I'm Not Convinced by Kate's Class Act [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › April 30, 2009

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THERE is much kerfuffle over Kate Winslet's outburst this week. She came over all upset that people label her middle-class (because she speaks "nice") when her parents had toiled against all odds. Ergo: she is forever a working-class lass. No she isn't.

Kate is lovely and undeniably talented, and apparently still a good egg. But she is not the woman she was. Just as she is no longer peachy and plump, she has moved on, left behind the old family struggles. Yet instead of joy, there is embarrassment.

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I'm Not Convinced by Kate's Class Act [Edition 2]

I cannot understand this. Or maybe I can. The middle classes are unremittingly scorned,...

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