@Spongebobette I agree. The brittle character keeps seeping through doesn’t it? I think it’s because she’s under enormous pressure in numerous ways; the pressure coming from HQ with a set of objectives from the new country manager which I bet are not realistic or well thought through. There is pressure from people questioning her motives, and pressure from propping up dwindling finances in an “industry” that is shrinking, the pressure of being the main or only breadwinner (I think).
Then there is the pressure of maintaining her weight possibly without the props she had before in front of an audience. This is a permanent headache because she has not been particularly honest and her weight loss and bizniz are so closely correlated that whichever goes wrong first damages the other.
She is under pressure to be permanently positive (the only outlet for how she really feels is to displace her negative feelings by getting angry with dog owners and critics). And to cap it all, her accounts will be published next month, giving her critics an insight into just how “successful” Yawn is in the only terms that really matter … oh and no doubt the troubling matter of a vast director’s loan must loom large. We all know this can only possibly be cleared by selling the thatch with a £30k discount on account of the roof (and who knows what else is wrong with it).
I’d be snappy too.