I thought this was happening yesterday, but as it turns out, The Most Gorgeous and Maligned Woman In The World (Samantha Brick) was interviewed this morning on the Today Show. Yesterday, we covered Brick’s appearance on a British morning show, and I have to admit – I think the British morning show did a superior job. This morning, Ann Curry took the reins instead of Matt Lauer (probably because Lauer would have been called a bully), and while Ann had me laughing right out of the gate (“Are you serious?”), this interview is kind of meh. Brick now claims that she wrote her epic “JELLY H8R” treatise as “obviously, parts were tongue-and-cheek.” Brick also claims that she didn’t write the headline… like the headline (“There are downsides to looking this pretty”) was the most offensive thing. Except that Brick says her original headline was “Why does the sisterhood hate attractive women?” Yeah… much less offensive? Sidenote: Brick’s styling has improved greatly for this appearance.
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We get it, bitch. You live in the French countryside. ENOUGH. Stop mentioning it! I don’t understand why she keeps saying that… is that the new version of “It’s not my fault”? I live in the French countryside, don’t call me delusional. I live in the French countryside, don’t call me arrogant and self-absorbed.
She’s also saying that it was a first-person piece and it’s not about ALL women – except that she did in fact draw from her own alleged experiences as a mind-blowingly gorgeous woman and claim flat-out that all women are jealous of her looks and treat her badly. When Ann calls her out for her vanity and narcissism, Brick’s story changes once again and she claims to be a “girl’s girl” with “a fantastic circle of girlfriends.” Girlfriends that are obviously extremely jealous of her, I’m sure.
I don’t understand how Samantha claims to be “mortified” by the reactions to her piece. She’s not the kind of woman who admits when she’s wrong. Even now, she’s not admitting anything, she’s simply changing her story to fit her own sense of martyrdom, like she’s once again been proven right – that everyone is attacking her for being beautiful and self-confident, and she’s the biggest victim in the world. Basically, she’s an a–hole.
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it’s been like what, two days now? and i am already totally sick of seeing this arrogant douche all over the place. ugh.
This trick again? ugh
She’s still not attractive, inside or out.
She is very attractive. (Notice I didn’t say beautiful.) What you don’t get is that what men find attractive is her self confidence. That is 100 times more attrative that physical beauty. And everything she wrote about women attacking her: Just read the comments below. Women who feel good about themselves dont feel the need to make negative comments about other women. She made her point!
@crtb: Yes, but are they also attracted to how slef-centered and desperate for attention she is? (I’m talking about many things she said, but the best example is how she decided to write the article because her neighbor didn’t wave to her. As she was *driving*.)
Can we stop talking about her already? She’s nobody but everyone keeps giving her attention showing her that she is somebody. Enough.
Her face & body are WAY too wonky for her to be anything but totally delusional. Wonk wonk wonk…If she traveled to NYC or L.A, she might get a better idea of what ‘gorgeous’ means. Or Paris even, since that’s closer!
But what do I know? I don’t live in the French countryside.
Me neither.. but i absolutely need that mirror!
She wouldn’t even need to travel as far as the US to find women prettier than her. She will have been surrounded by them in the UK and, undoubtedly, in France. I live in England and walk past more attractive women than her on the street everyday. The woman fails to recognise others dislike her because of her abhorrent personality, not because she’s ‘gorgeous’.
Why just nyc or la?!?
Could it be that France’s beautiful, stylish women have all left, never lived in, never even bother to visit…..
the French countryside?
It’s hysterical that she keeps repeating that.
Must be great to think you are so beautiful when you are just average looking. She has an obnoxious personality, I wonder how her husband and family put up with her. She will soon be served with divorce papers. Lets see where her beautiful looks get her.
Based on her other writing for the daily mail her husband is just as shallow and arrogant as her. He picks out her clothes and says if she gets fat he will divorce her. She is his little Housewife and as long as she continues to let him dictate her life he won’t be divorcing her. If people had read any of her other article they would not be surprised by the most recent one. Apparently in her home it’s still 1950.
and there were some pics of her husband on one site (sorry, can’t remember where I saw them) and he is a short, chubby, gross looking guy…so I bet all the men in the french countryside are jealous of his looks…
I think that saying she lives in the French countryside is an excuse to say ‘hey bitches i don’t live in a big city but even country men and cowboys hit on me whenever i pass by them, and you know in the country there are less people therefor less chances to be chatted up! Even bulls try it on me.. not cows because..well they are only stupid cows!’.
Now please Samantha give me your mirror, don’t be greedy and share the delusion that the ‘mirror mirror’ gives you!
“even bulls try it on me…”
Hee!!!!
