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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-Reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

-Lacks social/cultural capital and as a result she is stigmatised

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

-Lacks social/cultural capital and as a result she is stigmatised

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as sexual and animalistic

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as animalistic and sexual

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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- History of class prejudice drawn on female body (Skeggs, 2004)

-reinforcement of representation of Chavs as animalistic and sexual

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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-reinforcement of images of Chavs as animalistic and sexual

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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-reinforcement of images of Chavs as animalistic and excessively sexual

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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-reinforcement of image of Chavs as animalistic and excessively sexual

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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The new series of the show starts next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'.

The 60-year-old entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

Louis made the comments during an interview with the Radio Times.

Speaking about Tulisa he said: 'She is a bit rough around the edges and when they announced she was on the panel I was expecting a chav in a tracksuit - which is what we got - but she's a lot of fun.'

He added: 'She thinks she's a bigger star than she actually is though.'

Tulisa, who is usually very vocal on Twitter, has failed to post about the remarks.

Walsh's harsh comments come just four days before the next series of X Factor returns to our screens and could well be a way of drumming up publicity for the show, which is never short of controversy between the judges.

Louis, who has been a judge on the show since 2004 revealed he would quit the X Factor next year after his tenth series and used the opportunity to take a swipe at Bruce Forsyth.

He said: 'My ambition is to get to 10 years on the show - after that we'll see. I don't want to be like Brucie on Strictly. I will know when it's time to give it up.'

Walsh and Forsyth have a history of spats and in 2010 the Irish judge said that Bruce was 'too old' and 'he shouldn't even be alive at his age'.

The veteran entertainer, who is now 87, responded in December 2010 by labeling Louis 'a jumped-up karaoke judge'.

Last November Bruce also claimed that the rows between the judges on the X Factor were 'scripted'.

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'Tulisa is a chav in a tracksuit': Louis Walsh blasts fellow X Factor judge

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The new series of the show stars next week and it seems Louis Walsh is already kicking off the drama by branding fellow X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos a 'chav in a tracksuit'. The 60-year-old Entertainment manager also said the 24-year-old singer believes she is a bigger celebrity than she really is.

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Social mobility 'still a problem in UK', says Cameron

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Social mobility 'still a problem in UK', says Cameron

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-Social mobility has been declining since the 1970's...

-Government aims to increase social mobility

-HOWEVER, critiques argue that it is not only about increasing mobility rates, it is about understanding the social mobility experiences and resolving them at the same time.

-Social mobility comes with painful experiences, rather than social benefits (Bourdieu, 2000)

-Disconnection from one's cultural identity and can affect social relationships

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More needs to be done to get people who are not white and middle class into top jobs, David Cameron has said.

The prime minister suggested the government needed to "get out there and find people, win them over, get them to raise aspirations".

It comes after Sir John Major described the dominance of the privately educated in public life as "truly shocking".

Mr Cameron, who went to Eton then Oxford, was speaking to reporters on a flight to India.

He said he agreed with Sir John's comments earlier this week, which were interpreted by some as an attack on the backgrounds of the prime minister's team.

More than half the current cabinet were educated privately.

Just opening the door and saying 'we are in favour of equality of opportunity', that's not enough
David Cameron

Mr Cameron said he welcomed the debate started by his predecessor as Conservative prime minister, but acknowledged there was still "not as much social mobility as there needs to be".

He told journalists he wanted to see a Britain where "no matter where you come from, what god you worship, the colour of your skin, what community you belong to", people should be able to "get to the top" in the media, judiciary, armed services and politics.

"We are making some progress in those areas," he said. "But it is not fast enough and we need to go further and faster."

He added that he wanted to do more than merely "make changes and sit back".

"Just opening the door and saying 'we are in favour of equality of opportunity', that's not enough.

"You've got to get out there and find people, win them over, get them to raise aspirations, get them to think they can get all the way to the top."

Labour criticised the remarks, accusing the prime minister of "locking out opportunity for the next generation and only standing up only for a privileged few".

But Alan Milburn - one of the party's former cabinet ministers, now an adviser to the coalition - said "flat-lining mobility" had been "decades in the making".

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More needs to be done to get people who are not white and middle class into top jobs, David Cameron has said. The prime minister suggested the government needed to "get out there and find people, win them over, get them to raise aspirations".

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Social mobility: the charts that shame Britain

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Social mobility: the charts that shame Britain

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-Nick Clegg argues that everyone has an equal chance to succeed and he also states that mobility is increasing.

-HOWEVER, research indicates that social mobility has not changed since the 1970's.

-Also, research indicates that achievement is not balanced equally.

-Middle class pass on their valued cultural dispositions to their children= ‘cash-in’ cultural capital at school.

-Strong link between low socio-economic background and education failure.

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Social mobility is in the news today. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will announce publication of 17 data-led indicators showing how mobile we are as a society.

