British Classism & Snobbery Saddens Jordan
Katie Price Jordan was snubbed by the Brit horsey set at last weekend's Cartier Polo International show and she took to the media to unleash her scorn.
Here's Katie's response to the snobs, published in Friday's The Times:
So the Cartier Polo International was happy to invite a man convicted of assault on an elderly couple, dozens of aristocrats and an assortment of would-be actresses in minuscule dresses. But it wouldn't have me. More than 35,000 people came to the polo match last weekend but I was excluded.
Why? I'm a successful author and businesswoman, a rider, I am learning to play polo and I compete in dressage events. I rode my first horse when I was 7, and saved up to rent my first pony, Star, when I was 11. He was the ugliest, hairiest pony in the yard but I adored him. My mum couldn't afford for me to go to Pony Club but it didn't stop me going to gymkhanas. I just wanted to beat all those smart little girls in their perfect jodphurs and jackets.
All my life I've been surrounded by horses, I earned my pocket money sweeping out stables and I now have six horses. I've been invited to take part in the Royal Horse of the Year show, I've even played a charity polo match at Cowdray Park.
My book Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book was shortlisted for the WHSmith children's prize and I have written a bestselling series of stories about ponies. I know more about fetlocks and forelocks than most of the celebrities invited by Cartier and the Chinawhite nightclub. I've certainly mucked out more horses.
I also have a business career, I've a No1 perfume and a lingerie line. I'm a wife working as hard as I can to bring up my children, Harvey, Junior and Princess Tiaamii, and be a good role model for them.
I didn't want to go to Windsor to meet royalty. I've met the Prince of Wales and the Queen before. I don't need to be photographed with the A-list, I've met quite enough celebrities. I wanted to watch the matches and give my family a treat.
It's pure snobbery. However good a horsewoman I may be, I'm also a glamour model. That embarrassed the organisers. I paid Chinawhite £6,000 for my table, but my manager was told that I was not the sort of person they wanted. Eliza Doolittle went to the races with Henry Higgins after a few elocution lessons, In Pretty Woman Julia Roberts went to the polo straight from Sunset Boulevard, but in the 21st century we have become even more class-ridden. Unless you are a toff or an aspiring actress, they don't want you.
Polo should be for people who love horses, not a media charade. It should be about the sport. Horses are a wonderful hobby, one that gets you outside and keeps you fit. They should be for everyone - little girls, glamour girls, working-class girls like me. No one should be excluded.
Dita Von Teese was a guest at the polo event.
Guess it's how you shake the boobies for the horsey set that matters.
Dita definitely shakes it with class!
[Image via WENN.]
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no matter where you go in life, there is always that cliche group who decides who comes and goes. It is the same way in hollywood, if you don't have some sort of name, you are not going to be invited to premieres, shows, etc.
i hate to admit this, but well said.
Have your say…
wow, what a baby!
I guess it's all about how you present yourself to the public. Jordan just doesn't have the air of sophistication that Dita von Teese has. Jordan comes off as crass, vulgar. Her tits are too big for her body, she wears too much makeup and is a publicity whore. For all her accomplishments, she just comes off as crude, tacky. Apparently the Queen feels the same way.
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Jordan is a skank. No class to cry like that
Dita is in a different league…
Everyone can c this,
I hate myself for saying this, but I don't disagree with her.
You tell 'em Jordan. Fuck the aristocrats.
We have loads of posh numpty's ere in the UK she will get over it.
Dita is yummy!
the kenn…hahahahah…I ME INDIAN UGA UGA
She actually sounded smart there. I felt bad for her while I read that.
BOOOOO Fucking HOOO Jordan LOL . shes a trash model, she shouldnt be at posh events for classy people
I agree who cares about the a list , its should be about the love of horses , well said
The fox (or rather the pig in this case) and the grapes. Read it, bitch.
I feel bad for her, fucking snobs!
Katie……Relocate across the pond to Hollywood!!!! You will fit right in. Please just dont take your new baby out and about on Robertson again with the FUCKING CHICKEN POX YOU TRASHY BITCH!!!!!
class snobbery is a big problem in the UK, especially England
Brilliantly put Katie!!