Bull sh*t. 😉
Well maybe that’s her caveat. Way less population out there, way more animals. So she shows up the farmwife grannies and the bovines. Good job, lady.
i was thinking exactly that, her explanation of I live in the French Countryside explains it all. she is that delusional because she is surrounded by farm animals and women who are probably more concerned with working on their farms than with bleaching their hair and tweezing their eyebrows, hence she she thinks she is exquisite. there is an easy cure for that. plop her in the front row of NY fashion week with a sign that reads: I am so gorgeous! and see the reaction she would get. hahahahah! that was funny now go away.
Her article has some points. But it’s written poorly. It’s true that sometimes appearance affect your daily life. Like example, an unattractive person might not pass at the job interview instead of other person that seems to be more attractive.
But there are so many aspects that should be covered like personality, the comparison situation between the one with pretty face and average one, or the attitude of someone that coming from their confidence level of their face or appearance, but her article only said that women who doesn’t like her must be jealous.
If she wants to write this kind of article she should do her work more deep instead of just flat out blaming her own sex.
Not a good writer in summary…
completely agree..
I think you hit the nail on the head. Had she been able to do a decent job with the topic and taken the focus off herself and her experiences she would not be facing the backlash. I think she’s truly mortified and embarrassed. And of course hurt by all the nasty comments on her appearance, who wouldn’t be?
Yep, exactly. The article reads like it was written by a middleschooler who is upset because “nobody understands her”. There is an inherent immaturity about it that I just can’t shake. AND, she rails against women who “hate” other women, yet herself by all accounts is the very type of person who perpetuates this b.s. stereotype. Epic fail. Next time maybe she should option her story to The Onion
Matt Lauer would have been too distracted by her beauty to effectively interview her. He would have wanted to run off and marry her because she’s so darn beautiful.
I was surprised that Kaiser didn’t realize that! Matt surely realized that if he were in such close physical proximity to her that he’d mount her on the sofa to explore her “French countryside”.
Honey, did it EVER occur to you that the neighbor who “blanked” you (the incident that prompted her first “essay”) wasn’t thinking of YOU at all? You of all people should realize that some people are too busy worrying about how the world relates to them to be bothered with worry about someone else.
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU.
*rant over*
“he’d mount her on the sofa to explore her “French countryside”.”
Allow me to lead my ram into your pasture.
Exactly! Today Show needed it to stay professional. Although Ann was turning green the whole time.
Ugh. Just say no to narcissistic personality disorder. She can try and back peddle all she wants but the only she has proved is that she’s a bloody narcissist.
Though beauty is in the eye of the beholder..Arrogance is never beautiful.
I notice that this fantastic circle of female friends are nowhere to be seen. I suspect that they’re a figment of Samantha Brick’s imagination.
I’d be darn interested in hearing what her female “friends” have to say, but I suspect none have come forward because she doesn’t have any.
I would think that she is really attractive if she was in her mid 50s (as her style, front butt, and double chins suggest she is). But this woman really needs to be honest with herself and realize that for a 41 year old, she doesn’t really stand out. I am almost in my 40s, a lot of my friends are in their mid 40s, some are almost 50, and I think a lot of them look younger, healthier, and happier than Samatha Brick.
Where I’m from, that “front butt” is very crudely referred to as a “gunt” (gut + crude word for the female anatomy). I find it odd that, a woman who claims to “exercise and avoid chocolate” (and who has never had children), would have such a thing. The lady is in need of a good support garment.
must be from all the champagne and latte’s men are always buying her. How could she refuse? She lives in the French countryside…
She also claims she doesn’t drink, which I find odd, as that sure looks like beer/wine belly to me.
Honestly, I think the whole thing is a bit of a put-on. If you look through her previous articles there are some weird inconsistencies. Like, here she doesn’t drink, in another article she claims to enjoy red wine; her husband supposedly only lets her wear demure ladylike clothes, yet here she is photographed in one of the vest tops he allegedly hates, etc. etc. etc. At “best”, I would guess she is exaggerating isolated incidents and making it sound like that’s her whole life (like, maybe her husband has put down his foot about something she wanted to wear once or twice so now he picks all her clothes out, maybe he occasionally makes comments about her weight so now he’s doing a daily inventory of her physique, etc…).
If she truly feels the way she does, I hope she gets help. If she’s doing it more for show, well…I don’t feel bad for her because she’s getting exactly what she wants!
Hey Rhiley!! I am ‘forty-eleven’ and don’t have front butt or numerous chins!!! What she has is not age related but lazy related…and not great genetics. Thick legs, weird nose, crooked teeth, thin hair.
I know this is hyper-critical, but she opened that door. Strangely, I know a woman who looks just like her, who has the same over-inflated ego…no one gets it!
LOL @jermsmom
@guilty, forty-eleven.I love it. I’m going to start referring to myself as twenty-eleven!
Good point. I agree those things have nothing to do with her age but has to do with how she does or doesn’t take care of herself. There are some women who go to my gym who are well in their 60s and they have fabulous figures. I hope I can look that good when I am in my 60s. And you are right again, Samantha Brick opened the door to the criticism.
What is front butt?
Oh my god the world is bored and she is getting a little too much press over this!
