An epic whinge from Vice’s Bella Mackie after reading that I’m a Celeb’s Toff has landed a column with Sunday Times Style. Bella reckons Toff is too privileged to deserve her new platform:
I’m in a bad mood so maybe I’m being unfair, but the rise of “Toff” is really irking me. Sure, she’s a nice girl. But I thought the “likeable, charming posh Tory” guise went out with Boris Johnson. It’s a weird and dated delusion. pic.twitter.com/1fZDBs9ZQm
— Bella (@bellamackie) January 28, 2018
“Oh she’s so funny and eccentric” is not a match for the fact that she’s loaded, churning out sponsored content as if her life depended on it, and is a fan of JACOB REES-MOGG. He thinks abortion is wrong evens in case of rape btw. Oh but she’s so charming!
— Bella (@bellamackie) January 28, 2018
No they wouldn’t. “She’s that charming.” No. No she’s not. Corbyn, whatever you think of him, has spent his whole life fighting for those he thinks are fucked by inequality. She’s literally called TOFF. pic.twitter.com/gFE6fL9Lju
— Bella (@bellamackie) January 28, 2018
One more thing then I’ll stop. Maybe there are better people to give a column in a widely read (and great fun) magazine than this (yes I know she’s charming) girl pic.twitter.com/ejpIdM5BEg
— Bella (@bellamackie) January 28, 2018
That would be Bella Mackie, who made it in journalism after getting a job at the Guardian, where her father Alan Rusbridger was the editor. In terms of privilege and media careers not sure Bella has a leg to stand on. Toff has probably had to work harder to get a column than Bella did to get a job at the Guardian…
The Guardian attacked celebrity nepotism this weekend, training its sights on eighteen-year-old Brooklyn Beckham for the crime of securing a deal to author a coffee table photography book. You’d never find nepotism on Fleet Street, of course, where advancement is solely based on merit. Especially at the Guardian, where until recently former editor Alan Rusbridger had not only his wife but also his daughter writing for the paper at the same time. Comment writer Lindsay Mackie (AKA Mrs Rusbridger) still pens the odd piece under the new regime; daughter Bella Mackie (AKA Miss Rusbridger) started out as the ‘Community Editor’ for Comment Is Free and is now a senior editor at VICE. If only his dad worked there Brooklyn could be the Guardian’s football reporter…
