As we discussed a week ago, Pippa Middleton and Nico Jackson broke up. The situation was pretty bad for more than a year, which is when Nico up and left London for Switzerland and a new job. Both Pippa and Nico paid lip service to doing a long-distance relationship, but Pippa ended up spending a lot of time with her ex-boyfriends. Just days before the split was announced, Pippa was even seeing leaving an ex’s home “the morning after,” as in, she spent the night with an ex while she was still technically with Nico. So the Daily Mail’s attempt to make Pippa sound like a poor girlfriend desperate for a proposal seems like a weird position to take. This Mail piece – which you can read here – was co-written by Katie Nicholl, best known for her Duchess of Cambridge hagiography. Some highlights:
Pippa is depressed. She’s described as “troubled, careworn” and “so distracted” that she ran a red light. At the age of 32, Pippa “finds herself without an established career, without a property of her own, and now without a boyfriend, leaving some to wonder if she will ever escape the shadow of elder sister Kate, whose young family is never out of the news.”
Nico was eager to split with Pippa. “One source close to her says, unequivocally, that the decision to end the three-year relationship was a mutual one. But was it perhaps too mutual for Pippa’s liking? Friends say that when she suggested a break-up to Nico, Pippa had suspected he might react with a grand gesture to win her back – like a marriage proposal…Instead, Nico surprised her by accepting all too swiftly that the relationship had indeed ‘run its course’ and walked away, flying back to the Geneva flat he has called home for almost two years. Pippa was left behind, broken-hearted.”
The whole reason Nico relocated to Geneva was for the money. He wanted to make more money to set up his future with Pippa, that he wanted to buy a big house in London. Pippa tried to make it work, flying to Geneva once a month and taking French lessons to get by in Switzerland.
They were in relationship counseling? They visited Violet Hills Studios, a “a healing centre offering therapy and counselling among many other services. Pippa spent three hours at the centre before emerging on the arm of Nico a month ago.”
Rebound romances? Sources predict Nico will go back to his ex, Alice Farquhar and Pippa will go back to James Matthews, an ex from 2012, and the same guy she spent the night with before the Nico breakup. Still, Pippa is “adamant there is no third party involved in the split and was said to be tearful at the thought that Nico’s parents would think as much after reading unconfirmed reports that she was seen leaving James’s house clutching flowers after a recent overnight stay.”
Pippa’s many exes. Before the Nico split, she was also seen out with Alex Loudon, who “dumped her in 2011.” Sources say “that far from hoping to rekindle a romance, it was more likely that she was meeting them to garner advice about how to avoid awkward questions if an engagement to Nico were to be announced.” One friend says: “Pippa remains close to her exes to keep them on side. Though Alex would never talk anyway, he broke up with her because he hated being written about. She never wanted that relationship to end, but with her fame there was no solution.”
Pippa is “undateable.” Because something something Duchess Kate, Pippa is “undateable,” although I don’t think it works like that.
Pippa’s sad career. Her book flopped, no one wanted to hire her in America, her columns are basic, etc. So now Pippa wants to be a nutritionist and release a health food book. She wants to start a new career “providing nutritional advice to the rich and famous” because, as one source says, “Health and wellness books written by posh young women are all the rage right now, so she may have struck gold at last.”
Do you feel sorry for Pippa? I do not. She had so many options and career paths and opportunities after her sister’s wedding and she utterly squandered them. It feels like Pippa is trying to put some of the blame on Kate, but seriously? The whole reason Pippa is a thing is because of Kate and if Pippa had truly had some talent to back up her hustle, she would be in an entirely different position. As for Pippa’s love life… I don’t even know. The aristocratic dudes that Pippa spends time with don’t want to marry her because they’re wary of her family. So the answer seems pretty simple: marry some nouveau riche dude who doesn’t mind the press.
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She should be sad about this orange tan, scream Paris Hilton circa 2000.
You were reading my mind. I changed the title in my head to Pippa is sad, heartbroken and orange.
She’s been drowning her sorrows in Tang.
(dating myself!)
She’s been tango’d!!! 🙂
All the privilege in the world and she lets it go to waste.
Exactly!
