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SARAH Ferguson has been “slumming it” in a £40-a-night bed-and-breakfast.
“What’s this?” you say. We knew Her Majesty is a good landlady and requires little by way of market-based rent from her lodgers but only breakfast? Surely, Liz can stretch to a light sponge and a jar of tea?
It turns out that Ferguson has taken part in a project to see how the other half live, walking about some of the county’s deprived estates and shopping with “low-income mothers” in Hull.
One may expert that Fergie took along her daughters in a bid to show them that life is not all taffeta and horses, but with EastEnders and Ski Sunday on the telly, they probably know that already. So she didn’t.
Although they can check out life below the concrete stairwell because Fergie went equipped with an ITV camera crew.
Fergie In Action
Says Fergie: “This show is from the heart and is a progression from my 11 years with Weight Watchers.”
You see, the underclass are fat, and not in good way, but full of jelly roll, murder burgers and addictives.
Fergie is conducting a social experiment. She has got “footie fit”, able to run the length of football pitch without being out of breath. And not on a horse, but actually running, in hells, skirts hitched up and everything.
It is all not unlike the 1980s programme World in Action” - For the Benefit of Mr. Parris.
Back in Thatcher’s Britain, then Tory MP Matthew Parris tried living for a week in Newcastle upon Tyne on the £26.80 which was at the time a single unemployed man’s supplementary benefit.
He failed miserably. But as Parris writes in his newspaper column: “A couple of months later I was famous, and I never really looked back, quitting politics the following year for television and journalism. That programme made me.”
His is a success story, and one Fergie is keen to repeat. Chuck in some science on junk food, a look at property hot spots to go with the football and the realism, and Fergie could be the ubiquitous face of TV for years to come…
Posted: 6th, February 2008 | In: Royal Family, Sarah Ferguson, TV & Radio, Tabloids Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 6th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
i remember when parris worked for thatcher and he sent some council tenant that had made a complaint about the state of their council house a letter telling her she was lucky to have a council house to complain about.
February 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
She feeds on the underlings
February 6th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
and what do you make of this then? made me smile, especially after the R&J thread. Maybe also a new direction for the redundant WAGS?
(by the way I do really like Sarah F. she tries hard. She’s like a boisterous puppy IMO)
(have cut names etc for copyright reasons)
……………………. has acquired a new book by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Tea for Ruby, which will be released in the US on 30th September, is about the virtues of manners and etiquette.
“I was raised to appreciate that there is a time and place for manners, not just for the sake of following rules but rather because etiquette and good manners show courtesy and respect,” the Duchess said. “I’ve raised my girls as part of the royal family according to this philosophy. Now I can pass along this message to princesses everywhere, and I’m thrilled to do it with the brilliant bestselling illustrator……”
Tea for Ruby will have a first print run of 200,000 copies and the publisher said that the character of Ruby would be featured in future books by Ferguson
February 6th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
As a former resident of Hull I am dreading this upcoming Fergie programme. No doubt she will have visited all the worst parts of the city (and there are many, to be fair) and feature them heavily, along with obsese ,council house dwelling, knuckle dragging morons.
Hull will not come out of this very well, I fear.
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