❄️ Snowflake Jack Monroe / Melissa "Mel" Hadjicostas / Jack Xatzinikolas / @BootstrapCook - Spaghetti hoop rinser who wants to live like Common People, the face of poverty in Britain, literally can't lie

[Allo Vera]

Her being trapped as a tenant story is almost certainly complete bullshit. The standard rental agreement in my experience is six or twelve months guaranteed then a rolling contract with month's notice to be given by either the tenant or the landlord. If she's been there for more than a year then she could almost certainly leave at any time.

Honestly, she’s full of shit. Her story about her housing situation seems to change with the wind. Either she was fucked over when her ex-girlfriend left, leaving her locked into a three year contract (highly unlikely) OR she’s been on a rolling contract for ages. She also can’t decide whether she’s never missed a rent payment, or it bounces all the time.

What we do know is she can comfortably afford her rent thanks to the grifted Patreon bucks. Meanwhile, she blogs about having to boil down bars of soap because she can’t afford shower gel…

 

[osooolemiiio]

Meanwhile, she blogs about having to boil down bars of soap because she can’t afford shower gel…

Like wha-.
A Japanese (mesh) washcloth (or any plain good washcloth) plus some manual rubs with the soap wrapped in it doesn't do it anymore, no?

 

[East_Clintwood]

Meanwhile, she blogs about having to boil down bars of soap because she can’t afford shower gel…

Of all her blatant lies this is one of my favorites because it doesn't make sense in any way. Why not just use the fucking soap as is? Why waste the energy boiling it down given she literally has a "tip" in her book about saving energy by not unnecessarily boiling shit? Why not just buy some cheap fucking shower gel?

Out of curiosity I decided to do a quick search. The cheapest bar of soap I could find was 20p from Tesco. The cheapest shower gel? 30p also from Tesco.

 

[Allo Vera]

Exactly! Just wash with a bar of soap. But she preferred to paint this tragic mental image of sitting sadly next to her hob, stirring a pan of soap.

It is the lie that alerted so many people to what a lying grifter she is.

The Curse Of The Poverty Hangover, Ten Years On | Jack Monroe

Today has seen a dozen job applications drafted, painstakingly typed on my mobile phone, for bar work, shop work, warehouse work, train driving work, minimum wage work, any kind of work, because qu…

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[Tragi-Chan]

Hollie dance cow crossover when?

I’m starting to think KF should post an agent there. It could be a goldmine of lolcows.

Honestly, she’s full of shit. Her story about her housing situation seems to change with the wind. Either she was fucked over when her ex-girlfriend left, leaving her locked into a three year contract (highly unlikely) OR she’s been on a rolling contract for ages. She also can’t decide whether she’s never missed a rent payment, or it bounces all the time.

What we do know is she can comfortably afford her rent thanks to the grifted Patreon bucks. Meanwhile, she blogs about having to boil down bars of soap because she can’t afford shower gel…

Realistically, how poor can she be? I mean, she’s got all these books out, she’s had endorsement deals, she’s been on TV loads of times, she has Patreon. Even with the economy in the shitter as it is, I can’t believe she’s living in these Dickensian conditions.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Even with the economy in the shitter as it is, I can’t believe she’s living in these Dickensian conditions.

I don't think she's nearly as poor as she LARPs, obviously. That being said she's probably not as well off as you'd think she should be given all the shit you mentioned because she's not just a drunk, but the kind of drunk who apparently spends tons of money buying dumb shit, and may or may not also be a druggie on the side, so who the fuck knows really.

 

[Allo Vera]

I agree with @East_Clintwood. There’s no way she’s as poor as she claims. There’s no way she really was applying for jobs in retail, warehouses, and driving trains FFS. I think she earns a comfortable amount but also pisses away a ton of money (on second hand shit she can claim is “for work”, on high end house furnishings… also maybe booze and coke) so she’s not as financially comfortable as she wants to be. She’s so quintessentially middle class she hates that she rents and doesn’t own her home. She wants to raise enough to buy a place. She actually admitted that she wanted to set up a crowdfunder for a house.

