Comedian, author and radio host Meshel Laurie has today shared her unreserved opinion on convicted drug-smuggler-turned-apparent-Instagram-celebrity Schapelle Corby.
Speaking to her co-host Matt Tilley on her KIIS Matt & Meshel program this morning, Laurie expressed a similar sentiment to that shared by Today’s Karl Stefanovic: who cares?
“This country, I can’t even. If we’re going to make such a big deal out Schapelle – who smuggled drugs into Bali and went to jail and now she’s home. Who cares?” she said.
In particular, Laurie took issue with an Instagram post shared by Corby on Monday night, which showed the 39-year-old ‘mocking’ the media’s attempt to locate her.
“The video of her and Mercedes was so up herself,” she said. “Like, ‘we’re all watching the video on TV and everyone thinks we’re in those cars but really we’re here’.”
Top Comments
What a nasty, bitter radio host Meshel is. She really seems very bitter and angry at the world. Maybe she is jealous of the attention? I think Schapelle has every right to get back at the media, after the hell she has been through. So she seemed a bit smug.....who wouldn't, after they managed to come back undetected? I think it is only human nature, and only to be expected. I think Meshel's problem really is that she expected Schapelle to hang her head and act miserable and guilty, she WANTED to see a miserable and broken Schapelle. She isn't acting 'up herself', she is acting like any other normal person acts, and that us what frustrates Meshel. And because Schapelle is holding her head high and isn't crumbling, that is frustrating Meshel. She doesn't think Schapelle should feel happy, or should laugh, or have any enjoyment. She, like other media vultures, want to see a broken and miserable Schapelle, 'brought down a peg or two'. That is what this is all really about.
Sorry Meshel, deal with it. Schapelle has no reason to feel guilty about anything, and if anyone has earned the right to be a bit smug, it is her.
We've been glorifying criminals as heroes since settlement... with Ned Kelly, with Carl Williams, Chopper Reid, the over-romanticised Underbelly series that Australia is addicted to. Look at Cassie's family and fiance cashing in. Crime pays - that's crystal clear.