Kate same thing basically as a single woman, just sat on her hands waiting for Mr. Right Prince to propose, never used her degree, never pursued a career or job, just waited for William.
Carole must make her daughter’s believe only a socially prominent or moneyed marriage is of value for a fruitful life. It’s sad. I think IF Pippa could break away from Middleton mind meld of finding her Prince, she might actually do alright for herself.
This! I can’t feel sorry for her at all. I mean she can continue to do nothing with her life and still not have a financial care in the world. I feel the only reason she even keeps trying to have a “career” or “marriage” is because it’s what society expects of her. She knows the public will accuse her of living off of her sister’s royal title therefore she keeps trying,and failing, at all of these career and “lock him down” moves. I feel she would be happy just being a society girl or a charity organizer. She should just stick with that really. Be that and own it.
Maybe this health career will take off for her. That seems right up her alley. So good luck to her on that.
She’s really orange.
And very old looking.
It’s a UK thing. Loads of women there walk around looking like Oompa Loompas. When I lived there, it was surprising. Not all are like that but a lot are. Same goes with the heavy black eyeliner. Canadian/American beauty trends are not worldwide beauty trends.
This guy was a write-off long ago. After a year with no sign of a ring she should have dumped him, but she let it go on for three years. Good luck to her anyway. I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes.
Only three years? She’s a waity lite.
“After a year with no sign of a ring she should have dumped him”
lol
I don’t believe he was ever into Pippa deeply. IMO He liked the notoriety and being associated to the sister of the future Consort.
Rumors are he still wanted his ex girlfriend back and never got over her.
In my days it was 2 years but you’re right, one year is enough to figure out if it’s going to work, cut one’s losses and move on
ZOMG I’ve been dating my BF for a year and I don’t have a ring!
I’m gonna dump his ass tonight!
Kitten, if he likes it then he better put a ring on it. Duh.
She did not have a better option which is why it lasted as long as it did. Trust that if Pippa had an upgrade, there would have been footprints on him from the stepping over.
I think so too. I think that when he moved to Geneva and she didn’t go, that was the beginning of the end. And since they’ve hardly been seen together this year I think it was probably dead a while ago but nothing was said until Pippa got caught. I mean, what does she do that she couldn’t do in Geneva? Exactly nothing.
And that article in the DM with the handwringing photos. Talk about set up trying to paint Pips as lonely and broken hearted. If she were really that broken hearted, I don’t think she’d have got papped.
It’s painting her as sad and desperate, but she was only going over once a month when they were doing the long distance thing – how into him could she have been if that were the case? I feel like the only person that got the impression that she wasn’t that into him either.
I wouldn’t say she was undateable – she just need to change her game plan and aim for someone with the same ‘middle class values’ as her i.e. a social climber from a noveau riche family. She needs to give up on the upper/titled classes – if she hasn’t nabbed one by now she never will plus none of them want anything to do with her family, regardless of the royal connections. However, it does look like she’s a bit desperate to get married particularly if she’s running back to ex’s when he failed to propose after allegedly pulling the oldest trick in the book (ending it to get a proposal).
Thou saying that i do sympathise – society expects her to be married, with her own career and home. I’m older than her and while i have my own established career; i’m not married nor do i own my home (can’t afford to buy in London on my own).
It’s just sad that the 2 Middleton daughters seem have been raised in the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ mindset that they have to marry ‘well’ to please mummy and her social ambitions.
So true–when the story came out that her brother and his girlfriend broke up, there was no fear that he was unmarriable, nor that he had no career or property.
There has been criticism of James for basically those same things, with even a CB article or two recently all about him and his break-up and posters commenting about his relationship possibilities (or impossibilities), his career, and how he’s just like his sisters, no talent, no work ethics, floundering around, famewhore, wanting to marry somebody with some value to the Middletons, etc.
I don’t know if (western) society at large expects her to be married, but with all the advantages she’s had economically and academically, I would think western society would expect her to at least be self-sufficient and not depend on a rich (and preferably titled) man to be a measure of her self-worth.