Social mobility is the kind of thing all politicians can sign up to: it's the idea that it doesn't matter where you come from, you should have the same chances to progress.

The government says it will publish indicators including:

School readiness - the proportion of children on free school meals achieving a 'good level of development' in the Early Years Foundation stage compared to other children.
Attainment at ages 16 by free school meal eligibility - the proportion of children achieving grades A* to C in English and Maths at GCSE.
18-24 participation in education by social background - participation in full-time education by social background.
High attainment at age 19 by school or college type - proportion of children studying towards A-level qualifications at age 17 achieving at least grades AAB at A-level in subjects identified by the Russell Group as 'facilitating' entry to their universities - by types of school or college attended.

So, how socially mobile is Britain today? We've collected the key data together which shows that, as far as social mobility goes, the UK is way behind many other countries. There is already a lot of data out there on this - in particular the OECD's recent report on social mobility across the world and a recent report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on social mobility.

Here's what the figures show:

* Britain has some of the lowest social mobility in the developed world - the OECD figures show our earnings in the UK are more likely to reflect our fathers' than any other country

* Social mobility hasn't changed since the 1970s - and in some ways has got worse. For every one person born in the 1970s in the poorest fifth of society and going to university, there would be four undergrads from the top fifth of society. But if you were born in the 1980s, there would be five

* 24% of vice-chancellors, 32% of MPs, 51% of top Medics, 54% of FTSE-100 chief execs, 54% of top journalists, 70% of High Court judges ...went to private school, though only 7% of the population do

* Education is an engine of social mobility. But achievement is not balanced fairly - for the poorest fifth in society, 46% have mothers with no qualifications at all. For the richest, it's only 3%

* Parental influence still makes a big difference to a child's education in the UK, especially compared to other countries - in fact in the UK the influence of your parents is as important as the quality of the school - unlike Germany, say, where the school has a much bigger role

* Higher education is not evenly balanced either in terms of aspirations - 81% of the richest fifth of the population think their child will go to university, compared to 53% of the poorest

* ... or achievment: 49% of the poorest will apply to university and get in, compared to 77% of the richest

* There is a strong link between a lack of social mobility and inequality - and the UK has both. Only Portugal is more unequal with less social mobility

* If you are at the top, the rewards are high - the top 1% of the UK population has a greater share of national income than at any time since the 1930s

Our findings reflect work in the area by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has found

We also know that about half of this intergenerational transmission of income occurs through education: cognitive skills measured using standardised tests, which are highly rewarded in the labour market and are not evenly achieved by children from more or less affluent families. These cognitive skills (education) will be an important part of intergenerational inequality persisting across generations in highly unequal societies such as Britain, both because of these social gradients in acquiring them and in terms of how well they are rewarded. So to put it another way the issue of economic opportunity for children both reflects who gets the best jobs and how much more these jobs pay

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Social mobility is in the news today. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will announce publication of 17 data-led indicators showing how mobile we are as a society. Social mobility is the kind of thing all politicians can sign up to: it's the idea that it doesn't matter where you come from, you should have the same chances to progress.

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Grayson Perry: 'Taste is woven into our class system'

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Grayson Perry: 'Taste is woven into our class system'

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Class distinctions are to be celebrated..

-Good/bad taste not spread equally amongst the classes

-Bourdieu- distinction between lowbrow and highbrow taste--> Critique= the difference between the two are blurred.

-Judgements are often made about the quality and legitimacy of tastes in music, food, fashion, art etc.

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The Agony in the Car Park, 2012, by Grayson Perry (Grayson Perry/Victoria Miro Gallery, London)

As we oiks climb the greasy pole, we may pick up a deceptively authentic-looking set of middle-class predilections: a book-lined study, a modest grubby car, a full wine rack and original window frames. All the while, from deep inside our urbane metropolitan exterior, an embarrassing former self wails from his oubliette: "I want a gold Porsche." Such a primal desire for the gewgaws of one's culture of origin lead to the downfall of the hero of my tapestries, Tim Rakewell.

Class is something bred into us like a religious faith. We drink in our aesthetic heritage with our mother's milk, with our mates at the pub, or on the playing fields of Eton. We learn the texture of our place in the world from the curlicue of a neck tattoo, the clank of a Le Creuset casserole dish, or the scent of a mouldering hunting print. A childhood spent marinating in the material culture of one's class means taste is soaked right through you. Cut me and, beneath the thick crust of Islington, it still says "Essex" all the way through.

As with many aspects of our behaviour, a lot of the interesting stuff happens when we think we are not even making a decision. It's those default settings we all have, those unexamined "natural" and "normal" choices, which often say the most about us: where and when we eat, when and where we might expose a bit of flesh, the kind of curtains we buy, what television you watch, how you bring up your children. We often become aware of these unconscious choices only when we move between social classes. I think my middle-class wife screamed when I first came into the kitchen without a shirt on.

