Listen to me paying tribute to the great goddess of sauce, #JillyCooper, on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, Stolen phones and Jilly Cooper
Jeremy discusses stolen phones, Jilly Cooper, crashing into deer, and love locks.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Just paid tribute to goddess of sauce #JillyCooper with new generation #QueenoftheBonkbusters #MelanieBlake on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Dame Jilly Cooper dies aged 88
Dame Jilly Cooper has died at the age of 88, her agent Curtis Brown has announced.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
October 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Oh man, so sad to hear about #JillyCooper. She was a total life-enhancing delight. And, selfishly, a major inspiration and kind mentor for my own novel-writing efforts. Glad she got to enjoy the success of the #Rivals TV adaptation before she passed. Thank you for everything, Jilly #RIP
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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If you haven’t flicked through your mum’s copy of Polo (which she kept very badly hidden) to find the rude bits then you haven’t lived #jillycooper
October 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Farewell #JillyCooper, from one dog lover to another. All my memories of you are kind ones. If you've ever wanted to know where Jilly got the inspiration to name one of her most famous characters, read on..... open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Sorry to hear of the death of author #JillyCooper. A wonderful novelist, her 1st romance novel was 'Emily' published in 1975. A reviewer described the novel "as though a Nancy Mitford plot and cast of characters had been appropriated by Barbara Cartland". The novel was adapted for Thames TV in 1976.
October 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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SO gutted that #jillycooper has died. The queen of British bonkbusters and an absolute inspiration to me.
I’m also not ashamed to say that at least one of my MMCs owes more than a little to Jilly’s OG sexy alphahole Rupert Campbell-Black.
I’m also not ashamed to say that at least one of my MMCs owes more than a little to Jilly’s OG sexy alphahole Rupert Campbell-Black.
🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In the words of Queen Camilla "may her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs" #JillyCooper
October 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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What a star Dame Jilly Cooper was! An inspiration to so many writers; a wry, funny, welcoming friend to readers; a brilliant, big-hearted and wonderfully wise person who made the world sparklier and lighter. She will be hugely missed. Big love to all who loved her.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Oh no—not #JillyCooper too! She was the author of my most favourite trashy novels (Riders & Rivals). Just last week I was watching an old @bbcarchive.bsky.social interview from the 70s where she was being skewered by a group of young people—she handled herself with poise & humility. RIP dear Jilly!!
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Brilliant podcast on #JillyCooper & her books. Journalist Kat Brown began a Jilly Cooper book club with fellow Jillyites—who will go into extended mourning. I call her books "trashy" novels—but only compared to say, Galsworthy. Jilly's character studies & plots are superb. youtu.be/-DINLJ2TmVc?...
The Jilly Cooper Book Club • Episode #15
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October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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She’s back with more advice for you spunky lot.
This week. Sex.
If you like, pls share with your chums Young Jilly has a lot to say.
#share #repost #louconran #comedy #standupcomedy #female #femalecomedian #standup #youngjilly #jillycooper #jillycooperrivals #rivals #disneychannel #sex #romp
This week. Sex.
If you like, pls share with your chums Young Jilly has a lot to say.
#share #repost #louconran #comedy #standupcomedy #female #femalecomedian #standup #youngjilly #jillycooper #jillycooperrivals #rivals #disneychannel #sex #romp
May 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Dame Jilly Cooper, author of the Rutshire Chronicles behind Disney+’s ‘RIVALS,’ has died at 88 after a fall.
Her family mourns her joyful smile and boundless love; she exec produced the hit series, with Season 2 set for 2026.
#JillyCooper #Rivals #DisneyPlus
Her family mourns her joyful smile and boundless love; she exec produced the hit series, with Season 2 set for 2026.
#JillyCooper #Rivals #DisneyPlus
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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rest in peace #JillyCooper – or revel in parties up there if you'd rather. Thanks for making reading (and life) fun 💕
🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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First listen - all 30 hours of it! - to an oft-read and much-loved book from my teens. Slightly different perspective all these years later, though...
#JillyCooper
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February 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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If Wimbledon had Rivals dress code and Alex Hassell was playing, the viewing figures woud be through the roof (if Wimbledon had a roof)
#Rivals #Disney+ #JillyCooper
#Rivals #Disney+ #JillyCooper
November 15, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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thinking of writing that one k*nk that jillycooper did but am a lil scared- it's not deliciously bad like d*ddaughter (yum) and not cnc it's not even THAT weird or wrong but i've barely read it and never written it so it's v Intimidating (it will be chap4 in 'play on' bc italy + dresses first) (1/2)
December 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Not sure what I'm most excited about - #AQuietContagion featuring in the Best New Fiction section of The Mail on Sunday or being on the same page as the legend that is #JillyCooper!
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November 13, 2023 at 10:40 AM
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#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) #Bonktastic #Bonkbusters! #JackieCollins #JillyCooper #ShirleyConran #JudithKrantz et al
2) #Histsex and made for TV #melodrama and #soapopera
1) #Bonktastic #Bonkbusters! #JackieCollins #JillyCooper #ShirleyConran #JudithKrantz et al
2) #Histsex and made for TV #melodrama and #soapopera
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) How did people compile books between the late C18 and early C20?
2) An article about condom retailing in mid-C19 Britain (pre-rubber condoms)
1) How did people compile books between the late C18 and early C20?
2) An article about condom retailing in mid-C19 Britain (pre-rubber condoms)
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) A chapter about Shirley Jackson, multiple personality disorder, and public authorship
2) A Darwinian reading of the novel focused on teeth
1) A chapter about Shirley Jackson, multiple personality disorder, and public authorship
2) A Darwinian reading of the novel focused on teeth
November 16, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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I’m gutted that #JillyCooper has passed away - she wrote with great skill, humour and insight about the messiness of the human condition, creating three-dimensional characters that were sympathetic in spite of their flaws.
Goodbye Jilly. Thank you for many, many hours of entertainment
Goodbye Jilly. Thank you for many, many hours of entertainment
October 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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March 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Will the end of the #Conservatives kill off the #bonkbuster?
#tories #jillycooper #rivals #generalelection #cleowatson
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Will the end of the Conservatives kill off the bonkbuster?
If you’re still wondering what 14 years of sleaze-filled Tory rule has done for the country, there is at least one reason to be cheerful – the revival of racy beach-reads in which sex-mad, bed-hopping...
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June 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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#JillyCooper
Dead at 88. This from Guardian last year, part profile/part Q.s from readers and many well-known fans
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Fun but mentions
⚪ Works influenced her (Proust: "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost")
⚪ Animals in War Museum
#JillyCooper
Dead at 88. This from Guardian last year, part profile/part Q.s from readers and many well-known fans
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Fun but mentions
⚪ Works influenced her (Proust: "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost")
⚪ Animals in War Museum
‘Are you good in bed?’ Jilly Cooper on horses, lefties and which fictional character she would like to sleep with
As her much-loved story Rivals is turned into a lavish Disney+ production, the author answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including David Tennant, Caitlin Moran and Gillian Anderso...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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