Lewis Hamilton and his Mum

I hope shes not on GN - what if one of our lovely darlings received such an award - and ended up on TV for 5 minutes?

Maybe all of them to be on the safe side.

Yes, Jane apparently you have to be "fluffy" in News.
So does that mean we should wear .... fuzzy, fleecy, flimsy, floaty, feathery or furry when posting? The mind boggles.

It’s the chat threads you have to dress up for Jane ?

I always feel I look better in news than I do in politics but I always try to lose weight before I open the news section

And I know it should be separate before anyone starts

I can see why people campaigned to seperate news and politics, the lighter subjects are so much more pleasant

This thread is a depressing example of the way in which women are their own worst enemies.

This x 1,000,000. Why do women derive such pleasure from criticising other women?

Don’t bother to read them then.

Germanshepherdsmum

No. Statement of my opinion. Most mothers of a multi millionaire son with a huge clothing budget, beyond the wildest dreams of most of us, would be able to look quite something. She’s the image of our (extremely nice) local checkout lady but with posh clothes on. Maybe like her son, what matters is the label …

Your comments really are very unpleasant.

I agree Alegrias and it’s one of the reasons I don’t support him. I have only been to Stevenage once, very briefly, years ago so can’t voice an opinion but I expect that like most towns it has good and not so good bits. A six bedroom slum house sounds a tad unlikely to me.

Goodness knows what he’d think of me, Dudley ex-pat in my two bed semi

No. Statement of my opinion. Most mothers of a multi millionaire son with a huge clothing budget, beyond the wildest dreams of most of us, would be able to look quite something. She’s the image of our (extremely nice) local checkout lady but with posh clothes on. Maybe like her son, what matters is the label …

I've only ever been through Stevenage on the train, so no idea what it's like. But if someone who couldn't wait to leave decided to refer to his mum's six bedroom house as a slum, I'd not think much of them, TBH.

You can take the girl out of Stevenage (and I have no quarrel with that town unlike LH) but .... Wow! Snobbery or what?!

Speaking about her break-up with Anthony, Carmen once revealed: "Lewis was the best thing to come out of my marriage. [The split] didn’t damage Lewis

"He is probably better for it than if we had stuck together in an unhappy marriage

"Tony wanted to be somebody and he has achieved that. I wanted the quiet life and that put a barrier between us. I couldn’t see myself in that busy, hectic lifestyle

"But I didn’t stop him making sure Lewis got what he wanted. Without his dad’s constant, constant work he would not have been able to continue."

She always just seems so nice and dignified. It's a shame people have to be so spiteful

The house had 6 bedrooms and was not a slum as Hamilton said. This put the locals backs up.

LH was brought up there and called it 'the slums' Alegrias, much to the annoyance of the locals.

Or perhaps she'll look at the photo, shrug her shoulders, and not give a shit.

I think there is some Hertfordshire snobbery going on here, which is all par for the course ime

I suppose it might if you were a royalist who thinks that kind of thing is important.

What is it with Stevenage?

I imagine that attending your son's investiture would trump any other special occasion, and photos would be guaranteed to go round the world and be displayed at home for many years. Maybe she will look at the photo and reflect that it didn't look as good as she thought. Maybe she'll think she looks wonderful. If it were my son I would make the biggest effort known to man for his sake, as I did for my son's wedding, and the photos we've seen prove that just throwing loadsa money at an outfit isn't the way to go. You can take the girl out of Stevenage (and I have no quarrel with that town unlike LH) but ...

She looks nice in both photographs. That dress obviously wouldn't have been suitable for Buckingham Palace and her trouser jacket ensemble wouldn't have been suitable for a red carpet event.

2016
A different occasion, a different outfit, a different hairstyle, but underneath it all a proud mum and son.

There seems to be an assumption here that for Lewis's mum this was a special occasion beyond anything she's ever experienced before so she should have lost weight and smartened herself up a bit. As the mother of a multi-millionaire F1 driver I don't expect its the first time she's worn Chanel and I don't expect she's spent the last few months worrying about whether some randoms on the internet think she's carrying a few extra pounds.