Pippa Middleton REFUSES to take a lower profile, thank you very much. In addition to continuing to get pap’d on a daily basis, Pippa did her first post-breakup event last night when she went to a VIP-ice-skating and tree-lighting event sponsored by Tiffany & Co. According to reports, Pippa is a good ice skater and she looked like she enjoyed herself at the event. What do you think of Pippa’s ensemble? I think she looks cute! She kind of has a button problem, just like her big sister, although I don’t think Pippa’s buttony issues are as bad as Kate’s. Kate’s button problem is a button catastrophe!
Last week, the British rags had a series of revelations about Pippa and her now ex-boyfriend Alex Loudon. Apparently, Alex did the dumping – because his family no longer approved of new-money Pippa and her pushy ways. After that, The Mail reported that Kate, William and maybe even Prince Charles wanted Pippa to lower her profile post-breakup. I’m actually thrilled that Pippa has refused, even though she did cancel on one of the big events in a few weeks. I want Pippa to do well for herself – mostly because she has a real job, and her hustling involves more than JUST getting the ring, as opposed to her sister. If I was advising Pippa, I would suggest more of these ice-skating type events. I would also encourage her to show up her sister, and get involved in some charity work in a big way, because God knows when Kate will ever get off her ass and do something helpful.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Wake me for the sex tape.
you know a sex tape is coming.
This guy…er, girl again?
Kaiser I get that you admire Pippa’s pluck and personality. I just don’t that she’s any better than her sister. Where Kate is lazy and devious Pippa’s fameho-ish and tacky and just like her sister she’s trying to land a big fish. I can accept that I’ll have to deal with bland Kate infringing on the gossip pages because she’s a Duchess soon to be Princess. Pippa is not pretty, and is not anything close to a fashion icon and she’s going to end up a disenfranchised despot like Fergie on the OWN network in 2035.
I like Pippa! I enjoy her normal girl style and her up-tradeyness! The idea of wanting more for yourself and not being afraid to pursue it is something that resonates for me.
What has Kate done apart from wait around for some guy (admittedly the future king of England, but still) to marry her?
I enjoy that Pippa appears to be pursuing a career and interests outside of getting a husband.
the uptradeyness is what pulled the middletons up from coal mines to Royal Family adjacent…i approve. She’s clearly a chip off the old block.
That said, Kate whilst being a poor excuse for a role model, has shown the same tenacity to become Royal so perhaps kudos to her too.
I like Pippa too, love her coats!
So convenient of her to attend such an event while all the while screaming ‘I am a private citizen, I have a right to privacy’ and suing everything with a pulse.
It’s either you keep a low profile or milk it for all it’s worth – there’s no middle ground fugly Pippa. And that goes for the rest of the Middletons.
She’s not acting like a Kardashian. She’s not showing up to the opening of a letter. She’s getting papped doing her normal routine, and whatever else she wants to do. So, I think it’s the paps that are trying to make her happen, not her trying to make her happen. If she enjoys the attention a bit, that’s better than the ones who moan and complain about being famous. I think she’s balancing her life as well as can be expected, given the circumstances.
Well said!
Actually she does go to the opening of an envelope and must get her pr friends to get her tickets. How else does someone who’s only famous because their sister is only famous by association get invited to an event that has the likes Dame Judi Dench on their guest list? Suddenly Pippa’s an award winning actress? And here I thought she was just a guest blog writer.
if her big book deal goes through, marriage will be the last thing on her mind.
I thought it was Demi in the photo on the homepage. Pippa is looking a little long in the tooth.
Lol!
I want that purse.
I do too, but it’s out of my price range!
Maybe, just maybe the Daily Fail is making mountains out of molehills, making Pippa look worse than she really is.
And everyone else they’re hating on too?
After I read yesterday’s reporting at the Guardian about Hugh Grant’s testimony at Lord Leveson’s inquiry into the News of the World and other papers on the phone hacking and about the way they report on e.g. celebs, I think the tabs are fanning the flames in a very big way.
It’s not that I don’t like to make fun if people behave stupidly or call the paps themselves, but I think some of the very negative, slanted and biased reporting in the traditional press is getting way out of hand.
She is always seen carrying that BAG….. almost all the pics of her, i see that bag, girl needs a new one I think.
It’s a Modalu bag, previously named Bristol but they decided to name it after her.
She has it in several colors too (I know, really tacky!) She’s really promoting the bag by using it all the time. Too bad it’s fugly.
While I agree that Pippa is on a mission, it’s not entirely her fault that she’s papped going about her daily life. To her credit she always seems pleasant and not too fame-whorish in her little outfits. She repeats coats, boots and purses and doesn’t treat each morning as her personal runway walk time.
I’m sure she loves her position but honestly she doesn’t seem to flaunt her joy (too much). She just gets on with it.
It’s all very Middleton.
Even though she dresses rather bland I still like her style and I think it works for her. But damn why is this chick so old-looking to be in her late 20s? She could easily pass for 40-something. She’s too hard in the face. Like her sister…
Pippa looks so old! She has a hard look, I think. Kate does too since becoming so thin; I think she looked so much better with a fuller face.
