This might be one for the Historical Lolcows thread strictly but I'm being bold and putting it here. It's at the least a terrifying glimpse into how lolcowdom can be multi generational. Her parents were undoubted lolcows for pushing their child into the media spotlight and treating her as a dancing monkey that the public could throw coins at, and then manipulating her into being an almost stereotypical transwoman until she emerged, like an ungainly autistic caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly, as a lolcow in her own right.
Meet Lauren Harries. Although she's actually more famous, arguably, under her deadname of James Harries, she is a lolcow because she is what happens when lolcows have children who they then proceed to use as attention magnets. So, yeah. Tori Kellogg, daughter of Cecily and O'Hat; Jeremy / Colin, son of Secretly Fabulous, etc., this is YOUR FUTURE.
Lauren Harries has a twitter, here, on which she goes on about "have I mentioned I am trans today?" She also asspats annoying celebrities such as Alan Carr, Russell Brand (who she claimed to have fucked), Pete Burns, and other Z-listers who are slightly gender-non-conforming in any way. Her rampant NOTICE ME SEMPAI must have paid off because now she keeps getting spots on their programmes, Celebrity Big Brother (actually, anyone who goes on Big Brother is a lolcow, frankly), and seems to be doing okay for herself.
Her version of events is that she transitioned in around 1999 and immediately became fabulous and beautiful and suchlike, even though she looks frankly exceptional in every picture of herself. Since then she's been making a name for herself as a sort of celebrity trans rights activist, which is usually carried out by attempting the whole "famous for being famous" thing. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of the story.
See, back in 1991, Lauren Harries used to look like this:
And was named James Harries. His parents, who were serial grifters and fraudsters, pushed him and moulded him into a sort of stereotypical autistic nerdchild who just happened to be a prodigy in identifying antiques. It worked as well. He appeared on Antiques Roadshow and pulled the wool over the BBC's eyes enough that they paid his parents vast sums to have him appear on the late Terry Wogan show. By his own admission he'd basically guess at the age of any antique shown to him and if he had no idea he'd claim it was 18th century.
His parents, who ran a kissogram company, pushed him into all this and then used their ill gotten gains to build a property empire. When the bottom fell out the market and it collapsed, their business burnt down in a mysterious fire.
Convictions for insurance fraud followed, as did James's exposure as a fake. Allegedly he and his family got mountains of bullying, harassment, death threats etc. at this point from salty viewers who were aggrieved at being taken for a ride. Sounds familiar? Had there been social media he and his parents would have set up an e-begging campaign but there you go.
Coincidentally, this is when his parents just happened to take him to the doctor who was convinced, that because he had stereotypically feminine mannerisms, that he was transgender. They hired celebrity publicist Max Clifford (later convicted of sexual offences against teenage girls, also a lolcow) to drum up support for his hormones and pickle inversion - and Max Clifford also paid for said pickle inversion. Certainly sympathetic articles were arranged throughout the press in an era which was much less sympathetic to transgenderism than now.
Oh, and her mother allegedly bought fake qualifications to push her through the whole transgender counselling.
Of course, she still sucks up to her family to this day. The same family that manipulated him into a fraudulent child star, forced him to bear the brunt of the public vitriol and backlash when exposed as a fraud, and then, it seems to me, pushed transitioning onto her alongside Max "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" Clifford so that she would stay relevant and she could continue to be relevant and thus they could be vicariously relevant through her. They've got her well gaslit by now, no doubt.
One thing you might notice about her current activities is that she always wears absolutely tons and tons of makeup. That, and she wears overly feminine clothing and tries to be more womanly than most cis women which smacks of trying too hard. Zeal of the convert maybe, I don't know. Unfortunately the excess of makeup makes her look like a human-sized Barbie doll as this snap from her Facebook page shows:
Then again, bracing British sea air and salty spray and its hostility to such a surfeit of cosmetics shows that without all this make up she looks, well, haggard:
And another example:
I also get the impression, though I can't confirm it, that she's genuinely exceptional. Her Facebook posts are full of the sort of SPAG errors that the less intellectually endowed make, like "would of" and "egzactly" and spelling the reality TV show "Geordie Shore" as "Jordie Shaw." Also her face makes me wonder if there's a touch of Down's syndrome there. Especially looking at him as a precocious child prodigy... part of the act maybe? I don't know.
Her social media is scrubbed of all trace of her past as James Harries the fraudulent child star so I can only assume that she will reeeee massively about this if called out on it.