In my series of six works, The Vanity of Small Differences, we follow the life of Tim Rakewell, from humble birth to famous death. The main thread of this journey is his progress through the social strata of modern British society. Nearly all of the places, people and objects that feature in the work were inspired by my televised taste safari.

We chose the three locations for our television series - Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and the Cotswolds - because they are each already strongly identified with the social classes. Sunderland has a proud working-class heritage from its heyday as a mining and shipbuilding town. The phrase "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" - referring to a fictional writer of letters of complaint, invented by staff at the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser in the Fifties - makes this town almost synonymous with conservative middle-class values. The Cotswolds have also become associated with a deeply rooted, landed upper class, owing to the prevalence of mellow, limestone stately homes among the rolling hills of this scenic area.

The Adoration of the Cage Fighters, 2012 (Grayson Perry / Victoria Miro Gallery, London)

Within each social group, taste seems to play a slightly different role. When I asked club singer Sean Foster-Conley what I should feature in my tapestries to show working-class taste, he said "the mines and shipyards". "But they no longer exist," I replied. In a very important way, however, he was right. The heavy industries that shaped the north of England also shaped the emotional lives of the generations of people who lived there. Winding towers and cranes can be torn down in a day, but the bonds, formed through shared hardship working under them, live on. Taste is an emotional business; working-class people often talk of a strong sense of community, and taste decisions are often made to demonstrate loyalty to the clan. Now that those communities are no longer held together by working in the same mine, mill or shipyard, call-centre workers or spray-tanners pledge allegiance to a locale, to their friends and family, through football, soap operas, bodybuilding, tattoos, hot cars, elaborate hairstyles and the ritual of dressing up for a Friday night on the town.

Among the gentry, taste also binds the tribe, but not much personal expression seems to be involved. The word that kept cropping up with the people I met was "appropriate". The owners of grand country houses were custodians of a scene that they were unwilling to let change. They felt deeply obliged to maintain these landmarks and the roles that come with them. Curiously, having to preserve these beautiful and costly piles has helped form the overriding aesthetic of the upper class - one of refined entropy. The houses are lovingly patched, a man wears his grandfather's coat, the sofa collapses, and the creation of a museum of clutter is blithely encouraged.

Talking to Rollo and Janie Clifford, who own four Grade I listed properties in Gloucestershire, I thought they took pleasure from a crumbling stone staircase or her 50 year-old car, covered in stickers. When quizzed, they denied an attachment to hard-won decay and pleaded poverty. When I pointed out that Rollo carried around his papers held together by a metal clip attached to a stump of dog-chewed cardboard when he could probably afford a new clipboard, he very grudgingly admitted to an appreciation of patina. How much of this is due to lack of funds and how much to inbred taste I do not know, but, as an Englishman, even a jumped-up prole like me feels genetically drawn to crumbling, faded glory.

This elegantly arrested decomposition gives off useful signals. It says "We are not in a hurry to change and upset anyone, we have owned this for ages and therefore are not billionaire incomers, who would install a swimming pool and electric gates."

The drama of taste really gets going when people betray their aspiration to a higher social status through their purchases. The broad swath of the British who describe themselves as the middle class are most aware of, and also the most anxious about, taste. At Kings Hill in Kent I encountered a set of unwritten rules. "Discreet branding" was a phrase that cropped up - Prada loafers with a little badge, a Paul Smith shirt with telltale eccentric buttons, a "low key" Rolex. Residents of these PVC clapboard houses sensed they had moved away from a tribe where crude bling gained respect, but they still needed the reassurance of an easily read code. Ostentation was still a difficult drug to resist - Range Rover Sports were everywhere and one resident poetically summed up the combination of pretension and banality when she described the estate as "the only place you would see a Bentley parked on a roundabout".

The ambience of the estate was maintained by a mixture of contractual obligation ("no caravans") and communal taboos ("no net curtains"). Talking to the residents, I found a genuine community spirit, but I sensed that for all of the convenience, security and luxury of their lifestyle, true middle-class status, if they actually wanted it, was beyond an intangible exclusion barrier. What that divide is made of, I think, is largely culture and education. The people basking on the sunlit uplands of the chattering classes have either passed through this miasmic barrier at university, or were born beyond it, where people just seem to know how to be fully middle class. Crucially, they understand that despite all the rules about taste that they have picked up by osmosis - when to wear shorts, what to name one's child, what to serve at a kitchen supper - none of them matters; one can flout them all as long as, and this is paramount, everyone knows you are doing it on purpose. So I can buy a Porsche and have it gold-plated, but it has to be full of rubbish and dog hair, and I must NEVER, EVER wash it.

Another driver of taste that I noticed among the upper middle class was the desire to show the world that one was an upright moral citizen. In the past, a good burgher might have regularly attended church or done voluntary work; today they buy organic, recycle, drive an electric car or deny their child television. This need to pay inconvenient penance to society seems to come partly from guilt. The liberal, educated middle class have done well, but they must pay with hard labour on their allotment, or by cycling to work.

