Would You Like To Read A Lovely Column By Myf Warhurst?

The answer to that question is, naturally, “Why, yes – yes I would!” In which case, you are in luck, as the lovely Ms Warhurst today begins her tenure as a columnist contributing to The Age. Let’s hold hands and skip over the jump for a sneak preview:

Her first column concerns something familiar to most pop culture mavens – Matt Preston and his menagerie of individually named cravats. However, Myf manages to find an angle that no other Prestonites have so far:

I’ve had a few challenging moments this year. I got sacked from my job on commercial radio, nominated by a tabloid paper as worst dressed at the Logies, yelled at by a 12-year-old at the footy, “Hey, you’re that fat slut from the telly”, and told by a comedian that “a treadmill’s not gonna save you, luv”. He wasn’t joking either. As you can imagine, my confidence hasn’t been at an all-time high.

So when I heard last week that that saucy food critic/television star Matt Preston had named one of his new, delicious cravats after me, I was excited!

Then I read the newspaper article in which Matt had been quoted and it was a pretty quick ride from elation to devastation.

Matt had named his cravat ”Myf” because it’s “short and slightly wide”. So I’m the Fat Cravat.

I had a crush on TV’s newest glamour boy, and now I want to take it back. This was like high school when I was told that I had been “dropped” by my first boyfriend; the message delivered by his best friend. If I was 14 I’d scratch Matt’s name off my pencil case or repeatedly call his home phone and hang up every time he answered.

Boo, Preston! (Who, it needn’t be noted, is hardly in the position of being able to cast nasturtiums on “slightly wide” members of society.)

Lest you start crying into your copy of Epicure on Myf’s behalf, fear not – the column has a happy and affirming ending.

Read the whole thing here – and welcome to the writing world, Myf! We’ll see you in a couple of weeks for a dinner of mi goreng and a riotous game of “who’ll pay the invoice?”