In America, I think you call them 'lifesavers'
In the UK - 'Polo' is a mint with a hole
Jordan has made a mint from hers.
She has prostituted every inch of her body, her relationships, family and children to make money. I doubt that she would want to go if the event was in a muddy field with no press cameras.
she forgets, In Pretty Woman - Julia Roberts played Whore - paid to pretend to have class - In my fair lady - Eliza was a street woman controlled by a manipulative man as a joke, neither of them pulled it off - neither does Jordan - she has to learn that you can't have everything you want by shoving your giant plastic tits in peoples faces
She's right. It's ridiculous that she was excluded. She has clearly worked hard to get where she is when most of the people invited were probably born into privilege. She deserved an invite to this event. This sort of thing happens all the time - snobs pushing others out. I'm glad Jordan/Katie has spoken up and more people in her situation should do the same. How wude!
Re: CMc – Re: CMc –
For the record even if you could see the chicken pox it may not have been infectious anymore if it had already scabbed over.
Dang that read like a true novel. This lady is full of gossip. Write a book
DITA IS A TWINK TRANNY AND YOU ARE A FAT PEDOPHILE. ASS EATER
oh no, how ridiculous, we should be far more elite than that! who ever allowed gay people into nightclubs should be shot, and those numnuts who think they can buy their way into my charity, just shoot yourselves now, please!! until you can see it my way, your sorry ass would be so much better off seeing it no way. xoxoxo trixie
It is because of what they named the kids.
What the heck is the difference between a model and a glamour model? And if Dita was there who is a see my boobies dancer, why couldn't Jordan be there?
no one knows who dita von teese is in the UK.. if they knew she was a sripper and a famous one at that.. maybe she would have been disinvited also..
sounds like she needs a good dose of unsituated cock to calm her down. bitch is too uptight. a good load of cum to those tits would cure what ails her. better than prozac!!
WELL SAID!!!! AMAZING
NOW I LIKE THIS GIRL. SOOOOOO RIGHT. FUCK ALL THE LUCKY WAITRESSES THAT BECOME ACTORS.
SLUTS
Sorry, but if I were organizing a posh event I wouldn't invite a woman known for randomly shoving cell phones up her twat either. That's just common sense.
I think Jordan is absolutely in the right here. She may have the world's worst fake tan and may generally be tacky and self agrandizing but she's as much a right to go to an event like this as Dita, more given her love of horses. Just ’cause you dress like a classy broad from the 40s, Dita, you are nonetheless a stripper. I love Dita, think she's great, don't get me wrong–I'm not at all opposed to what she does, but to differentiate between an Andrews Sister stripper and a modern "glamour" girl" is just assinine. The British class system is appalling.
She married Peter.
That's why she stays trash.
what an ego maniac - could she possibly say "I" anymore times???
cry me a river
I agree Jordan. And the comment about dita and class, puhleeeze. You can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig. They are jealous of you, Jordon, because you've made it, and they don't want the "likes" of you, working class, to be one of them. Eff them and their royal asses. Keep on selling and making $$$. The only negative thing I will say, they might think it low class to name your daughter Princess Tiami. You kind of are forcing a royal title into a name….. That makes you look like a royal climber…
This is yesterday's news and you have just done a cut and paste job with someone else's journalistic work. You get worse by the minute Perez - time to retire, no really!
I hate myself for saying this, but I don't disagree with her. WELL SAID JORDAN.
Dita is great, but it doesn't mean the organization are a full of hypocrits!!!
leave thoze horzez alone…
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Re: Solar – So you don't like cell phones up the twat, but you don't mind the heel of a stilleto up a twat? There are pictures, nasty ones at that of that skank dita fucking her shoe, a stilleto. Dita is a dirty whore in classy clothes.
