I'm putting this in In The News because it's in a newspaper(ish) but ladies, all i really want to say is 'Gosh, look at this picture of Liz Jones!'

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i haven't even read the article, i swear i can't look away from her eyebrows

wowsers. you know, i look dreadful in the morning too, but i wouldn't allow myself to be photographed. what an odd mix of neurotic and conceited she must be to go for it. it actually makes me like her more, for some reason.

laughed so much at that one it burned itself into my --pelvic- floor memory.

oh, and cod could actually be cheaper than whiskers if you buy it in bulk frozen. much better for your pussy.....see, she doesen't have a clue, does she?

'They don't like me in this shop because I once wrote they were stupid for never having heard of Illy coffee beans. I wandered round, picking up things, planning meals involving dented tins and big potatoes, wondering how on earth I would bring myself to purchase a bottle of wine that cost below my usual £25 benchmark.'

am sorry but that para alone is utterly slap-worthy

Hang on. What is wrong with 'big potatoes'?

They have more calories than she would eat in an entire week.

Has anybody mentioned to her that you chop them up?

Do you think she looks for small cod for her cats? Or do they get chopped up?

She probably tried to snort the big potato.

yangymac, i totally agree. she's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma wrapped up in a total nutjob, i am fascinated by her even if i do feel that i'm standing by while someone prepares to do themselves in.

I hate these patronising 'day in the life'' week in the shoes of' shitty articles.It is one thing to live on 65 for one week but she can never know the mental turmoil of living that way day in day out with no hope of it ever changing.Doubt she lost much sleep

girls.... i had to google this MAD woman as i didnt know who she was.

bloody good job i dont read the DM if their journos are like this

she is crazy.

yangy completely agree with you re her startling honesty but absence of shame. This really isn't a mea culpa but at the same time she doesn't flinch does she?

It's as though she's completely detached from herself, anatomising her own behaviour without any sense that Liz (writing) has any moral connection to Liz (doing).

She's like some weird postmodern construct of LizJones in which identity in constantly in flux (or somesuch). Sort of analyzing her own performance of herself.

It makes me uncomfortable but I can't take my eyes off it. Is she really on the edge, do you think?

In terms of her career can't see how she can realistically find a way back to Dyptique Liz from here, can you? She'll have to continue to work this new poverty angle.

she's a mystery wrapped up in an enigma wrapped up in a total nutjob lolololol

I love that quote btw. It is my response to every out of control situation. Because I look remarkably like Joe Pesci with wig askew but taller in RL, it works very well.

I simply couldn't resist clicking on the article next to this one Why I simply can't stand couples

Blimey she does have ishoos, doesn't she?

ROFL at this quote early on "I now have the sort of jet black hair that would be at home on the head of an old hag"

But as others have said, her idea of what poverty is, is so far removed from the reality ...

Eventually she is going to run out of belly button fluff and then???

she knows exactly what she's doing career wise....she's talked about more than ever.

but has no one told her about the ultimate MN sin of wearing black boots with jeans???

just realizzed what's odd about the article is that there's no resolution to the narrative, is there?

It all goes in one familiar direction, but at the point where you'd expect the moment of revelation and the resolve to change, there's nothing there.

it's more a stream-of-consciousness

she just blurts out all the nonsense in her head with no self-censorship

she's not normal I tell ya!
I've said it before and I'll say it again- she needs some sort of help

I thought this article was very funny, have been laughing at it and this thread. I particularly like the bit about the brazillian. Also the bit about wine - she doesn't seem to realise that wine is actually not an essential purchase!

More seriously, she has huge earning power and I really would feel happier for her if she used it to pay off her debts. Aside from the actual 6 figure cash salary, she has loads of expensive designer kit that she could stick on eBay and get quite a bit of money for. Debt is scary for anyone, but she is in a position to pay it off (£150k of debt? Is that right - not much versus her potential income).

The think that astonishes me about Liz is that while she is totally, insanely blind to the real world, when she does encounter it she dives right in, exposes her previous blindness and stupidity and is appalled by her previous behaviour. She was the one who left Marie Claire because she realised the models were all anorexic and it was a Bad Thing. Reading her writing about her marriage was like watching one of those 50's horror movies where you are screaming at the screen 'no, there is a full moon you moron, it is not a good night to take a shortcut home through the abandoned cemetary in your bikini...'

All very entertaining. For her sake, I do hope she is making it all up for our entertainment and to strengthen her brand image and that she really owns a small swiss bank.

It must have taken considerable effort to tear those jodhpurs up like that. Even going through brambles, catching them on barbed wire etc I've never managed to tear a pair, the bloomin' things last forever. And I bet she buys more expensive ones than I do .

And why is she buying potatoes? Didn't she mention 'growing her own vegetables' in a previous article?