Sweet- hockey skates! I clicked on expecting to see the little white skates, but she’s got big black hockey ones like me. Finally I’m stylish 😉
I noticed those too! Though I did wonder if the rental figure skates were brown so she went with the black and white hockey skates because they matched her outfit better.
She’s such a famewhore.
But you’ll never convince her fanbase of that, because she’s the patron saint of homely girls everywhere — they think, “if Pippa can date a duke’s son, then so can I!” She gives homely girls hope, so they will overlook her fame-whoring.
Can.’t stand the Middleton sisters both two average looking pushy climbers who pursue titles, thank goodness Alex not stupid and weak as bald PR.William who married his first adult girlfriend because he was too wimpy to tell her to get lost I can see PW -at 35 miserable and complaining that the press forced him into marrying pushy mattress-Middleton . Alex is being applauded for getting away from those tacky pushy low class trashy Middletons!
I want that white coat!
So, eyeliner runs in the family, clearly.
What, the poor girl is supposed to become a shut in because her sister married someone famous?!? I mean, maybe she’s papping herself, but I could just as easily believe that she’s being stalked by paps.
You would encourage Pippa to show up her sister? She (and possibly the rest of the family) would be dropped like hot rocks from everyone’s list once St. James Palace puts out the word that she’s persona non grata. Which they would if she tried to overtake Kate.
And she works about as much as Kate does.
She looks radiant. Go Team Pippa!!!! 😀
Team Pippa! At least she doesn’t have a stick up her a– like all the Royals (except Harry, of course) and now her sister, too.
She looks so pretty here. I love the white coat!
do you truly believe for even half a second that should she marry a wealthy man Pippa is going to carry on working? seriously? i am asking every female on here in truth: if you married a wealthy man and he wanted you to stay home and be a housewife, would you turn it down? kaiser, why do you have such issue with kate being a housewife? i get the mentality that being in an advantageous financial situation SHOULD automatically free one up to focus on charitable works and patronages, but really…look around all corners of this world and tell me how many people, men or women, really utilize their good fortune to help others. nobody is out bagging them, so why do you put such expectation on the prince’s wife? fwiw: i think kate is doing what she has always done, which is exactly what william wants. housewife and mother. when you consider how his mother’s life trajectory went, i imagine HE is the one who is less than keen to see his wife head down that same path. yes, they are different people but the emotional scars of life don’t often leave people able to clearly differentiate those differences. i honestly think his fears are what are keeping her on this path.
Kay: There is a difference between marrying a wealthy man and marrying the second in line to the throne. The Cambridges are and will always be living on the tax payers dime and William will one day be head of state, unless the monarchy is abolished, of course. There is no reason for Waity to “head down the same path” as Diana, as long as William keeps it zipped. I’m not sure why people don’t understand why Diana was unhappy. It wasn’t the “work” that made her miserable. She was empathetic and caring. It was the unloving husband with the mistress, now his wife, on the side. William does not have anything to fear if he remains true to his wife.
“he Cambridges are and will always be living on the tax payers dime”
No they’re not. They have paid-for security, but so does Salman Rushdie. Anyone at risk of being bumped off by loons or terrorists does. They don’t get a penny from the state at the moment and won’t do until he is King (the heir to the throne, as Charles is right now, gets massive revenues from landed estates because he is the Duke of Cornwall). William is loaded stinking rich because Diana left her divorce settlement split between her kids, that’s all. I’m a Brit, and I promise you, if they got money from the state I’d be the first in line to complain.
The family are totally climbing, butby the same token I don’t get why it’s accepted as normal that William, or George Percy, wouldn’t marry a girl who worked in a shop, but people throw the reverse at the Middleton girls all the time. Nor do I get why people snicker and applaud Pippa’s ex’s parents for basically saying she’s too common for their son, while deploring Pippa for being a snob. Can’t have it both ways. I don’t see why it’s any more admirable for a family to want to marry well when they’re already rich and posh than it is when they aspire to be.
I also don’t get the whining on Kate’s work ethic. She’s a minor royal at the moment, and William doesn’t do much more. His SAR work is great, but let’s face it it’s none of our business whether they work at a job or not, because it’s not our money they’re spending. If she fails to do the work when she’s Princess of Wales then sure, slam her for it, but now? Why care so much? Your job is not who you are – or shouldn’t be.
“I’m not sure why people don’t understand why Diana was unhappy. It wasn’t the “work” that made her miserable.”
Actually that’s not true. She said the pressures at the start terrified and intimidated her and it was a nightmare. I agree the marriage was a hot mess, but you couldn’t have set up a worse situation for the poor woman if someone had sat down and tried. Massive overnight celebrity and meet’n’greets at barely 20 would be too much for anyone. Movie stars are way more sheltered from their fans and the attention, and even then the damage is obvious.