That really was tacky of China White and other organizers. They certainly seem to have double standards as to what is 'acceptable' as many of the invited guests were complete chavs…even fighting at the event. Never was a fan of Katie, but after watching her show several times, and seeing her interviewed she is definitely a shrewd businesswoman and has more class than the hypocrites attending the match. When not dressing up as a drag-queen, she's also quite a pretty lady.
Have to love a fellow horseman!
Team Katie/Jordan! Well put. She is actually a very eloquent writer.
I agree with her. She seems like an intelligent person. Her other persona is just an act anyways. I feel bad for her.
I definitely agree with Katie, ffs, EVERYTHING is to do with celebrities, everything reasonably big is to do with the media, and normal people excluded and they're given all this power cause they spoke some fucking lines in a movie.
But this shouldn't just apply to Polo, it should apply for everything.
The queen is meant to be the queen of everybody, not just aristocrasy.
Re: Andre –
Yep. von Teese is a useless, old whore, too, but I was commenting on a post about Jordan.
Not fair ! Jordan is right!
Jordan: Get over it unknown whore… there was a good reason and i can tell ya… nobody knows you and the few ones who have an slight idea of who you are want you away from them!!!!
Suck it bitch!
Dita Von Teese and her tasteless lesbian porn got in by mistake. And Jordan should have thought about all that when she was sticking cell phones up her canal.
I don't want to socialize with THAT white trash slut either!
If she loves horses sooooo much she can go to any muddy field event she likes. No one is going to stop her from doing that.
OOOOPS, I forgot… no name field events don't have paps or press.
So much for loving horses RIGHT??!!
Jordan is a dopey fame hungry slapper who shames England. I'm English.
Does she understand that eliza dolittle and the pretty woman character were fictional???????????????????????????????Either she is really dumb or her over use of tanning booths have cooked her brain.
Why would anyone want to be a part of a group or class that does not want them? She should channel that anger into something positive — like avoiding those snobs and working towards being around people more like her (not the royals!).
I can't believe she wrote this…what a looser….who care….there's many othe polo events during the year where you can talk about horses and yourself..how good of a business women and author you are…
What a weak person - why is she so popular now? Looser!!
they all bang their horses. why be insulted?
i loved polo & i too was put down. by a bunch of d listers.
thank god imagine how hurtful it would have been if they wanted my friendship.
one nasty even went as far as accusing me of stealing something i don't know what. she was wearing nylon. no nothing you have anybody would want.
i'm edward the 8ths grandaughter, it gives them a hard on if they can boss royalty around. my mother says it's because they are ugly.
they are.
the nasty lower middles still wearing yellow & claiming a class system that they made up.
is that camila door still open?
Well my day certainly got brighter - I was invited to the Cartier Polo match in Virginia both last year and this year and I'm certainly not royalty or part of a privileged set of snobs - I guess good manners is good enough. Jordan, however, is a joke to anyone with half a brain. Congratulations on her composing her rant - I suppose that's probably the only writing she has in fact done on her own. She named her daughter Princess for goodness sakes and she wants to be taken seriously? Puhleeze - and there is a difference between Dita Von Teese and Jordan - Dita is actually respected and for being a porn/burlesque star, you wouldn't know it if you met her - she does in fact carry herself with class, unlike Katie "for a price"
and dita was there!?!?!?!
not to sexy for royalty these days after all.
i suppose queen liz can be feisty when she wants to.
and i think its a different kind of riding dear katie price does..
She's surprisingly articulate and states her case very well. maybe they're scared she'll show up in her "glamour" type attire and yell out "Move your arse! or Woo woo woo" Arsenio style but I think in this case she would dress and act appropriately considering her passion for the sport. What a shame.
TO KATIE:
Everyone with a proper education and middle class background knows jolly well it takes CLASS and NOT NOVEAU-RICHE TRASH to get into events like Cartier Polo. Sorry that "Tatler" and "Harpers Bazarre" will never give a damn about surgically enhanced reality TV media whores. Mind you, Victoria Beckham was on the cover of "Tatler" once, they must have realized they sunk to an all-time low doing that! What a joke!
