A MIDDLE-CLASS woman never misses an opportunity to ‘casually’ mention that she went to a crappy state school.
Francesca Johnson shoehorns the topic into conversation with the flimsiest excuse, such as seeing a child on TV, while tending not to mention her family’s boat or childhood skiing holidays.
Le Creuset cookware owner Johnson said: ‘I can never thank my parents enough for the start they gave me in life. For giving me this opportunity to play down how privileged I am.
“People see my zebra wood floors, my pizza oven, my M&S-bought grapes and they assume I’m a clueless middle-class person. But I’m much more than that – I’m a clueless middle-class person who had board rubbers thrown at her as a teenager for ‘speaking posh’.”
Friend Carolyn Ryan said: “Francesca is fooling nobody. We’re talking about a woman whose preferred shortening of her name is Cesca. Nobody is mistaking her for being lower-class.
“Going to a shit school like the rest of us doesn’t prove she’s beaten the odds, because she had loads of private tutors. It just shows her parents were too tight to pay the fees for a posho school.”
Johnson added: “When I have children of my own, I’ll pass on this gift by moving to the catchment area of the shittest local school where you get your head kicked in for even looking at a sum.”