Someone stop this now PLEAAAASE.
Throw a brick ar Brick
lol…she has brought new meaning to thick as a “Brick”…
At one point she says that her work is an observation on the adverse affects superficial conclusions have on society.
When confronted with the fact that her work is based on about 6 things that happened to her over the span of 40 years, which is hardly scholarly, she backpeddles and says that its only 1200 words, so obviously it cannot be about the global experiences of all women, it can only be about her.
And then I got whiplash trying to figure out all her inconsistencies and contradictions. Does living in the countryside of France turn you into a self-serving idiot?
Those 6 incidents (that’s like one every 7 years: in 1992 a man gave me flowers, in 1999 a woman didn’t wave back to me when I waved at her, in 2006 a bartender comped me a drink…) must be immortalized!
The more I think about it, the more I think she’s not arrogant or delusional or narcissistic, but trapped in a hole that she dug for herself with her poor writing — a half-assed execution of what could have been an interesting piece on the topic. And now she needs to stand by it and the Daily Mail to collect her paycheck, hence all the backpedaling and mortification, which based on what I saw of that interview yesterday, I think is genuine.
She’s just not articulate or intelligent enough to write a decent article and then deal with the subsequent backlash. She even said she’s a housewife first and foremost and writes part-time in between her household chores. I think she’s repeating that she’s stuck in the French countryside to emphasize that her experience/life is not typical and not worthy of such insane scrutiny, it’s her only defense at this point.
I’m guessing she wishes she’s never written the damn thing. She’s become the world’s biggest joke and The Daily Mail, most of all, loves every second of it.
I’m glad someone else sees the nuances here.
I don’t understand how this plain woman’s arrogance has turned her into a media darling. She’s a middle aged Courtney Stodden. It would be mean, but the next talk show- you know there will be one on this Nails in the Palms Tour- should have her photo enlarged and next to people like Angelina, Sofia Vergara, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and have them talk out comparisons of true physical beauty in a very low key way. Interesting to see how she’d respond see herself contrasted with truly stunning women. She is as delusional and narcissistic as a certain former singer/current famewhore that has posts on her here.
Agree. Even Elizabeth Taylor didn’t talk this kind of sh-te, & she could have.
And it cracks me up that people from Octomom to this moron to pretty much anyone think their lies will not be found out and their stories will be covered and not checked out. They can’t even admit to what they’re faced with. UGH.
Good grief… is she still talking?
It really needs Its jaw wired shut!
Well maybe all the ‘jealous neighbors’ next to It can lend a hand in that.
brick has finally “conquered” america?
wait a minute.
french countryside?
didn’t pitt just fly solo to france to allegedly check up on their french countryside chateau a month or so ago?
checking up for loose bricks, pittsy honey?
I CAN’T WAIT for the next tab issue.
J.Lawrence & B.Bejo are decoys.
Inside Pitt’s sizzling romance with a Brick!
Angelina fuming and mega-furious!
Maleficent horns growing overnight!
Neighbors heard pitiful cries from the JP cellar where Pitt is being chained to a wall and fed a steady diet of truffles from the french countryside.
“how do you like the french countryside now!” Angelina was heard shouting by close insiders.
All the cray cray beautiful people flock to France at this time of year my dear…where’s Halle Berry?
So, she’s claiming she’s surprised at reaction to what she wrote? This woman needs to be quickly dismissed, obviously.
What I can’t stand more than anything else is when someone puts something “out there,” & can’t stand behind what they PLAINLY STATED! Oh, misconception you say? Bullshit!
Samantha Brick, I have a clear message for you…..you cannot have your cake and eat it, too. She’s obviously just a second-rate, whiny woman who can’t take the heat. It got too hot in the kitchen and she’s folded like a CHEAP SUIT.
I, for one, will not “bother” reading any more articles she writes, because she will just then follow up such w/an interview claiming she’s been “misunderstood.” What a waste of my time.
I used to have a friend who was JUST like Brickshyofaload. If a man held the door open for her, he was flirting. If he was participating in friendly conversation, he wanted to date her. If a man casually flirted with her, OH MY GOD HE’S TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH HER AND THEY’RE GOING TO GET MARRIED AND TRAVEL AND OH MY GOD THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFUL THING EVER.
Etc.
Anyhoo, eventually, I figured out she was 7 kinds of crazy/arrogant/delusional and she’s no longer in my life. But there were some hairy moments for a few years. I bet Brickbrain’s “friends” think the same thing about her and wish she’d just go away.
Also, Brick has crazy eyes. Seriously, seriously crazy eyes.
Just admit it, Masque, you were just jealous of your friend’s stunning beauty. :^P
Meh, Average at best, she has a wonk tooth and cave man brow. Most Texas bartenders are better looking than her.
