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Joh Griggs slams magazine for “made up shite”

"You have managed to write an entire article that is 100% inaccurate," Seven presenter tells Woman's Day.

Better Homes & Gardens & House Rules presenter Johanna Griggs has taken aim at Woman’s Day for an article headlined “Joh’s Rules for Dropping 5kg Fast.”

Writing on her Instagram account she wrote:

“If there was an award for Creative Writing – you’d win. Alas, there’s not so I’m suggesting a people’s choice award… something like, ‘The Moronic Award for Made Up Shite’ Let’s count how many random, completely inaccurate things you’ve come up with this week. 1. I’ve lost 5 kilos NOPE. 2 I’ve adopted a healthier food plan NOPE (I always eat healthily) 3. I’ve stopped eating after 8pm. NOPE (I’m often not even home before then) 4. I’ve embraced a ‘Farmhand Workout’ NOPE (What even is that? ??) 5. I’ve stopped snacking on the run NOPE 6. I cover all food groups at every meal NOPE. 7. I try to stick to darker coloured fruits and veggies NOPE 8. I now only stick to Whole Foods NOPE 9. I eat porridge for breakfast (can’t remember the last time I did that) NOPE 10. I eat light rye sandwiches and salads for lunch NOPE 11. I pack fruit in my bag so I stop snacking on biscuits on set – Again – that would be a NO. 12. I’ve adopted an unusual weightlifting regime which according to your story means I carry hay bales alongside my hubby (good little wifey that I am) Again NOPE – 13. I don’t lift weights. And haven’t since I stopped swimming… and 14. I don’t go to the gym. Funnily enough the last two things you say I don’t do – I actually do – so by my calculations you have managed to write an entire article that is 100% inaccurate.”

Griggs previously fired off at Woman’s Day in July last year after an article “Joh’s Miracle: I Saved My Husband’s Life.”

“Did you not learn anything from @rebelwilson smashing you in court??” she asked at the time.

“For the record: I didn’t have a 6th sense about anything… nor did I save my husbands life. The doctors and medical staff who looked after him did. Todd wasn’t rushed off to hospital like you’ve made up in your fantasy world.”

In June last year she let rip at them after an article headlined “Joh snaps. Enough is enough.”

“I see you are at it again, writing bollocks. For the record: I don’t feel stuck between the judges. I’m not worried about my career, and I’m really not feeling any angst at all about this year’s series,” she then wrote.

In 2013 she tweeted. “Just read yet another made up cover story in new idea where they pretend I’ve spoken to them. I haven’t.” New Idea is also part of Seven’s own Pacific Magazine stable.

14 Responses

  1. And this crap is why I never buy any of these magazines! Good on you Joh for standing up for yourself and speaking the truth. The articles about celebs are usually out and out lies, and the publishers should be sued whenever possible.

  2. The very epitome of fake news…it used to be called journalism once upon a time. Why would anyone waste their money on manufactured stories?…why do these magazines even exist? Oh well Womans’ Day readers, it’s your money.

  3. They should stick to lying about foreign celebrities who will never read these stories. Surely they could find out the actual eating and exercise regime of someone like J-Griggs. It couldn’t be any more boring than the made up story. ?

  4. It is about time that some regulatory authority stepped in to fine these magazines. It shouldn’t take lengthy defamation cases through the courts to make these people accountable for their actions. Why do we accept such lies?

  5. Just goes to show they haven’t learnt anything from the Rebel Wilson case. Although this isn’t defamatory, it is as Jo eloquently puts it, White.

  6. Wonder if they proof read what they write because.

    I cover all food groups at every meal.
    I eat porridge for breakfast.
    I eat light rye sandwiches and salads for lunch.

    That must be one hell of a bowl of porridge and one hell of a lot of sandwiches (or one massive one) if every meal contains all food groups.

  7. I suppose I want to know how can they still be allowed to write articles with no factual basis or inaccuracies? Perhaps the journalists should realise that academic integrity exists for reputable sources!?

    1. Hint: They’re not journalists. At best they’re storymongers; trading and dealing in stories.

      That we call them ‘journalists’ is a sad reminder of how dumb we, the public in general, have been to allow them so much control of the discussion for so long…

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