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Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

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  • I chuckled at this last night too. Pretty good going to get yourself a double page advert for your property.
    They are an EYESORES!!!!
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    edited 12 August 2010 at 7:58PM
    From 'The Diary' in today's Independent:

    * Liz Jones is selling her rural home, the subject of her weekly column and new book
    The Exmoor Files. I wonder whether her estate agent will be willing to fight for the £1.9m asking price, though, after she recently described members of the profession as "cack-handed morons."

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/diary-throwing-the-book-at-blair-2050193.html

    Edited to add:
    This commentary by estate agents is worth reading too:
    http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/News/Story/?storyid=3351&title=Take_cover_%E2%80%93_agents%27_customer_from_hell_on_rampage&type=news_features

    She has already made a couple of offers on properties. So, you can imagine how scathing she is about the agents who have advised her that she is not exactly in a position to proceed, as she hasn’t sold her own house.

    I can’t imagine any of the agents will even dare mention her well-documented financial troubles, which could also mean she hasn’t got any money, nor the fact that she is at war with all her current neighbours.

    She did, after all, claim that local shop-workers have learning difficulties and that “if men have teeth in the West Country, it’s a bonus”.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • JanCee
    JanCee Posts: 1,241 Forumite
    Ok, so who is the rock star she has been writing about recently? Someone must know, fess up please.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    I can't believe we haven't managed to find the price she paid a few years back....or did we? I am getting a bit lost.

    We do have the best of google sniffer dogs on this board afterall.


    I log onto the digital spy thread every 2 or 3 weeks and a poster called Bellagio posts some funny stuff (interesting job too as a music reseacher) and she has been very disloyal to the sisterhood with some very airbrushed pics last week.Tut tut.
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    Where's Purch? I thought he knew the previous owners..I am sure he mentioned it.

    Maybe we should place some bets on the sold price.
    I am in at 1.3 million.
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,150 Ambassador
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    JanCee wrote: »
    Ok, so who is the rock star she has been writing about recently? Someone must know, fess up please.

    I'm with you, I'd love to know!
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  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    JanCee wrote: »
    Ok, so who is the rock star she has been writing about recently? Someone must know, fess up please.

    Similar age and made enough ££££ to have a place in SOF.....so, I am guessing someone new romantic, early 80's as they made pots of ££££ from record sales back then.

    A Simon Le Bon type is my guess...but then is that rockstar?

    Nope...
    Um.......I am not very up on rockstars except Slash and he's from US.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    fc123 wrote: »
    Similar age and made enough ££££ to have a place in SOF.....so, I am guessing someone new romantic, early 80's as they made pots of ££££ from record sales back then.

    I hope its not Alex James because I would be very, very jealous. However I feel Iggy Pop is more likely as they have similar hair.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    fc123 wrote: »
    and she has been very disloyal to the sisterhood with some very airbrushed pics last week.Tut tut.


    They've stuck someone else's legs under that skirt, doncha think?
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Oh well........she'll drop some clues soon I guess.

    Cringy article in the DM about her prep for the holiday (a moan and a lot of detail on brazilian waxes ..again) and the link to the Standard 'pimp my house' article....except she wouldn't let them see all of it.

    First...the PMH
    Thursday, 12 August 2010
    The Exmoor pile: Liz Jones sells up

    Essex girl Liz Jones' romance with a rambling Somerset farmhouse is over. Now she is looking for more space for her rescue animals and a new chapter for her diary, says Ruth Bloomfield
    liz-jones-350x250_13008.jpg Liz Jones in the recently renovated hi-tech barn, with its "restaurant-quality cooker" and solar panel heating system

    Liz Jones can make her Somerset home sound like a cross between Cold Comfort Farm and Colditz Castle: dank enough to turn her cashmere sweaters mouldy and with the mod cons of a workhouse.

    Which, as the many fans of her weekly newspaper column Liz Jones’s Diary and its spin-off book, The Exmoor Files, know, has made riveting tragi-comic copy as the former fashion magazine editor got to grips with rural living.

    'Locals are 'charming' and even 'supportive', no longer the shotgun-wielding yokels who peppered her mailbox with bullets'



    Now that she has decided to put the property on the market for £1.9 million, however, her colourful descriptions of rural domestic tribulation are not exactly the sort to earn a quick sale. To get around this, Jones is employing the strategy of flatly denying that she has ever voiced any serious disquiet about country life, apart from “possibly” in the early settling-in days.

    “Give me an example of something I’ve said,” she demands, in a sharp tone that somehow does not invite a litany of suggestions (though her well-chronicled complaints about depressing peeling wallpaper, two-hot-water bottle levels of freezing cold and the time she was woken in the night by a field mouse climbing under her T-shirt, all spring to mind).

    exterior-300x200_13009.jpg The farmhouse is set in 47 acres bordering Exmoor National Park

    Her neighbours - she lists them but asks me not to name them — (“I never do”) are now “charming and supportive”, not unfriendly, shotgun-wielding yokels, as might have been inferred from the time her mailbox was peppered with bullets by a contingent apparently unimpressed by her descriptions of the good folk of Dulverton.

    And the reason for selling? “It’s too big - a bit ridiculous really,” she said. “I’ve got seven bedrooms and six bathrooms and its just me here — and about 400 animals.” She tells me this without blinking - or mentioning the financial crisis that she has detailed in recent columns, describing how the burden of paying a hefty mortgage while bankrolling her collection of high-maintenance rescue animals has plunged her into debt.


    And she is now friends with the locals.
    “I like proper country life, I like it remote and I like the wildlife. I want to stay on Exmoor, if I can. I have made some very good local friends. But I need a smaller house for me and more land, if possible, for more animals.”
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    They've stuck someone else's legs under that skirt, doncha think?


    ..and new skin.

    From the other pics, no way is she sample size.....trim for 51 but not sample size as she claims.
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