After reading some of the comments from yesterday’s post I actually read some of her other articles. Her ex husband and current husband are/were incredibly emotionally abusive. her husband calls her fat constantly and controls every aspect of her life. it made me feel really sad for her and how damaged she must be mentally to allow this to happen. as someone said yesterday, i think this is a front she has subconsciously created to protect herself from such abuse and brainwashing. all i feel for her now is pity.
There’s an interesting piece about this woman and other freelancers writting for the D*ily M*il on the British ‘Guardian’ website – worth reading, really.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves
Makes any further comment on this topic rather obsolete, I find.
Yes this confirms my suspicion that she was just a pawn in this rag’s sensationalistic, misogynistic agenda. She didn’t have the skills to write an articulate piece in the first place and the DM took full advantage of it and turned her into a mockery.
And now she doesn’t have the skills to defend herself very well. Although I thought she did OK on the Today show. This, I think, is the real story here.
She just looks like a dog to me, seriously..
YES.
The neighbor who “blanked” her would make a good addition to this argument. I’d like to know what that neighbor – whose actions toward Samantha supposedly launched this whole thing – was really thinking when she supposedly dissed Sam.
I think it would be: “Samantha who?”
I think I’ll be “Samantha Brick” for Halloween this year. I’ll expect every man to give me candy, and all the women will be so jealous of my awesome costume.
I can’t stop laughing at her face in the still of the video. Classic.
This woman is talking out of both sides of her mouth.
Also, you all should definitely check out the other articles she’s written:
1. her (overweight) husband will divorce her if she gets fat, and he checks out everything that she eats and what foods she buys from the grocery store
2. her husband DRESSES her – he made her chuck all of her comfortable clothing, and he expects her to be dressed within minutes of waking in the morning
3. her husband said she was too old to have a baby when she said she wanted to try and get pregnant in her late 30s
She may try and act super confident, but anybody that marries somebody like the gem she’s with must certainly be lacking in self-esteem.
Creepy. He’s a nasty looking f*cker. Not just his body, but his overall demeanor is unsettling.
What if this is an experiment to prove how a very average woman becomes famous worldwide in 24 hours?
let’s say maybe her editor told her to move to friggin french countryside and make up a story to sell more magazines?
she’s not different to any paris hilton or kim kardashian.. becoming famous for no reason in such a short time.. and she did it!! we’re all talking about her and she’ll totally win a pulitzer now!
hekas hekas este bibeloi. go away. shoo!
Once again: “Dumb as a Brick”. . .
If the shoe fits, then she ought to pull it out of her mouth or risk getting it stuffed up her backside.
Haha, she reminds me of a fella in college who interpreted every single interaction with a girl as somewhere on the continuum of making a pass at him. He mentioned to my best friend that he had tried to let me down easy because of my crush on him. ?? I think we had a pleasant conversation at a party once.
She is quite unattractive in still photos but from video I can see she has a certain attraction. From that British clip, she says she is talking about a half-dozen events in her life of men’s attention. I am kind of homely, but even *I* have had doors opened, drinks bought, etc. and I attribute it to the hopelessly hard-to-manage sex drive of men everywhere. Lots of men want to meet women. If you are a woman, they might talk to you! Welcome to the club!
As regards women, there are women that will treat pretty women as default b**ches or competitors, but they tend to be women who are kind of obsessed with appearance. They exist, but they aren’t the majority, or even normal. Also not that surprising.
Bulbous nose, yellow and crooked teeth, fat body? Beautiful? HAHAHA The saying a British 10 is an American 5 comes to mind.
TRUE!!!
Clearly British and American ‘beauty standards’ are different. Take ‘teeth’ for example. . . The Americans frequently have them all intact and seem to enjoy taking care of them, as in brushing, flossing, etc.
There is more diversity in the US, so we see ‘beauty’ beyond Brick’s myopic vision that only white, tall, blondes are ‘attractive’ or the ‘ideal’.
By saying what she thinks ‘ideal’ beauty is, Brick is also revealing what she thinks it is NOT.
Brick and Adolf Hitler share the same view re what ‘beauty’ is!
Wow, really? You mean you actually believe that stereotype, or are you just making a joke?
In reality, the British have healthier teeth than Americans, as in statistically less tooth decay. True, they don’t necessarily feel the need to have perfectly straight, gleaming white, Muppet-esque “good teeth”. But that rotting teeth/lack of dental hygiene thing is ridiculous.
I agree, I think British people don’t care about their appearance and Samantha is what they consider to be a beauty over there.
I agree, I think British people don’t care about their appearance and Samantha is what they consider to be a beauty over there.
