After months of quiet drama last year, Pippa Middleton finally split with Nico Jackson. He basically moved to Switzerland to get away from her (just my opinion), although it probably didn’t help their relationship when she was seen spending the night with James Matthews. And wouldn’t you know? After the Nico split, Pippa immediately moved into a relationship with James Matthews, who is “terribly rich” and “really into Pippa.” Since getting with James, Pippa has been somewhat quiet. She’s been doing her sporting charity events and she’s been taking a lot of vacations, basically. No more Pippa Tips, no more “columns” by Pippa about party planning and food and British events. And even though James doesn’t have a title, he’s definitely seen as “husband material” for the sister-in-law of the future king. And according to the Daily Mail, that’s the point. The DM has a lengthy (exhaustive) piece about William is “advising” Pippa on her career/life nowadays. And he’s basically convinced her that for the good of her family, she just needs to land a rich guy and settle down. William = Jane Austen. Some highlights from the Daily Mail story:
Pippa’s career is over, by choice. “Pippa’s media career is over. The Mail on Sunday has established that she has no substantial contracts left and, more significantly, has no intention of taking on new work. And the reason for this vanishing act, say friends, is that 32-year-old Pippa has been ‘quietly and diplomatically reined in’ by Prince William, who is understood to have been helping advise her on her future role.”
William is “guiding” Pippa. He was worried about Pippa bringing criticism to the family, and an unnamed friend-of-Pippa tells the DM: “It was felt by William in particular that she needed some guidance and support. Among some courtiers, there were also echoes of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, after her break-up with Prince Andrew and how she sold herself out with various corporate deals. It was felt something needed to be done. So Pippa has been quietly and diplomatically reined in.”
Pippa’s redo. The Daily Mail says William convinced Pippa to focus on charity work and end her associations with newspapers and magazines as a columnist. Pippa “has also ensured she is no longer the ‘face’ of her parents’ company Party Pieces, an online party supplies company. A few weeks ago, she stopped writing the monthly online blog, now produced by another employee simply known as ‘Rebecca’.”
Pippa could have had a career as celebrity/socialite. She even hired a publicity team that could have gotten her some big contracts. A source says: “Pippa was great to deal with,. She was friendly, professional and really wanted to get the ball rolling. The brief was sports and there wasn’t really a boundary. We were looking at personal training. There was talk at one point about a nutrition range. There were a number of endorsements on the table, all sorts. The problem was that when it got down to signing off on any of the deals and doing any business, a line was drawn. Pippa would always say no. She was the one driving it all and then it got to a point where she backed out and nothing would happen. Some of us assumed it was the Palace and I think at times it was quite frustrating for Pippa, because there was never any progression when she wanted things to move forward.”
William’s legal team. “It is understood that William has gone so far as to consult his legal team over how far he should protect his family name from commercial enterprises that might damage it. Perhaps it is no surprise that Pippa uses the same legal firm as Kate and William.”
It’s all about landing the husband now. Pippa’s friend tells the Mail: “Meeting a fabulously wealthy man, giving up work, going on lots of exclusive holidays and ramping up the charity work worked well for Kate, so why shouldn’t her baby sister do just the same?”
I love that last quote. They make it sound like Kate “landed” William, easy-peasy. In reality, it was nine long years of waitying, and making waitying her full-time occupation. Waitying meant Kate couldn’t get a real job. So does Pippa have nine years to waity and build her new reputation as a Charity Hostess just so she can land someone fabulously rich? Eh.
Also: with all of William’s advising (and I question just how much advice he has given Pippa), has no one told Pippa that the Cheeto look is over?
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I do not believe this because Willnot is not that….selfless.
And perhaps not the best person to look to when it comes to “work” advice.
But he advised her to quit her work, so maybe it’s true?! 🙂
Got a big laugh out of the bit about workshy William worried that Pippa might bring criticism on the Royal Family. Has he read his and Waity’s own headlines lately???
Nothing says selfless like railroading someone else into giving up their career so they don’t embarrass you.
Bahahaha thanks for the laugh. But so true!
