Various EastEnders' fora are all aglow in indignation at Michelle Collins's twitterings about the surgically enhanced lips of a particular EastEnders' actress.
Collins, who spent years playing Cindy Beale on the programme, now inhabits the role of Stella on Coronation Street, so I can understand some numpties feeling betrayed. However, in her twitterings, Collins never mentioned the name of a specific actress who felt the need to surgically enhance her appearance.
It's telling that almost 100% of people who commented on Collins's remarks and went on to attack her for making an observation, to the point of making very personal remarks about her own physical appearance to the point of asserting that she uses botox injections, automatically assumed that Collins was referring to Keirston Wareing, Kirsty of the naturally bee-stung lips on EastEnders.
That's more than a bit hypocritical, because many of those people heaping self-righteous scorn on Collins made similar remarks about Wareing's appearance from her initial appearance on Christmas Day 2012. Some of the remarks were openly ugly, especially if the commentator was a member of TeamTanya.
If people would pull their heads from the confines of their arses, they'd realise a couple of things.
First, Michelle Collins doesn't really use botox injections. If anyone bothers to catch a scene with her on Corrie, you'd see she has lines and wrinkles, just like many a fiftysomething woman, especially one who smokes. And, secondly, Collins is well-known for highlighting the unnecessary practices promoted by some very young actresses in using cosmetic surgery to enhance physical appearances before they're even in their twenties.
On EastEnders, alone, in the past, we've had no less than Michelle Ryan, Natalie Cassidy and Dame Lacey Turner getting boob jobs before they hit the big two-one. And it's a well evident fact that fortyish Jessie Wallace and Samantha Womack indulged in botoxing.
However, as Collins's remarks (explained later) were directed toward the youthful element on the programme and since no one was mentioned, it's plausible that she was directing her criticism towards Jacqueline Jossa, whom many unthinking people people consider the go-to gal on the show.
TPTB are certainly promoting her.
That's a shame, especially since they can't see that she is really
THE WORST ACTRESS EVER TO APPEAR ON EASTENDERS.
Jossa's upper lip has changed considerably since she appeared on the show in 2010, as evidenced by the following pictures.
Collins, who spent years playing Cindy Beale on the programme, now inhabits the role of Stella on Coronation Street, so I can understand some numpties feeling betrayed. However, in her twitterings, Collins never mentioned the name of a specific actress who felt the need to surgically enhance her appearance.
It's telling that almost 100% of people who commented on Collins's remarks and went on to attack her for making an observation, to the point of making very personal remarks about her own physical appearance to the point of asserting that she uses botox injections, automatically assumed that Collins was referring to Keirston Wareing, Kirsty of the naturally bee-stung lips on EastEnders.
That's more than a bit hypocritical, because many of those people heaping self-righteous scorn on Collins made similar remarks about Wareing's appearance from her initial appearance on Christmas Day 2012. Some of the remarks were openly ugly, especially if the commentator was a member of TeamTanya.
If people would pull their heads from the confines of their arses, they'd realise a couple of things.
First, Michelle Collins doesn't really use botox injections. If anyone bothers to catch a scene with her on Corrie, you'd see she has lines and wrinkles, just like many a fiftysomething woman, especially one who smokes. And, secondly, Collins is well-known for highlighting the unnecessary practices promoted by some very young actresses in using cosmetic surgery to enhance physical appearances before they're even in their twenties.
On EastEnders, alone, in the past, we've had no less than Michelle Ryan, Natalie Cassidy and Dame Lacey Turner getting boob jobs before they hit the big two-one. And it's a well evident fact that fortyish Jessie Wallace and Samantha Womack indulged in botoxing.
However, as Collins's remarks (explained later) were directed toward the youthful element on the programme and since no one was mentioned, it's plausible that she was directing her criticism towards Jacqueline Jossa, whom many unthinking people people consider the go-to gal on the show.
TPTB are certainly promoting her.
That's a shame, especially since they can't see that she is really
THE WORST ACTRESS EVER TO APPEAR ON EASTENDERS.
Jossa's upper lip has changed considerably since she appeared on the show in 2010, as evidenced by the following pictures.
2010
Current
Considerably plumper lips, no? Lips don't grow, and they don't grow on trees. And that's not the only thing 20 year-old Jossa's enhanced.
Suffice it to say, that it's only natural that Jossa's enhancements are as plastic as her acting.
So, yeah ... Michelle Collins has a point, and she wasn't talking about Keirston Wareing.
Surely it is unprofessional of Michelle Collins to comment on a social media site about another actors appearance, whoever it be?
