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!

Interesting thought, bagsforlife!

I think the Torygraph is cheeky naming mumsnet as the source of the rumour. It's been widely bandied about as near certainty for ages by certain people I know and those people are not (afaik) mumsnetters.

Yes, it is a bit much using unfounded internet speculation as the pretext for running the story. They could have dug around a bit more, and as you say, Dittany, used 'a source close to the author' to rebut or confirm.

yes 'cos now we're thinking 'oh well if it worth you DENYING it, then it's probably your husband...'

oooooh aren't we MEANIES

Do I get a prize if it is him?? (I thought of him first emoticon).

at dittany

Oh, come on, it's gotta be one of them, hasn't it?

ROFL

We need Donal McIntyre on the case. Do you think he might take some time off from the rink to investigate?

lol @0800middleclasssleaze, dittany!

Mumsnet is quoted in just about every randum newspaper article that I read at the moment (although Siobhan thingy from netmums seems to be on the radio a lot).

Here is a useless, irrelevant and mostly unrelated fact - did anyone know that Pat White of Rogers, Coleridge and White is a (fantastic) dog trainer when she's not dining her celebrity client list? She runs brilliant doggie classes from a church hall in the back end of nowhere between Shepherds Bush and Acton. My dog is an alumni! And now I've got that off my chest, normal service is now resumed on this thread ...

oh she is multi-talented then. Here is she the dog trainer in this photo?

No that's not her.

But you are a good detective.

A quick Google finds me only one (identifiable) Pat photo on the whole internet - "here caninefilmacademy.com/NonDogDocs/Staff/PatWhite.html". But this is quite old.

Her dog training club website is "here www.hdtc.co.uk" (I should cross post this to the pets topic I think)

Hmmm, think I'd better study those instructions on hyperlinks a bit more closely.

Well, if it wasn't Julie Myerson then I am sure their mutual agent is doing the decent thing and helping one sue the other for plagiarism

Do you think lazy journalists just come on MN when they are stuck for a story? So tomorrow's headlines - taken from today's active convos - are:

• Woman buys slow cooker after a year of procrastinating.

• SAHM paying for Cleaner. Unreasonable?

• Burger King, Subway, Greggs and McDs - the only lunch outlets in close proximity to hungry woman.

Yes but the headlines will be:

So, Slow Easy - Nigel Slater gives 5 easy winter-warmers that will convert you to the joys of slow-cooking.

Home-maker or Hypocrite? Allison Pearson looks at stay at home mothers who hire cleaners and asks, if homemaker is a job, can you delegate?

and

Obesity in Our Cities - Polly Toynbee looks at the national fastfood scandal which is denying urban workers a healthy lunch.

Ummmm... I wonder if that went on Wikipedia before or after July 2008 when I first mooted my suspicions that JM was the author of LWT here on good old Mumsnet??!

Mumsnet must be a great source for lazy inquisitive journalists! Can't say as I blame them though!

Oh, theyoungvisiter, you are funnier than me.

But if the headlines read like that it would have required the journalist to actually show some imagination and linguistic flair!

Why 'poor kids'?

What has she done wrong? CC before six months or something? What a Hindley!

Well, she did write about her youngest son only having three pubes if I recall.

It is her...

"a collection of affectionate vignettes " Snort.

Why deny it then, only yesterday she was denying it. Bet she realised she was going to be outed. She's so fucking feeble.