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The Age’s Gabriella Coslovich thinks Nigella Lawson might be too fat:

Lawson ... has been creeping towards the less glamorous side of the scale, becoming more corpulent than carnal.

You wouldn’t want to be in Coslovich’s shoes today when Age columnist Catherine Deveny comes rumbling over the horizon.

UPDATE. Also in the Age, Sonia Harford praises indoctrination:

Our children have teachers who explain the stolen generations and encourage them to write stories about the Prime Minister’s apology to Aborigines.

They talk about Earth Hour in class.

That isn’t class. It’s church.

A skinny kid with lank black hair pushed ahead of me last week, and my son gave him a wide berth. Is it a bully, I thought, alarmed, heart beating, protective instincts working overtime. I walked fast, ready to throw my body between him and my son. Lank Hair caught up to a group of kids, two girls and a boy and said: “Hey, is climate change the same as global warming?"

No wonder Sonia’s kid gave him a wide berth. He gets enough of that crap from his teachers.

UPDATE II. The SMH picks up Coslovich’s piece - now linked to this frontpage tease, which asks: “Is she too voluptuous?”

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Posted by Tim B. on 03/24/2008 at 09:46 PM
  1. Mrreeaow!  Yet another reason why it now only takes me about a minute to read The Age, and half of that is ‘Bristow’.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2008 03 24 at 10:06 PM • permalink

  2. They need all that weight to shatter the glass ceiling.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2008 03 24 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  3. Gabriella might want to know that I like a woman who cooks in the kitchen, especially if they can cook and look like Nigella.

    So I’ve got nothing to complain about.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2008 03 24 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  4. Nigella Lawson, beautiful.
    I’d rather watch her cook than him. Sorry, Huey, you’re just annoying.

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 24 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  5. Nigella can dunk my dumplings anytime.

    Posted by egg_ on 2008 03 24 at 10:22 PM • permalink

  6. Nigella’s made me fat, too.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 24 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  7. As usual, this is just one woman complaining about another because she’s intimidated by her good looks.

    Too bad Gabriella, I prefer Nigella.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2008 03 24 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  8. Big deal!! So Nigella can take over Jennifer Paterson’s spot.
    I’m on Nigella’s side. Having been a bone bag most of my life, I really enjoy the soft bits I ‘ve developed over the years. I am an inveterate dinner party thrower and have used many of Nigella’s recipes. Absolutely no complaints from my guests.
    I’d like to see what Gabriella looks like. Be interesting to see if she lives in a glass house.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 24 at 10:31 PM • permalink

  9. woops! Just looked at the bio of Gabbie’s.

    Don’t throw stones Gabbie dear.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 24 at 10:37 PM • permalink

  10. Gabriella Coslovich

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 24 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  11. This from the woman who writes airhead waffle about whether tv chefs are too curvaceous:

    “My fear about journalism is that it is increasingly becoming about lifestyle, celebrity and pap,” says Coslovich, a senior feature and arts writer for The Age.

    Pot, meet kettle…

    Posted by cuckoo on 2008 03 24 at 10:50 PM • permalink

  12. Behead those who insult Nigella.

    Posted by C.L. on 2008 03 24 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  13. The Sisterhood at war. I propose nude jelly-wrestling to determine the winner.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 24 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  14. #10 Coming home to Gabriella or Nigella ... no contest.

    Posted by C.L. on 2008 03 24 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  15. Poor Gabby.Never passed the carnal test and has corpulent just aroend the corner.

    Posted by watty on 2008 03 24 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  16. I’ve never seen what all the fuss was about Nigella Lawson- I’ve always thought she was a bit of a chip off the old block. At least Dear Old Dad managed to starve those filthy miners into submission.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 03 24 at 11:39 PM • permalink

  17. That isn’t class. It’s church.
    But Catherine Deveny Easter? Oh wake me when it’s over

    So the church of earth hour and warming is not like other churches.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 24 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  18. Is that the Catherine Deveny who squats over the mirror staring at her nether-regions?

    Posted by Bonmot on 2008 03 24 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  19. What is Sonia saying? That because the lank haired kid was asking a question about climate change, then he couldn’t be a bully, that her son was safe from him?

    Maybe it’s time judges used the same logic in courts. “Yes, your honour, my client was caught red handed - but he uses energy efficient light bulbs and talks about climate change, so he must be innocent.”

    Unfortunately, most of our judges would probably buy that argument.

    Posted by BB77 on 2008 03 24 at 11:53 PM • permalink

  20. Bugger, that last link seems to have fallen flatter than Gabby’s shirtfront- here’s another. I still think she’s rather a wallette, but compared to the hatchet-faced, pretentious harridan who’s bagging her there’s no challenge whatsoever.