Professional aesthetes in deconstructed suits and statement spectacles would love it if there were strict overarching rules of good taste. I fear they search in vain. I started my research with a full set of prejudices about the "inferior" taste of the working class I had left behind. I now find myself agreeing with the cultural critic Stephen Bayley that good taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Shared taste helps bind the tribe. It signals to fellow adherents of a particular subculture that you understand the rules. Within the group of, say, modified hatchback drivers, there is good and bad taste in loud cars in much the same way as there is good and bad taste in installations within the art world. Outsiders may find it baffling or irritating, but that is of less importance to insiders than impressing one's peers.

Grayson Perry's tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences is on show at the RA, London W1, until August 18. The Arts Council Collection tour of The Vanity of Small Differences starts at Sunderland Museum on June 28. Details:artscouncilcollection.org.uk

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The Agony in the Car Park, 2012, by Grayson Perry (Grayson Perry/Victoria Miro Gallery, London) As we oiks climb the greasy pole, we may pick up a deceptively authentic-looking set of middle-class predilections: a book-lined study, a modest grubby car, a full wine rack and original window frames.

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Class divisions and inequalities seem to be alive. the working class are more likely to live an unhealthy lifestyle and are more likely to be unaware of the consequences because of the lack of qualifications or education they hold (Bourdieu).

Class and health intrinsically linked.

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The stark social class divide in health is widening as better-off people increasingly shun damaging habits such as smoking and eating badly but poorer people do not, authoritative new research reveals.

The number of people in England who risk their health by engaging in "multiple lifestyle behaviours" such as smoking, drinking too much and physical inactivity is falling, according to a study by the influential King's Fund health thinktank, shown to the Guardian.

But it is middle-class people who are driving the trend, while the most disadvantaged remain stuck in a cycle of risky behaviour which increases their chances of developing a range of serious illnesses and will put "unavoidable pressure" on an already hard-pressed NHS, it says.

The study covered 2003-08, a period in which the Labour government embarked on a massive campaign to persuade people to live healthier lives.

The researchers found that people with no educational qualifications were more than five times as likely as those with degrees to engage in four key damaging behaviours in 2008, compared with three times as likely in 2003.

The findings have cast doubt on the prospect of the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, fulfilling his pledge to "improve the health of the poorest fastest" in order to reduce glaring health inequalities. England's richest citizens live seven years longer on average than their poorer neighbours. The report also reopens the debate over how to encourage poorer people to adopt healthier habits.

The increasing divide was identified by a research team led by David Buck, a senior fellow at the King's Fund who was head of health inequalities at the Department of Health until 2010. The team analysed data from the NHS's health survey for England covering four behaviours which are closely linked to disease and early death: smoking, excess alcohol use, poor diet and sedentary lifestyles. Between them, these four habits are estimated to account for almost half the burden of ill-health in developed countries.

The researchers found that the number of people engaging in three or four of these risky behaviours fell from 33% in 2003 to 25% in 2008 - a "significant" and, until now, unnoticed improvement that will benefit public health.

But when they looked at what types of people were quitting smoking or drinking less, for example, they found that "these reductions have been seen mainly among those in higher socioeconomic and educational groups".

"The health of the overall population will improve as a result of the decline in these behaviours, but the poorest and those with least education will benefit least, leading to widening health inequalities and unavoidable pressure on the NHS," the study says.

Those from poorer backgrounds or with less education are more likely than others to develop long-term conditions such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease earlier and to experience them more severely, Buck said. "As well as this being a public health problem, this does also store up problems for the NHS in future, as people with these conditions will be a drain on the NHS at a time when its resources are going to be very constrained," he explained.

The authors found that the better off someone is, the more likely they are to have begun living a healthier life during 2003-08, a period when the government funded a host of often dramatic awareness campaigns aimed at changing attitudes to smoking, reducing harmful drinking and tackling obesity.

"The [widening] inequality gap is due to the improvement in those at the top, and, to a lesser degree, those in the middle, not because those at the bottom have got worse per se. They're stuck in a rut," Buck said.

The study warns that there is no room for complacency because about 70% of adults in England - and more among poorer people - still engage in two of the four habits.

"This is worrying as, if the current government is to be taken at its word, the key test of its health policy is whether it is seen to be 'improving the health of the poorest, fastest", the authors add. "It will be judged on whether its policies on lifestyle risk really do drive change that helps us all, but particularly the poorest in society, to move down the risk ladder from four unhealthy behaviours to none."

Greater use of health trainers, community health champions, an expansion of the "every contact counts" idea suggested by the NHS Future Forum - in which every health professional talks to patients about their lifestyle every time they see them -- and linking the income of both hospitals and GPs to reducing the number of people displaying three or four of the behaviours may help reduce the gap, the authors suggest.