Working on landing a wealthy husband can be a career of sorts, it took 10 years to land Wills.
I love that every other sentence in this article seems to be implying that she is giving up work BY CHOICE. BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO. BECAUSE SHE SAYS NO. Seriously. It has nothing to do with the fact that she has no talent and is a general laughing stock. It’s all because SHE CHOSE to retire.
Heh. What ‘career’?
Ha! I thought exactly the same. Delia Smith and Mary Berry can breathe a sigh of relief that Pip’s books will never outsell theirs.
This guy will probably marry her — it would be a major coup for his family to have a close association with the royals.
But if you’re already wealthy, what will a loose connection to the royal family really get you? I’m honestly curious because I don’t understand.
Social standing.
I don’t understand why that matters if you’re already wealthy. Can’t wealth buy you any connections you might need?
they own a resort in St. Barts.. if whatever Kate wears sells out and makes profits for designers.. maybe association with this resort in Barts will lead to bookings and profits for the Matthews family?
Not in England. (jmo). The Royals aren’t merely decorative. You’re talking access to gov’t / the establishment at the highest levels.
Having never written anything more than a *newsletter* for her Parents website, Pippa was able to leverage a medium sized arse into a six figure book contract with a major publishing house.
Nico was able to leverage his Deutsche bank expertise into big-time Hedge fund mgmt in Switzerland.
James Matthews may have gone to Eton and made his own cash. But he wasn’t invited to the Royal Wedding. (With Pippa, he would have been).
Its old money versus brand spanking new.
Money isn’t everything in some British circles, Melly.
My thoughts are she will marry this guy by Christmas 2016 and immediately get pregnant then launch parenting advice columns and so on. They already moved in together and are renovating his house together seems like they could already be engaged.
Could be, but do you really think Pippa or Carole could possibly hold back on announcing an engagement to a wealthy self-made man? It’s not like she hasn’t worked through any number of aristocrats over the years and they don’t know the Middleton game. She’d jump at the chance to marry this guy and her and her mother would shout it from the rooftops 5 minutes after he proposed IMO.
He isn’t self-made. They are his father’s resorts, not his.
Nota: James’s family is self made in the same way that the Middletons/Uncle Gary are self made ie James’s father made a fortune in coach buses business having previously come from nothing. He then used that money to open the Eden Resort which has made the family MORE money.
James Mathews went into banking and made a personal fortune separate from his father’s money. In that sense, Pippa will have 2 fortunes at her disposal if she marries James…..James’s self made fortune and her FIL’s fortune.
LAK do we have any proof of that, other than unnamed friends say he’s made millions in hedge funds? Is his another one of those “rumored” personal fortunes, a la the Middletons that has been debunked many times over? Not that I expect Pippa to date or marry a poor man, so likely he has significant cash on hand now.
She had a career?
Wasn’t her carrer trying to land a rich husband?
Maybe he will guide her to ditch the orange!!
^ that isn’t even orange; that’s straight up lobster
OMG my first thought too…that skin color!
@Coconut
Fingers crossed…lol
a career made possible by nepotism and an arse in a bridesmaid dress. if William wants her to do something i guess she owes them.
never forget pippatips
When remembering something, it’s best not to forget it
#PippaTips #NeverForget
Also; If forgetting something, try remembering more
#PippaTips #KeepItSimple
It seems the Middleton siblings are about a fabulous lifestyle above all and do not want to have to submit to the daily grind of work to achieve it. Pips, James, and Kate are all the same way.
Methinks that it didn’t work out with Nico Jackson because he was not mega rich. There was gossip that he could not keep Pippa in the manner in which she wanted to be accustomed–he moved to Switzerland to try to make more $$$ for her. She is 32 and has never owned or rented a home of her own, she continued to share the Middleton flat in Chelsea with her brother until she just recently moved into James Matthews’ 17 million pound townhouse. She’s finally “secured her future” and I bet Matthews will be plowing money into Boomf and other goofy Middleton ventures posthaste.
Oh please I’m by no means Williams biggest fan but with what the middletons have gotten away with I highly doubted he cared what pippa got up to as long as she waited on him hand and foot like the rest of her family.
