Daily Mail readers are again subjected to two pages of journalist Samantha Brick confirming that she is 'still beautiful' ten years on from her original piece, and that women will envy her even more.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10701053/SAMANTHA-BRICK-Ten-years-think-Im-beautiful-women-hate-me.html
Now I have no problem with Ms Brick's assessment of herself, and I agree that the level of hostility she received as a result is unacceptable.
But what stuck in my mind from her original piece ten years ago, was her assertion that on occasion, waiters have been so dazzled by her allure, that they have paid for a meal they have served to her in a restaurant.
Ms Brick lives in France, maybe that happens there, but i honestly cannot see such an event occurring in a British restaurant.
I remember at the time asking a colleague of mine, who literally stopped traffic in the street outside when she crossed the road, and was universally acknowledged as the most stunning woman in the five storey building, if a waiter had ever paid for her, and she confirmed it had never happened.
I was with a similarly beautiful friend once when a complete stranger stopped her in the street and gave her a bunch of flowers and a note with his number on, and she also confirmed that no waiter had ever paid for a meal for her.
I admire Ms Brick's self-confidence, but wonder at her apparent need to place herself in the social media firing line for her personal self-aggrandisement, which clearly does not chime with the reading public.
And given my exchanges with ladies whom the majority of any group of people asked, would confirm their high level of physical attraction, i do wonder about the veracity of Ms Brick's claim for free meals from adoring young men.
Have any of the AB ladies had a tab settled for them by a waiter?
And what do they think of Ms Brick's assessment of herself?