I agree with you that the Middleton offspring (including James) was raised to be that certain way you’ve described. But I wonder why none of the three have ever broken out of that mold and rebelled and be their own person? Shouldn’t the odds be in favor of at least one of them having the normal instinct to rebel against their parent’s standards like normal teenagers do? Or am I being too optimistic? Or do they all agree with their mother’s ideology? Or is it just too easy to depend on their parents’ and Uncle Gary’s money to get them through in life while they’re hunting for a rich spouse?
I think the fact that none of them broke out was down to the control Carole exerted over them – it’s death grip like by the looks of it. And yes, i think they rely heavily on their parents for financial support.
I think a lot of it is financial–when your parents are paying for things, it’s very hard to break free of them. I know this from personal experience (on a much smaller level), I was “lucky” enough to have my father pay for my cell phone bill for years in my 20’s….well guess what, it’s really hard to hang up the phone on the person paying for the phone, even when they are refusing to respect your differences with them. At the time I was also working a fairly low-paying job and singly, and while I was financially independent of my parents I was also painfully aware that if I were to lose my job they might be my only backup plan. That makes it hard to stand up to them. Eventually I moved into a better paying job, built up a substantial savings account, and also got married (oh, and got my own $%#$%# phone!). It is SO much easier now to just tell my dad “nope, not going to do that” than it was 10 years ago, because the odds that I’ll ever need to be totally dependent on them in future are so much lower. And my parents were nowhere near as controlling as Carole sounds to be!
Hey Betti-
I’m another no prince charming and can’t afford a home in Los Angeles on a solo income despite having an established career that many would consider a good one.
There are a lot of us out there. I have my passions for my work and my pride not to settle for just any man.
Like one of my friends said of me in regard to settling, “I would rather be alone than miserable with you.” That is my motto when it comes to grabbing a man just to have one by a certain age like this article seems to imply Pippa should.
The thirst is real with this one. I just can’t w her. I get it you have a cute bum, but not much else going on.
The cute bum was proven false.
There is no bum. Imo. i can’t believe the fuss about that photo.
And to think she could have used the said, faux bum to build her own little empire and didnt even bank on that..she’s just a little pathetic. What is she doing with her life? Running races, tanning and chasing guys who dont want to settle down with her. Chick needs to get a life. I bet she is now wishing she had a ghost writer for that flop of an entertaining book.
After reading the article I feel sorry for Alice.
I saw Alice’s LinkedIn page and she’s got her own career with a big brand, so she’s far ahead of Pippa. The article says it’s just a prediction from sources that Nico might want to get back with her, but I’m thinking it’s more of a possibility that Alice is just too smart for that or that she’ll set her own rules for how a new relationship with Nico would be.
Good. As written, it sounded as if Alice is some poor downtrodden woman who’ll take her cheatin’ man back anytime he is in between relationships or in a relationship with her and someone else.
When Pipa’s & Nico’s relationship was first written about on the blog I said that I didn’t think he was into Pipa. As a matter of fact, I thought the grifters had been out grifted by Nico when he attached himself to her —cause that’s how it looked. He just never looked that into her. It looked as if he was using what little fame she had to bring himself a bit of attention.
@ Dena
I thought the same thing about Nico. He loved the cameras more than he seemed interested in Pippa. And exactly about the grifters being out grifted by someone just as ‘grifty’ as them.
But really, there was nothing Pippa could offer him. No big inheritance. No highly-paid job at a wealthy corporation that mommy and daddy owns. No talents that would help him in his career. Just pap strolls and that’s it.
Anne_000: I think Pippa came with something…..Nico’s job in Geneva is at a hedge Fund owned by the guy who lends the Middletons a villa on Mustique every time they wish to go.
As soon as he switched jobs, I knew the relationship was doomed.
Sad for Pippa since Nico really seemed to love the paps, even more than any thirsty Hollywood actor. Someone who could share that with her. I genuinely hoped I was wrong about my suspicions when I first heard what he did for a living.
I always thought the same thing about Nico and Donna Air. Both just as ambitious as the Middletons and using the Middletons to advance themselves.
Good one, Kaiser – “Duchess of Cambridge hagiography.” 🙂
I love that dark red, purplish coat.
Wash yer face,, pippa
Never got the impression from their photos together s that he was in love with Pippa, don’t like him. But then I don’t like Liv Tyler’s husband either, he gives me the same vibe, but Liv is happy, so what do I know.