Oh come on… the priority in all of Europe isn’t cosmetic dentistry, but gleaming “piano keyboard” gnashers, in America, seem to be the preserve of those who can pay for them. According to CIA stats about health, 30% of American citizens over 45 have NO TEETH of their own, which I find pretty shocking. As a Brit, I’d be the first to admit we are not inherently the most beautiful people, but then, Americans don’t exactly have that reputation, either – stereotypes are dangerously wrong sometimes. The American stereotype over here is of 10% being concocted from sillicone, and the rest having backsides the size of a four-seater sofa. Neither is correct judging by the Americans I have met. And as Lise said, the stereotype of French women is wrong, too. The ones I know are too busy, and too interesting, to lounge around like manicured poodles, and no Frenchwoman I know would take the sort of crap Samantha’s husband is said to dish out. Samantha Brick is the one who has said she is possessed of stunning beauty – not British people. She certainly is NOT, nobody would even give her a second glance, except to take her down a peg or two for writing/saying something like this article.
I stayed with a host family in the US when I was 18 and someone asked me if we really didn’t shower in France because Ashton Kutcher once said that he thought the French were so cool to not wash and shave.
So we’re dirty in France and in England they don’t have teeth… I hate stereotypes
Wow! this is mind blowing! you actually believe in these stereotypes? it’s pretty amazing because i’m italian and americans are famous for being really fat, eating junk food and being utterly ignorant and arrogant, but i lived in the states for quite some time and i know none of those things are true because you can’t paint every person with the same brush. i now live in the uk and i can tell i see some very attractive people around me, women are very fashion wise and maybe they have a different taste, they like experimenting different things and colors, something that it wouldn’t probably suit me but i still find their quirkiness lovely and very suitable to thei culture and habits. Now can we stop talking shit and actually say that Samantha Bricks didn’t speak on the behalf of England and that she is very much up her own arse?!
now, that being sad, i’d like to remind you we are in 2012 and those opinions were inappropriate 50 years ago let alone now!
British dentistry – muhahahahaha! I blame Austin Powers! After living in Cambridge and Tempe, AZ for a while I can happily say that on average, there’s no real difference. A useful theory might be that the BBC is happy for people on its shows to appear representative of the community in ways that US producers may not find comfortable. In the UK it is a demographic and generational thing (in Australia too). Braces were not big in the 70’s here, but in the 80’s even one wonky tooth and they’d reach for the wire…
I have lived in the UK and I agree that the stereotype of the British not taking care of their teeth isn’t true – I think that dental priorities are different though. In the UK, dentists work more to avoid decay and promote overall tooth health, while in the US there is much more emphasis on the appearance of the teeth (e.g. straight, white), which is definitely driven by our popular media culture. In the U.S. having crooked teeth is considered unsightly and distracting, and a sign of poor hygiene. In the U.K. having crooked teeth to some degree is not a big deal, if the teeth are healthy and not obviously rotting out of the mouth or otherwise in poor shape. We Americans are also obsessed with eerily white teeth.
@fabgrrl: You mean these stats?
http://www.economist.com/node/15060097
Now THAT is ironic!!! lol
Maybe Americans just seem to have ‘better’ teeth because they were replaced with gleeming white caps???
Octomom called, she wants her delusions back.
I think she mentions France because women in France are known for their impeccable appearances and dedication to looking good.
We have to remember that Brick lives in France & there are cultural differences to how women relate to each other from one place to the next.
I think that in America perhaps we cannot fully understand what life is like for women in France.
I read though some of her other work & found it very fascinating; the differences between housewives here in the states & housewives in France. Here’s the article I’m speaking of, also written by Brick: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1185155/Never-moan-ze-mistress-How-survive-French-wife.html
I really do believe her article was misunderstood. I mean, it epically failed to articulate her point. I still don’t believe she’s a narcissist, though.
I don’t think this is about ‘living in France’. . . It has more to do with how Brick defines ‘beauty’ and who she excludes from that category.
According to Brick’s racist-and ageist-definition, someone is excluded from being ‘beautiful’ unless she is white, tall, blond or young. . .
(Interestingly, a ‘female Hitler youth’ would be the ideal fit for her definition!)
As I have said in a previous message, I am also British and also live in France (not far enough away from Samantha Brick for my liking). My best Friend here is American, married to a Frenchman, and we both have French friends. There is a big Anglo-speaking ex-pat community, all intermarried with French people, and although there are some small items of difference, of course, it is really only enough to be “interesting”. I think you are being far too kind to Samantha. I think she is just one croissant short of the full petit dejeuner.
I’m french and i want to reassure everyone, not every French mens will divorced you if you gain weight, it’s just her crazy husband.
A lot of things she said about the French womens are completly wrong. I think she is delusional and see the French woman as someone really discreet and skinny and healthy because her husband wants her to be like that. She should look around and see that we drink a lot, smoke a lot and curse a lot
@ Lise – I don’t think she actually meets anyone except Pascal. And she will meet fewer, now that she has told the world that her neighbour is afraid to leave her alone with her husband.
I am glad to know there are some sensible Frenchmen who wouldn’t divorce thier wives if they gained some weight.
I also hope they wouldn’t divorce thier wives if they got a terminal disease, were in an accident, or lost a limb. But who knows? C’est la vie!
