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Live web-chat with Tony Parsons, 9pm-10pm, 6 October

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rachel(mumsnet) · 01/10/2008 15:59

Columnist and author Tony Parsons will be joining us here on Monday 6th October from 9-10pm for a live chat. Tony's sixth novel, 'My Favourite Wife' has just been published and is described by The Independent as 'a much bigger, more ambitious book' than million-selling 'Man and Boy'. If you can't make the chat you can post your questions in advance here.
Hope to see you here on Monday.

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NickHornby9448 · 04/10/2008 17:02

You barsteward. I'd like to know what you're playing at nicking plagiarising ripping off being me?

And since you're on, could you chuck us 5% of your royalties?

You might well have been a proper muso instead of my sad fantasies less interesting past, and fucked a loud working class paranoid heroine run to seed, but I'm a serious author. And I'm in a band. Are you?

Shall we step outside?

CaptainJaneway · 04/10/2008 17:04

lol at NickHornby

I loved High Fidelity but feel you went downhill after that

TonyParsoms · 04/10/2008 17:05

[removes cardigan in readiness for impending fisticuffs]

TonyPardons · 04/10/2008 17:07

(adjusts ear trumpet)

NickHornby9448 · 04/10/2008 17:07

You do know I went to Cambridge?

NickHornby9448 · 04/10/2008 17:08

And you were educated where exactly? Romford High?

AuraofDora · 04/10/2008 17:10

oh, tony parsonzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

think am filing my corns then, soz cant make it

JuliePurchill · 04/10/2008 17:11

I couldn't love another man after loving Tony

Apart from the one I'm married to now, obviously

NickHornby9448 · 04/10/2008 17:13

Hey there, baby, where dya get those beeyoodiful eyes?

JuliePurchill · 04/10/2008 17:14

Fuck off baldy

NickHorny · 04/10/2008 17:16

sassy!

NickHornby9448 · 04/10/2008 17:16

I am the European Ambassador of Goodness you know.

JuliePurchill · 04/10/2008 17:18

I heard Tony on Radio 2 today being very right on and sticking up for the common man

John Cusack only played a character from your book, you do know you look nothing like him don't you?

edam · 04/10/2008 17:28

Only question I'd want to ask TP is 'why are you such an arse?'.

Don't think I'll be tuning in.

MoanyParsons · 04/10/2008 17:32

Oi Hornby... Fuck off you pompous twat back to yer 'ooh I'm so proper working class because I like football' Surrey-on-the-Angel desres.

I have roots. And I'm on telly more than you, you boring bastard.

Saturn74 · 04/10/2008 17:46

This is all going swimmingly, isn't it?

moondog · 04/10/2008 17:48

you are joking
he's a total knob

Monkeytrousers · 04/10/2008 17:48

'My Favourite Wife'? He's asking for a vistyi from Burchill

JuliePurchill · 04/10/2008 17:49

I, for one, can't wait for Monday.

zippitippitoes · 04/10/2008 17:51

did he used to write for melody maker

CaptainJaneway · 04/10/2008 17:52

NME

CaptainJaneway · 04/10/2008 17:52

Which is where he met Birchill

zippitippitoes · 04/10/2008 17:52

perhaps im insulting him

nme?

how old is he

in his fifties?

60? did he have a column in the sun?

Saturn74 · 04/10/2008 17:52

I've heard there is a particularly virulent strain of Sheherezade Goldsmith cold feet disease man flu going around at the moment though.

JuliePurchill · 04/10/2008 17:52

Best day of his life