Peaches Geldof annoys me.
Back when her first documentary aired, I kind of respected her and thought she was cool. And then she just became a bit ridiculous.
Rachel Cooke’s interview with Geldof in yesterday’s Observer, only further confirms my dislike of the 19-year-old. At times she makes some valid points (when talking about paparazzi and not following your dream) but on the whole she’s just so full of it (”I don’t count tabloid journalists as journalists”) and sure of herself and SPOILED.
Does she really believe there’s a gap in the market for her new pop culture mag Disappear Here?
“Ye-ah. Of course there is. A huge gap. I feel hugely patronised by women’s magazines. Like Company and Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan especially. I don’t wanna know about sex tips, I don’t wanna know about make-up, I don’t wanna read patronising interviews with Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon when all they give away is that they wanna have more kids. I just hate it. They think all we wanna know about is babies, or high-street fashion. But that’s so old-fashioned. I wanna read, like, interesting interviews!’”
Like, grand. I do actually feel the same (and I do like the magazine’s website) but it’s so hard to be optimistic about these sort of ventures when everything around you is turning to shit. Ignoring the fact that Peaches is editor, what’s so special about Disappear Here?
Read the rest of that interview here.
11 Comments
January 12, 2009 at 12:38 pm
omg i feel you… i used to really like peaches’ personal style, and so i got interested in her as a person, and instantly i was repulsed. like actually repulsed. she comes across TERRIBLY in interviews, as well as print articles, especially those hideous columns for nylon in which she rambles about very little at all, with no common thread except for her own self-importance and awesomeness…. eeugh.
and i read this article after someone posted it at tfs and was both laughing out loud at rachel cook’s subtle jibes at her and then feeling annoyed and dismayed that cook didn’t slap her in the face more than once.
my favourite bit was when peaches was telling cook that tabloid journalists ‘use all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is, like, atrocious’ or something to that extent… calling the kettle black, much?
argghhH!!!!
i agree she has some of the right opinions and seems bright and clever, so why is she just spitting out this drivel! i mean, her magazine is apparently such a pretentious poser mix of apparent ‘youth culture’ with her own personal literature/film/music tastes which are, of course, so important and good. blah.
okay. end/rant.
hahahahahah… how are you?
great post by the way. this is seriously one of the longest comments i’ve ever left.
XXX
January 12, 2009 at 2:17 pm
The girl is a brat, plain and simple. I’ve never met a journalist who has encountered her with a good thing to say about her.
January 12, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hah, you hit the nail on the head.
I read the article with my hands on my face peering at the paper between my fingers, so, like um, cringeworthy.
She does seem quite intelligent doesn’t she? However, her complete lack of self-awareness verges on comedic.
January 12, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Agree. There’s plenty to read out there besides Marie Claire and Cosmo, she obviously hasn’t bothered checking out much beyond her own attempt, which is pretty bland.
Of course the website’s nice, but you can be sure she had no part in the design of that.
I love how the “that’s so old-fashioned. I wanna read, like, interesting interviews!” when just a few months ago she was the 19-year-old tit who married some twat from a band and refused to interview anyone who wasn’t on his Myspace ‘friends list’.
Nice editing Peaches.
January 12, 2009 at 10:13 pm
yay adding you right now!
January 13, 2009 at 9:56 am
*Stands up and applauds* you have just put into words exactly how I felt when I read that interview!
January 13, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Hate her so much……
wish I had her money though..
January 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm
The following your dream thing is all well and good but the way she puts it is slightly unrealistic. Maybe the jungle photographer she speaks of never wanted to be a paparazzo, maybe the journalist never wanted to work for a tabloid (maybe they did, who knows), well these people walk through the doors that open for them, as she said she has always done, sometimes because they don’t have the financial security to do what their heart wants. She says she pays her way, and I’m sure she does, but I doubt she’d be let go homeless if she wasn’t getting the job opportunities that she is.
January 16, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Did you watch the MTV reality show about the beginnings of Disappear Here? I felt so sorry for the mag staff having to put up with her shit.
January 19, 2009 at 9:33 pm
I hate Peaches sodding Geldof.
And not just because she looks like she is carrying marbles within her cheeks.
January 20, 2009 at 11:41 pm
It’s so funny; if you go on YouTube and look for the vids she does for Nylon, half the comments read: “Who is Peaches Geldof?”
Indeed. I envy their ignorance.