He is more likely to be these things because his dad is well off, yes.
People’s unwillingness to see the leg up Blondey’s privilege has given him is very odd. His trajectory looks a lot like failing upwards to me.
Also Pritchard’s humour and persona is very different to Blondey’s. He couldn’t play the dapper man-about-Soho just as much as Blondey would struggle to play the Welsh wild man. Both men are a product of their respective environments.
Tom Penny is from money too, so fuck that guy. Didn’t have to struggle like the rest of us.
Tom penny and blondey are pretty far apart in every single way
One is the best skater of their generation and respected by the entire skateboarding community
The other is Tom Penny.
WAHEY!!!
Light hearted jokes aside, it’s very clear why Blondeys position would give him a leg up, specifically at skating.
Compare him to say, chris oliver who is a generational talent and criminally underrated throughout his entire lack of a tangible career.
if Chris didn’t spend his weekdays working as a carpenter, something he had to spend his formative years getting very good at, I have no doubt he would have gone farther and had more of a career.
Blondey didn’t go to private school, he dropped out because he went skating everyday instead, he’s openly said it himself in interviews. He didn’t have ti apply himself to anything he didn’t want to. Having the time to skate all day long knowing you’ll always have stability and financial safety will always benefit your ability and career in skating.
He had a small skate park set up in his house as a child.
Very wealthy people see success all around them, of course that will help him be assertive and confident with sponsors and help out with his ability to ‘work’ the industry.
Exactly the same with his art career, assisted by his dads connections. He grew up with an art dealer in the house.
You are choosing to ignore the privilege that his background has given him.
Not that I think it makes him a bad person and as said above, being lucky is no reason to look down on someone but to say his background hasn’t contributed to his reach in skateboarding/ as an artist/fashionista is- I don’t know the word
@buildafire didn’t realise I hadn’t replied to your comment.
I think it’s only really annoying when people don’t acknowledge their own privilege, no real idea but from what I’ve seen of the guy he seems self aware enough that he probably does.
He’s definitely lent into it more as he’s got older and moved away from his palace football kit era and he seems a lot more personable because of it.
I haven’t spoken to him in years and although I find Thames and his social media character abit cringey I still think it’s no reason to verbally batter him and I think it’s pretty sick that he has a life that allows him to just throw himself into his creative outlets.
It is very true and it has even happened to me. My wife was able to leave her teaching job and start writing because I made enough money for her to afford to.
She’s in the BBC today working out the details for her second TV series. It’s Welsh TV so her entire budget is probably the same as the budget for Blondey’s trailer.
As for Blondey. Maybe there’s a point to it all but I don’t really get why he’s creating TV programmes starring himself, making pictures of Lady Di, or prouducing PG Wodehouse cosplay costumes. It feels like a big vanity project.
Yeah for sure, but I guess so is every personal endeavour?
Yeah that’s fair, but he maybe takes it a teensy bit too far? With the eponymous self funded comedy series and all that kind of thing.
Yup, fair point fair point. Adidas funded* as the sleuths of N26 have pointed out.
Also, although I’ve sorted of always backed him up abit on here, please don’t mistake me for not being aware of the complete absurdity of his whole deal. It’s ridiculous and I can fully understand the hate he gets, I just don’t (altogether) agree with the sentiment all the time.
My only fear is that this show is a poundland Partridge, which is what I found his podcast to be.
I hope it is good.
…and yes, I appreciate the irony of using Poundland here.
I hope Blondey continues to use his position to do things like this which are lovely:
Can’t front on that.
I think @buildafire is just brown nosing in an attempt to get a role as an extra in the next episode
Stefani on that Blondey flex?
I have to say that I find it hard to see her eating that much Black Pudding but as it’s the Regency iirc it’s probably superior black pudding. 
First Blondey, now Stefani with the completely off kilter beans to other food ratio
“Can I get some breakfast with my beans”
How the heck did he fit in a bottle of yazoo on top of al that.
There is no way she hasn’t just ordered that and walked off after the posing is done