Pippa was happy before the royal wedding. She was dating a guy she was in love with – and her parents were over the moon he’s aristocratic, she studied something or the other. She would have been fine and happy, even if they didn’t marry. But then the whole butt thing happened and ruined it for her. I mean, she handled it all really badly, but she was so young, I can’t blame her.
I haven’t seen her happy and confident for YEARS. So I do feel sorry for her. Wish her happiness. Perhaps some education at this point would be good? Like management or finance? MBA with her connections could make loads of difference to any company. Just leave the spotlight, leave people criticizing your face, character and brains. Love yourself and do something about it.
I agree. Instead of trying to marry a finance guy or an aristo, Pippa needs to buckle down and actually make her own money and not just a book contract here or some articles there which seems to be more about easy money and keeping a public profile to attract more easy money, but an actual business. If the Middletons wanted to be seen as legit, they need to do the work, instead of piggybacking on the social status of other families and wearing signet rings and a coat of arms that shows their family love of skiing (wtf?).
They’re hustle and fluff, and that doesn’t go much further than the pages of a tabloid.
I know you were commenting more that she should back away from the spotlight altogether, and I agree, but I don’t see that happening. Pippa’s the real social climber, Kate just managed to snag William and hang on for dear life. But if someone is raised with certain values and rewarded with parties and vacations and money, and their whole family is part of it, how many people could really completely walk away?
Totally. Unless she has some sort of an existential crisis (which Tolstoy thought unevitable at some point in life for every person to evolve as a human being).
Re Kate. I remember when William first went to the university. He was there but a couple of weeks, poor thing, when SUDDENLY there was an article in a paper how they did a beauty pageant at the uni and how he was in awe from a beautiful girl who was wearing something see-through and won. It was just some type of a made up article, when papers try to make up something that isn’t there.
Bit when this exact girl after a long while became his steady girlfriend, after breaking up with her boyfriend and being flatmates with William ( it was always portrayed in the press how he pursued her), I wondered who organized that first publication and that beauty contest ( I mean it’s not something regularly taking place at the elite universities?), drawing everyone’s attention to Kate for the first time and parading her as the most beautiful – and unavailable – girl at St Andrews. Engineering mastermind behind this )). Pippa’s chances are so slim.
It was a fashion show and they were already flatmates at that time.
I don’t know if they were already flatmates -I think they were still living on campus. Kate did some first-rate stalking to get there, though.
He did seem to like the attention, but the things is, if you’re not an actor or singer or anything else in entertainment…having paps follow you and tabloids report on you gets to be a bit odd.
“I mean, she handled it all really badly, but she was so young, I can’t blame her.”
Well, she was 28 years old, so with her educational and employment opportunities (money to go to good schools and parents able to give her a job in their company), she should have had some kind of secure background and already had something she was building up for her own future. At least, someone with her advantages would have, imo.
But I think she was doing then what she’s doing now. Same tactic as her siblings. Just floundering around, trolling for a union with the rich (and preferably titled) spouse, play-pretending to work, etc.
If she were a different person before the butt-thing (capable and wanting to be an independent person), then imo, we’d see some of those older character traits now, but all we see is the standard Middleton offspring traits.
Question: Was Pippa dating Nico when she was driving in Paris with someone waving a gun?
In case this was rhetorical, no she wasn’t. According to what I can find, she and Alex Loudon broke up in Nov 2011. The gun incident (which magically disappeared) happened in April 2012. Articles say she dated James Matthews Oct 2012, they broke up in Nov, and she and Nico started dating after that. I don’t know whom she was dating in April 2012.
What a sad pathetic existence.
What a sad pathetic existence.
Also she was punching way above her weight with that Alex Loudon fellow.
I do feel sorry for her but I think this situation us entirely of her own making. She could have had any career she wanted but she chose instead to play society girlfriend and failed to get a ring – which obviously bothers her or the press makes out that it bothers her. Get a job, work hard, stop the pap walks, and only date guys who are on the same page (ready to settle down). If you invest a year in a relationship and what you want is marriage but he doesn’t, walk away. Spending more time won’t “convince” him.
Well I learned a new word today. Hagiography.