Finally, here's her debut single from 2015, which failed to chart and then sank without trace. It's just as awful as you might think. She can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurenharriesofficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaurenHarries
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHEmRFJgI0mE7fIqLw6JmA
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Harries
I can't find the Keith Allen documentary on any free source as of yet but watch this space. If I find it I'll link it.
Meet Lauren Harries. Although she's actually more famous, arguably, under her deadname of James Harries, she is a lolcow because she is what happens when lolcows have children who they then proceed to use as attention magnets. So, yeah. Tori Kellogg, daughter of Cecily and O'Hat; Jeremy / Colin, son of Secretly Fabulous, etc., this is YOUR FUTURE.
Lauren Harries has a twitter, here, on which she goes on about "have I mentioned I am trans today?" She also asspats annoying celebrities such as Alan Carr, Russell Brand (who she claimed to have fucked), Pete Burns, and other Z-listers who are slightly gender-non-conforming in any way. Her rampant NOTICE ME SEMPAI must have paid off because now she keeps getting spots on their programmes, Celebrity Big Brother (actually, anyone who goes on Big Brother is a lolcow, frankly), and seems to be doing okay for herself.
Her version of events is that she transitioned in around 1999 and immediately became fabulous and beautiful and suchlike, even though she looks frankly exceptional in every picture of herself. Since then she's been making a name for herself as a sort of celebrity trans rights activist, which is usually carried out by attempting the whole "famous for being famous" thing. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of the story.
See, back in 1991, Lauren Harries used to look like this:
And was named James Harries. His parents, who were serial grifters and fraudsters, pushed him and moulded him into a sort of stereotypical autistic nerdchild who just happened to be a prodigy in identifying antiques. It worked as well. He appeared on Antiques Roadshow and pulled the wool over the BBC's eyes enough that they paid his parents vast sums to have him appear on the late Terry Wogan show. By his own admission he'd basically guess at the age of any antique shown to him and if he had no idea he'd claim it was 18th century.
His parents, who ran a kissogram company, pushed him into all this and then used their ill gotten gains to build a property empire. When the bottom fell out the market and it collapsed, their business burnt down in a mysterious fire.
Convictions for insurance fraud followed, as did James's exposure as a fake. Allegedly he and his family got mountains of bullying, harassment, death threats etc. at this point from salty viewers who were aggrieved at being taken for a ride. Sounds familiar? Had there been social media he and his parents would have set up an e-begging campaign but there you go.
Coincidentally, this is when his parents just happened to take him to the doctor who was convinced, that because he had stereotypically feminine mannerisms, that he was transgender. They hired celebrity publicist Max Clifford (later convicted of sexual offences against teenage girls, also a lolcow) to drum up support for his hormones and pickle inversion - and Max Clifford also paid for said pickle inversion. Certainly sympathetic articles were arranged throughout the press in an era which was much less sympathetic to transgenderism than now.
Oh, and her mother allegedly bought fake qualifications to push her through the whole transgender counselling.
Of course, she still sucks up to her family to this day. The same family that manipulated him into a fraudulent child star, forced him to bear the brunt of the public vitriol and backlash when exposed as a fraud, and then, it seems to me, pushed transitioning onto her alongside Max "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" Clifford so that she would stay relevant and she could continue to be relevant and thus they could be vicariously relevant through her. They've got her well gaslit by now, no doubt.
One thing you might notice about her current activities is that she always wears absolutely tons and tons of makeup. That, and she wears overly feminine clothing and tries to be more womanly than most cis women which smacks of trying too hard. Zeal of the convert maybe, I don't know. Unfortunately the excess of makeup makes her look like a human-sized Barbie doll as this snap from her Facebook page shows:
Then again, bracing British sea air and salty spray and its hostility to such a surfeit of cosmetics shows that without all this make up she looks, well, haggard:
And another example:
I also get the impression, though I can't confirm it, that she's genuinely exceptional. Her Facebook posts are full of the sort of SPAG errors that the less intellectually endowed make, like "would of" and "egzactly" and spelling the reality TV show "Geordie Shore" as "Jordie Shaw." Also her face makes me wonder if there's a touch of Down's syndrome there. Especially looking at him as a precocious child prodigy... part of the act maybe? I don't know.
Her social media is scrubbed of all trace of her past as James Harries the fraudulent child star so I can only assume that she will reeeee massively about this if called out on it.
Finally, here's her debut single from 2015, which failed to chart and then sank without trace. It's just as awful as you might think. She can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurenharriesofficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaurenHarries
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHEmRFJgI0mE7fIqLw6JmA
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Harries
I can't find the Keith Allen documentary on any free source as of yet but watch this space. If I find it I'll link it.
(her fiance is a transman)
