to be very, very glad that Jo Whiley isn't one of the mums at our school's gates?

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She's too perfect. I have read two interviews with her in the last few days and I would end up avoiding all contact with her if she was at the school gates. She shares a bed with her kids (odd, certainly, but they all snuggle up lovingly apparantly), her daughter was present at the birth of her youngest, they all sat in one Sunday afternoon and played Monopoly together, then had a lovely Sunday lunch. We stayed in, fought constantly, one was sent to bed early and we had beans on toast (honestly). She also has Chris Martin on speed dial. Sigh. She's a supermum and I would bitch about her at coffee mornings.

Tell us about her dh - is there much info about him in the public domain?

she has had a BIG pr thing this month going on

Jo Who? who is she?

she has a dull dull voice

makes me all bad tempered

Hmmm, some cool music guy. How come in the media, there are lots of articles about older women trying to look young and getting it so wrong, middle aged people going to festivals when it should be for 20 somethings etc = and Jo can go with her kids, be 40 something, love new music and be extra extra cool. Not fair!!! I wear converse and think, am I too old for this??? Am I humiliating myself??

She's a bit old fashioned now isn't she?

Sounds like she's got a good PR person.

no one's really perfect.

She is not cool farty

yanbu she seems very lovely, but too perfect.

I didn't like the blue nail polish she was wearing at glastonbury on the bbc.

God i'd bloody love it if she was at our school, I reckon she's great. And she would be my friend.

she needs ot join the WI and fuck right orf

Lol, I would pretend she was my friend to appear 'with it', but bitch about her afterwards!! Am so shallow and horrible!

If she had any sense she would buy a decent game (i.e. not a poorly designed game from the 1930s that goes on forever and has only a very brief interesting bit after hours of rolling and buying things automatically) rather than writing this smug bollocks:

"Last weekend, we played Monopoly - I had got a set made up for Steve and all the places are places we have lived or significant to us. All four kids were there - Coco was trying to eat the hat and the dog. And I looked around and thought, oh God, this is really good.'"

She's not a supermum, she's trying to paint a picture of a perfect life. Who knows when 'last weekend' actually was, or how much time she really spends with her family?

she looks good

Is she the one who called her eldest India? As in, I'm so much more 'indier' than you.

I want her life - she gets to do really cool stuff - hang out backstage at Glastonbury and get PAID for it - has kids, husband, i dunno probably dogs, chickens and an allotment ! Money, streaky blond hair AND look good in shorts and wellies !

OMG, forgot the significant places bit!! Why would you tell a journalist that? It IS like the supermums at the school gates - why would you say your new baby sleeps all night when you know others are struggling with lack of sleep? My youngest is 9, but you can tell I'm still bitter about this one!!!

STOP showing off!!!!

I still want her life

No, I would never bitch behind her back, I would be a REAL friend (looks aroung hopefully in case she's a mner)

LOL Tidey

I just feel that at my tender age of 40, it's difficult to know what you can get away with. I see clothes that I really like, but know I'd look ridiculous in now, I still like going to gigs, but am aware I might look a bit out of place, hair, make up. I just don't know anymore!!!

And she sits there with her husky voice and new born (and I also want one of those!!!)

wrongsideof40

i would settle for her figure....

but she gets on my tits tbh. she was ok when she prestented glastonbury with John Peel...

i now prefer Mark Radcliffe and Lauren Laverne.

She called her child Coco? Is its middle name "Pops"?

Stupid woman. She used to drink in a pub I worked in and she is a massive knob.

Bear in mind that very few - if any - stars giving interviews say anything like: "we're bickering quite a lot at the moment, I'm earning more than he is and he's not handling it well. He's doing too many drugs, but I've cut back a bit, so we're scrapping about that as well, and we hardly see our kids, so the time spent together 'en famille' is so tense with the pressure of 'making every moment count' that there are always tears - often from me. Plus I'm always cranky from dieting."

Nup, this only comes out when a disgruntled former employee speaks out, the star publishes their autobiography, or they admit, some time considerably after the fact, a la Kerry 'Carcrash' Katona, that there really was truth in all of those rumours back then, despite their vigorous denials at the time.

I'm in the business, and I know how it's spun.

Radcliffe is better. Laverne is a bit vacuous. Radcliffe at least knows that 'the' is not a preposition.