"There's a huge challenge here to overcome this very stark divide, but it's not an impossible one", said Professor Lindsey Davies, president of the Faculty of Public Health. But she voiced concern that the new NHS commissioning board, which will run the service from next April, had no public health experts on its board. Public health professionals' knowledge of what works to wean people off these clusters of unhealthy behaviour is also "in the Dark Ages" and needs to improve, she added.

Gabriel Scally, a professor of public health who was one of the NHS's most senior public health doctors until April, said: "These findings should come as no surprise because we know that the factors lying behind thinks like smoking or poor diet, such as poverty or poor housing, cluster together for some people and effect the way people live their lives, just as these unhealthy behaviours are also often found in clusters.

"There's a real danger that we will see a widening of health inequalities because of the government's refusal to set targets for improving health across England. It's always been the case that middle class people have adopted healthier lifestyles faster, such as giving up smoking. But we are seeing a stark and growing class divide which can only be increased by the effects of the recession, unemployment, falling incomes and benefit cuts."

The Department of Health said: "We are working hard to tackle health inequalities. From next year, local authorities will receive a specific public health budget for the first time, targeted at the areas that need it most. Additionally, the Health Act has given the NHS its first ever duties concerning the need to reduce health inequalities."
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Life on Marsden: I’m turning into the worst sort of middle-class snob

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By conveying our own taste ‘we imply condemnation of all others’ "Taste classifies, and classifies the classifier” (Bourdieu, 1984: 6)

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"Excuse me, but what are you doing?" As I said it, I knew I'd become the kind of awful adult who asks disapproving questions to which they already know the answer. I'd been watching a man and a woman going through my bins; the answer to the question was evidently "we're going through your bins". But the woman just briefly held my gaze and then carried on rummaging. Deprived of the answer I sought, I meekly retreated indoors and watched them through net curtains like a middle-class a***hole.

I was cross, but I wasn't sure why. Everything they were sifting was surplus to my requirements. An old toothpaste tube. A knackered hairdryer, which I wouldn't have used even if it was working, on account of having barely any hair. An old pair of trousers with a gaping hole in the crotch that had become impractical verging on obscene. I wanted nothing in that bin, and also knew that when council workers turned up on Monday morning to empty it I wouldn't be standing out there in my pants demanding to know what the hell they're doing with my stuff. But this felt different, and as I watched them move onto next door's bins I mentally composed approximately half of a letter to the Daily Mail.

Later I found out that this couple have been doing it for years.

"They're not very friendly," a neighbour informed me - although if my day consisted of examining old trousers while angry people ask me what I'm doing, I probably wouldn't be very friendly either. On their third or fourth visit, I realised my discomfort was a privacy thing; I wondered what the contents of my bin might reveal about me. A discarded matchpot shows that I briefly considered painting a wall in a hue called "Teal Tension". Indian takeaway cartons reveal my habit of over-ordering. Blister packs of Loratadine give crucial medical information about my hayfever. Granted, this isn't sufficient to steal my identity, although if they'd bothered looking in the adjacent recycling bin they'd have probably found enough information to empty my bank account and travel to Costa Rica on a forged passport. So eventually, I wised up and calmed down. This was OK. By not accosting them, I help them to scrape by, and simultaneously give myself a lesson in not being such a git. Win-win.

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You are what you eat – middle class food snobbery

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You are what you eat – middle class food snobbery

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Judgments about the quality and legitimacy of food etc. are often made. -Certain tastes are seen as pure, while others are seen as 'vulgar.' - The lower classes are seen to be at a disadvantage since the middle classes are more likely to 'have access to ingredients of a quality'= INEQUALITY.

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Traditionally the first Arts London News post of the academic year is a cheerful welcome back to our readers. Sadly the first post of this year will also be our last...

March 10 | by Jacob Hughes

The Park Café, an enterprise of Cyrus Todiwala, is a homely affair. Family is the first thing that strikes you when [&hellip...

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Traditionally the first Arts London News post of the academic year is a cheerful welcome back to our readers. Sadly the first post of this year will also be our last... March 10 | by Jacob Hughes The Park Café, an enterprise of Cyrus Todiwala, is a homely affair.

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-This article argues that 'we're all snobs'

-Snobbery is no longer a privilege of the middle classes, instead we are all having a go at it!

-Since 'we live in a classless society' snobbery is more about the aspects of an individual (such as the clothing brand people wear) rather than their class.

-Because cultural omnivorousness is rising, cultural snobbery is disappearing. The middle class tend to be more open and tolerant over cultural tastes. However one can also argue that the distinction between highbrow and lowbrow culture has become blurred over time.

-Pierre Bourdieu examined the relationship between taste and class. He suggested that wealth and (good) taste sometimes go together but money doesn’t always buy you style

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Come on, be honest. Are you guilty of it? Even just a little bit? You're not alone as research proves Gustav Temple editor of dandy magazine The Chap is right to say: 'We're all snobs now.'

In some ways, society hasn't moved on since John Cleese looked down on the Two Ronnies in their timeless Frost Report sketch satirising the British class system in 1966.