Thank you to all of you for the insight. Maybe I am being “too kind”, but I often try to give people the benefit of the doubt in cases like this. I mean, really, maybe what she’s saying isn’t our “truth”, but maybe it’s hers. Should we despise her for that? Not necessarily.
If anything, she’s made me stop & take a second look at how I relate to (and treat) other women I encounter in my life. It’s been a reminder to always treat other women the way I’d want them to treat me (regardless of whether or not they’re prettier than me).
@wunder
again, people need to stop acting like english people have lower standards of beauty. She’s the one declaring herself to be beautiful, not the british public.
Thank you! Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Kate Beckinsale, Naomi Watts, Keira Knightley, Rachel Weisz, Rosie H-W, Sienna Miller. All British. All not too bad looking!
Er, Naomi Watts is AUSTRALIAN! (Though born in the UK, she came to Australia as a baby)
Good point!
Brick is unfortunately giving very bad PR right now for the British.
How could you leave Her Royal Radiance, Samantha Prick, off this list? Doesn’t her irridescent loveliness singlehandedly raise the UK’s national average of good looks? Or is that just her opinion? BTW, she is now claiming to be “another British legend living in France, like Jane Birkin and Kristen Scott-Thomas.” The woman is so far up herself, she’s practically wearing herself as a wig!
I resent her beauty too much to include her.
@Mich Before they changed the law here, masses of women were covering themselves from head to foot in black cloth, so as not to be forced to compare themselves to Samantha Brick.
I am British, and live in France (not in the countryside, though) and while I know that we Brits aren’t the most gorgeous creatures on Earth, she is VERY VERY PLAIN even by our standards. She wouldn’t be considered a “threat” to the average 60+ toilet cleaner. I think she is one of those women who could get away with being a bit peculiar looking while she was in her 20s and her bosses (who she mentioned she flirted with to promote her career) were in their 40s and going through a midlife crisis, but now she herself is that age she has – as she said of other women “lost her bloom”. Without real good looks, that leaves her with nothing to trade – and she has played that game so often that she has debased her own currency and now can’t see any act of kindness as more than an attempt to get in her knickers. A silly bitch, basically, and needs a good whack round the head with a dead mackerel to bring her to her senses – and I believe her creepy nutty husband is just the man for the job. By the way, there are some very attractive Frenchman, but even “in the French countryside”, short, fat, bossy, bald carpenters with a psychotic glint in their eye are not the stuff of a woman’s dreams.
I have to disagree with you, i am a firm believer of finding beauty in every place without prejudice and judgments. I am italian and my boyfriend is english, i met many people through him and i am in love with the british culture, the humor and even the accent! that woman needs to be whacked in the head with a baguette, could you please move to the country side and hunt her down?! 😀
I would be very happy to hit her on the head with both a mackerel AND a baguette if I ever met her. But I have a feeling that there are plenty of Frenchwomen in the French countryside who will get to her before me, so there might not be much left to wack. Glad you are enjoying life in my home country – since you have an English boyfriend you can probably kill another stereotype about Englishmen!
Which one? that they are cold and too much interested in beer and very little in women? I heard about that many times but my boyfriend is totally fine! we’ve been together 5 years now.. i am not interested in marriage or kids and maybe this is the reason why we’re still happy maybe? 😉
@Paula – that’s the one. I have found that, well, a man is a man, all different as individuals, but to do with the person, not the nationality at all.
@bluebell
Is that why you moved to France? I hope not!
@ Paula – no! 🙂 it was for work! A nice man is a nice man, and it doesn’t matter what is written on his passport. What I have found in men of all nationalities is, nobody is cold if they are interested in a person, and all men have some great interest in beer!
@bluebell
Yes they all do.. and when they don’t i start to question their sexuality!!! 😉
Well France is a wicked place to live in to and if you learn the language is even better! The countryside is beautiful..but i heard it’s quite popular nowadays! where exactly do you live?
@ Paola – I live on the coast, 20km south of Perpignan. I have been here five years now, and I love it here, although I will be moving to Normandy at the end of the year. Work again… (Rain will be a novelty to me now!) I do speak French, although not much when I first came here, but I have worked at it and people have been really helpful and kind; (I have a real phobia about being in someone else’s country and asking if they speak english – it always seems incredibly rude.) I am going to avoid the countryside around the Dordogne region, in case I run into Samantha and Pascal. How about you? where in england are you living?
@bluebell
Well..kudos to you! due to the fact english is one of the most spoken languages in the world people tend to be very lazy and never try to speak another language, so my compliments to you and i know french is nor really easy to learn..
My boyfriend can only curse in italian, all my friends speak english so he was never forced to learn it and every time he tries i laugh my ass off because he’s unbeareable funny!!!! But i wish one day he’ll open that book i bought him and start saying a few sentences in italian..that would be the beginning of an era! Normandy is beautiful but so cold.. my best friend is american and she lives in Chartres and i visited her for Christmas and it was so crazy beautiful! i couldn’t believe i was in paris after 2.5 hours on a train from london!! it was really cool!