Jack cottoned on to faking poverty as an easy grift years ago. Anyone who’s followed her nonsense closely over the past 5-7 years can’t help but notice how regularly she breadcrumbs being totally broke (my favourite was that she couldn’t afford to buy butter), and how reliably her do-gooder followers flood her Paypal with donations. I bet she was genuinely floored that the July 2022 blog was met with so much derision. It was a winning formula for her. The only mistake she made was making her lies too big.

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

I don't think she's nearly as poor as she LARPs, obviously. That being said she's probably not as well off as you'd think she should be given all the shit you mentioned because she's not just a drunk, but the kind of drunk who apparently spends tons of money buying dumb shit, and may or may not also be a druggie on the side, so who the fuck knows really.

I think the opposite and that she's far richer than we imagine.

I'm mean if she can demand £10,000-£15,000 per speaking engagement in late 2022 (obviously the agency will take a cut) when she's largely faded from public consciousness, imagine how much she would have commanded back in her peak in her first 5 or so years of fame, 2013-2018, when she was a regular panellist, spokesperson, talking head and expert on TV, and even did the odd "celebrity" bit, and back in the days when she was performing with Billy Bragg and engaged to Allegra McVedy.

We know that even today she avoids promoting her speaking engagements and brand partnerships, because it threatens her poverty larp. Her social media has only been saved and monitored since 2020, I bet there's loads we don't know about from pre-2020.

Also most of her known Patreon paypigs do not pay on the lowest tier, so we know she rakes in more than the conservative estimates of her grift.

ETA she would have financially benefited from her times being engaged to multi-mullionaire Allegra, and to head of Channel 4 news, Louisa. Even if just some of her day to day expenses being taken care of.

 

[Real Centaur]

I agree with @East_Clintwood. There’s no way she’s as poor as she claims. There’s no way she really was applying for jobs in retail, warehouses, and driving trains FFS. I think she earns a comfortable amount but also pisses away a ton of money (on second hand shit she can claim is “for work”, on high end house furnishings… also maybe booze and coke) so she’s not as financially comfortable as she wants to be. She’s so quintessentially middle class she hates that she rents and doesn’t own her home. She wants to raise enough to buy a place. She actually admitted that she wanted to set up a crowdfunder for a house.

Jack cottoned on to faking poverty as an easy grift years ago. Anyone who’s followed her nonsense closely over the past 5-7 years can’t help but notice how regularly she breadcrumbs being totally broke (my favourite was that she couldn’t afford to buy butter), and how reliably her do-gooder followers flood her Paypal with donations. I bet she was genuinely floored that the July 2022 blog was met with so much derision. It was a winning formula for her. The only mistake she made was making her lies too big.

I would theorize it went something like this:
1) Have medium income, a small child and a huge booze/drug habit
2) Child neglect, your child probably is being fed on £10 a week or something
3) Other people start noticing that your child is looking thin and unkempt and get concerned
4) Ah shit, how did this happen... Well of course, it's not you, it's the world that's so terrible and unfair and you've tried everything but the evil government just wants you to suffer. And it's true. It's totally true. It's in fact so completely true that you now have a blog about it and are an expert on it!
5) Profit

I can easily believe she is both making lots of money and constantly broke. Because she's an addict.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

A full list of (alleged) medication she takes in a day:

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I was wondering why she takes these all at different times of the day. She takes two anti-depressants and three and a half sleep aids, though seems to be using one of the anti-depressants as a sleep aid really. Mirtazipine isn't really for what she listed, and there'd be no reason for her to take it at bedtime if she wasn't using it for that, right? One of the probable side effects from it is mania too which she was just complaining about. And like most all anti-depressants the warning on it is actually about increased intrusive thoughts/suicidal ideation.