My guess the middletons are blaming William and the palace just like they did when Kate ‘Wasn’t allowed to work certain jobs’. All her columns were slammed and she was apparently terrible for TV.
“Meeting a fabulously wealthy man, giving up work, going on lots of exclusive holidays and ramping up the charity work worked well for Kate, so why shouldn’t her baby sister do just the same?”
Um… Kate has “given up work” AND “ramped up” her charity work?? Where was I when she was working? And I assume she went from doing no charity work to barely meeting the minimum standard, right?
This is the Middleton women MO – hustle for a wealthy, well connected man and then once they get the ring, do nothing but leech.
William advised Pippa on her career, but what do either one know about gainful employment?
Zapp, you clearly don’t understand that their existence should be enough to shut the peasants up
Not only she’s giving up work because it’s a choice but because it’s SOMEONE ELSE’S CHOICE for her! So it’s not her responsibility even!
Kate has only been married five years and the wheels are coming off despite the nine years of waitying. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are separated before ten years. So Pippa must see this and realize it is not quite the deal it is cracked up to be.
Also she needs to lay off the self tanner.
How these people cannot see how ridiculous and fake that tan looks is beyond me, All the money in the world and still they can’t see they look like tangerines on fire.
Call me crazy, but I think most of Pippa’s tan is real, but with self-tanner applied to even out crappy tan lines. She’s active and likely outside running and biking a lot.
To hear the phrase “land a husband” is ALMOST enough to make me toss my scrambled eggs.
Don’t toss your scrabble eggs or yell. Those qualities are so unsightly for a lady. You’ll never land a beau with that domineering tone.
#Mellytips
LOL!
Hahaha. That’s great.
This. What century are we living in again?
Puhleeze. William can barely be arsed about his own “career” to advise Pippa to do anything. More like all her opportunities dried up after people realized she was all show, no action. She’s much better suited for the rich wife gig than the television personality/lifestyle coach/author gig. I will give her credit for her charity work, but that’s about it. Carole & Mike raised 3 children with little to no work ethic and skills.
SWAG? society wives and girlfriends? Pippa aspiring to become the Duchess of SWAG?
It’s pretty obvious that i don’t think much of Normal Bill, but i have to ride to his defence on this one.
This entire article is Middleton PR. It has all the talking points used when Kate couldn’t be bothered to work or do charity work prior to marriage. In those days, the blame was always laid at the Palace’s feet until the Palace finally shut that down and made it very clear that Kate could do whatever she wanted.
The above story is skirting around the elephant in the room which is that Pippa failed at her career. All her efforts were either laughed at or met with indifference.
Further, her failure to follow through properly on projects, a trait we see in Kate and James, is on her. Not the Palace or people trying to employ her.
Now that she’s landed a big money fish, she can stop pretending to work and simply live off him. Yet, she wants to protect her reputation such that no one points fingers, so PR is put out to blame William for her current choices.
Blaming other people is a Middleton specialty. And if it’s the royals, the better since the Palace rarely answers back and many peolle already assume the Palace behaves badly to non royals.
She seemed a bit more ambitious than her sister though. I suspect that if she were allowed to expand into America, or if one of her ventures really blew up, that would’ve been her preferred path.
The fact that she tested for NBC is proof that she was allowed to expand to America. She even sat down for an interview with Matt Lauer to promote her charity bike ride and herself.
The test was apparently bad, and lo behold, an article appeared in which she suddenly had to be based in Britain at all times.
When her book came out, she refused to do any promotion beyond the book launch. The Palace was very clear on that occassion that they weren’t stopping her from anything.
This is a case of someone whose career didn’t work out and so back to drawing board of nabbing a rich guy.
It’s sad really because as you pointed out, she seemed to have more hustle and ambition for herself than Kate, BUT ho hum.
I wonder how James’s pursuit of rich wife will go.
Interesting question, LAK. Maybe that’s why he went to Hong Kong. I was wondering about the huge Asian market for marshmallows!
