Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

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[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4962988/Julie-Myerson-and-the-extraordinary-ca se-of-the-copycat-column.html Meyerson denies authoring "Living With Teenagers" column

"There have been rumours on the MumsNet website, but she is adamant that it is not her," a spokesman for the author, pictured, tells me. "It is no more than a coincidence."

oooer!

knobs

(Although actually the claim was already in her Wikipedia page, I'm sure the rumour didn't surface here)

Who believes it? (I don't think Tim Walker does - I love the use of "uncanny")

lol I thought that

Sounds preeeety likely to me. There aren't actually that many of us journos who would publically document our own family's lives to that extent whether anonymously or not.

It is certainly an extraordinary coincidence that the two families are so similar.

Love use of the term 'uncanny similarities'.

They have the same agent.

It was her.

Poor kids.

Although actually, if it was her, I imagine Jake would cheerfully dish the dirt on her now...oh, unless he's covering up for the sake of the other 2? (ie demonstrating that he has some family integrity even if she doesn't)

Publicly
Arse, one week into mat leave and can't spell already!

...and they have the same agent

Nice plug for us though- people will come over for the gossip!

Was it TheDullWitch said not? I wonder if/how she knows for certain?

Wikipedia says:

"Julie Myerson is widely believed to have been the anonymous author of 'Living with Teenagers', a Guardian column that detailed the lives of a family with three teenage children. The column was stopped after friends identified one of the children and they were ridiculed at school."

It was TheDullWitch. Maybe she also has the same agent

It would be a really questionable thing to do though, wouldn't it? Deny it now? Surely the truth will out?

If you find her agents website - used to be Rogers Coleridge & White, not sure if thats changed - and look on Gill Coleridge's page, there will probably be a complete client list there, and someone with 10 minutes on their hands could have a good guess at who is the LWT author if it isn't JM.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

well I doubt it's the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire so that's one client down...

There are some differing facts but you would have to weave a few in, wouldn't you?

Someone will confirm or deny pretty swiftly....

LOL, youngvisiter!

what do you think journalists did before there was Mumsnet - did they actually have to out and (gasp) research stories?

Perhaps the real LWT's author will out themselves to save JM's reputation (throws gauntlet down).

Perhaps it's Jonathan Myerson...

Perhaps it's a hairy-handed trucker and all fiction?

oh it might be Jonathan - that could be why the father is painted as calm and reasonable and the mother as useless and hysterical

Yes, that's what I was thinking..