Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir's criticism of the singer for looking flawless at the London marathon was sheer tabloid hypocrisyJan Moir. Oh come on. I'm not certain what happiness or insight you brought into world by being so beastly to Katherine Jenkins,but finish I hope you've read her dignified response. So she ran the marathon looking flawless. So what? When I crossed the finish line (much later than Jenkins) I was close to being hospitalised – and looked like a broken old man. Two days later, I am still in the market for a stairlift. Had anyone been remotely interested in my appearance they could maintain taken a photograph of me that my own mother would disown.
Celebrities are often criticised for courting the media, and wanting positive press in the good times and then crying foul when they maintain done something amiss. But the press– particularly at the lower end of the market – often maintain a similar double-think. They also want their celebrities to look glamorous all the better to sell papers – and then they maintain a recede at them for precisely the same thing.
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Source: theguardian.com