She showed none of this ambition during her sister’s 9 years of waiting. She did next-to-nothing, like her sister, then started trading on her sister’s connections to get book deals and interviews once the engagement finally happened.
Now that’s pretty interesting, LAK. I am curious about what William really thinks, now!
I agree – i don’t think he ever gave an eff what she did for her ‘career’, he never cared about Chutney’s ‘career’.
And yes this is typical Middleton PR, their game is so predictable.
She actually seems pretty happy doing her athletic endeavors, etc. so it’s a little weird to me that they even needed to put this story out there. She tried, it didn’t work, now seems to be content as things are. But then this weird story.
For someone who wants to write, I never really understood why she didn’t start off with her own blog about her training and fundraising. She’s done some interesting events and it would be a logical niche for her.
You forgot the most important reason, if this were true, it would be a case of the “pot meeting the kettle.” I mean, c’mon, William telling someone else to focus more on charity work?! I needed a good chuckle on Sunday, and that’s what I got thinking about that irony/hypocrisy.
I bet Pippa agreed to stop wantonly hustling only if somebody was prepared to take the blame. Enter Willie and this blatant PR cover story. Nothing gets past us on Celebitchy!
What did Pippa do before Kate got married? Pippa was almost 30-ish by then, right?
She had a career of sorts.
She worked at a party planning business and she wrote the Party pieces newsletter on their website.
When you see the articles, her book’s #pippatips style of writing makes sense.
Her parents’ party planning business though-not like she had to go out and hustle up a job.
Oh ok, thanks you guys. Is it fair to say she did more than Kate?
Better than Kate who only managed 9mths which was really about 3mths when compared to regular daily 9-5 schedule because Kate started at 3days a week which went down to 2 days a week with a couple of months’ heartbreak leave of absence in the middle taken as a result of William dumping her.
All the PR saying that Kate worked at PP was lies for 2 reasons:
1. All the jobs the media claimed she was doing were credited to someone else….a real person not someone made up to protect Kate’s privacy.
2. Pippa once gave an interview to the times newspaper in which she was asked directly what job Kate did at PP. She couldn’t answer. Not that she wasn’t allowed to answer. According to the journalist, she struggled to come up with an answer which was the only moment throughout the interview that she was lost for words.
Why should anyone, whether you like them or not, have their live dictated to them because of whom their sister married.
Can someone who is a “Pippa follower” tell me what career she had prior to Kate’s marriage to William? She must have been 27 at the time they married so presumably she did something…or didn’t she?
She did PR for Table Talk an events planning business and also for Party Pieces her parents business. Neither were more than part time allowing lots of times for her sport activities and social life/vacations.
She actually did work full time for Table Talk when she first graduated from Edinburgh University. However when the recession of 2008 began to bite, the company pulled back and she was reduced to part time. At that time she started working part time for Table Talk and part time for her parent’s company.
thanks @justme, I didn’t know that! She may have been the only Middleton child to ever hold a full time job 🙂
The Flamin Hot Cheeto finally landed a super rich dude, so she no longer needs to flail in a half assed way at some ill defined media career.
I do find it plausible that Will was doing what this article says because he is a control freak and paranoid.
Truly though Pippa and James Mathews will be engaged before the year is up, she’s already moved into his lavish Chelsea home that makes the Middleton flat in London look like a hovel. The Midds are ecstatic I’m sure at the prospect of routine luxe vacays in St Barts where the Mathews fam owns the Eden Rock resort. Buh bye Mustique it’s been real!
I don’t get it. It’s not ok for the sister-in-law of the 2nd in line for the throne to work, have a visible public career or do her own thing as it may affect of ’embarrass’ her royal relative (William) but yet it’s perfectly fine for the stepson of the current Prince of Wales (and soon to be King) to have a very public career as a food critic, making tv appearances and tweeting left and right about all kinds of things.
What gives here? Color me confused. Is there a double standard due to gender (Tom P-B vs Pips), social status (born aristo vs nouveau money) or Charles vs Williams’s attitude/s – ? Or are the Middletons simply throwing their Golden Boy Wills under the bus.
