To think these people are amazingly entitled?

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www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/vogue-williams-flight-seats-spencer-matthews-b2150116.html#l7652tmicb0ymkdkfgc

I was actually astounded reading this!

Summary for those who don’t want to click the link: Vogue Williams booked the wrong seats on a plane, demanded a man move so they could all sit together, he initially declined to move and then changed his mind, she was still incredibly rude about him to an air hostess and then bitched about it on her podcast. And by the sounds of it, she’s done this before, suggesting that she just expects everyone to bend to her will. Also Spencer Matthews admitted that he frequently queue jumps.

Culturepigeon, don't forget this is someone who sings and jigs up and down for a living!

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The passenger changed his mind and agreed to swap, whereupon she turned to the air hostess and called him a fucking piece of shit. I think in his shoes I'd have changed my mind right back again.

There is absolutely no way that jumped up cow would shame me into moving seats. It really isn't even about the so called fame. I have seen self entitled parents think they are more important than everyone else because they have children.

When I was young I was in a pub with a group of friends and there was a girl from Byker Grove trying to barge her way past us for some reason. She actually said to one of the boys I was with “do you know who I am?” and he said without a pause “yeah, you’re that tit from Byker Grove, now excuse me” and moved back to his own place. She instantly retreated and said nothing more. I remember she was wearing tiny hot pants and full length gloves which must have been in at the time but the image has stuck with me.

I just had to look up who she was as I couldn’t remember her name, it was Donna Air - and hilariously the photo that came up was one of her with Kate Middleton’s brother!!!! Mad.

Anyway, I have also worked out from the photo that she would have most likely been 15, at the most 16 at the time so maybe I’ll let her off.

As a pp has said the more famous the person is usually the more pleasant and ‘normal’ they are. I met a lot of celebs in London through work and most were really lovely. Had genuinely not heard of this woman here but definitely would have changed my mind about swapping seats if she spoke about me like that. What a horror.

Can someone who is a follower of people like these two - or others like Katie Price, Kerry Katona, Towie, Lauren Goodger, Love Island, Kardtrashions etc- please explain to me why we, as a country, show interest in pathetic, talentless celebrities?

I really don't understand it. I don't understand why anyone would have any interest in them. I don't understand why people fill the pockets of these people money by following their accounts, giving them any attention, watching them on reality tv shows, buying things because they promote them? We give them status snd a sense of their own self-importance and entitlement.

They, and the others like them, are talentless and most behave badly, will sell anything personal to the Press for money and attention, yet there are millions of people who spend time and money following them, praising them, sending them public messages, trying to emulste them. It's mindless and has been turned into an industry that exploits people who do that.

Katie Price, Kerry Katona, Vogue Williams/Spencer Mathews, the Kardashions, Lauren Goodger, Towie, LoveIsland etc. These people have no real talent but earn millions because the public slavishly follow them and fall i to the trap of the PR/Media machine that is literally making billions daily from the public's obsessions with them.
It is mindless, devoid of intelligence behaviour and I just don't understand why anyone is one of the people that is a follower of celebrities.
Can someone who is, please explain it to me?

Venue hire? Don't know how much it costs.
www.britishmuseum.org/commercial/commercial-hire www.nhm.ac.uk/business-services/venue-hire.html

@LuluBlakey1 I don't follow them, but 2 or 3 of my colleagues do, and we've had this conversation. Basically comes down to escapism. People used to watch and be invested in soaps, Corrie, Eastenders etc (I couldn't understand that either). They'd talk about them next day at work.

Now everyone is moving from broadcast TV to streaming... fewer teabreak moments, you don't watch the same program at the same time anymore.

So they are on their phones, google et al make sure certain people get to the top of paid for search lists, and folks talk about lives that are as removed from theirs as those shown in soaps.

Just something to chat about really. Beats energy prices.

Anyone who has been within 100m of Brian Westlife's cock is at the bottom of the social pile.

My husband is a curator at a national museum. Staff were told they needed to stay late one evening at short notice because Beyonce was in the UK and wanted a private tour.

Why on earth was this request complied with?

I wouldn’t have moved, celebrity or no celebrity.

My thoughts when I first read about this were it wasn’t an accident at all. They’ve probably booked the window and middle seat on each aisle thinking nobody would come along and book aisle seats on their own, leaving them to spread out.

When it backfired she expected someone to just move for her. How awful to speak to someone like that after they have said they will move. He didn’t need to move, she was in the wrong.

Reading it again though she contradicts herself saying her husband and daughter were across the aisle, then saying she was sat with the baby and two kids. If they don’t want to share with strangers they should book up all the seats not expect others to move.

That's magnificent.

I hope somewhere in the Beyonce/British Museum story there was a badly-paid, put-upon aide, sick of vapid celeb nonsense, interested in history, and absolutely thrilled to be on the BM tour. So at least all that curatorial expertise would have been wasted even if Beyonce wasn't listening.

There's a lot of this twattery about children and plane seats (see any thread on the subject on MN)

Vogue Williams is a particularly depressing example.

That little tantrum tells you all you need to know about how dragged up she actually is.

Thick to boot for repeating it.🙄

Maybe she paid for it?

Who?! Seriously I thought of the tennis player and wondered why she wasn’t in 1st class

If I have paid for, and booked, a particular seat, why should I move? Answers on a postage stamp, please?

Of course, she would say she was “only joking”

Awful woman.

What else would they blog about..... because they're clearly not going to be able to make posts about their talents!
Instead she has to be rude about a person who did them a favour do to their error and stupidity.
Well I suppose it go them column inches which is how this type earn a crust.

LuluBlakey1
Can someone who is a follower of people like these two - or others like Katie Price, Kerry Katona, Towie, Lauren Goodger, Love Island, Kardtrashions etc- please explain to me why we, as a country, show interest in pathetic, talentless celebrities?

Because it fuels the media machine, which relies on churning out endless content. It's not that the public demand to know about these people, it's that newspapers, magazines, trashy tv networks need to have a constant stream of media and these are an easy dish to serve since most of these people are shameless self promoters, they are more cost effective.

Similarly with 'reality shows', it's far cheaper for a network to fund a bunch of nobodies, desperate for their 15 minutes, and stick them in a room together while filming the inevitable shouting/ snogging drama cycle, than it is to pay actors and writers for a decent storyline.
Newspapers now rely on opinion more than news to fill their pages, and as viewers or readers, we respond to stories about over entitled people, even if the response is negative, we still click on them and comment.

Win win for the media corporations.

Oh, hadn’t realised she had had another kid, that’ll be another nauseating Fairy ad on the way then.

Shes a complete non entity with a stupid name and sounds hideous and entitled

HOWLING 🤣🤣🤣

My daughter listened to the actual podcast when she told this story...not the report in the papers. My daughter told me that it was all very tongue in cheek and in Vogues usual style which apparently is quite amusing and not how it was reported in the papers!
I have not read nor listened to either so I cannot make my own comment but do wonder if it is similar to the press trawling mumsnet for stories and then twisting them to suit their own narrative.

She’s a twat.

I love this!
Another one I'd love to use in an appropriate situation is 'sorry, no I don't know who you are, but if you check your passport, it will tell you in there'.

Whoever she is, sounds like she has money but no manners. Not unusual unfortunately.