Thursday, March 15, 2007

Hard to get good help!

Is it just me or does everyone love to see a nasty person publicly shamed?

Trudie Styler is a film producer, she is also famous for being married to Sting. I’ve seen her interviewed a few times and she is all tantric sex and getting in touch with her spirituality.

This week however, Trudie has been in tears over allegations from her former chef Jane Martin that she's a "tyrant" who subjects her staff to abuse in order to "feel royal",

Meanwhile, Madonna has discovered that an ex-nanny is trying to pocket six million dollars for a "sensational" below stairs book about life with the singer. Surprise surprise, turns out it’s no bed of roses working for Madge either.

I know there will be a lot of people who deplore this type of disloyalty, but I don’t.

There was a time when staff knew their place, sure, that was also the good old days when people like Naomi Campbell could belt their housekeepers over the head with a mobile phone and expect her to pick up a mop and get back to work.

I heard a statistic this week that phenomenally successful people, like company CEO’s and people who make it in showbiz are borderline psychopaths with too little time on their hands.

Apparently studies show that company CEO’s exhibit a lot of the traits of serial killers…it’s all about power…and I think most people have seen it in their travels.

It’s no big stretch to imagine Trudy Styler and Madonna are a little high maintenance.

I call it progress. Nowadays, staff employed to do domestic work know their rights and are savvy enough to recognise that if they’ve been treated badly, there's a vast audience out there, hungry for a bit of upstairs downstairs drama. And I say BRING IT ON!

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