I love the Daily Mail, in a kind of horrified can't-help-myself kinda way. I can't resist reading it online for the bitchy comments, whether it's the 'I'm only writing this because it's what our readers expect' vinegar that's poured on anyone too old, wrinkled, unmade up or fat....or the completely vacuous, uneducated and often parrot-fashion comments added by readers who have been indoctrinated by said scandal rag into thinking everyone that isn't like THEM is automatically A.Bad.Person and should probably be banned.
Reading their celebrity updates and reader comments is a bit like watching 'What Katie Did Next'. You know it's bad for you. You know you shouldn't do it. You know that it's probably going to make you really cross. But you do it anyway.
I thought I'd take my obsession with scowling at the Daily Mail Online and use it for my own entertainment, and hopefully yours. I need to keep this blog updated and I'll get plenty of material from the DM. So, today's best articles and comments:
The Mail's take on the drama surrounding Canadian designer Mark using three enormous size 12-14 models on the catwalk at London Fashion Week was surprisingly subdued. It's a Sunday though, so the chances are a lot of the reader comments haven't got through yet, but nowhere were the models described as 'fat' in the article (well, come on, how could they be?) although they did use inverted commas for the words 'normal sized' about the girls. Ahhh well, maybe they were sensing a bit of a bandwagon to jump on - and given Alexandra Shulman's recent request for bigger sample sizes for photo shoots, they might be backing off where size 12 and 14 women are concerned.
The best comment so far is:
"I don't blame the stylist at all. Nice clothes, but this is London Fashion Week, not Butlins and modelling should be left to the pros. I wouldn't consider these girls 'curvy' in the traditional sense - without a waist on any of them, i think 'round' would be a better description. They look like they've been cast from Supermarket Sweep."
Yesterday they were having their usual digs at Natalie Cassidy for daring to go out in anything except a reinforced tent,"Natalie Cassidy prepares for her big night... let's hope her outfit is more flattering than yesterday" but they'll be reserving their most poisonous comments for next week when Nat makes her full Strictly Come Dancing debut...
