Katie Hopkins

Put in charge of Leeds United :nuts:

She'd probably roger the team senseless, but she couldn't do any worse
 
She's clearly got her eye on a regular column in the Daily Mail, though her views might be a little too liberal for that rag.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 13 2007, 12:27 AM
..... a parody of bourgeois snobbishness (come on, look at dear old Mum and Dad sitting on edge in their hideous suburban sitting-room!).........
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Er, pot, kettle?!! Why the swipe at the taste of Kate's innofensive parents??

As for Kate, she's more of a sociopath than a psychopath - she has enough feelings to be able to mimic them convincingly, and she is also honest in a way. She was all over the weekend newspapers - but so was her ex-husband's first wife, telling the awful story of What Katy Did to the lives of several children. Not a pretty story. Her theory was that Kate had the children to bind the guy to her in case he showed signs of getting wise to what he'd taken on - also to be on a 'level playing field' with Wife One, who already had a brace.

But in her own terms, Kate's been very clever. Fame was the aim - celebrity is what makes money these days, and Kate has been sharp enough to realise it's not based on talent but on a gift for self-promotion. She has probably made more moolah already than the hundred grand Sugar was offering, and she will make a lot more before the year is out. I think a media career beckons - wonder btw who her 'spokesman' is - I venture 11/10 on Max Clifford :laughing:

Celebrity BB beckons, as does a seat on one of those awful shows with Simon Cowell; this is the remarkable Brave New World which the media monster has created.
 
I may well be bourgeois, Headstrong, but I'm no snob. The parents looked entirely ill at ease with the filming, sitting very stiffly and with Mum rather overdressed. They appear to be very ordinary people who've been outgrown on all fronts (particularly intellectually and socially) by their strong-willed daughter. The sitting-room was decorated in a style which was popular in the 1980s, highly-coloured and tasselled, which is an era where Katie appears to be stuck, with all her 'power' notions.

I imagine they're in awe, possibly even a bit overwhelmed by her, and the fact that she only thought (or said she thought) about them and the impact of winning The Apprentice right in the last few minutes of final selection, doesn't say much about the regard in which she really holds them.

I've no idea what kind of people they are in 'real' life, inoffensive or not, when not posing for filming, although I suspect that Katie may have had a hand in how they were presented for HER world.
 
Originally posted by Mounty@Jun 13 2007, 10:14 PM
She's clearly got her eye on a regular column in the Daily Mail, though her views might be a little too liberal for that rag.
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Well I for one would like to see her share a desk with Suzanne Moore Monty :laughing:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/a...=259&in_check=N

The Daily Mail's been equally scathing, but posting that link might break forum rules (don't see why it should, as the pictures look just too choreographed for my liking)
 
Originally posted by Headstrong@Jun 13 2007, 10:33 PM
But in her own terms, Kate's been very clever. Fame was the aim - celebrity is what makes money these days, and Kate has been sharp enough to realise it's not based on talent but on a gift for self-promotion. She has probably made more moolah already than the hundred grand Sugar was offering, and she will make a lot more before the year is out. I think a media career beckons - wonder btw who her 'spokesman' is - I venture 11/10 on Max Clifford :laughing:

Celebrity BB beckons, as does a seat on one of those awful shows with Simon Cowell; this is the remarkable Brave New World which the media monster has created.
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I think you need to differentiate between celebrity and notourity.

By my count she's lost a job 90K lost the Sugar job 100K and sold her story for 65K, which means she's about 125K down. The BBC appearences she won't have been paid for as she was contracted, and she took unpaid leave from the Met Office so there's another 3 months pay gone.

She'll doubtless get an invite to the Oxford Union before long. If you want a paralell I'd have thought her potential is very much in the Rebecca Loos mould (who Clifford did represent) which brings me nicely to the offer of the 11/10 if you want :D As it certainly wasn't Clifford yesterday, and she's hardly Clifford material in any case. He's turned people away before now, who he didn't like or trust. I can't think that she shares one single philosophical opinion that Clifford would agree with.

I'd have thought Celebrity BB is a shoe in though, and she might even make it over the pond as the 'English bitch' (throw back to Joan Collins aka Dynasty even).

Do the media create these things? they wouldn't be able to if we didn't have a latent appetite for them.
 
I see I've coincided my thoughts with Suzanne Moore on Katie being c.1980s, but Suzanne needs to know that 'toot', as in 'a load of old' isn't spelled 'tut', as in disapproval. Blimey, doan these gels git rahnd Lunnun a bit?

I'd have thought that if Sir Alan was contemplating building a mega-million squid erection in London (fantasy or no), he'd be flogging a wee bit more than naff stuff out of Brentwood. Whatever it is, it does seem to keep him out of the Big Issue offices.
 
I was quite disturbed by her reference to her parents as "the people who look after my children" - it didn't say much about her attitude to either her parents or her children ...
 
Originally posted by Warbler+Jun 14 2007, 12:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Warbler @ Jun 14 2007, 12:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mounty@Jun 13 2007, 10:14 PM
She's clearly got her eye on a regular column in the Daily Mail, though her views might be a little too liberal for that rag.
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Well I for one would like to see her share a desk with Suzanne Moore Monty :laughing:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/a...=259&in_check=N

The Daily Mail's been equally scathing, but posting that link might break forum rules (don't see why it should, as the pictures look just too choreographed for my liking) [/b][/quote]
From that article:

Also if that woman is 31 then I am Nancy Dell'Olio!
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Agreed! There's no way she's 31, she looks a good few years older. The lines around her eyes give it away.
 
She was a Global Brand manager, apparantly.

No, I don't know why the Met Office needed one either.

However, I have heard that that isn't the £90k job - she was picking that up in her previous job, which allegedly had been created for her by her ex-husband as part of the divorce settlement...
 
I had the telly on whilst having lunch and working on the Weekender - she was amazing, came on all girly with long hair all extravagantly curled, mincing and flirting WITH THE LADIES and tinkling with laughter about turning herself into a pantomime villain to make the programme more amusing for us couch potatoes at home. It was toe-curling [so I enjoyed it hugely, of course]
 
....and bascially saying that if she sees a man she "wants" she just goes for it, and doesn't worry if he is married or not.
 
Kathy, sadly there are lots of people around with similarly questionable moral standards. I know Ben Fogle is married but I wouldn't say no norty
 
Mounty, aren't you a chap? (Not that that precludes you taking a lustful interest in Ben Fogle, of course! Just want to clear up my confusion.)
 
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