Other than that, Pippa is sad and very orange and probably a little bit hopeless
Her mistake was not taking the gig in America with NBC… she would’ve been the belle of NY. Anna Wintour and Graydon Carter would’ve made sure of it. She could’ve reinvented herself.
She desperately wanted that gig – she didn’t turn it down as an offer wasn’t made.
She has neither the talent nor training for an on-screen NBC job. Her role would have been to drop hints about her sister’s life while pretending otherwise.
She wants to become a nutritionist? I assume then that she’s in the process of applying to study nutrition at university?
When this nutritionist angle came out in the DM a few months ago, it was written that she took an online course with an NYC class and gotten a certificate through that. She didn’t do the usual university degree course.
Iirc, it said that this online course was what other society people. So it sounds like she heard of it, took it, and now she’s trying to make money off of this field, but doing it the easy way, instead of working on a solid foundation first. Sort of like what brother James does with his (failed) businesses by just easily getting Uncle Gary’s money.
I think she’s trying to morph into some sort of extreme sport or sport lifetime guru.
The Pipster has probably played her last card. She needs to find a new deck.
Her sister’s lack of work ethic certainly isn’t helping Pippa. Had Kate taken her role much more seriously, as did Diana, Pippa would probably have received more invitations to socialize among the highest echelons of society not only in Great Britain but other countries as well.
I vote she relocates to America and buckles down to work in some sport related capacity, Special Olympics or Right to Play? Blend of sports and non profit, play to her passions and strengths
“She never wanted that relationship to end, but with her fame there was no solution.”
Yes, there is a solution regarding her fame. Stop trying to get in the media. She even went for an NBC job. That’s media.
What other in-laws of the royals has fame besides the Middletons? Which other ones have parlayed their sibling’s status to garner media attention for themselves?
Oops. This was supposed to be its own post, instead of as a reply.
I feel a little sorry for her, but not too much. I think she set her goals far above her talent level. She was thrust into the spotlight by her sister’s marriage and she tried to become an instant Martha Stewart. Say what you will about Martha’s personality, but she worked very, very hard to get where she is and she had a real vision regarding what she wanted to accomplish. Pippa was just a copycat, and that rarely works for long. (Plus she sucked.) The reason I feel a little sorry for her is that she would probably have been perfectly content being a little orange shopper until she got married to a nice investment banker or something and had some children she could shop for, but now she will never be content until she does something to live up to Kate’s “accomplishment.”
I will feel sorry for her only if she becomes an outright object of ridicule by the aristo set. Other than that nope.
Carole & the Middletons had an ambitious plan. One to be admired but I think two things they didn’t account for are that Kate and Pippa are (or seem to be) two very different people & the amount of energy & resources they’d have to put in to bring big baby Bill to heel.
Kate’s plan of being an ornament who’d patiently wait worked for what seems to be her personality. Pippa (a little less aesthetically pleasing to the eye and a bit more outgoing) would need a different plan, a plan that doesn’t call for being a long-suffering & quiesant girlfriend. I also think that attention to Pippa’s problem probably fell to the wayside because of the intense support Carole both needed to give to Kate as well as Carole herself getting caught up in living vicariously through Kate.
On the one hand, I think Pippa is used to coming in 2nd behind Kate therefore she gets a bit more freedom. I think that works for her to a certain extent. I also think the family/Carole succumbed to the “wot! She’s making pots of money; she’ll be okay” trap. In the end, Pippa’s world was crumbling as it seemed to be getting better in that it was raining opportunities.
If I were the Pipster, I’d stop seeking out such high profile venues for about 18-month to 2.5 years. I’d still keep my hand in but in a very low key way. While under the radar, I’d build a solid reputation around whatever work I chose and I’d also build a network of support around my work & name. I’d stop chasing the obvious big trophy names & titles during that same timeframe. I’d date at or just above my punching weight. I’d reinvent myself that way, then I’d hold up my finger to the wind to figure out which way life is blowing. After I take in the general temperature, I’d decide if I wanted to ride the breeze. The beautiful thing is that she has the financial resources to do it.
“The beautiful thing is that she has the financial resources to do it.”
But regrettably not your brain, common sense and forward planning !
You have never heard the aristos’ pet name for the Middletons? They call them the Wisteria sisters: beautiful, fragrant, and ferocious climbers.
