Food snobbery; the Suffragettes & Kylie Jenner’s secret pregnancy
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Your usual mixed bag this week: Cheddar Man, Nutella fights and Lady Doritos.
It’s the 100 year anniversary of the Suffragettes! We deliver to you some facts and a round-up of this week’s celebrations.
We discuss Kylie Jenner’s secret pregnancy (her daughter, Stormi Webster was born this week.) How did the world’s most famous 20 year old - Kylie has over 100 million followers and is the richest of all of the Kardashian/Jenners - hide her pregnancy from the paps for an entire 10 months? Is it yet another PR ploy; or a genuine bid for privacy from a young woman long uncomfortable with her own, inherited fame?
Also today, some discussion of Woody Allen - mainly via some excellent journalism, links below - and the latest Hollywood MeToo, via Uma Thurman. This one’s a little different though… it’s more about Quentin Tarantino than it is Harvey Weinstein. And, a first: Tarantino replies, at length. Both articles, below, are well worth reading.
Plus, a bit on food snobbery, after the wonderful writer and former Bake Off contestant, Ruby Tandoh, spoke out against the “classism and ableism” inherent in slamming ready-made meals. Choice is a luxury; and ‘wellness’ is a concept that the working class can ill afford (there’s also a bit of personal bias from Pandora, on this subject.)
Reading
The Friendship Cure, by Kate Leaver https://www.amazon.co.uk/Friendship-Cure-Manifesto-Reconnecting-Modern/dp/0715652524
Why Woody Allen should be tried in court and not by public opinion, by Hadley Freeman for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/feb/03/actors-condemn-woody-allen-hadley-Freeman
Feminism is excluding working class women, by Camilla Long for The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thats-right-sack-the-poor-grid-girls-only-the-rich-are-entitled-to-flaunt-their-bits-ctw9p6szw
This is why Uma Thurman is angry, by Maureen Dowd for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html
Quentin Tarantino responds to Uma Thurman http://deadline.com/2018/02/quentin-tarantino-uma-thurman-harvey-weinstein-kill-bill-car-crash-new-york-times-1202278988/
Kylie Jenner has baby and seemingly grows way up, by Harling Ross for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/02/kylie-jenner-baby-girl.html
Listening & Watching
Jack Whitehall on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb1hw
Love Stories, by Dolly Alderton (Pandora’s insertion, not Dolly’s) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-stories/id1343714594?mt=2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - at cinemas now
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 46 of The Highloat. The weekly news, current affairs and pop culture |
| 0:21.5 | podcast brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. Do you think we should have a party for its 50th? |
| 0:28.5 | Today we will be discussing Kylie Jenner's baby, food snobbery, Uma Thurman's claims against Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino and the 100 year anniversary of the suffragette. |
| 0:40.5 | Also today, a quick far round of Ask The Highloat. Dolly, how has your rock star week been on the press junket of everything I know about love? |
| 0:49.5 | Rock star press junket, I mean I spoke to a crowd in a notting hill church last night. |
| 0:56.5 | I know exactly where you were, you were very near my old flat. |
| 0:59.5 | It's not headlining, they're worth just yet. |
| 1:02.5 | It's lovely, I'm really enjoying it, thank you so much to everyone for all your support. I met loads of high low listeners at the event last night. |
| 1:09.5 | They're always gate crushing the wrong thing, your book turns up at the high low, the high low turns up at your book, no your place. |
| 1:15.5 | But they're always so charming, I just don't want to be too boasty about this but I do think we have the nicest listeners. |
| 1:22.5 | You can see it's lovely. I'm going to meet a real dickhead now. |
| 1:25.5 | Well actually, sometimes they manifest in the high low inboxes, you well know. |
| 1:31.5 | So people keep referring to Dolly as the Millennial Nora Efron, which is a huge compliment which she duly enjoys as she rightly should. |
| 1:38.5 | And my husband said to me, your book launch on Monday, is that a snacks mom? |
| 1:43.5 | I don't give it. Oh my god, second. |
| 1:46.5 | I think he was joking but I'm still not technically sure. |
| 1:50.5 | Oh my god, that's hilarious. I definitely can't be sure. |
| 1:53.5 | My dad was so happy to finally meet you and he was saying how lovely you and your husband were and he said, |
| 1:59.5 | much smaller than I anticipated both of them. They will have small children, but he was predicting it. |
| 2:05.5 | I was like, well I like the note of concern much smaller than I'd anticipated. |
| 2:09.5 | No, he just, he was saying it like a heads up like you might not know. They will have small children. |
| 2:16.5 | Afterwards we went for a bit of an after party and apparently when I got into the cab I was chanting my own name. |
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