ReplyDeleteNot at all. She is entitled to her opinion, and she singled no one out by name.
DeleteSurely, it's hypocritical to comment on an actor's appearance, singling someone out by NAME, as I'm sure you and your cronies have on various fora, and then criticise an actress on a rival television programme for doing the same in a general way. Get over yourself, you self-righteous prick.
Fair enough. But when you're a public person, like actors in popular shows are, you have to be able to own your rants/opinions or else shut up. Making her 15 year old daughter post the sob story of mummy being so sad and she's a single mum boo-hoo, is frankly pathetic. Even I could have done better, and I don't even twitter.
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Fact is, she never said a name, and fact is, so many on BOTH fora have, since Christmas, commented in some very pejorative and personal terms about Keirston Wareing's lips. I was willing to give her the benefit of a doubt that she has beestung lips; but there is another actress, who is very young, and who has obviously had surgical enhancements done to her face and body since she arrived; and EastEnders has a tradition of young actresses queueing up before they hit twenty for the ubiquitous boob job - Michelle Ryan, Natalie Cassidy and Lacey Turner to name a few; and I'm certain there are as many on Corrie. Michelle Collins has always spoken out about young actresses using cosmetic surgery when it's unnecessary.
DeleteOn a curiosity note, I googled pictures of Keirston Wareing, and if you look at early pictures of her, I think she has used collagen.
I'm pretty certain Keirston did have fillers, you can just tell. Those sort of looks don't exist in RL. I'm not so sure about Jossa, because I can't really see a difference in her lips, but she seems to have had a boob job for sure. With this said, I don't see the reason to diss plastic surgery in general, if some people feel better having it done, good for them. I'm not one to comment on women's appearance if I can avoid it, because I think women already have it hard enough on this front. I didn't like the comments on the forums about KW's lips either.
ReplyDeleteI understand Collins' comment on young people getting unnecessary surgery, and it would have been fine if that had been the argument all along instead of coming across as some petty tweet which was obviously going to cause a stir. And like I said, she wrote it, she needs to own her shit. The moment someone needs her 15 year old daughter to defend her with a sob story that has nothing to do with the topic in question, she instantly loses any credibility.
The over-reaction to Collins' comments on DS really is quite pathetic, in my opinion. That's all.
ReplyDeleteEr, a postscript to my former comment, regardless of my original ''that's all''. *looks suitably embarrassed*
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth is this pathetic nonsense about Collins making her kid do her dirty work for her?
If anybody had slated my mother publicly when I was a highly opinionated 15 year old, or even now for that matter, I would have defended her to the hilt as publicly as possible, and still would. That's what families do, if they have any bond whatsoever. Do people really believe that a kid isn't likely to defend his/her mother automatically, without being instructed to do so? Perhaps any teenager with a conscience and a sense of family loyalty would do the same, BECAUSE THAT PERSON THEY SEE BEING SLATED BY MORONS IN PUBLIC IS THEIR MUM?
Deary me.
Time for my medication... but seriously, I think some people forget (or have no clue) what it is like to be a teen and see your mother being unfairly bitched by all and sundry. I wouldn't have stood for it, and anyone who would have done so (unless they were abused or abandoned) is a clown with n o sense of loyalty.
A 15 year old acting ridiculously because her mum has been insulted is hardly surprising. Allowing your kid to do so, on the other side, is a pussy move for pussies. So my criticism is to the mother, not to the kid.
ReplyDeleteIf I spread my opinion over the internet, then I also have to take full responsibility for it, and take the backlash if what I'm saying can be read as distasteful. If you can't deal with it you're better keeping your views to yourself; after all no one forces Collins to twitter and share her opinions with the world.
It's called maturity, and some clowns seem to forget what it entails.
You say you are a parent. Do you have teenagers? Do you stand over them and monitor their activities on the Internet? I agree with Sara; it's perfectly natural for a child to defend their mother in any circumstance if she's being wantonly attacked in a public forum. Or for a mother to attack her children's detractors. I've seen Jamie Borthwick's mother get disgracefully ugly when some of his "followers" got out of hand. And Jamie let it stand, and he's legally an adult.
DeleteThe truth of the matter is that all of this, ALL OF IT, is speculation. We don't know that Michelle Collins was referring to Kierston Wareing, and we don't know that she either egged her daughter on in her defence or if she didn't. At the end of the day, we can all say what we "would" do in such a situation, but really, would we?
He who is without sin and all that ... and looking both ways.
Cosi' fan tutti.
Michelle herself is exactly as attractive as Zoe Ball.
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