The one she takes three times a day is interesting:


I liked her tweet about uppers and downers because well, that seems to be what she's doing with prescription medication: uppers to start the day, anxiety meds as the day starts to drag, downers for "sleep" time. Unlike most of her lies I'm not doubting she actually does take all these exactly as she says though so I suppose that's something.

 

[Geranium]

I liked her tweet about uppers and downers because well, that seems to be what she's doing with prescription medication: uppers to start the day, anxiety meds as the day starts to drag, downers for "sleep" time.

Made me think of Hunter S Thompson's daily routine:

3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
8:00 Halcyon
8:20 sleep

 

[Real Centaur]

I liked her tweet about uppers and downers because well, that seems to be what she's doing with prescription medication: uppers to start the day, anxiety meds as the day starts to drag, downers for "sleep" time. Unlike most of her lies I'm not doubting she actually does take all these exactly as she says though so I suppose that's something.

Propranolol can also be used to reduce the side-effects of Elvanse like tremors/high BP etc. So it could be doing something useful there, provided she's using Elvanse 'properly' (i.e. in a proper dosage for a disorder that she actually has). Having to take it in two-hour intervals is pretty weird, it should have an effective duration of 3-4 hours or so.

And taking melatonin and valerian with mirtazapine is pretty funny, mirtazapine pretty much fucking knocks you out on its own.

 

[CaptainRockall]

Made me think of Hunter S Thompson's daily routine:
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Or what most of our MP's do on their days off...

 

[Tomato flowers]

Always being broke despite making plenty money = junkie, guaranteed. It’s the primary sign of a functional addict. I haven’t followed this heifer but she’s clearly fucking nuts and also strung out. Feel bad for the kid. He will end up a mess.

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

Always being broke despite making plenty money = junkie, guaranteed. It’s the primary sign of a functional addict. I haven’t followed this heifer but she’s clearly fucking nuts and also strung out. Feel bad for the kid. He will end up a mess.

I'm hoping the kid will be ok, for all she awful things she writes about parenting while pretending to be a single mum, he actually lives with his dad. We know this because on social media there are images of him in his primary and secondary school uniforms, which showed he has gone to school in Basildon for a long time, where his dad lives.

I am in the minority who believes that all of Jack's alcohol and drug addictions are fake or exaggerated. Her terrible behaviour could be explained by her obvious personality disorders.

On Tattle they've accumulated a list of all the designer goods that can be identified from her recent social media, it comes to over £150,000 so far and counting. Imagine how much she must have bought over the last 10 years that they hasn't been pictured or identified.

She has also been renting the expensive house (linked on the previous page) for the past 4 years; this house has 3 bedrooms, 2 reception rooms, and 2 bathrooms, yet since she split up with her (wealthy media exec) partner in June 2020, she has lived in this spacious house all on her own. Her rent is £1500/month, whereas an appropriately size flat for a single person would have cost her half that. That's £24,000 extra in unnecessary rent in the past 32 months.

It's my belief that her true addiction is shopping and living the high life, but there's no way to put a victim spin on that like there is with substance abuse.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

Glad the that kid doesn't actually live with her, I'd noticed that Jack doesn't seem to actually mention him much outside of being a tearjerk prop to illustrate the Dickensian poverty they allegedly live(d) in. Now that he's edging into adolescence, it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that Jack will eventually announce that he's "discovered" he's some kind of special gender thing.

ETA: Also, has anyone ever called her out on how absolutely psychopathic it is to sell *the kid's toys* for rent money or whatever? Like so much else it comes off as a complete LARP as to what she think poor people do, like how much could you reasonably get at pawn shop for a used dinosaur toy?

 

[Ethics Gradient]

I'm glad she finally has a thread, it has been a long time coming. I've followed her in the news on and off for the past three years. Everything I know about her has been against my will...

My two penneth, for what it's worth: she's found a niche and exploited it, at the expense of those vulnerable people she claims to champion. I can excuse the twitter oversharing and LARPing, but I cannot tolerate the way she has positioned herself as this vox populi for the poor. Poor, by her definition being someone who doesn't agree with every BS opinion the Guardian shits out and can't afford a serious coke habit.