It's just changed hands. Snobbery is no longer the privilege of the aristocracy - instead we're all having a go. Where it was previously about social climbing, now it's about fitting in and belonging to a tribe.

A study carried out for Metro by ICM Research shows most of us agree that snobbery still exists, it just manifests itself in different ways. The survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed that three out of four people believe we're either more snobby or just as snobby as we've always been.

Capitalism still dictates how we create an identity, but it's less about the class we fit into and more about belonging to a tribe through things we buy, who we spend time with and what we do for fun.

ICM's research director, Nathan Bartlett, said: 'It would appear that snobbery is now more about personable and tangible aspects of an individual - the way they look and what they wear as opposed to their behaviour and where they choose to shop. In nearly all instances, it is the younger age groups who are feeling they are judged more and have to meet society's standards for them. Older people are much more comfortable in their skin.'

Despite claims that it doesn't exist, we are also obsessed with class. The Great British Class Survey, carried out by the BBC earlier this year, showed that we now fit into seven social classes. The new model ranges from the wealthy elite to the 'precarious proletariat'.

In his 1979 book, La Distinction, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu examined the relationship between taste and class. He suggested that wealth and (good) taste sometimes go together but money doesn't always buy you style.

Footballers prove his point, since 'no one ever thinks they're classy,' says Dr Ruth Adams, lecturer in cultural and creative industries at King's College London.

She believes the middle class is shrinking but a 'well educated' person is more likely to do 'culture and lifestyle' on a budget, which may not be the experience of many working class people.

The traditional middle class also prefer to palm themselves off as working class because they don't want to be seen as part of the oppressive ruling classes.

We're more comfortable aligning ourselves with the underdogs than celebrating people who get above their station and are successful, resulting in an inverted kind of snobbishness.

Then there is that ugly 'C' word that describes a badly dressed working class person who engages in anti-social behaviour.

'The notion of a chav says that we are a nation of snobs,' said Dr Adams. 'I don't think anyone is not snobbish about something. There's a massive snobbery about daytime TV and that you shouldn't be watching it unless you're old or thick.

'The newspapers people read are a convenient way to pin them into society and new money gives people an opportunity to be snobbish. It dates back to the industrial revolution when the aristocracy always had a suspicion about new money.'

Accents, books, fashion, background - there are so many ways to make a snap judgement about someone even if it's an unconscious thought.

Bestselling novelist Matt Haig tries to ignore book snobbery when writing but says there is too much when it comes to reading.

'People who feel bad about reading will stop reading,' he said. 'I also think snobbery damages creativity because it sets limits. There is a class system of books - literary fiction versus commercial "airport" novels but Shakespeare never had these false distinctions.

'He wrote for everyone, from the groundlings to royalty. I believe writing can be inclusive and intelligent.'

The Chap magazine has a manifesto for how chaps should conduct themselves, but its editor is keen to point out that much of it is in jest.

When I met him for this article, Temple was wearing high-waisted fishtail back trousers, braces, a vintage jacket, co-respondent shoes, a brown waistcoat, a knitted silk tie and brown fedora with a black band. He maintains it only takes him 15 minutes to get dressed.

'In the old days, it was just posh people who were snobs and now you get builders who earn more than the average salary,' he said.

'We don't take it seriously. It's about fun and the opposing snobbery, taking it to an extreme and making fun of it.

'We are not from the upper classes. We are average men and women who are being ironic and have an enduring affection for a dapper sense of style, but we are on the same ground with everyone else mingling.'

Temple believes what we have in Britain is a disguised snobbery buried in political correctness.

'I think we are best at disguised snobbery, whereas in France and Spain they insult people if they think they are inferior,' he said. 'We're known for our stiff upper lip and we've just buried it in PC but it's really still there.'

Etiquette expert William Hanson travels the world teaching people his back to basics approach to good manners. He loathes tattoos, which can make a person's arm 'look like a public lavatory wall', but stresses he'd not 'talk down' to anyone displaying body art.

'Speaking and walking and acting as I do, I think people think I'm a snob,' he said. 'I'm used to it and it's not a problem because I've got a thick skin. I think everybody is a snob at heart regardless of what they say. Social class is not to do with money, but mindset, attitude and mannerisms.

'I always tell people there's no point in getting worried about what to do with artichokes and oysters if you can't hold a knife and fork. I am probably in a class of my own.'

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Come on, be honest. Are you guilty of it? Even just a little bit? You're not alone as research proves Gustav Temple editor of dandy magazine The Chap is right to say: 'We're all snobs now.'

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This twitter page can be linked to class, culture and taste snobbery.

-Bourdieu- there is a distinction between highbrow culture and lowbrow culture

- The comments on this page can make the working class feel inferior since they lack the 'natural' cultural competencies which are, actually SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED..

