As we discussed a week ago, Pippa Middleton and Nico Jackson broke up. The situation was pretty bad for more than a year, which is when Nico up and left London for Switzerland and a new job. Both Pippa and Nico paid lip service to doing a long-distance relationship, but Pippa ended up spending a lot of time with her ex-boyfriends. Just days before the split was announced, Pippa was even seeing leaving an ex’s home “the morning after,” as in, she spent the night with an ex while she was still technically with Nico. So the Daily Mail’s attempt to make Pippa sound like a poor girlfriend desperate for a proposal seems like a weird position to take. This Mail piece – which you can read here – was co-written by Katie Nicholl, best known for her Duchess of Cambridge hagiography. Some highlights:
Pippa is depressed. She’s described as “troubled, careworn” and “so distracted” that she ran a red light. At the age of 32, Pippa “finds herself without an established career, without a property of her own, and now without a boyfriend, leaving some to wonder if she will ever escape the shadow of elder sister Kate, whose young family is never out of the news.”
Nico was eager to split with Pippa. “One source close to her says, unequivocally, that the decision to end the three-year relationship was a mutual one. But was it perhaps too mutual for Pippa’s liking? Friends say that when she suggested a break-up to Nico, Pippa had suspected he might react with a grand gesture to win her back – like a marriage proposal…Instead, Nico surprised her by accepting all too swiftly that the relationship had indeed ‘run its course’ and walked away, flying back to the Geneva flat he has called home for almost two years. Pippa was left behind, broken-hearted.”
The whole reason Nico relocated to Geneva was for the money. He wanted to make more money to set up his future with Pippa, that he wanted to buy a big house in London. Pippa tried to make it work, flying to Geneva once a month and taking French lessons to get by in Switzerland.
They were in relationship counseling? They visited Violet Hills Studios, a “a healing centre offering therapy and counselling among many other services. Pippa spent three hours at the centre before emerging on the arm of Nico a month ago.”
Rebound romances? Sources predict Nico will go back to his ex, Alice Farquhar and Pippa will go back to James Matthews, an ex from 2012, and the same guy she spent the night with before the Nico breakup. Still, Pippa is “adamant there is no third party involved in the split and was said to be tearful at the thought that Nico’s parents would think as much after reading unconfirmed reports that she was seen leaving James’s house clutching flowers after a recent overnight stay.”
Pippa’s many exes. Before the Nico split, she was also seen out with Alex Loudon, who “dumped her in 2011.” Sources say “that far from hoping to rekindle a romance, it was more likely that she was meeting them to garner advice about how to avoid awkward questions if an engagement to Nico were to be announced.” One friend says: “Pippa remains close to her exes to keep them on side. Though Alex would never talk anyway, he broke up with her because he hated being written about. She never wanted that relationship to end, but with her fame there was no solution.”
Pippa is “undateable.” Because something something Duchess Kate, Pippa is “undateable,” although I don’t think it works like that.
Pippa’s sad career. Her book flopped, no one wanted to hire her in America, her columns are basic, etc. So now Pippa wants to be a nutritionist and release a health food book. She wants to start a new career “providing nutritional advice to the rich and famous” because, as one source says, “Health and wellness books written by posh young women are all the rage right now, so she may have struck gold at last.”
Do you feel sorry for Pippa? I do not. She had so many options and career paths and opportunities after her sister’s wedding and she utterly squandered them. It feels like Pippa is trying to put some of the blame on Kate, but seriously? The whole reason Pippa is a thing is because of Kate and if Pippa had truly had some talent to back up her hustle, she would be in an entirely different position. As for Pippa’s love life… I don’t even know. The aristocratic dudes that Pippa spends time with don’t want to marry her because they’re wary of her family. So the answer seems pretty simple: marry some nouveau riche dude who doesn’t mind the press.
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