It’s unfair to say that she “squandered” her opportunities. She took on everything she was offered and gave it a good try. Remember, she was bashed for using her connections and trying to get a career out of it?
Not everyone can be a good writer or a broadcast journalist. She obviously gave it a try. How many of us can say that we did amazing when we were given a chance of a lifetime?
She tried for jobs in which she knew she had no experience nor qualifications nor for which she would give as much effort to keep them as others with more work ethic would have. That’s why she (and James) kept bombing.
Other people would have gone to university to major in a field in which they want a job in. Writers would have majored in literature. Broadcasters would have gone to broadcasting school or majored in journalism and interned at tv or radio stations. Actual UK nutritionists would have gotten a university degree for this field and government license. But she wants to work as a nutritionist without the degree and license and instead got a certification from an online course that is based in NYC.
But it seems neither she nor James want to do the study and work to build a solid foundation on which to base a sustainable career. Instead, like James, he gets Uncle Gary’s money and becomes an owner of a manufacturing company instead of working for somebody else in order to learn about how to run one.
I believe she studied English literature at Edinburgh (a very good uni), but it obviously didn’t help her writing. I think the fitness angle could work for her, but she desperately needs better PR/management people. And less self-tanner.
Yes, that’s what I DON’T understand about good ole Pippers. She goes full throttle when it comes to her sporting larks. She trains as hard as she can and then runs as fast as she can for as far as she can. And keeps up with full blown professionals to boot! Yet. When it comes to her career -she half a**es it. Everytime. She wants to start at the top and not do the work. Here her ‘advantages’ kind of scr*wed her over. She is offered positions at the top, takes them and her lack of talent and experience show badly.
Offered a test shoot with NBC! (but she’s terrible on camera).
Offered a book deal off of nothing but her butt and experience writing her parent’s newsletter! (but she’s a terrible writer).
I can only think of what she should have done. Stay within so-called society (only write for Tatler) where her limitations would be protected and celebrated (pun intended). But she wanted the brass ring. (wink wink. punning is funning!)
I do think she loved Alex. But not enough. Remember what Loudon was offering in 2011. A flat in Fulham. A comfortable life filled with the same people, the same activities, the same wealth level and the same milieu in which she was already ensconced. Pippers wanted more! More Hello mag covers! More pap walks! Ooh what fun! Lookerme! So. What now?
If she really wants to do this nutritionist thing she needs to do it righteously. At the moment it appears as if she is merely piggybacking off of ‘Deliciously Ella’. (more copying). Get a real nutritionists degree. If you start ‘real’ you’ll end ‘real’. Start by hopping another’s bandwagon (royalty!) and you get left in the dust.
I think she should have jumped on the #pippatips comedy train and rode that to success. It was very funny and who doesn’t love self deprecating humor?
Since she is so into fitness, why not a footballer or is that way too lower class for a Bucket? Gareth Bale is pretty hot although I know he has a girlfriend.
Didn’t Zara marry a rugby player? It actually wouldn’t be a bad move for Pippa.
Rugby players tend to be from a better class than footballers. It’s a legacy of rugby. Being taught in public schools whereas football was taught in state schools which means footballers tend to be lower class and uneducated since they barely make it past GCSEs.
In terms of money, if you want a rich sports star partner, football is the way to go because lots of money has been pumped into football. Those guys are several times multi-millionaires by the time they are 21 even if they are mediocre players playing for a mediocre club.
However, most people don’t rate footballers beyond their money.
I thought footballer because of the money, swag, attention and wouldn’t Pippa be the ultimate WAG?
If it’s good enough for Posh, why not Pips?
Ma Middleton would eat crow before she let La Pippa marry a footie star. Just roll right over her with a hearse right now because she would rather be dead and buried before that occurrence….
La Pippa needs to read some books and figure out how Lee Bouvier plotted her future and finagled a pseudo “princess” title. And kept on marrying until she is set for all her life. La Pippa’s prospects look dim, otherwise.
One needs to appear a little less available, more mysterious and a lot less desperate. Fake it until you make it La Pippa.