Kate is terrifyingly thin these days, though. People arguing otherwise are in denial.
i love how people are calling them the cambridges as if that is his last name its not his last name, that is his title ‘the duke of Cambridge’ his surname is mountbatten-windsor. the queens descendants carry the royal name windsor (mountbatten comes from the queens husband prince phillip surname) the royals dont use there second name in everyday life just for official royal stuff
im surprise that the British posters that have posted in this thread did not know that,i know most people wouldnt know but i figured most people who lived in england knew the royals second name was windsor since the queens castle is called windsor castle
When William covers Kate’s security/maintenance costs she can SAHM all she wants. When she’s on the taxpayer’s dime, she works. End of.
As I pointed out above, the security costs for anyone at risk are covered by the taxpayer. Beatrice and Eugenie are more of an issue because not only do they not do any duties, they aren’t at any risk, either.
Having said that I think the Cambridges should have to live on base. It would save us a fortune in police protection costs.
Forget the “button problem”, both Middleton sisters have an EYELINER problem! I still can’t figure out what all the fuss is about over this girl; this just seems like another case of a ‘normal chick getting loads of attention’.
KL —
What about the cost of renovating/maintaing their homes? who’s paying for that?
About the thin part — she is — I wonder if she’s laying low for treatment? I hope so.
That’s kind of a tough one. They’re going to be paying for the decor and furniture and we are the essential repairs to the structure and fabric of the building, was how we heard it. And where the line is drawn there is potentially sketchy – is central heating on our tab, or theirs, for example? On the one hand, housing the head of state is the responsibility of the country. Fine. But does the queen need so *many* of them? She owns Sandringham and Balmoral outright, but we fork out for Buckingham Palace, Windsor, St James’ Palace and Kensington. To be fair there is a museum at Kensington, but it’s not free for nationals to visit in the way all other state-owned museums are, any more than BP is. But on the other hand, they’re the dead-cert future head of state and his wife and probable kids, and we have a genetic-lottery head of state system here (morally indefensible, except for the fact it mostly works). And the useful thing about putting them in one place is the security angle, I guess. I have more of an issue with Prince Andrew, quite frankly. He got an 80 year lease on Royal Lodge at a minimal rate, which covers his daughters for their lifetime, too. We had to pay through the nose to get that sorted out (as we did Clarence House).
I sort of think the monarchy works, for now at least. It’s cheaper than a Presidency, less divisive, and we’ve been lucky on the genes, relatively speaking. But I think it should be restricted to direct heirs only, in terms of funding. Housing the Queen, Prince Charles, and William, & their appendages, seems reasonable. But I’d draw the line at that. The monarch wants all their kids housed, great. So would most parents. And like most parents who want their kids to live above their means, the monarch can pay. It’s one reason the attacks on the Middletons seem odd to me. If they want to fund their adult kids, okay, they have the means and the desire. Fine. But the Queen isn’t funding all hers, all by herself. We chip in substantially.
I still think it’s a gall that we pay for the Cambridges’ security in Wales, when every other serviceman and his family has to live on base. It would save us millions. Making sure Kensington doesn’t burn/rot bothers me less, because at least it results in something tangible for the taxpayer at the end of it. And Beatrice living in a St James’ apartment, having bodyguards, and a life entitlement to Royal Lodge irritates me a damn sight more because she’s not ever going to make head of state herself.
Wow, that was seriously off topic! Sorry about the ramble. I’m not so bothered about the interpersonal stuff, really, as long as nobody’s snorting Brazilian marching powder off hookers in the gutter. I’m mosty trying to work out how I feel about having a monarchy at all.
On topic: I don’t have strong feelings about Pippa climbing, but I get the sense she’s a bit more hardnosed than Kate, oddly enough. I think Kate is actually rather soft and a lot gentler. And looking at her, I also think she looks ill. Nobody is that thin naturally by 30 when they were a perfectly healthy, but more ordinary bodyweight in their early 20s. I definitely hope she is getting some help because the longer she leaves it, the harder reversing it will get.
Hi Kate —
Thanks for responding. I imagine as a British citizen (I refuse to say subject!) the subject of monarchy must feel complicated with emotional ties to the concept of monarch and tradition butting against modern realities. For me I think the hardest thing to swallow would be accepting that anyone is automatically born to “reign” over me or my children.
And if they’re going to they’d better be efficient/proficient! If you’re going to have that system I guess it makes sense to keep them in a certain style but you’re right it is outrageous that they have so many homes and expect it for their extended family. If they want it they can pay for it themselves!
I think you’re right about K being softer/gentler/slower than P. I think P and her mother have kept K propped up in this game all along. And she does not look well (or happy) compared to how she has looked in the past at all. I seriously think dealing with W must be draining — he seems like he has issues/baggage.
That’s one of the most well informed, researched and articulated opinions that I’ve ever seen on this site. Thanks Kate.
Pippa Middleton: Ugly outfit No. 23 (in photo 5.) We’ve see the other outfits before except for the whit coat. The coat isn’t awful, however, it’s the wrong cut for her.