UK Literary Luvvies

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She loves clinging to that Sunday Times Style byline doesn't she? She hasn't done Wardrobe Mistress since 2017. It's been 6 years Panda :ROFLMAO:

I think she's realizing her popularity and talent is dwindling after The High Low so she keeps jumping on these book projects.


After The High Low ended, I begun to share things I loved via Instagram Stories, but I never seemed to have the app downloaded when I had something I wanted to share, and then the Story would disappear and people would message me saying “what was that book you liked?” and I wouldn’t have a clue as I have a brain made of melted cheese.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Is the newsletter a paid for thing? I’m just wondering why people do it. I find it laughable that panda feels she has to do it because she just gets through so much bloody culture she simply must share. I’ve mentioned this before on the high low thread but often on the high low it was clear she’d just read ‘the week’ and pulled out a few things from there but would only credit the original source.

She reads a lot but I never hear her say that much about anything remotely weighty except to dismiss some of Zadie Smith’s essays as ‘not for her’ (lol).

Always preferred Dolly’s recs except for music related ones
 
Inthebrow said:
"Begun"???!
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Journalist friends have often mentioned people like Pandora - who have come from privileged backgrounds, and have always, always, always had their writing edited.

They move from magazine to newspaper to magazine, with editors understanding that the writing they have published is their actual writing. It never is. It's always heavily edited.

Pandora is a case in point.
 
jenmarks said:
Journalist friends have often mentioned people like Pandora - who have come from privileged backgrounds, and have always, always, always had their writing edited.

They move from magazine to newspaper to magazine, with editors understanding that the writing they have published is their actual writing. It never is. It's always heavily edited.

Pandora is a case in point.
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All journalists have their writing edited to some degree.

Celebrity columns are often written by someone else entirely, sometimes based on a few vague ideas the celeb or their manager passes on.
 
CarmenGhia said:
All journalists have their writing edited to some degree.

Celebrity columns are often written by someone else entirely, sometimes based on a few vague ideas the celeb or their manager passes on.
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Of course they do. But for Pandora and her ilk, a connection from family helps one obtain the first job, and from there... You know the rest. Not sure lower class kids have the same pathway.
 
jenmarks said:
TELL ME YOU NEED SOMEONE TO EDIT YOUR WRITING WITHOUT TELLING ME YOU NEED IT.

Pandora:

The common thread in my work (which over the last 13 years has covered fashion, lifestyle, culture and books), is that I love giving and receiving recommendations and have done for as long as I can remember: most pertinently as Wardrobe Mistress columnist at The Sunday Times Style, where I would solve scores of reader sartorial dilemmas every week; and then on The High Low, where the recommendations up top were one of my favourite parts of the show, even when Dolly recommended the Sainsbury’s app as one of her cultural recommendations.
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the absolute longest sentence in the world, wtaf
 
jenmarks said:
Journalist friends have often mentioned people like Pandora - who have come from privileged backgrounds, and have always, always, always had their writing edited.

They move from magazine to newspaper to magazine, with editors understanding that the writing they have published is their actual writing. It never is. It's always heavily edited.

Pandora is a case in point.
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In a way that might be what makes all the LL content so samey- it may not be the Luvvies' fault, they may contribute ideas and all the articles sound the same as they've been edited into oblivion by all the same editors at these newspapers. I remember writing for a retailer and all my writing would be edited by copy editors- I could always tell who edited me as the piece would be my ideas, but sound like it was written by my colleague. The website sounded uniform, but very samey and beige overall as the Eds were quite boring :LOL:
 
soph30 said:
In a way that might be what makes all the LL content so samey- it may not be the Luvvies' fault, they may contribute ideas and all the articles sound the same as they've been edited into oblivion by all the same editors at these newspapers. I remember writing for a retailer and all my writing would be edited by copy editors- I could always tell who edited me as the piece would be my ideas, but sound like it was written by my colleague. The website sounded uniform, but very samey and beige overall as the Eds were quite boring :LOL:
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The sign of a bad and heavy-handed sub-editor there. There are subbies I've worked with who have even bigger egos than the nepo babies we're talking about here, and can't resist rewriting everything so it sounds like them. In some ways, they probably love working with the nepo babies, as they'll be given free reign to rewrite whatever they want.
 
Rumour from the celeb gossip thread that Dolly has been shagging Boris! 😱

Secret Celebrity Gossip #104

This is only slightly off topic since creepy men seem to be a point of discussion today. I saw in the news that Steven Tyler is being held accountable for his 'relationship' with a young girl. Every time I read of this sort of thing or see people giving out about Leo Dicaprio's 20-25 rule I...
tattle.life
 
I guess she doesn’t feel the boyfriend gives her enough adoration and make her feel different and special, and she’s getting on a bit to be the manic pixie dream girl, which is how Boris would see her as he’s older :) She is his type though, blonde and posh like Carrie!
If it’s true of course! Dolly does seem a real girls’ girl with strong female friendships so doubt she’d do that to Carrie. However she does love being the centre of attention maybe involuntarily
 
Sideboard Bob said:
Rumour from the celeb gossip thread that Dolly has been shagging Boris! 😱

Secret Celebrity Gossip #104

This is only slightly off topic since creepy men seem to be a point of discussion today. I saw in the news that Steven Tyler is being held accountable for his 'relationship' with a young girl. Every time I read of this sort of thing or see people giving out about Leo Dicaprio's 20-25 rule I...
tattle.life
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Came right over here to see if this had been posted. I don’t believe it!!!! 😧😧😧
 
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