Pippa Middleton made an appearance at the Women in Advertising and Communications dinner Monday night. Pips was the keynote speaker, I guess. She talked about how nervous she was before Will and Kate’s wedding in 2011, and how her dress “fitted a little too well”—she forgot to mention she was probably wearing butt pads, though. She also talked about the downsides of fame and how the accusations of her famewhoring and cashing in on her royal connection by writing a book and everything else really hurt, and that the negative response to her book has been “difficult”.
The amount of negative press she got for her book would hurt anyone, and I don’t blame her for having a difficult time dealing with it. The problem is, and where my sympathies end, is that she clearly put so little effort into the book that she should have known she was going to get lambasted for it. If she had actually spent enough time writing a great book, it would have shut the critics up. Yes, they still would have said she was cashing in, but they wouldn’t have been able to say her book was terrible if she had actually written it well.
Pips wore a £1,000 black Catherine Deane ‘Simone’ lace panel jersey evening gown. It’s cute enough, and is appropriate for the event. Carole accompanied Pips to the dinner. On one hand, I understand why Pips would want her mother there for moral support, because it was her first public speech. But on the other hand I just have to roll my eyes that Carole was there, too. Of course she was, you know.
You know who else was at the dinner with Pips? Her new PR man, Simon Kelner. Pippa was dropped by her American publisher, Viking Press, after her book only sold 18,000 copies. And now she’s hired a new PR firm. There are two reasons one hires a PR firm, to keep their name in the press, or to keep their name out of the press. Guess which one Pips is probably looking for? What Pips really needs is to find a steady job and stop flitting around trying to make a writing career happen.
One guest at the dinner said of Pippa: “It was the first time she’s made a speech of this kind but you wouldn’t have known it, she was so relaxed. It was unbelievable how open she was – I don’t think anyone was expecting that. She talked about the royal wedding and her career since. She came across as really grateful for the opportunities but also talked about the pitfalls of her position.”
You know, I would believe that. I think Pippa is much more confident than Kate and Pippa would probably be a good public speaker. From the little bit I saw of her speaking to a reporter when she was promoting her book, she seemed natural when speaking. She used a lot of “ums” and whatnot, but she didn’t come off as stilted or anything. Kate could definitely take a lesson from Pippa in that area.
Photo from Twitter.
I feel that Pippa would have been an unusual speaker at this type of event. Well done to her new PR for lining this gig up for Pippa. I find it less surprising that Ma Middleton was there too (Carole managed to tear herself away from Kate from an evening?). Interesting comments in this article, maybe if Pippa knuckled down to work instead of writing light weight pieces she may come up with something that was interesting?
Pippa does seem like an odd choice, but WACL’s choices for speaker in the past (Labour leader Ed Miliband, comedian Ruby Wax and movie director Danny Boyle) have also been kind of random. Pippa does seem like a step down from those people, though.
Having Carole there reminds me of Kris Jenner always tagging along on her daughter’s gigs.
all aristo are running from her, who wants to be involved with that trashy golddigger of a family, poor william!
I have the book but got it when it was marked down to $25. It’s not great but not terrible – she does cover a wide variety of events which is fun, especially as an American because there’s stuff in there I’ve never heard of. If one has a nice collection of cookbooks and entertaining books it’s not a bad addition
I read some of the book, and it seemed pretty basic. Yes there were holidays and events and ideas that I didn’t know, but I felt like she could have and should have elaborated on those subjects. Like she had a section about Bondfire night (is that how you spell it?), but she didn’t tell me why they celebrate it. I’m not from the UK so I don’t know what that holiday is. I would have liked her to tell me. When the ideas are basic, you need to include fun facts to make buying the book (at a high price–wasn’t it originally like $50?) worth while.
pancake flat ass, on the loose ouch!
LOL. Pippa Middleton and her ass of lies.