Pity the man… I learned Italian at school and failed miserably – all I remembered during the exam was “mi dispiace, non comprendo” (I think) – andyway “sorry, I don’t understand.” I only chose it because the other option was German, and to me, that sounded like a dog eating dry cornflakes. But in the end I had to learn some because I married an Austrian. We’re divorced now, but I got a job on the basis of knowing some German, only to be told I have picked up my ex’s Viennese accent and sound like a certain well-known Austrian lunatic! I get really annoyed with fellow Brits who arrive here and don’t even bother to learn “please/thank you, yes/no” etc. just the basics, to be polite. It makes me very protective of the French, to see them being grunted at by people who expect everyone to speak English but would be astonished if someone on the supermarket checkout back home spoke French! I am hoping that returning to a cooler climate won’t be too much of a shock. I love the sunshine here, but for me it gets way too hot during the summer. I don’t know how people keep moving. You’re right – Eurostar is wonderful!
I’ve grown up having really hot summers and sunny days for the most of the year so moving to uk gave me some pretty miserable days and i’d lie if i say i love the weather here! One of the funniest thing is that if it starts raining in italy people run and scatter away to get themselves under a shelter.. in uk if it rains people have an umbrella in their purse or they just keep walking like if nothing ever happened! it seems like for us italian rain can melt you and for no reason you can stand in there!!!
I’m sure you’ll be fine in Normandy, when the sun’s out the breeze is nice and you can have some fine walks on the beach.. plus the summers are so much better! you can breath and you don’t have mosquitos which are REALLY annoying!
@Paola – oh yuck, sorry, but English weather being horrible is one stereotype which is completely true. It’s miserable… so grey so often. I find here as you did in italy, people treat rain as if it is napalm and they think I am mad because if I am going out I am going out, rain or not. I’m glad to hear it isn’t QUITE so bad in Normandy. those few km south may make a difference. Arrg, mosquitoes…. I live near a huge lake and there are MILLIONS of the things and they love me. I spend all the summer scratching! I must admit, I am dreading possibly being under a grey sky again… but I’ll be happy to miss being bitten by insects.
I get so depressed when I winter over in London. The weather is truly depressing. I have been lucky enough to live in some great countries over the last few years. And our French bandmate is wonderful to his wife, they are from Normandy. We all know speak some French from living in Quebec and Paris. I did not learn Dutch, it is very hard to learn and everyone speaks English. With over 22 nationalities with us we all learn a smattering of each others languages. Very cool.
Ms. Brick continues her act. Amusing, but she sure has gotten well known for this. What an epic douche she is.
@bluebell
I am an architect and i work between Manchester and London..my base is in London but i really don’t enjoy London too much, it’s crazy expensive and has the problems of every big city: too many people!! I’m a bit of a loner, so i’m not crazy about the superpacked tube, the superpacked high streets and the traffic.. but i have to say Milan and Rome are much worse so i deal with London in some way.. I travel a lot, but i never got to use my language skills (my mum is swiss so i speak german and i’ve lived in south america for a while so i speak spanish) but i’m pretty happy in uk, i love the english language and i always try to improve and learn something new every day, my boyfriend in this is very helpful and i am really grateful for everything..i dream of moving to cornwall one day or maybe to australia, for a nice and sunny retirement! 😉
@Paola – Cornwall is beautiful! I lived there for ten years before coming here. Also, the weather is better than anywhere else in the UK. Only one thing I would say is, remember it is…. IN THE COUNTRYSIDE!
ooo, I am dying to go to the Dordogne!
@beth
of course she’s a narcissist, she wasn’t misunderstood. A person can write an article about how they’ve been lucky because of their looks without being a narcissist. But all she went on about was her ‘lovely’ face her and how the only thing she’d done wrong was to not wear a paper bag over her head.
‘And most poignantly of all, not one girlfriend has ever asked me to be her bridesmaid’
I mean really.
‘And most poignantly of all, not one girlfriend has ever asked me to be her bridesmaid’
Maybe they thought they’d never fit her big inflated head in the wedding photos.
I actually don’t think she’s THAT attractive.
She’s not even super attractive. She’s just meh, I wouldn’t spare her a second glance.
I know someone like this. I’m not sure how long til I tell her that it isn’t her looks that keep women from being her friends, it’s her personality
So here she is, putting on her very best game, and she still looks like an aging Miss Piggy (after the gastro bypass).
I live in boring suburbia, could walk around the block with my dog & see more attractive women (whom are exhausted mothers) than this fuggy slug.
Her face is rather lopsided and/or off-centre. If this Sam is so damn desirable, why hasn’t she married into the Royal Family?
Adele..now that is a beautiful British face-soul-voice.
“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
― Angelina Jolie
^Makes it seem like she was the only girl who fantasied about this. Not true, look at Kristen Stewart.
“I don’t have female friends. Well, I have a few girlfriends, I just… I stay at home a lot. I’m just not very social. I don’t do a lot with them, and I’m very home bound.”