-By expressing their own highbrow taste, they are actually condemning all others i.e. the working-class

- Working class- 'fish out of the water (Skeggs)

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Britain now has 7 social classes - and working class is a dwindling breed

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there is a rise in middle class

-traditional classes has fragmented in modern society

traditional corking class has split by falling industrialisation, mass unemployment, and immigration= giving rise to the new affluent workers

-defining social class= more simpler

-John Prescott (1997) 'we're all middle-class now'

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Thought shopping at Waitrose and graduating from a Russell Group university is enough to make someone middle class? Think again. According to a new study, the UK population is split into no less than seven different social classes, from the "elite" to the lowly "precariat".
Which class are you? Click image above to find out
Following a BBC survey of more than 160,000 people, academics established that Britons can no longer be boxed in to the traditional "upper", "middle" and "working" classes.

Instead, you could be a home-owning "elite" with highbrow cultural interests and savings of £140,000. Their "sheer economic advantage" sets them apart from the other classes, according to Professor Mike Savage of the LSE, and they make up just six per cent of the population.

The findings, presented at a British Sociological Association convention, show that at the very bottom lies the "precariat". Typically shopkeepers, drivers and cleaners, they represent 15 per cent of people in the UK and lack "any significant amount of economic, cultural or social capital".

The categories in between are: established middle class; technical middle class; new affluent workers, traditional working class and emergent service workers.

The results were obtained by analysing people's income, assets, the professions of their peer group and their social activities. Professor Fiona Devine, of the University of Manchester, said: "There's a much more fuzzy area between the traditional working class and traditional middle class."

Precariat: This is the most deprived class of all with low levels of economic, cultural and social capital. The every day lives of members of this class are precarious.

Traditional Working Class: This class scores low on all forms of the three capitals although they are not the poorest group. The average age of this class is older than the others.

Emergent Service Workers: This new class has low economic capital but has high levels of 'emerging' cultural capital and high social capital. This group are young and often found in urban areas.

Technical Middle Class: This is a new, small class with high economic capital but seem less culturally engaged. They have relatively few social contacts and so are less socially engaged.

New Affluent Workers: This class has medium levels of economic capital and higher levels of cultural and social capital. They are a young and active group.

Established Middle Class: Members of this class have high levels of all three capitals although not as high as the Elite. They are a gregarious and culturally engaged class.

Elite: This is the most privileged class in Great Britain who have high levels of all three capitals. Their high amount of economic capital sets them apart from everyone else.

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Katie Hopkins judges children by their names. For example, according to Katie, the name 'Tyler' is seen to be a 'working class' name and she would refuse her child to mix with people with these kinds of 'working class' names.

- seen as snobbery

-Middle classs people pass on this 'high culture' to their children and as a result her child restricts herself from mixing with these 'working class' children

-the working class ends up feeling inferior

-as a middle class parent, she is selective about culture

-she teaches children ‘ways of seeing’ art and culture

-'classifies, and classifies the classifier” (Bourdieu, 1984: 6)

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Colin Cloud Freaks Out Holly Willoughby After Mind Reading An Embarrassing Memory

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Holly Willoughby loses her cool with Katie Hopkins in ANOTHER class row on 'This Morning'

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- There is a HISTORY of class prejudice.

- The working class/essex individuals are presented as having a 'faulty personality' because of their lifestyles/ accents.

- Comedy like this can mark an unbridgeable social division amongst the classes, leading the middle class to express disgust towards the working class/chav/essex (Lawler, 2005)

-Representation of the working class= 'the lower class smell' (Orwell)

-The term 'chav' has OFTEN been used in the media and it has also become a derogatory term

-Fabian Society has called it 'social racism'--> “Although the middle classes have always used language to distinguish themselves from those a few rungs below them on the ladder . . . this is something new. This is middle-class hatred of the white working class, pure and simple” (The Fabian Society, 2008)

-the 'Essex accent' is ridiculed and he is keen to escape from his working class background, however it is his 'essex accent' that marks him out as being different

- although he 'puts on' a 'posh' accent he states that it is hard to maintain= anxiety about being accepted as a middle class individual

-Bourdieus notion of 'habitus' = it is unified throughout time

-he is in a ‘painful’ situation of social limbo, of ‘double isolation,’ both from his habitus and field, hence why he can not maintain his 'posh' accent (Bourdieu).

- he is unable to ‘erase their nostalgia for reintegration into their community of origin.’ (Bourdieu)

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-The traditional working class is fading in importance and there is a rise in the new middle classes.

- Classes looking down on each other can be linked to Bottero- "Class is always about invidious comparison, and when people talk about class their accounts often shift easily from social description, to social evaluation, to social abuse” (Bottero, 2009: 15).

-Savage argues that the old three class model has fragmented in modern society due to the rise in middle class and an increase in social mobility (upward).