    Conservatives will still regard many teachers as lefties who should get back to the basics of Don Bradman and Simpson’s donkey(1). But is it so wrong for our children to be learning about society and the environment, starting with no disposable wrappers in their lunch box and turning taps off tight?(2) I’m in awe of how much more aware and compassionate they seem destined to be than the private schoolgirl I once was, who wept when she didn’t get velvet jeans or a horse(3).

    What a fatuous series of observations- (1)Conservative would prefer teachers to impart basic literacy anf numeracy, not the idiot hippy values of doctrinaire illiterates and ignoramasus. (2)Surely values should be imparted by parents, not said ill-informed ideologues. (3)Like man, get with it daddy-o! Being a whiny WMO twerp is as hip now as mooning over some pimply pillock with bad teeth, pining for crushed velvet and throwing a tanty over pony deprivation.

    Jeebus there must be a lot of these bucketheads in Fitzroy- when the Spencer St Soviet inevitably goes tits up there’s going to be some bloody cheap over-renovated terrace houses going ‘round Smith and Brunswick.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 03 24 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  21. What is Sonia saying? That because the lank haired kid was asking a question about climate change, then he couldn’t be a bully, that her son was safe from him?

    Maybe it’s time judges used the same logic in courts. “Yes, your honour, my client was caught red handed - but he uses energy efficient light bulbs and talks about climate change, so he must be innocent.”

    Posted by BB77 on 2008 03 24 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  22. Make that EMO twerp.

    And 17/18- I hope she wasn’t performing this act to see if she was about to lay some eggs.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 03 24 at 11:56 PM • permalink

  23. It is amazing how quickly these Age writers reveal the real reason for their stories - case in point:

    NOT since Marilyn Monroe has a woman profited from her curves with such impunity

    Jealousy is a bitch, and you just showed yourself.  Impunity that is, until Gabriella sets about you!

    Did it occur to Gabriella that Nigella has taken up some exercise for purely personal reasons, and not “image”?

    And the quoted statement is far from the truth.  There have been many attack articles on Nigella - hardly “impunity”.

    Posted by peter m on 2008 03 24 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  24. Sisters and brothers:
    Nude Mrs Sarkozy to go on sale

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 25 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  25. How many different words describe Nigella and her cooking?

    Luscious
    Magnificent
    Oppulent
    Seductive

    Posted by Razor on 2008 03 25 at 12:54 AM • permalink

  26. #25
    convex, that is to curve outwards.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 25 at 01:14 AM • permalink

  27. FFS! I was wondering how long it’d be before the PC brigade targeted Nigella.

    Let’s see now:

    Is Nigella happy and happily married?

    Is she raising happy children?

    Is she engaged in a productive and useful career?

    Are she and her family living well on the rewards of her productive lifestyle?

    Are hundreds of thousands, nay, millions benefited and helped by her work?

    By contrast, how does this jealous tart Gabriella Costoomuch compare?

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 03 25 at 02:10 AM • permalink

  28. Nigella’s a buxom wench. The kind of woman a man can come to grips with. Intelligent, also.

    Posted by Big Arnie on 2008 03 25 at 03:33 AM • permalink

  29. Write now, and often, to The Age because it’s no good just pissing yourself here. Include pics.

    Posted by muz on 2008 03 25 at 04:01 AM • permalink

  30. Ms Lawson has also give us a new deadly sin:

    Sluttony.

    Posted by Paul Wright on 2008 03 25 at 04:04 AM • permalink

  31. #27 You missed another reason while the left don’t like Lawson - she is Jewish.

    Posted by Contrail on 2008 03 25 at 04:19 AM • permalink

  32. Here is my Homage to Miss Lawson.

    All these books have been very well thumbed.
    The aforementioned also being on my Pete’s Christmas wish list!

    Contrail, to quote the lady herself, “although she is of the blood pure”, she enjoys a pork chop.

    Her Roast Goose with Mashed Potato Stuffing, has been one of my best Christmas dinners.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 25 at 05:10 AM • permalink

  33. Another observation about Gabbie, her surname obviously is not what you would think as being average Italian. I would judge her background as being of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, the locals of which still consider themselves as Slovenian, not Italian. Most of them still use Slovenian as their native tongue. AND, I can speak with some authority here as my parents were Slovenian, so I know a bit about the region. Unlike Gabbie though, although my surname ends in “c”, it doesn’t end in an “itch”.

    Wonder why she describes herself as Italian? I’m willing to bet her parents wouldn’t be too keen on it.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 25 at 05:27 AM • permalink

  34. #33
    Ah HA!
    So your real name is

    Pogriacic! Pogriac!

    Ha!

    (ok, it’s been a long day)

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 25 at 05:30 AM • permalink

  35. #34 Kae,

    I’ll HAVE YOU KNOW, that Kaboom has renamed me

    SHARIA!!!!

