The curse of the identikit women: Kates, Pippas and Bellas. Why are we so intere

[WANDA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1059809/The-curse-identikit-blondes-Kates-Pippas-Bellas-Why-interested-girls-nothing.html

[wannabe]

She said something that means to me nothing.

[Jenee]

In the olden days, the rich stayed in their castles while the poor toiled down below. Not any more.

These days, the rich fall out of nightclubs and go rollerskating just like the rest of us, their every move chronicled in the papers so that we can drool over their luck and good fortune while feeling miserable about our own.

The whole thing is sick.

Yep, pretty much.

[Ceridwen]

It sounds like the author Laura Craik just read the forum & read all of our posts especially on how she started her article of not being jealous but equally fascinated.

I can't say I disagree because what do these girls really do - besides falling out of nightclubs & make a spectacle of themselves.  Basically nothing except to catch an aristocratic husband; or perhaps a royal prince as in waity katy.

[wannabe]

But yet again, doesn't Pippa work   So Mrs. Craik got that fact wrong...the rest would mean nothing to me.

[lurker]

Isn't it sort of shizophrenic for the press who decides to make these women news to complain about the focus on them? The DM itseelf posted about 4 - 5 articles or blurbs about Kate within the last couple of days. If they didn't, there wouldn't be any interest in her "idle lifestyle". Yes their lives may be useless (though I thought Pippa was working as well) but the fact that they are made out to be "celebrities" is the doing of the very same press that now has the nerve to complain about it. Now if the Times brought a piece like that I would have agreed but coming from the DM it's the most ridiculous type of hypocracy. 

[Mimi-chan]

Well...Pippa does work. It's the PRESS who decides to make her important and stalk her every move, so I think this journalist's husband is correct in saying that the majority of people don't give a damn. It's the press that's so intent on making every little thing these idle girls do front-page news.

Half the time, unless there's some ACTUAL news/sightings, I ignore the dozens of articles that come out about Kate daily. I mean, I think there's waaaay too many articles on Kate's sequined roller-skating adventure...come on! It's interesting the first time, not the tenth time !

[serene grace]

It sounds like the author Laura Craik just read the forum & read all of our posts especially on how she started her article of not being jealous but equally fascinated.

I can't say I disagree because what do these girls really do - besides falling out of nightclubs & make a spectacle of themselves.  Basically nothing except to catch an aristocratic husband; or perhaps a royal prince as in waity katy.

I was thinking the same thing, I wondered if people say to her she must be jealous if she doesn't fawn over or she critises Kate. Maybe the author does see the forum.

[Kuei Fei]

Isn't it sort of shizophrenic for the press who decides to make these women news to complain about the focus on them? The DM itseelf posted about 4 - 5 articles or blurbs about Kate within the last couple of days. If they didn't, there wouldn't be any interest in her "idle lifestyle". Yes their lives may be useless (though I thought Pippa was working as well) but the fact that they are made out to be "celebrities" is the doing of the very same press that now has the nerve to complain about it. Now if the Times brought a piece like that I would have agreed but coming from the DM it's the most ridiculous type of hypocracy. 

I've noticed that, it's like a new trend. They make someone or something news and then wonder why people talk about it all the time.

[Stix Chix]

Well...Pippa does work. It's the PRESS who decides to make her important and stalk her every move

Isn't it sort of shizophrenic for the press who decides to make these women news to complain about the focus on them?

good posts!   it is odd.  but maybe once the good news stops selling....or if there's just no news to sell...journalists change their tune to keep up the interest?  because the interest is there.  the journalists husband had a point when he said,

“Nobody is interested in these girls, except journalists,”

but he wasn't completely correct.  i mean....just look at us here right now!

Kate has a big following.  even among people who dont like her!   Pippa was a household name here before she ever started showing up in the press.  as were her mother and brother.  and Shawn Davy.  and.....well....pretty much anyone else brave enough to be connected to the princes!

when journalists aren't following the crowd they are directing it.

