I’m a jaffa cake
Just a short quick post, sort of whispered (because Pewari, who is paranoid because she’s had lawyers’ letters, is convinced Gillian McKeith is actually psychic and will find me out and sue me for being mean) but I must direct you to this fabulous article*. I confess I don’t watch her programme; I saw it once or twice and couldn’t bear the bullying, nor the fact that she claimed to analyse people’s poo and the corners of their mouths. The article misses out the most important point (presumably because it would be libellous; as, presumably, is this. But I am a small and insignificant blog rather than a national newspaper so prepared to risk it): that she gives no indication of taking any pleasure whatsoever from life. Frankly I’d rather eat the odd ice cream or plate of chips and be happy than survive on aduki beans and goji beans (huh?) and be cross all the time**.
*I like the quote …otherwise it wouldn’t be called “science”, it would be called “assuming”, or “guessing”, or “making it up as you go along”, which sounds horribly like my PhD, and those of many of my friends – but that is another story altogether.
**Of course I am cross all the time. But that is the lot of a mother-of-two and not a result of over-indulgence in blue-green algae. That’s not food, it’s slime!
February 14th, 2007 09:46
Thanks for the link to that article. At last the horrid, stupid woman has been found out. Was it your friend who is mentioned as PhDiva?
February 14th, 2007 11:24
Excellent article. I’ve always thought she was a fraud.
February 15th, 2007 11:08
Yes! This is exactly what I scream at the television when I have the misfortune of catching her programme. I hate that she makes eating seem like torture. Healthy food doesn’t have to involve things that taste of dirt. Feh.
February 19th, 2007 20:02
I’ve always been slightly wary of her; but the thing that put the tin lid on her for me was listening to a radio interview with her back in January where she was laughing with the interviewer about the people who had been living in her house for the TV show. It seemed very unkind behaviour.
I am still thinking of five things I haven’t yet revealed, btw. Mostly the ones I can think of at the moment seem to involve nipples, which may be too much information … :(.