I get invited to the cartier every year. I attend every few years. I would much rather watch the match with others who understand what is happening on the field, than with a bunch of wannabe it girls, oligarchs, and starlets. Yes, I'm a classist brit, and I've never been a fan of Jordan in any way, but treating her in such a hypocritical and exclusionary way is completely beyond the pale. So Jordan's a working class glamor model, big f-ing whoop. At least she doesn't pretend to be otherwise - shit, half the decent looking women at polo matches these days are 'on the clock,' so to speak. Jordan knows a hell of a lot about horses and about polo and deserves infinitely more respect from cartier, cowdray & chinawhite, who, incidentally, were the ones who announced that they had rejected her.
Besides, chinawhite, what the hell? That tired old bougie gin joint?! They're chav central. And that's on a good night. They have some nerve looking down their noses at anyone. Going out of their way to announce how they humiliated her is completely unacceptable.
I'm not the only member of the horsey set who would welcome Jordan with open arms to next years event. And I hope she comes. Chinawhite can keep their skanky chavs & rent-a-crotches and cartier can keep their new moneyed trash. My old money will be spent elsewhere from now on.
I hate to admit it, but I completely agree with Jordan on this one. While at times she is over the top, it is only ever done in a publicity sense to promote the image she has spent decades building. Many don't understand and cannot comprehend that the Jordan we see in public is a PR manifestation and not the way Katie Price acts/dresses 24/7. Jordan is an image, not Katie.. Its so simple. And if comparing, Dita Von Teese was married to Marilyn Manson and a burlesque dancer? To me, that is not classy at all… Nothing Against her, I am a fan. But lets not compare apples to oranges here. Jordan has every right to be upset and offended.
I actually feel bad for her. That kinda sucks.
Yes - Dita Von Teese was invited and DID attend. But someone later had to explain what kind of "dancer" she is to Prince Charles who probably blushed a dozen shades of red. He had invited her to dance at Harry (or was it Williams ? Whatever…)Birthday Party without knowing she was a stripper.
Anyway, something tells me she won't be back next year.
"Guess it's how you shake the boobies for the horsey set that matters."
No perez, its the huge boobies themselfs. The aristocrats are not amused.
That's a shame.
They're just snobs though. Not worth it.
I agree with Jordan 100%!!! How could they invite Dita VonTeese (who likes to have sex with high heels) but they would not allow our precious katie price!!! That is a real slap in the face and deserves an apology.
All self promotion aside, maybe she said or did something to personally offend. Taking it out in the press is not usually a good idea, Heather Mills. Six horses don't give you class.
Well, that's why we rebelled against the British Monarchy….nothing but a bunch of welfare whores stealing from their "constituents!" What kind of 21st century, first world country still maintains such an outright classist society…aristocrats and commoners…birth rights and titles…oh, please.
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Come to the USA, we have plenty of polo matches here without having to show your pedigree to get in…maybe you have to show your bank account…but you get the point! And honestly, I don't even know who this "celeb" is!
THE BRITISH MONARCHY NEEDS TO GO. LIVING A LIFE OF LUXURY OFF THE TAXPAYERS BECAUSE THEY WERE BORN INTO THAT PRIVILEGE, IS NOT ACCEPTABLE ANYMORE. FOR THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, BEING SO STUFFY AND SELF-INVOLVED, I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW IT. YOU LOVE YOUR QUEEN, YOU LOVE YOUR MONARCHY. GET OVER IT. SHE IS A POMPOUS OLD HAG, AND SHE DOES NOTHING THAT A TOURISM AND CHARITY MINISTRY COULD NOT DO.
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We love Katie Price! We love Jordan and the whole Jordan family! Britain's finest so NEVER knock them. We'll take her above a billion 'POSH SPICES' any day of the week. The Cartier polo should be so lucky she would want to even attend. Check out the trailer trash that was on show there! Jordan is far too good for that! xxx
Sorry I would have denied her as well, she is what is referred to as riff raff over there … She looks and acts like a cartoon, like a barbie whore or something. You can't have that at something even close to something classy.