-David cameron (2010) says, 'we live in a classless society"

-today, only 38% are in blue collar jobs and and 34 in managerial. (Bottero, 2007)

-GBCS survey--> large survey with 325,000 replies… has questions on cultural and social capital and data on economic capital HOWEVER…

low response rate from the working class= NOT representative of the working-class population

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They range from the poorest, the Precariat, to Emergent Service Workers, Traditional Working Class, New Affluent Workers, Technical Middle Class and Established Middle Class. And at the top of the pile is the Elite.

The study for the BBC consigns a famous 1960s sketch featuring John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett about three classes looking down on each other, to history.

According to the research involving more than 160,000 people, the Elite make up six per cent of the population. They have an income of around £89,000, savings of £140,000 or more and a top university education.

The Precariat - formed from the words Precarious Proletariat - are the bottom 15 per cent of Britons. They earn just £8,000 on average after tax and have only £800 savings. Fewer than one in 30 has a university degree.

The study took into account income, assets, social connections and social activities.

Professor Mike Savage, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, carried out the research with Professor Fiona Devine, of the University of Manchester, helped by BBC Lab UK. They found the old three-class model has fragmented in modern society. Prof Savage said: "It is striking we have been able to discern a distinctive elite, whose sheer economic advantage sets it apart from other classes.

"At the opposite extreme we have a sizeable group, marked by a lack of any significant economic, cultural or social capital. Conventional approaches have hindered our recognition of these two extremes, which occupy a very distinctive place in British society."

The Traditional Working Class has fallen to 14 per cent of the total population, and "is fading from contemporary importance" the study found.

The Established Middle Class is the largest group - one in four of the population. They have household incomes around £47,000 and "highbrow" tastes.

The Traditional Working Class has been split by falling industrialisation, mass unemployment and immigration, giving rise to the New Affluent Workers and Emergent Service Workers. This last group - with an average age of 34 and with a high proportion of ethnic minorities - are the youngest group. Prof Divine said: "There's a fuzzy area between traditional working class and traditional middle class - people who won't necessarily see themselves as working or middle class."

The famous sketch on The Frost Report mocked our class obsession. Ronnie Barker said of John Cleese: "I look up to him because he is upper class." He said of tiny Ronnie Corbett: "I look down on him, because he is lower class. I am middle class."

The findings were presented in the journal Sociology Now.

Where do you stand:

1. THE ELITE

Percentage of population: Six
Average age: 57

Most privileged group with savings of more than £140,000 and top university education. Their income is £89,000 and their home is worth an average of £325,000. They enjoy the theatre, art galleries, museums and jazz.

2. ESTABLISHED MIDDLE CLASS

Percentage of population: 25
Average age: 46

Second wealthiest and largest group, with household income of £47,000 a year, a house worth £177,000 and savings of £26,000. A quarter of the population fall within its ranks and it might be seen as the comfortably-off bulwark of British society.

3. TECHNICAL MIDDLE CLASS

Percentage of population: Six
Average age: 52

Prosperous but with little interest in social or cultural events. It makes up only six per cent of the population but is prosperous - earning around £38,000, with excellent household savings of £66,000 and houses worth an average of £163,000.

4. NEW AFFLUENT WORKERS

Percentage of population: 15
Average age: 44

Young group on moderate incomes, owning homes worth £129,000 with small savings. They prefer playing and watching sport, computer games and social networking to traditional pastimes. Few have been to university but most work in private sector.

5. TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS

Percentage of population: 14
Average age: 66

Oldest group, with house values of £127,000 but with incomes of only £13,000. There are few graduates and traditional working class jobs like lorry drivers, cleaners and electricians are over-represented as are menial white-collar jobs like secretaries.

6 .EMERGENT SERVICE WORKERS

Percentage of population: 19
Average age: 34

New, young urban group with modest household income of £21,000, likely to rent and only having modest savings. They work usually in the service sector, for example, bar work, chefs, customer service occupations and call centre workers.

7. THE PRECARIAT

Percentage of population: 15
Average age: 50

The poorest class, with a household income of only £8,000, negligible savings, and likely to rent. Most deprived on all measures including social and cultural. They represent 15 per cent of the population and tend to be located in old industrial areas.

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Britain and its seven new social classes... so where do you fit in?

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They range from the poorest, the Precariat, to Emergent Service Workers, Traditional Working Class, New Affluent Workers, Technical Middle Class and Established Middle Class. And at the top of the pile is the Elite. The study for the BBC consigns a famous 1960s sketch featuring John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett about three classes looking down on each other, to history.

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-What we eat reflects Britain's social division
- Middle classes eat well and can cook. Poorer people are more likely to be overweight and live on ready meals according to this article.
- There also seems to be a strong link between lower-socio economic background and poor health (N Krieger, DR Williams, NE Moss)

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Food and class: does what we eat reflect Britain's social divide?

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At the supermarket checkout recently, I recognised a mother from the school run. Instinctively I looked in my trolley. On the top sat a bag of revolting frozen chicken bits, bought for the dog, and a giant bag of steak cut chips, bought for the husband (to eat with a rump steak).