Hugh Fearnley blardy whitteringon with himself in the Guardian

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AIBU to be irritated by HFW in the Guardian mag taking 10 people on a freebie skiing holiday in a gorgeous Alp chalet somewhere and making a cake and a blardy fondue and presumably claiming the whole bloody lot.

I mean nice work but bugger off Hugh and your free holidays!!!! Can't he afford to just pay to take his family on holiday?

Bitter'n'twisted

Actually I got irritated the other day when I got an email from Hugh asking for donations to his Chicken Out campaign.
F* off Hugh. You're rich and have a huge house and I bet your kids don't go to their local primary. Jamie manages to do campaigns without asking me for money, why can't you?

Jamie came to my town for his Christmas TV ad campaign and got heckled and jeered. They don't like supermarkets or chain stores round here. His production team said they hadn't experienced such aggression in other places. Ha!

Oooh I love the idea of a town where people don't like supermarkets. Is that because you already have an excellent selection of independent local shops? Or just because everyone there is always angry and full of hatred?

BadGardener It is because we have a very good range of local shops and local food producers. People here do tend towards the angry though.

oh pinot where d oyou live, i live in a supermarket hating place too

I love love Nigel Slater's books however he does NOT come across well on screen does he.

Is such a shame.

Same with Nigella however I think if you view her performance as blatantly taking the piss out of herself and her own image, well then it's better.

Really like the way Nigella writes - mind you I did piss myself when she banged on about 'my sister Horatia and Inigo's wedding' lol.

She so does not inhabit my world.

Xannot bear Jamie's patrnonising ways. That Ministry of Food book, althoigh the concept is admirable, is full of montages of working class people whio can't cook, e.g. Suzanne the single mum, Dick the bricklayer, Steve the factory worker, Joanne the hairdresser. patronising twat, and his smug wife

GetOrf - ooh, good idea about looking at Nigella as secretly ironic. Can't imagine that's really what's in her head, but it will certainly help next time I read one of her smugly-written recipes (which, annoyingly, are Very Good Recipes).

ROFL at Horatia and Inigo! I can just hear her saying that!

Fotheringale-Wotsit is indeed a prick.
Even more annoyingly, his bloody mother is hanging on the gravy train writing ridiculously smug books about good grandparenting and maintaining a LONG MARRIAGE.

Fuck
off

How did Hugh Pubic-Twatface's mother get a commission for a book for crying out loud?

Jesus wept.

And they hog the weekend Torygraph too.
He needs being put into a half Nelson and taken into a dark alley.

i quite like jamie but even i baulked as he shamelessly paraded his family about in the christmas program

rofl @ getorf

I bet he did get a free hol for that piece. The pics were all professional photographer-style, not just snapshots.

Anyway, I only read The Guradian magazine to see what Alexis Petridis is wearing in the men's fashion bit. Though sometimes it makes me choke if he's decked out in a mancorset or swirly cape.

EleonoraBuntingCupcake It's a town in pennine West Yorkshire.

Jane Fearnley Whittingstall's 'good granny' shtick is tiresome, I agree. But actually she was a successful garden writer long before Huge got on the telly. He got his start by trading on her media contacts rather than the reverse, I suspect.

I am surprised that Mumsnetters, of all people, leap to the assumption that it's the woman who's the hanger-on...

pinot i am scotland maybe we should fact finding missions between our communities!

Either way,none of it makes her an authority on marriage or grnadparenting.

They all need a boot up the arse, as do the peopel who buy this crap.

Are you up near Elgin by any chance EleanoraBC?

nope near edinburgh

to be fair to old supergran moondog iw ould write a book espousing shite if i could get a deal.

I thought you might be Findhorn - there seem to be a lot of connections between our place and there.

yes findhorn is hippy central

Are you in Hebden Bridge, AccioPinotGrigio?

Jamie O came here to film an advert for Sainsburys - even though we don't have one, and don't want one. Twunt.

Exactly! It is part of the hippy trail. Someone is always off to Findhorn for a rebirthing or just coming back from Totnes on a ley line fact finding mission.