Can Anything Be More Terribly Banal Than A Pippa Middleton Interview?
As the whole world holds its breath in weary wonder for next week’s screening of Pippa Middleton’s exclusive interview with NBC’s Today show, you might want to consider doing something a tad more interesting then watching Pippa revealing to the world “what it is like to be Pippa.”
For instance, the pure unbounded joy of watching paint dry or racing snails, might just be preferable to the soul-destroying tedium Pippa Middleton’s chat with Matt Lauer will no doubt involve.
It may sound somewhat harsh on poor old Pippa, but really? An exclusive interview with Kate Middleton’s sister on the pressure of being Pippa. Aren’t we now scraping the bottom of the barrel clearly labeled “celebrity sycophants”?
No doubt Pippa is, as most famous people are, a simply extraordinary and wonderful human being, but has the 30-year-old really done enough interesting things to warrant an interview that will be broadcast to millions?
Pippa may be a published author but have you ever read Pippa the party planner’s book, Celebrate: A year of Festivities for Families and Friends?
Trust me, there’s nothing in the pages of that particular party bible to celebrate, especially in a literary sense.
In what can only be described in terms of a terrible vacuous horror, Pippa offers such homegrown Middleton advice as, “Sunglasses can be a stylish way of keeping bright light from your eye.”
Very illuminating, Pippa my dear.
Yet the wise just get wiser, and you can’t help but appreciate little Middleton nuggets of wisdom such as, “Save time by doing things more quickly.”
Like vomiting perchance?
As poor Pippa was dropped by her American publisher Viking Press after Celebrate failed to be celebrated by the general public, it looks like Pippa’s literary ambitions will probably not be discussed during the course of the interview.
Neither, it seems, will Pippa’s adventures in Paris with gun-toting Romain Rabillard, who found it amusing to point a semi-automatic pistol at a photographer when cruising the streets of the French capital with Pippa.
What will be discussed, no doubt in the sort of great and labored detail that would make the writings of Herman Melville look frivolous in comparison, is Pippa’s philanthropic pursuits.
As Lauer who traveled to London to interview Pippa told the Telegraph:
“We talked a lot about this great bike event she did across America, money she raised for two really great charities and we are also going to hear about what is like to be Pippa Middleton.”
Sounds fascinating. In fact the interview is rumored to be so great, it’s going to be broadcast in two segments. One part on Monday and one part on Tuesday.
After all there’s only so much Pippa Middleton us mere mortals can stand in one sitting.
