Talk:Jo Caulfield

Comment
"Reproduced with kind permission" what is this, an advertorial? What about the basics: Where born? When? Educated where? If we can't get biographical fundamentals, then this stuff is just PR, and bad PR at that.

Family and personal life
Apart from the statement that her parents are/were Irish, nothing is stated about her family. There is nothing stated about her current life. Are her parents alive? Does she have siblings? Has she ever been married? Has she ever had any children? Where does she live? Who with? Is she in a relationship? Those are basic points that need to be included on a biographical article. Werdnawerdna (talk) 00:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Liar, liar, pants on fire
I just listened to Jo Caulfield on 'My Teenage Diary' on BBC Radio 4. According to this page (until I corrected it), it is claimed that she was born 26 September 1966. According to Ancestry.co.uk, the only person born anywhere near that year was a Josephine S Caulfield, who was born Sep-Dec 1963 in the St Asaph registration district (now Denbighshire, north Wales), whose mother's maiden name was 'McAfee'. On the radio show, it claims that she moved to London in 1984 during the Miners' Strike, and she read extracts her diary this stating that she was 17 at the time (whereas she would have been 20/21). On 192.com, she is on the electoral register living in London N3 with her husband Kevin Anderson from 2002-2005, giving her middle initial as 'S', further corroborating (or at least not contradicting), that the Josephine S Caulfield in the birth index is her. Furthermore, on the bio section of her own website, she claims that she moved to London aged 17. Obviously, I have far too much time on my hands, but I'm curious to know why she would want to fabricate this. Maybe she thinks moving to London aged 20 isn't quite as thrilling and glamorous as aged 17. Maybe she just wants us to think she is 3 years younger than she is? Iantnm (talk) 19:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)