This makes me angry. She deserves to go just as much as anyone else.
And what Americans have to understand. It is 1000 times better to have a moron out of touch royal house without any political powers, than George Bush.
It's b/c she is the queen of the chavs in the UK
Re: anne – Okay, Britard….we get to vote presidents out, and the worst we have is 8 years. You idiots are stuck with your inbred lot for infinity. Yes, the monarchy has no real obvious power, though I am sure they still influence the decision makers…you would have be an idiot to think they didn't. And since they DON"T even truly run the country…I don't see the point in having them. Europeans always try to act so superior to us with their great ideas, free health care, and many socialized programs. Yet, you may as well call your society a caste system, made up of inbred bigotry and entitlement for few and denied to the many.
What a load of shit. She acted like a huge slut for years, showing her genitalia to photogs, and being a classless skank. This is how she made her name. People only know who she is because of her audacious, outrageous sluttish behaviour. Now, since she's in a stable relationship with kids we are supposed to forget about this and think that she somehow got where she is a different way? Nice try. She deserves to be ostracized after acting like a whore all of those years. It will take a long, long time for her to change the way she is perceived by the public. You make your choices - now live with them!
team Jordan!
First what a crack up… glamor model! Only the brits would call their page 3 sluts glamorous! So she got to buy horse's and go riding with all her money made for being a dirty ho! who cares! So she can write books after flashing every bit of her body.. who cares! She is trash and deserves to be ridden like a horse she is such a beast! Katie Price is a joke! get the fuck over yourself! No body wants to look at you!!! Oh and those that think other women trash the thing because of jealousy! Ummm we don't always dislike people because we are jealous… we can simply find them repulsive like the thing called Katie Price! Yer… we know her price alright! Great fucking role model she is! God… I'm commenting about the waste of space now! Perez don't do this to me!!! Stop putting this slapper on your site! She infuriates me! Blah
Act like trash - don't expected to get invited to nice places. There's consequences for your actions. Live with it.
Oh I must say thank you Perez for giving us the queen to look at rather than the thing the story is about!
I just love her….I'm sorry they didn't want her…seems like she would add a little color and be a joy to watch. Shame on them.
Re: looks – Here Here! You have said exactly what I was trying to get at!
CRY ME A RIVER If she is so against class distinctions then why did she name her daughter princess??? PUHLEEZE!
Dita Von Teese still shows off her body for money everyday, just like Jordan used to do. Where's the difference? There's no "class" in doing that. Don't even try to tell me there is.
So .. prince " DRUNK, NAZI, COKE ADDICT" HARRY HASSSS CLASS RIGHT???
Well said Jordan!!!
I'm from England and we hate Jordan - she's an overrated 'do anything for money' nobody. Dita von Tits seems to be the same - Prince Charlie just didn't know, that's all. You can't buy class.
ooooooo, I like it. It's so honest and raw that it's almost brilliant! Blog of the week - 5 stars.
YOU ARE ALL HALF WITS IN HERE, HAVE U FORGOTTEN THAT YOUR PRECIOUS POOFTER OF A PRINCE CHARLES ONCE WANTED TO BE REINCARNATED AS A GSTRING IN THE CRACK OF HIS BELOVED HORSEY FACED CAMILLA. wOO WOOOO WOOO HOO THERES DEFINITELY CLASS IN BRITISH ROYALTY . AT LEAST JORDAN IS OPEN AND HAVE EARNED HER WEALTH THROUGH HARDWORK NOT YOU SO CALLED ROYALTY LIVING OFF THE DONATIONS OF ITS PEOPLE. THATS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF.
Who ever gave her the idea that life, or invites to parties, was fair? Pffft.
Well she's right. Wearing more or better clothes doesn't make those other talentless people better than her.
If it's a private event, they can invite who they want.
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Saying she's a business woman is kind of senseless as an argument. So are prostitutes.
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It's not like it's a wedding reception and you HAVE to invite the crazy family member who always dresses with her big boobs spilling out of her orange tight spandex clothes.