You raise a good point. I suspect the difference is talent. (Thank you, LAK!)
I forgot about Camilla’s children and extended family who have forged successful careers in the media. Not just Tom and Laura. There is also Ben Elliot, Camilla’s nephew who founded the concierge company, Quintenssentially. https://www.quintessentially.com
And Camilla’s sister and her interior design firm that openly benefits from the connection.
Pippa, like Kate, is blaming William for her lack of talent. In few years, we’ll probably hear the same excuse for James’s failures.
Fantastic point!!!
Not just step-son. Step-son’s wife, Sara, is a fashion journalist who never shies away from fashion events.
Then there is step-daughter, Laura, who is an art curator with a gallery, a situation that requires media contact to flourish. Step-daughter’s hubby is an accountant.
And that is why the above article is ridiculous.
Good point. I think part of the difference is that Tom Parker-Bowles is a food critic of high-end food. That is about aesthetics and pleasure. And that is okay work with the British Aristo set. But Pippa is a low end party planner. Or what would the Aristo set think about party tips like Pippa’s?
Advising the rich on food = culture
Advising the poor on party = not classy
That is of course idi***cally snobbish in my opinion but snobbishness is the foundation of any class system.
Don’t think it’s the party planner angle. Isn’t the Queen’s cousin a party planner? Elizabeth Anson I think her name is.
Or as stated above, Tom has talent and Pippa doesn’t.
ETA: The Queen’s own cousins, Patrick Lichfield( photographer) and Elizabeth Anson (party planning).
Actually, Elizabeth Anson is ALWAYS giving interviews about her party planning business and namechecking The Queen. IIRC, she gave one in the past few weeks.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/664282/Lady-Elizabeth-Anson-party-planner-The-Queen-birthday-tips
And Camilla’s sister — the interior designer. SHe’s been side eyed for royal connections too I think.
Responding to my own comment above to add that I’m suspicious that perhaps it is a ‘William’ thing in that he’s paranoid about how the public perceives his wife and her family to the point he’s dictating here. Not that it matters a whit to him what his own public rep is.
Charles doesn’t seem to give a hoot what his wife’s kids or family are up to, as long as they don’t openly exploit the royal connection or do anything highly controversial or embarrassing. It boggles why Pips can’t follow suit.
Is it a class thing? The Shands &Parker Bowleses are born aristos so are perceived by Buck P/Clarence House to be ‘in the know’ about how to comport themselves; but poor Pips is to ignorant to be in the limelight without a guiding hand?
Charles Spencer attempted a media career after Diana married Charles POW, so it can’t be a straight forward class prejudice thing.
I genuinely feel that whatever their true feelings on this, the royals, including William, are being thrown under the bus by the Middletons to save face. It’s what the Middletons did with Kate’s non existant work record pre-marriage.
Nikolaos of Greece briefly tried working for Faux News. Not surprised the deposed Greek former-royals would sink that low.
Whoaaa, Kaiser! Will = Jane Austen? She was too witty for that comparison?
Please, any chance we can agree on Will = Emma?
Emma = educated, interested in people, smart, compassionate and trying to take responsibility for her own mess in the end
William?
Mrs. Elton, then.
I came to comment on that too. JA’s novels are a criticism of the limited life choices for women, as well as an expose on the uselessness of that entire social class. Unless William’s entire life is ironic performance art directed at the absurdity of a royal family, he’s nothing like Jane Austen.
I’ve actually wondered for a while now, what pippa and William’s relationship is. I honestly cannot get a read on it for the life of me! is he the older, patronizing brotherly type figure, do they have very little exchange between them, does he “put up” with her and james? I just want to know so badly!
I kind of think that James doesn’t mind that Pippa gave up on any notions of a career already.
The only thing even remotely believable about this story is William ‘counseling’ someone not to work. Stupid line of thinking.
The other part of the article that is not shown here is how happy various charities are to have her as their patron. What the what?! Who is she that she gets to be a patron??? It’s totally bizarre.
