To think Kirsty Allsopp is taking advantage?

Why,*maryeliza*, is there something wrong old Meg?

OldMeg maybe you should go back to bed and try getting out the other side

No I know plenty of people who’ve done well for themselves without KA’s platinum spoon and I have nothing but admiration for them but they tend not to think they’ve got a god given right to say what they want on SM and MSM without opening themselves to possible criticism. Some of us are criticising her ( and some agreeing ) with views she put out herself - she made it everybody’s business who wanted to pile in and those of you who say it’s not our business are frankly completely ridiculous

Fenton don’t they just? Sour grapes ? or just the same mentality that sells gossip magazines like Hello! OK! and papers like the Daily Mail.

Tit-tattling old biddies!

*love

We don't know the whole story and don't we just live to knock anyone who does well for themselves?

I think some of the more privileged celebrities do this because they can ...others such as Gordon Ramsey has done this and probably others have who we don,t hear of so often. I don,t agree with it personally....I think cabin staff have enough to do already without having to watch out for children sat by themselves .... they are still minors. It's also unfair to expect other passengers to almost feel obliged to help out as well. It's the assumption by these privileged people that other people will take on the parenting role for them, while they have the luxury of hassle free comfort.

Her children aren't teenagers ,they are 10 and 12 .If this "entitlement" thing is how she runs her/their lives where does it end.I know she says she doesn't let them sit on the sofa ..which to me is ridiculous does she feed them sausages while she eats fillet steaks too.Not my idea of how family life is .

Why not go the whole hog and send them on a different plane!......on a flight with an unscheduled plane change when my daughter was 2.....I boarded the plane to find I was placed several rows from her.....I found the business man who would have been next to her only too willing to change seats! On long haul flights my ex husband sat separately so he could sleep....leaving me with both children!

Several posters on here seem to be squaring up for an argument - I wonder why this is?

I find it ironically hilarious that 'celebs' of any gender who make a nice fat living out of publicly telling people how they should or shouldn't be doing things are in the least bit surprised when their own behaviour is examined and criticised in the public domain. Perhaps they really believe it's one rule for them...

Maybe she’s just mean and didn’t want to fork out the extra money for Business Class for them.
I’m sure they were more than happy not to have mum around and quite capable of looking after themselves. These are children whose mother works away from home a lot of the time and and who are quite independent I’m sure. They are probably at boarding school so used to looking after themselves. Can’t understand what all the fuss is about.

My DD has flown unaccompanied too . A whole different argument .

I’m sorry but financially able or not I still think a family holiday begins with the trip itself . I really can’t see any reason why you would want to be deliberately separated from your children on a flight, unless maybe the children are badly behaved, in which case how unfair on other passengers.

We all have different opinions and different ways of parenting/grand parenting.

KA works for her money, good on her.

Having flown BA Club, all that separates you is a curtain, she could have back row club, they could have front row economy, I honestly cannot see the problem.

Our children always sat in a row together, Husband and I normally in front of them, so if they kicked seat/played with tray table it was us they annoyed.

I think she is being attacked unfairly for doing something that deep down and if financially able, lots of people would have done.

My AC think this is hilarious, and waiting for GC to reach teenage years so they can sit away from them on the plane, for a couple of hours of relaxation after the pre-holiday stress and the coming 14 days of holiday mayhem!! I must add that they are exceptionally good and know how to behave.

My eldest GC 16 has been flying backwards and forwards to Europe as an unaccompanied minor for years, and on reaching 13 has flown happily and confidently on her own, without assistance.

My daughter was involved in a TV programme hosted by KA. She said KA was an absolutely lovely and caring person, concerned about making everyone around her feel comfortable There was no 'side' to her.

Kirsty found my son and his wife a very nice flat in London and they really liked her. They found she gave very good advice and was down to earth.

What’s the pay gap got to do with sitting at opposite ends of a plane Grampie ?

I think she makes it clear in her comments that it was her decision to sit the children in cattle class I don’t think it was negotiated

You see here what we do to a woman that has refused to be a victim of those sexist employers (aka the pay gap).

She negotiates instead.

Kirsty may also have discussed seating options with her children who, not needing the extra space, may have willingly opted for time to act as adults away from their Mum.

We should be building up women who negotiate well and refuse to turn to the government to close the pay gap instead of tearing them down.

it's not an uncommon action for parents, so why the fuss?

Really goldengirl ? I have never heard of parents deliberately booking themselves and their children in different classes/ parts of a plane . It just seems so odd. I always thought a family holiday began with the flight /trip itself .

I find KA a bit irritating as she comes across as a mixture of Mother Earth and Lucy Homemaker.

Her 'plummy' voice regardless of what she does irritates me.

Do fathers get the same roasting for this as KA seems to be getting?

If I were a passenger sitting next to a similarly abandoned child, I would be furious if I had to look after it in any way at all. Not my place & flying is stressful enough without that.

DD is taking her DD (aged 3) on holiday very shortly, was unable to book seats together and is relying on other passengers being similarly unwilling to look after a small child in anyway at all & they will therefore agree to swap seats.

Fingers crossed.

You’ll probably find that the real real is, she didn’t want to pay business class for the nanny

Don’t duck your head goldengirl you are entitled to say that ??

It seems that some people think only nasty and negative comments are allowed! Those who have the temerity to disagree feel they have to duck???

I have to say I quite like KA [ducks head below parapet]. I admit to not having heard this story before but (1) would it be a story if a 'celebrity' was NOT involved? and (2) KA didn't do herself any favours by responding on Twitter; thus the flames were fuelled. What she chooses to do is none of our business - noone was hurt; it's not an uncommon action for parents, so why the fuss?