[Ceridwen]

I was thinking the same thing, I wondered if people say to her she must be jealous if she doesn't fawn over or she critises Kate. Maybe the author does see the forum.

Not just this author but I'm sure everyone who doesn't write glowing reports on KM have been accused of being jealous despite KM's inappropriate behavior. 

[Lila the Flirt]

These days, the rich fall out of nightclubs and go rollerskating just like the rest of us, their every move chronicled in the papers so that we can drool over their luck and good fortune while feeling miserable about our own.

That is just not true

[drvixen101]

yep but it might be for the author lol

[The Chocolate Princess]

Again
The next article when I think : OK the author spent 1 day in the forum read some topic headlines and a few posts and then wrote the article with almost no reasearch. 
To Laura Craik:
PIPPA DOES WORK IN PR!!! SHE HAS A JOB! 
it's not that she does nothing. if she goes to a fashion show in her free time -so be it! Where is the problem?

Mrs Craig obviously isn't bright...
Today there is no supply without demand!  Of course are people interested in them or they wouldn't buy the newspapers or put their names on VIP lists -invite them into fashion shows

To answer her question: "Why are we interested in women who do nothing?"
1. glamour attracts -we like to read about those glamorous lifes sometimes and want to deflect us from the "normal world"
2. we are just bored or want to occupy us with something superficial as a variety of our hard working stressful life
2.catharsis (form of emotional cleansing: by seeing others failures we clean us from our emotional sh't; ie. divorce of Charles&Diana /Kate falling on the floor --->royals have problems too)

Honestly she's right Until several minutes I had economics classes -I didn't dare to surf in the forum with my laptop  -I would be sooo embarrassed if my fellow students knew what I was doing. they wouldn't just laugh at me but my "hard-working serious CEO of the future" image would be destroyed for good. 
This is soo trivial and stupid to bother with Pippa and Kate -that I sometimes ask my self why I'm doing it at all
although Kate could become Queen    -that is someting serious. anyway I don't think Waity would become what I call a charismatic strong leader.
I don't know why I'm here. It's fun!!!!  What of it?
 

[ap3]

btw, who IS the blonde next to pippa? she's beautiful! and beautifully dressed!

[serene grace]

I agree she is quite beautiful. I wondered who she was too?

[Emme]

I thought it was Isabella Calthorpe.   

[serene grace]

No, not Isabella. I think Pipster was at some racing event Isabella was at once, but that girl in the chair next to her is not Isabella.

We see Kate and Holly Branson together, but her brother Sam Branson and Isabella, so far haven't been to too many events where Kate was.

[Miss Scarlett]

I must assume, Kate's and Pippa's mother never shared this tidbit of southern adivce my mother actually reminded me of today...

"A lady's name should only be in the paper three times in her life: when she's bred, when she weds, and when she's dead."

This means that a true lady never needs to draw this kind of attention to herself.  She will be on committees, etc, and she will let those committees --not herself--take the credit.  The only time she should be recognized is when one of those 3 events occurs. 

Emphasis on "lady."  Perhaps those 2 don't truly qualify?

[Drusilla]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1059809/The-curse-identikit-blondes-Kates-Pippas-Bellas-Why-interested-girls-nothing.html

why are they called identikit? they don't all look the same (well, except sisters kate and pippa). it's their lifestyles that i suppose are similar, but since these women are not celebrities - we know shockingly little about their lives to be pronouncing them as unemployed wastes of space. we know that kate doesn't really work, but we know that pippa does (she even clears away dirty dishes at work), and we don't even know who that third girl is. i am very unimpressed with this article. if laura craik is so obssessed with the shiny lives of the rich and aristocratic, she should spare us her non-articles that are basically speculation based on speculative speculation (because, aside from the middletons, these women really ARE private individuals) and go watch gossip girl. or, dump her tolstoy-reading husband, marry up, and get herself a piece of the posh action. either way, she should shut up.