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Framed! Nicky Hambleton-Jones

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I really can't help myself when writing about this celebrity, Nicky Hambleton-Jones. It's pain and pleasure all rolled into one.

I really can't help myself when writing about this celebrity, Nicky Hambleton-Jones. It's pain and pleasure all rolled into one.

I would assume that it is only those in the optical trade who would pick up on the point I am going to make here but I've heard this comment from various people now and I've been waiting for her new series to start on Channel 4 so I can vent some frustration.

Those familiar with the format of Ten Years Younger (Tuesday 8:30pm) see the be-spectacled presenter take a drowned and sorry-looking person who is dressed badly and not treated kindly by nature through a series of humiliating stages, the worst being the dressing down from our dragoness host. A makeover follows (often some surgery) andwell, you can guess the rest.

Nicky Hambleton-JonesWell, what's the problem with that? Surely my column hasn't become a TV guide. Its just the hypocrisy is such that I can fill almost half a page on the one subject, spectacle fit.

If you are going to stand people in front of a mirror and destroy them with a verbal barrage and bestow your wisdom on them about fashion, style and elegance, then please, please get it right yourself first.

Ms Jones does indeed dress well but what's happening to her eyewear? What is it that has moved me enough to dedicate this month's column to one single point?

Well Ms Jones, your spectacles don't fit you, I mean they really are frankly too big, much too big, they are always slipping down your face, they stick out at the sides like the wings of an Airbus A380, not advisable with such a large prescription.

Do you not have Dame Edna in South Africa? Obviously not, there is a good reason why some wingy styles don't sell well in Britain.

Am I being harsh? Yes! I quite like the colour and the frame is actually quite nice (for someone else) but you don't deserve nice comments like that given the roasting you give your clients each week.

I liken her behaviour to that of a school-yard bully and I'm just hoping for the day when she's telling some poor lady her bum looks too big that she turns round and says well, your glasses are perhaps a size too big for you.

I recommend a nice 48 eye in a slightly less aggressive shape, those bright colours are doing nothing for your complexion and perhaps if the length to bend was slightly shorter your frame might sit in the right place. 

  • Tom Davies is an eyewear designer and founder of TD Tom Davies. For more details visit www.tdtomdavies.com

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