Is Catherine Zeta-Jones BU?

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She famously said a million pounds wasn’t a lot of money and boasted of collecting houses like other people collect art.

If you think that was big-headed, brace yourself – because Catherine Zeta-Jones says she’s had enough of being modest.

The Welsh star, who is married to Hollywood legend Michael Douglas, says it is high time she stops apologising for her £200million fortune, stunning looks and Oscar-winning talent.

Catherine, 48, says: “One thing I’m not is humble any more. I’m sick of being humble. I really am. ‘So sorry I’m rich, so sorry I’m married to a movie star, so sorry I’m not so bad looking.’

“No sorrys. Enough. All that is important to me now is my work.

www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/catherine-zeta-jones-says-shes-12707737

On one hand I say good for her, on the other it comes across as twatty.

she's never actually come across as humble that did cross my mind too.

A combination of hard work, great genes and good luck has got CZJ where she is today, she shouldn't feel she has to apologise for that.

Wonderful post Fontella. Spot on.

That video absolutely nails it TanteRose

Humility is underrated. Being self-congratulatory is such an unattractive quality.

Such a shame. I loved Darling Buds of May.

She's always been up her own arse hasn't she?

She is stunningly beautiful, and worth a mint, but her acting ability is average - without her looks and her repulsive, reptilian husband she would still be doing soaps on telly.

I don't begrudge her what she has especially the RRH, but I think she is rather twattish about herself.

No-one should have to apologise for success legitimately gained, but they could at least humbly acknowledge the degree of good fortune which came their way in obtaining it.

It's not just the likes of CZJ, we could all do it.

her acting ability is average

I only really remember the Darling Buds of May - but her Kentish accent in that was spot on to my (Kentish) ears - so there's definitely some talent there.

definitely agree that it’s quite moving that she thinks anybody is coveting MD - must be love

I agree with her in that she shouldn’t keep having to apologise for being wealthy and successful but using the word ‘humble’ is incorrect.

It’s good for anybody, no matter what their status to remain humble.
You can be as poor as poor but still be humble.

Being humble is to appreciate what you have and having compassion for others who aren’t in the same position you are.....that’s not necessarily a position of wealth or success.

Yer woman from Darling Buds? I do hope she's happy. I know she has had some challenges along thr way.

Nowt wrong with enjoying the fruits of your labour. Entirely possible to do so with grace and humility without apologising however.

Might I suggest FTRT that people are feeling antagonised by your post, not because you're celebrating your own hard work but because you are denigrating others. "Suck it up buttercup"? Name calling? Really? You make yourself sound unkind.

We both come from Swansea and I remember a few years ago she was quoted in a magazine saying "the smell of urine in lifts always takes me home" Given the part of Swansea her family lives in and the fact that she went to private school id like to know exactly where she smelt urine in lifts!

Probably just when she was pissing in the gutter after a night on Baccardi Breezers in The Neuadd in the company of the Mumbles Second Fifteen.

No she doesnt need to be modest. You couldnt pay me to swap lifes with her. Wouldnt say shes a particularly great actress, I mean who ever even thinks of her day to day. This article is first I have heard of her in years and shes got to shag michael douglas 😷

Has she done anything much workwise lately?

She might believe her own puff but this strikes me as being more about getting her name out from under the radar than genuine foot stamping.

She never struck me as modest in the first place to be honest

I'd be embarrassed to have 200 million. Hell I'm embarrassed of the 200K I have and don't know what to do with.

She ( and I) should looking for good things to do with spare cash not celebrating it.

As for hard work leading to success....no amount of hard work (or even acting talent) on my part would have given me her career...because I was born ugly and she was born beautiful. On the flip side no amount of hard work on her part would have given her my success (much lesser in monetary terms than hers obvs.) because she wasn't born with my ability to do science and promote discussion across interdisciplinary boundaries.

There are, due to the general unfair nature of life, people out there who have neither exceptional beauty nor any scientific ability. There are people who faced terrible things in early life and later on too. The idea that people deserve the success they gain in life is BS. Anyone and everyone who thinks they deserve anything from the cold uncaring universe is sadly mistaken.

She famously said a million pounds wasn’t a lot of money and boasted of collecting houses like other people collect art.

There is an expectation that women have to be beautiful but not know they are..fuck that. She's a very beautiful women why not admit that she knows that. However being married to Michael Douglas is nothing to boast about [ugh]

And as to the "Millino pounds not being a lot of money" well that's a shit bag thing to say when people are starving around the world and poverty is rife in this country. I wish people realised that they are usually fucking lucky. She's lucky. She's a crap actress but she's pretty so she did alright. Good for her. But she's not better than anyone else and not saying twatty things might be a nice thing to. See also a pp's bullshit post below.

Well done that woman!

I also never say sorry for my life style.

Your life not as good as mine? Tough.

Suck it up buttercup - or do something to improve YOUR own life.

I find that amusing, in an other worldly gwyneth paltrow kind of way.

Also, less annoying than Kate winslet's old chorus of 'i'm just so down to earth''. I found that more irritating. Unfairly as KW is a good actress but three DC, 3 partners. The rest of us would struggle to recover from that so no she is not ''one of us''

She is beautiful but she married Michael Douglas which I would see as wasting that beauty. He might have been fairly attractive once but she gave her youth away as well you could say and I don't believe that who he is compensates for his physical appearance and age.

Gwyneth Paltrow is also away with the fairies but she's never dated uglyowlfellaz. So Gwyneth, fair play to you.

When I sit here daydreaming of my lottery numbers coming up or some marvellous windfall - it's a million. I carve up my million - what I'd do with it, who I'd surprise with a gift etc.

200 million is wealth on a scale I cannot even begin to imagine and then you look at the likes of Paul McCartney (estimated fortune 750 milliion quid), Madonna (800 million dollars), Johhny Depp (440 million dollars) and so on ... I mean this is off the charts RICH.

These people live such privileged, rarified lives, waited on, fawned over, anything they want or need at the click of a finger .... and it is inevitable that they lose touch with the real world that the rest of us live in.

CZJ probably would have done better to keep her mouth shut. She's loaded and lucky - good for her, but a little bit of graciousness and humility wouldn't go amiss either.

omg at the dawn french clip. DYING!!

Alright, alright CZJ, you don't have to be sorry, but you don't need to be cunty either

@Mizcracker, it's ok, i have to go and give my husband, s p a r t a c u s junior a bed bath now. Well, I might delegate that task.

She is right. There is no need for the tilted head, fake compassion that we see pretty much everywhere. She got a good life, is in a good place in her head, has money and love, well very good for her. Why should people be apologetic as soon as success comes their way?
It is not a question of merit, it is a question of enjoying what life gave you. 7 billions assholes on this planet, are you going to care about all of them, or their opinions?

oh sorry, wrong thread. I thought I was on another thread where I'd started off ''at the risk of sounding like czj''

Who asked her to be anything?

Surely the advantage of having £200million is that you behave however you like.

Surely there is a happy medium between fake humbleness/apologies for having a priviledged life and parading your wealth and egotism?