-Angelina Jolie
^Went from none, to a few, to stating she has them but doesn’t really see them or do much with them. Clearly, she feels detached and disinterested in having girlfriends.
This woman is not the ONLY woman who thinks her shit doesn’t stink and somehow she is different from all other women. She makes accusations about women, but does she forget she is in fact a woman?
There are many more public examples of women who feel superior to other women.
Anna if all the statements you had ever made in your life were splashed across the internet I’m sure everyone could easily misconstrue and misinterpret what you’ve said and turn it into something narcisstic, so please give it a break.
And for Jolie, she’s always so self deprecating and doesn’t give a crap about the way other people view her. She actually has a decent amount of female friends considering she has 6 kids to take care of and is under intense media scrutiny. She’s been great friends with Holly Goline, Gwen Stefani, and some woman (i forgot her name, but a beverly hills high school friend) for years.
Jolie chooses not to parade her naked self with vile friends at Cabo or w/e.
this chick reminds me of this girl i work with who thinks everyone is in love with her; men, woman, inanimate objects. She openly tells these stories all the time and the only reason several people i know have stopped eating lunch with her and her posse of followers (ALL KARDASHIAN FANS BTW)is because people tire of her stories!HA
i dont even think shes very attractive at all-plain jane if you ask me
If they make a movie of her life, Megan Fox should be cast as Brick.
She’d have to lighten her hair and make herself more plain, but personality-wise Fox’d be playing herself.
Hehehe. Either Fox in a blonde wig and fake nose or Leann Rimes as is can play Brick in the inevitable Lifetime movie.
Her 15 minutes were up yesterday. Let’s put this ugly mutt of a story to sleep.
Man…she is nastier and nastier in these photos. What I think most guys would call a six-pack and paper bag over the head combo!
ARGH! I thought that was Kim Catrall and she looks like she is 70 (at least when she plays Samantha). This Samantha needs to go before she becomes as pathetic as that one.
But does she live in FRANCE where she is completely isolated from the world, (except for 4 dogs, 1 troll hubby, who pays all the bills and a “FABULOUS” circle of friends), and she pitches crappy DM articles that are NOT ABOUT HERSELF even if she uses the word “I”
60+ times?
I get confused…
confused so easily.so easily
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She’s more attractive on video.
I do find it funny that she backpedaled faster than Darelle Revis on the meaning of her article. You wrote it, own it!
If you think of the Daily Mail as a sleazy reality TV show, Brick is the newspaper equivalent of a reality TV villain who has been encouraged and edited to sound as unlikable and unhinged as possible. The show makes the real money. The actor/writer gets a small paycheck and big dose of sudden fame, which is actually infamy.
Not that I’m saying Brick is a victim, but her original dopey article, badly-lit photos, and awkward backpedaling in the face of the backlash are more nuanced than one might think.
Re-posting a link that Lila posted above, in case anyone missed it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves
The fact that she writes for the Daily Mail is all we really need to know. They specialize in exaggerated, trumped up, or downright fake articles.
So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don’t know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.
Those two publicity photos in the purple dress must be heavily photoshopped and/or poorly lit because they do not even look like the same woman as in the video – where did her big honker go? She’s a big bland “meh” either way.
NONE of this would have ever happened if she had actually been hot! She’s hideous.
This woman gives every indication that she has Aspergers Syndrome. She is a text book case. I feel very very sorry for her.
Believe it or not, this is one of the Daily Fail’s more intelligent and insightful articles.
I’m Irish and stunningly beautiful (especially first thing in the morning when I get all dolled up in my sweats and trainers to go to the gym to maintain my perfect(ly acceptable) figure). I currently live in the New York City countryside. The same man opened the door for me on at least four separate occasions yesterday. He also carried my package to the elevator and handed me a bouquet of flowers. Of course, he was the building doorman and gets paid to do that, but still. And the flowers were from my sister-in-law for Easter. All of you other women must hate me.
Beautiful? LOL on what planet?
Okay first of all she is not even average. She is wearing makeup in these pics and still looks bad. I mean who does she think she is ,Helen of Troy? The most beautiful woman in the world happen to be a bollywood actress named Aishwarya Rai. Does this woman think she is on that level of beauty? I suggest this fool look her up and think twice about calling herself to be “beautiful”.
How many times can one quote: “I live in the french countryside..” in one sitting? What is the pecular relevance of this in her strange, dim-witted mind? Perhaps she sees it as her pass to be deluded, self-obsessed, vain, arrogant and all those other lovely things she is…
What is beyond me is how on her website she claims to be an ‘award winning journalist’ – award? what award? for what? from whom? Anybody reading her piece can see that she is a talentless writer, borderline stupid and fails to construct her arguments logically, sensibly or purposefully.
Yeah what awards has she won? She must be making it up.
Useless and average looking lady. Out to get her 15 mins of fame.