Monday, December 29, 2003
Victoria; Sneerer
While we're loathe to turn TiaPL into a Nicola Roberts fansite (and if you believe that, you may also believe that we're loathe to carry on breathing), this story could not pass without comment. Take a look at the picture on the left, what thoughts pass through your mind? "Awww, bless" perhaps? Maybe "I should tear out my eyes, as after that vision of sheer loveliness looking at anything else will merely sully the memory"? Slightly more likely, admittedly, is that you'll think "OK, a kinda dodgy outfit, but the shoes are nice and she still outshines the brightest star in the galaxy, such is her radiant beauty". All pretty straight forward and obvious really, unless you happen to be Victoria Newton, the quite literally Bizarre 'writer' for popular 'newspaper' The Sun, who looked at this photo and decided to declare Nicola as the Monday Minger.
Now, we're happy to accept other people's opinions as much as the next man, as long as the next man is the sort of person to refuse to believe that his own opinions are anything else but facts and that anyone who disagrees with him is clearly wrong, but this sort of nonsense is just going too far. While we realise that Nicola may not be everyone's idea of the perfect woman, mainly because she is just too perfect and it's hard for people to gaze upon perfection without feeling demeaned and embarassed by their own imperfections, she cannot be decribed as a minger. Just because a girl is not a 'conventional' beauty, i.e. all blonde flicky hair, vacant blue eyes and a willingness to pose in a couple of bits of strings for Loaded, does not make her ugly. Writing pointless, nasty, jealous comments in a piss-poor column in the second vilest newspaper in the country, on the other hand, does.
