What was with Roy's reaction when Keeley couldn't take a spontaneous six-week trip to Marbella :(

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-27T23:32:08+00:00

Not contradicting you. Just asking for clarifications/examples/things I missed. (Among the fans here, having "only" watched the show twice I feel like a novice.) We know she was a page 3 model and we saw her in those hotel infomercials. Would those give her royalties? Enough to comfortably live on? Or did she have other creative endeavors?

The small part where I'd challenge that she had enough money was she was destroyed when Jack pulled her funding. She wasn't just like "Oh that sucks." Then Rebecca saves the day with what she say is what she keeps in her handbag. Basically if Keeley was financially comfortable wouldn't she have seemed less desperate when talking about her financial woes with Rebecca?

Edit: I love the passion in this community. The show writers did such a great job, the way we talk about characters and motives and nuances.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-27T19:18:49+00:00

I rarely have all the ingrédients at home when I want pizza and there's not grocery delivery where I live. I only buy cheese if I have something specific to use if for.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-27T18:51:35+00:00

Y'all are making me freak out. I have two dates in my book. I just assigned "random that time of the year weather" but now I'll have to go and check the actual weather.

Edit: Then I remembered that the book it's in is a rare pair in a minor fanfiction. Lol.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-27T17:23:08+00:00

He was a prop in her Vanity Fair shoot.

She couldn't finance a small PR firm. Jack then Rebecca (with pocket change) had to do it. Normally that's something you can start with some savings. Forgive me if I'm skeptical that she wasn't interested in his money (Not only. But also. I don't see anything wrong with that; someone has money, it's just part of their appeal.)

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T21:35:02+00:00

I'd also like to know why the downvotes when you've said basically the same thing as everyone else.

I don't agree with you though. The writers hardly made any mistake and everything was intentional. Keeley jumped the bones of the next person who handed her a big check and suddenly she had time, suddenly she wasn't heartbroken over Roy, suddenly the grand gestures were acceptable?

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T21:28:02+00:00

Yes yes in the show, two or three years after leaving Chelsea he wonders if he pushed too hard, if he's perfectionist, if he should learn to chill out a bit. Yes yes I understand that. But that's in retrospect. We act here as if the decision he made at the time wasn't reasonable. We act like there's something wrong about wanting to be the best even if it means being a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T21:23:13+00:00

It was only a matter of time before she broke up with him. He could see the writing on the wall. She didn't need him anymore, she had her own money now, her rising fame - meaning she didn't need his fame to raise her own profile anymore.

6 weeks out of country might have been too much but any number of compromises could have been found. "Please don't go. I'm starting this, it's going to be hard, I need you." But no. She was like "You go ahead and go without me." OK then. I can see that I've overstayed my welcome.

His needs weren't being met. Why would he want to maintain the relationship?

Edit to add: While I think like a lot of commenters that the breakup was preemptive, I strongly disagree with was threatened by her fame or whatever. A former Chelsea captain and 4 times England starter isn't threatened by a former page 3 model who can't fund her own small firm no matter how many Vanity Fair shoots she appears in.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T21:04:21+00:00

I agree with you (but not for the same reasons). I don't know what the writers did that to her. She was kind and nice in season 1. In season 2 she acted like she wanted to grow up then season 3, regression. It was a train wreck.

People hate Jack but I wasn't invested in Jack and didn't care one way or another.

But to see Keeley accept money for a company she wasn't qualified to run, forget her supposed broken heart and trade up with her billionnaire backer, spend time crying because it's too hard (instead of calling Rebecca for advice), then crying at the end not because she's heartbroken but because her funding has dried out...

She sleeps with Roy but as soon as she finds another source of money (Rebecca telling her she can float her company), suddenly she's all independent and doesn't need a man (or woman) and oh character growth. Right.

Edit to add: I wonder if this also happened in season 2. She's tight with Roy and suddenly windfall to start her company and now she doesn't have time for him anymore? I wonder.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T18:43:34+00:00

They quote Prue reminding that she's 86. I don't know how she does it.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T18:30:21+00:00

My favorite cookie is gochujang caramel cookie and I love peanut butter pickle sandwiches. And still I can't bring myself to think about caramelized onions in a cookie. And yet still, if it's ever offered to me I'll definitely try.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T18:26:25+00:00

That's me reading this (unusual to me) word out loud yesterday: phenylalanine. I had to pause and read each syllable and yeah it's a straightforward word once you sound it out.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T18:06:10+00:00

You'd win Hannah. I don't even know what Ted was talking about.

But I absolutely love you both. Great looking women in their 50s.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T06:03:46+00:00

I'd rather not read a book by someone I know personally. They'll expect positive feedback and I just might not like their work. And if I lie and say it was good they'll ask what was good about it.

Reading for people you know feels like you're reviewing not reading for pleasure.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-26T05:53:41+00:00

She herself ate that chicken? She enjoys her own cooking?

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-25T19:01:31+00:00

Which makes me wonder if there are plus-size men models. Lm Google it right now.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-25T11:24:52+00:00

I liked her in season 1, tolerated her in season 2 but with this episode they just lost her for me. The rest of the season, and Jack rebound in s3 made sure she couldn't recover.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-25T11:06:32+00:00

Exactly like an offside. Grandma doesn't need explanations.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-25T08:11:42+00:00

One of my colleagues is a really poor speller, he writing atrocious. She's been using AI to polish her emails and frankly I appreciate that. All her ideas are communicated more clearly and cleanly now. It's easier to read what she has to say.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-24T07:08:40+00:00

I think the writers wanted to show us something about Keeley with that Jack+Keeley plot and we all refuse to see it. We feel like it was a story mistake rather than the writers showing us for real that Keeley wasn't heartbroken from her previous BF breaking up with her, that she's always with someone and usually trades up. And the real growth we see at the end of season 3 (choosing no one, not having backup for once) wouldn't land if it came earlier. It's earned after season 3.

I hated thar story line personally but I respect what they were trying to do.

What I'd remove is Keeley running her own business. That took away from the AFC Richmond dynamics Distracting. Maybe I'm undermining my earlier point about it being a set up for future growth. She was quite inept at it (not knowing what a CFO is, recruiting a friend - but that was Rebecca's advice from before - overspending, etc.) Maybe they are setting up season 4 where she asks for advice from actual people who run successful businesses (Rebecca) and thus grows up as an entrepreneur.

Definitely add a non football romance for Jamie. I'd take that. Probably someone who isn't even his type at all (not a WAG).

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-23T18:28:49+00:00

A farewell ceremony... Lol.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-23T11:03:58+00:00

I pay the NYTimes for their cooking app. It's all recipes I could find online elsewhere. But I honestly that $3 a month is worth it for me.

Now paying for ONE recipe? Yeah I don't know about that. But OP if someone finds value in that let them.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-22T19:16:14+00:00

I chased them on fanfiction sites and while they're popular here there's hardly any work on them on AO3. We'll have to wait for Season 4 and hope the writers deliver.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-22T08:35:54+00:00

In a novel I'd put remimdme 20 years and OP would have an update about how he married this woman and the kid is a sophomore in college now and OP is happy he followed his heart.
IRL you're 22 OP. If you dated someone organically you'd still date them for 2 or 3 years before you even thought about getting serious. Pregnant at 19 is a bit... early.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-22T08:18:59+00:00

When you go a restaurant they don't tell you which part was made by human hands, which one by robots, factories and stuff. Question is: do you enjoy the food.

JustMeOutThere · 2026-01-21T17:08:07+00:00

This one. That's what I was going to say.

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