Posted by Joe on: 10.01.2008 /
She gets £80 a week and she’s drowning in unpaid bills; she’s got nothing left to sell, she’s crying a lot and the kids want cheese-chips so she’s bloody well giving them some. Jamie stands in the kitchen as Natasha cries. “Come here,” he says, moving to give her a comforting hug. “Get off,” she says, pushing him away, denying the producers their “crank up the Snow Patrol, here’s the heart-warming bit”.
“Sorry, I’m just embarrassed,” Natasha says eventually. “I don’t know how it gets like this. I really try with money, I do.” Jamie, the multi-millionaire, hovers, trying to think of something to say. “Look,” he begins, “I’m not going to say to you that I understand, because… well, erm, I don’t.” Other Rotherham residents point this out, too. “The thing with you, Jamie,” another woman tells him, “is you live in a bubble. You’ve got no bloody idea what it’s like for us.” Well, if he didn’t, it’s dawning on him now and I still think he’s an amazing man for trying.
h/t: Scott via The Guardian
Notes for non-Brits: Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef who has been working for a while trying to improve the nations nutrition whilst at the same time being the multi-million pound face of a major supermarket advertising campaign.
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