The Stupid: It Hurts - Episode 3

[teylaminh]

I'm officially making this a series. Episode 1 was Brian from Big Brother last year, and episode 2 was the hotel for the wedding, although as it transpired they were more than reasonable about it.

Anyway. Today's episode comes in the form of the aforementioned mini-article in Tuesday's Metro:



Gah. At the time this made me unspeakably angry, but now it just makes my brain hurt trying to imagine the utter stupidity. Like, she thinks all authors have ghost writers. That's the worst part, aside from the general "whuh??" factor of the quote. The fact that she clearly doesn't understand the concept of being a writer in the slightest also makes me twitch.

And anyway, I thought she'd gone back to being plain old Katie Price again these days, not 'Jordan'. Only when her publicity requires it, it seems.

The best part is, her kids' book (the one referred to here, not her autobiography, although I imagine she's guilty of the crime of not writing either of them) was called My Pony Care Book, which is either a reference-type book or, as Paul has just suggested, a picture book. If the former, would you trust her with live animals? If the latter, why on earth would you need a ghost writer?

The stupid. It hurts.

PS: I'm still not entirely convinced it's a real quote, because honestly: is anyone really that dumb? But at the same time... we all saw the photos of her wedding, right? ;)

Comments

[thefleshfailure.livejournal.com]

Not that it would in any way diminish the Stupid either way... but is it "why do you write yours?" or "why, do you write yours?"? 'Cause the latter would make slightly more sense in context... but would have the unfortunate side-effect of making me less disgusted at Jordon for asking the question, and more disgusted with the Metro for not thinking through the importance of a comma.

Sorry. It's like "The Seer O The Sands" all over again.

[pandorasblog]

I don't know the paper/how reliable it's likely to be... if it's made-up, then it's well attuned to the public perception of Jordan. Perhaps if so, it's intended to lampoon the current vogue for celebrities writing kids' books. Darcy Bussel has a ballerina series... which she's doing with a ghost writer.