Sigh.
Nobody believes this. I like her on The Traitors but I'm getting fed up of Winkleman's tiresome 'I'm so down to earth, completely unvain and eat like a horse' bollocks.
Not sure about the eating like a horse thing, but I stayed in the same hotel as her in Copenhagen in 2022 and saw her most mornings at breakfast with her kids, and she made a good impression. She was at the (spectacular, delicious) buffet a normal amount, so definitely not avoiding food like some celebrities might.
I've always been sort of irritated by her on TV and slagged her off, but I got good vibes from her in person. She was incognito, I reckon, she had The Fringe pinned back and was a normal human colour. Very polite, very appreciative of the hotel and its staff, engaged with her kids (teenage boys, it seemed, which I gather are not the easiest demographic to have a great parenting relationship with) and although we didn't chat to her or anything, we'd say hi to each other when we passed and kind of did the quiet acknowledgment thing, and she just seemed very personable and nice. I have definitely warmed to her.
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I think Claudia has become a character now that she plays
I think that's true, but I think it's no bad thing. Seems to me that the weird hair, weird foundation, weird nude lip thing is a disguise, and armour. I think she's actually been very savvy in doing this and keeping her public persona/character very separate from her private self - she gets the perks of fame as much as she wants them, she gets the massive salary and advertising contracts, and she gets to have a private life for her family.
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I used to work in Boots as a sixth former and I used to love the Charles Worthington range
Same, and same. I loved the bottle shapes too. Thinking about them now, I mostly remember how they felt in a very tactile way, and it gives me good ASMR feelings. It's a wonder it took until my late thirties to get an autism diagnosis
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