Cricket: Posh isn’t ‘Posh’ at all. Her parents are working class made good. She acquired the moniker ‘posh’ because she loved wearing designer clothing right from the beginning and her parents could afford to buy her designer clothing. Sometimes ‘posh’ is used inter-changeably with rich, but you have to understand the nuance of it because Posh Spice has never been posh.
I’d say that her parents are like Carole M, except they didn’t go the aristo route as far as parenting their kids or showing off their wealth.
And David Beckham is solidly working class.
Thank you, all, for your insight! I had no idea there were such differences regarding the background of the sports.
LAK,
In regards to my Posh comment, I was being sarcastic 🙂 I know of Victoria’s background and her and Becks social climbing to get a knighthood and Beckingham Palace. I was trying (and failing miserably) to poke some fun. Victoria may be of working class stock but she dreams big and has gone from a Spice Girl to a fashion designer – with no formal training.
I also know that hell would freeze over before Carol(e) would bless a relationship with Pips and a footballer. But it is juicy to imagine how fun it would be.. can you picture their family get togethers at the palace?
And wasn’t Alex a pro cricket player? too lazy to look but remember something about Pips and a cricketeer.
If she were to go for a sport type, I’m thinking tennis is the perfect choice.
Cricket…LOL. as lainey says, let’s gossip genie Pippa with a footballer. It.would.be.gold 🙂
With all the beautiful girls throwing themselves at players, how would Pippa be able to compete with that?
Pippa is too uptight to attract a footballer. They like their women Las Vegas trashy.
Somewhere between Victoria Secrets lingerie doll and Las Vegas trashy
She should get a career, work hard, and not have marriage be her top priority. If that happens, it happens.
That’s what us sane women would tell our daughters. But that mother of hers has drilled it into her head that she needs to climb the social ladder…in the UK this appears to be done more often through marriage than by hard work.
This might sound random but I feel she could do well under Lord Sugar’s stewardship.
@ saywhatwhen
Perhaps one should consider the class background of the Middletons. They were from lower ranks but they wanted to ascend. So then sent their children to private education and upper middle class and upper class events and such. And there they saw that all their children’s acquaintances at such schools and events dated rich and married rich.
So they drilled their children to go for rich and titled spouses and forget about that career thing.
What they overlooked is that many established upper middle class people don’t purposefully date rich but they go for a career and often a typical upper middle class career. Now one of the best place to meet people of your own background is a respective career … go figure.
Upper middle class and above doesn’t marry lazy no-career party girls and that was basically the Middleton girls’ way of life for a decade.
Social climbing is hard and difficult and everything is much more difficult for the climbers than for the established people.
Something about that Nico guy always seemed “off” to me. He was so douchey! He never seemed into her in any of the photos I saw. She’s better off without him.
Nico did tan and makeup and smile more than Pippa. ;-D
Carol is obviously the brains and the spark plugin that family. Carol is a self-made woman. It amazes me that she wants her daughters to be dependent on a man for money and social standing.
Also, why does Carol want to be part of the titled group? None of those people, including the BRF, have earned any of their wealth. Why does their approval mean so much to her?
Because she’s a snob. She thinks these people are better than the rest of us and wants to be just like them. Either that or she’s a desperately insecure women who needs the external trapping of wealth to feel ‘safe’. Sad really, people like that are always empty inside because the insecurity is internal and they can never really fill that ‘hole’.
@ skyblue 101
I think you might be right. A secure woman wouldn’t have driven her daughter into such a marriage. Kate isn’t developing into any direction but she is on total standstill. Her extensions are more alive than Kate.
Which kind of mother would drive her daughter into such a marriage?
And if that is that what has been done to Kate then one might guess what Carole would do to Pippa.
32? More like 52.
When you are so financially cushioned and educationally enhanced and statuswise ascending as Pippa then you don’t even need talent to achieve a decent career. Just some moderate work ethics, well…
Though I do believe that both Carole and Waity demanded that Pippa tone down her antics.
It is interesting that Pippa keeps her exes on her side. Upper middle class sticks together, it seems. I have never managed to do that with many of my exes.
Is it the norm for thirty-somethings to have ‘their own property’ in London? Isn’t that an expensive city?
I swear the ranks need some new blood in them, how many exes do they all need to go through?