    You must ALL follow my LAW!!!!

    hehehehehehehe. How are ya???

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 25 at 05:35 AM • permalink

  36. Don’tcha mean ShariaC?

    I’m so confuzed. That’s how I am.

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 25 at 05:41 AM • permalink

  37. there, there Kae dear,
    this tends to happen with age. ;)

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 25 at 05:43 AM • permalink

  38. A great photo of Nigella’s Jugs.  Mmmm Nigella.

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 25 at 06:03 AM • permalink

  39. #38 Bastard!

    Posted by PeterTB on 2008 03 25 at 06:08 AM • permalink

  40. #39

    #38 Bastard!

    Back in the days when the interweb wasn’t quite so crowded, when you googled “nigella lawson nude”, one of the first hits was a fake google error page. These days, it’s at least on page two. When I first saw it, I nearly died laughing. Nigella, of course, has too much class to have such photos online, and I guessed that when I googled it. I just tried it to see what came up, and I wasn’t disappointed. The best laugh I’d had for a long time. Try it…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 03 25 at 06:44 AM • permalink

  41. #32 Reminds me of my Jamie Oliver collection.  If I had a Nigella collection like that I’d be too busy looking at the pictures to cook.

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 25 at 07:17 AM • permalink

  42. You are going straight to Hell for that, Irobot (#38)

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2008 03 25 at 08:10 AM • permalink

  43. #38
    Thought this would be more your style?

    Posted by egg_ on 2008 03 25 at 09:07 AM • permalink

  44. You wouldn’t want to be in Coslovich’s shoes today when Age columnist Catherine Deveny comes rumbling over the horizon.

    GOJIRA!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 25 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  45. #44: With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound?

    Posted by Patrick Chester on 2008 03 25 at 11:40 AM • permalink

  46. I thought she was ABC’s umbiquitous Geraldine Doogue, snapped moonlighting as a showgirl.

    Posted by Barrie on 2008 03 25 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  47. I find Catherine Deveny one of the most odious, offensive and execrable harridans I’ve ever been forced to read by our Mr. Blair.

    This is the first year my angel stopped believing in the Easter Bunny (courtesy of “The Vicar of Dibley” and the new crop of Cadbury eggs that come in “Turkish Delight”, “Crunchie”, “Top Deck” flavours—written right on the foil), but she does understand the meaning of this moveable feast celebrating rebirth, faith, hope and family; and is even fully aware of the links to the Jewish Passover and the shared symbolism.

    Deveny could learn a great deal from my child (if I was to let her within shouting distance, which I ain’t).

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 03 25 at 06:27 PM • permalink

  48. Jeez,
    Based on this picture I wouldn’t touch her with a vaccinated crowbar.
    Being a “yank”, didn’t much bother with reading any BS about Down Under’s lefty idiots.
    After all, if Tim condemns them, case closed! I’m of advanced years and deteriorating health so I’ll spend my few remaining seconds of life reading Tim’s posts on the good guys.  Wanna die happy afterall.

    Posted by Mike on 2008 03 25 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  49. Who can trust a skinney Chef ?

    Posted by raider580 on 2008 03 25 at 07:59 PM • permalink

  50. Update: re tease picture,

    YUCK.

    Horrible pic.

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 25 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  51. #44 Well done egg_. Almost too much for my old circuits to cope with.  I still prefer Nigella though.

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 25 at 08:43 PM • permalink

  52. Nigella would be alright for a bit of rumpy-rumpy. What’s Gabriella’s problem?

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 25 at 11:02 PM • permalink

  53. #13 Last time I was involved in that .... hhhm..hhuum. nuf said.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 25 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  54. As a midwesterner, I have only one thing to say about Nigella: Uff -DA!

    Posted by akornzombie on 2008 03 25 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  55. #25 Yes, but I’ve said this before, she is too skinny and has no tits. Mind you, I have noticed small breasts are more sensitive :-D
    ... but I digress.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 25 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  56. #55 Wimpy,

    “Mind you, I have noticed small breasts are more sensitive :-D”

    Rubbish.

    Posted by Pogria on 2008 03 25 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  57. #23, I wouldn’t agree with Gabby’s remark that Marilyn profited from her curves with impunity.

    She was not treated very well in the film world, was patronised as just a sex object, was not treated as a serious actress (as she wished) despite her two years of study in New York, lost a baby during the filming of Some Like it Hot (apart from that my favourite film), reputedly never had an orgasm and as we all know, died a nasty death.

    And what the hell does she mean, anyway, by writing “profited from her curves with impunity?” Women should be punished for being curvy?

    She’s an insult to my brand of femmo-commie thinking.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 26 at 01:03 AM • permalink

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