It feels right that her former acolytes have now started to pick through her bluster and she's being held to account.

I feel like we're just getting warmed up, so I look forward to seeing what other people find.

 

[Legal Gengar]

I'm the account that filed that widely screenshotted civil claim against her. I don't really expect it to be the case that brings her down: my claim is teeny tiny, itty bitty. But it is a useful judgment to have (assuming I win; I suppose I might lose, but she hasn't filed a defence yet...) because I can use it in a bigger civil claim, and also potentially use as bad character evidence in any future criminal prosecution (I am collecting evidence to look at pursuing a private prosecution for fraud).

I can't believe her grift has been going on for over 10 years at this point, and to some extent, I feel sorry for her. She had an excellent platform to champion all of the issues she originally claimed to care about, and it's been squandered. The fraud and grifting makes me furious though. There's a Guardian article I read where her contempt for everyone who gave her money is obvious and palpable. It's disgusting.

 

[Allo Vera]

I'm hoping the kid will be ok, for all she awful things she writes about parenting while pretending to be a single mum, he actually lives with his dad. We know this because on social media there are images of him in his primary and secondary school uniforms, which showed he has gone to school in Basildon for a long time, where his dad lives

Interesting. That definitely proves her son doesn’t live with her, because she never talks about having to take him to school (and she doesn’t drive) and it’s a good 40+ minute journey by car, depending on traffic.

Whose social media has the photos btw (keep it vague because it isn’t fair to dox the kid): his dad? Or grandparents?

 

[Real Centaur]

I'm hoping the kid will be ok, for all she awful things she writes about parenting while pretending to be a single mum, he actually lives with his dad. We know this because on social media there are images of him in his primary and secondary school uniforms, which showed he has gone to school in Basildon for a long time, where his dad lives.

I am in the minority who believes that all of Jack's alcohol and drug addictions are fake or exaggerated. Her terrible behaviour could be explained by her obvious personality disorders.

On Tattle they've accumulated a list of all the designer goods that can be identified from her recent social media, it comes to over £150,000 so far and counting. Imagine how much she must have bought over the last 10 years that they hasn't been pictured or identified.

She has also been renting the expensive house (linked on the previous page) for the past 4 years; this house has 3 bedrooms, 2 reception rooms, and 2 bathrooms, yet since she split up with her (wealthy media exec) partner in June 2020, she has lived in this spacious house all on her own. Her rent is £1500/month, whereas an appropriately size flat for a single person would have cost her half that. That's £24,000 extra in unnecessary rent in the past 32 months.

It's my belief that her true addiction is shopping and living the high life, but there's no way to put a victim spin on that like there is with substance abuse.

Now that you said that, I think I might agree... I mean looking at it now it's obvious she's exaggerating the quantities of alcohol and pills. The way she talks about it seems like she's bragging about it, trying to impress you with how horribly severely she was addicted, so please gawk at her tragic life. And the more severe her addiction, the more awesome strong warrior she is for having overcome it, of course.

And obviously there is no way she has overcome any addiction, just based on her mentioned flagrant personality disorder and complete lack of any self-awareness.

Addicts tend to instinctively minimize/hide the extent of their usage or at least exhibit some appropriate amount of shame about it, rather than flaunting it for attention like that. So it doesn't make sense to me for her to be talking about her drug and alcohol use like she does. Her shopping habits, though, she does seem to try to minimize, so that probably is her central problem.

And I mean either
a) she is minimizing her usage and has been taking care of a small child while drinking far more than 122 units per week, which is more than 17 units of alcohol daily or
b) is willing to lie for attention about having taken care of a small child while drinking 17 units of alcohol daily, not feeling an ounce of the crushing shame that any other person would experience if other people thought they had done that.

Which are both incredibly terrible and also make her my new favorite cow. I think she may have a brand new personality disorder that no one's discovered yet.