It is all about connections in the UK. Doesn’t matter if you know what you are doing. Doesn’t matter if you have studied the respective field nor if you have experience in the respective field. Just connections. UK society is a class system and pretty much the worst in the West.
It kind of reminds me of Jackie O and Lee Radizwill. Lee was basically famous for being the sister of the president’s wife.
I don’t think it took much if any convincing to make Pippa hunt for a rich husband. That is all the work ethics Carole has installed in her daughters. Pippa’s “career” never really took off nor was it a real merit-based working-hard career. She was never a real Martha Stewart or Mary Berry but merely a celebrity lifestyle guru because of her royal connections. And look at her party tips. She is the entertainment but she doesn’t really entertain / advise on lifestyle. She is the future Queen’s sister and many people are willing to do her a favour or are simply interested in her because of her royal connections.
The Middletons full stop have been out of the public arena they seemed to be in and out of the Daily Mail but it’s all gone very quiet
The Fail is there mouthpiece – there goto rag to leak stories too. The editor of the print edition is a friend of the family and used to advise them during the GF years, still does.
I’m no fan of William but this seems more like the Middleton game of blame William for X family member’s choices. The palace/William were blamed for Kate sitting around doing nothing for 9 years waiting for William to propose.
If William truly had an issue with the Midds using their royal connections or concern about their commercial activities bringing embarrassment down on the BRF, he’d shut down Ma Midds using her role as Prince George’s beloved granny to land ad space/articles in parenting mags that mention Party Pieces in every paragraph. He’d shut down James using the kiddies and QEII’s images on his marshmallows and he’d shut down James trolling William/Harry’s aristo friends for investors.
Pippa failed in her career endeavors and instead of accepting that life as a media personality/celebrity was not in the cards, William is being blamed for her failures. In the Middleton world, it’s always someone else’s fault when things don’t go according to plan.
I understand this take on it but I have trouble thinking the Middletons would play a public blame game with William at this point. All signs point to them adoring William and coddling him like the giant baby he is (“Cheese on toast, anyone?”) After all, he finally got them into the inner sanctum of the Royal Family after they hung on by their fingernails for years waiting for him to say the magic word and finally propose.
William is on record as saying he admired Carole’s tenaciousness – the Mids have been leaking to the press for years, the marriage and kids have only made them more brazen to come out and throw Chopper under the bus. They think they are untouchable by the press, protected by William’s status as the heir’s heir. The house of cards they have built will come crashing down.
The Mids have a loooong history of cashing in, just like others. In the lead up to the wedding they were going to sell a line of exclusive wedding tat supposedly with the backing of Twit and Twat but the palace put a stop to that as it was felt that was going to far. Like Kate, her family’s rep has been whitewashed by the press. There are many many stories of their bad, grand behaviour – demanding massive discounts from Audi so Kate could drive around London in a fancy leased car (which i believe was confirmed by Audi themselves).
@Betti I find the cashing-in business fascinating–especially in light of the egregious stories out this week of Prince Andrew potentially brokering Kazak business deals for millions using his royal influence. There was a DM story a few years ago titled “Kate Middleton’s family cashing in with Land Rover” about their sweetheart leasing deals. A recent story about Pippa moving in with James Matthews made a point to mention Pippa’s new grey Range Rover Evoque.
Aside from the whole story being completely made up, there is only one reason Pippa would be focusing exclusively on finding a mate: tic tic tic…The sad truth for all girls her age.
Agree
True.
Women, not girls.
How can anybody pay attention to the piece when she is so orange?
Why aren’t any of her friends telling her she is too orange?
Wait, I never see her with girlfriends. Does she have any?
She has girlfriends. She is often shown with them – in fact at this very event pictured above, there are pictures of her with two of them – Camilla Campion Awaad and Camilla Hook Holland (the upper classes love the name Camilla!). They are old friends and were with her on the trip to Madrid she took after the wedding. However the press is not interested in her girlfriends and their existence is rarely mentioned.
I don’t get it. Why do pippa and Kate look so bad? Pippa is orange and kates makeup looks like a grade 8 did it. Can’t they afford makeup artists?!