if at least three friends could go too. I thought he sounded like a spoilt little arsewipe, but of course that's not fair; it was down to his parents really.

I think he ended up with a drug addiction, involved his little brother in it, and they asked him to leave home. She wrote about that too.