You know what their neighbors think of the Noel family and now, via Business Sheet, Colin Tennant, founder of the Mustique Company, tells us how he feels about the Greenwich branch of the Madoff Movie of the Week. Spoiler alert: Tennant characterizes the Noels as “…worms. They’re terrible snobs, those people. They’re frightfully badly behaved snobs.” But you should really take a second to click (skip to 6:05) cause it sounds better with his accent, and there’s the bonus of watching what appears to be Tennant’s houseboy chase Walter Noel off his lawn (and if you’ve got time, at 4:15 Tennant dresses Noel down like a naughty school girl over something about a “board” which “wasted two years of [his] life.” It’s dismissive, demeaning and fairly amusing to watch, especially when Noel is reduced to groveling and apologizing and promising not to waste “another two years” of Big T’s life).
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houseboy
I think I see Jim Jones
Battle of the douches. The Noels Vs Lord Glenconner. Freak show.
Why was there a camera there capturing Lord UptightPrick berating people to begin with?
@4- why not?
ahhahahaah, classic
Bess: I understand that the standard Spiers style is to be so insidery that you give minimal details and I’m supposed to feel privileged, but wtf is this video? A little context would be nice. Who filmed it? Why? Etc.
Bess: I understand that the standard Spiers style is to be so insidery that you give minimal details and I’m supposed to feel privileged, but wtf is this video? A little context would be nice. Who filmed it? Why? Etc.
I’m surprised Walter didn’t arrive on the Madoff jet: http://www.talonairjets.com/site/#/fleet/3/1/1/
a prop is horribly déclassé, don’t you think?
ok, i must say i’d rather hang with the Noel’s than Lord Stickupass
@5 – it just seems a little odd, that’s all. I mean, the camera man following me around my life is under specific instructions to NOT record me dealing out brow beatings. Horribly boorish, don’t you think?
@8: this is not insidery. all you need to know is it’s an interview with the guy who founded mustique, where the noels have a vacation house. who teh fuck cares about the rest?
@8 try the Business Sheet link
The old Brit is atrocious and defines Fuddy Duddy.
Point for WN, even if I’m not keen on old men sitting cross legged in short shorts.
This is awesome – i love the Pompous Mrs. Noel. And the way they try and politely tell each other to fuck off. These people need to act a bit more hood!
I’d make that roast-beef imbecile tear down that hideous “tent,” far less rent it out to the punters. Honestly, few things are more annoying that a Brit who’se “gone native”…
That mean is repugnant.
@2
No way, he was too busy getting into a bitchfight with Neyo @ the LV store in Midtown.
I went to Mustique on my honeymoon. Weird effin place.
@9 No way that Lear will get in/out of that strip. What a PITA place to have a beach house: Fly to someplace, switch planes to an islander or something, get to beach house 6 hours after leaving home….
@9 No way that Legacy get in/out of that strip. What a PITA place to have a beach house: Fly to someplace, switch planes to an islander or something, get to beach house 6 hours after leaving home….
I love the line after he bitchslaps walter… “they’re terrible snobs those people..frightfully badly behaved snobs…they’ll never speak to me again, fuck, thank you.”
his slaves around him are laughing their asses off..somehow they get more respect from the old fuck then walter
Tennant is a twerp
He takes it up the @ss from his “houseboys”
Lord Bendoverandtakeitinthebutt
is a bigger jerkoff than the Noels
Little Lord Fondle-roy
I am in love with Annabelle Vartanian
Mustique strip is very short and unable to service jets, only STOVL props http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTY64cpwGnY
US house owners (the Noels?) have been lobbying to expand the airport so their jets can get in and so they don’t have to change to a crap plane in Barbados.
Euros are keen to keep the “vulgar” Lear crowd on St.Bart’s and so have been resisting the airport expansion.
That is one of the worst landings I’ve seen in a long time. That pilot should be flayed. Low angle approach combined with touching down before the threshold is bad bad juju. You only get so many of those before it comes back one day and bites you right in the ass.
ep i find your random knowldge of thte meta and physical aspects of landing a puddlejumper very, very arousing.
i mean that in the polightest way possible
28 @6:25PM
Not sure what you mean about St. Barts. You can’t land a lear there either. Actually you need special training to land a STOL in St. Barts. It’s easy to hit the hill before you hit the runway if you are not familiar with that little strip and the tricky winds.
So am I, 27.
just kidding, you’re retarded.
@29
Looks like landing with a fair amount of crosswind, so the pilot is not as bad as it seems.
“@29
Looks like landing with a fair amount of crosswind, so the pilot is not as bad as it seems.”
Absolute bullshit. That should have been a go-around.
“ep i find your random knowldge of thte meta and physical aspects of landing a puddlejumper very, very arousing.
i mean that in the polightest way possible”
Comm Multi-IFR, 1100 hours and counting. Inexcusable to be dropping an Aero Commander like that.
How the fuck do islands like this exist? Give me 100 Somalis 10 fishing boats some AK 47s and a couple rocket launchers and let the ransoming begin.
@34
Are you a bush pilot by any chance?
But you haven’t landed on those islands, have you?
Here’s St. Barts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Dft5X5Q-Y
Go arounds also? Don’t think so. That’s pretty much normal over there.
“Here’s St. Barts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Dft5X5Q-Y
Go arounds also? Don’t think so. That’s pretty much normal over there.”
Nope. Beautiful. Stable approach, mostly centerline, puts the wheels right where they should be. None of this 300 feet short of the threshold bullshit that will get you (and your passengers) killed one day. That you can’t tell the difference marks you as other than a pilot.
I’ve put down on any number of tiny island strips (Including SBH). That’s why I started flying.
I had a reach around once on St. Barts and I only have 3.5 hours and counting.
too Higgins, didn’t Magnum
TRB
@ VOL IS KING
Best comment of the day.
Anabel Vartanian could take over that island with her eyes.
Now this is a stud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDtzPbt73yM&NR=1
F the displaced threshold. It’s probably there for obstacle clearance. TW’Otters rule.
Could 100% of Mustique residents are douchebags?
Could 100% of Mustique residents be douchebags?
@43 & 44
Double post Fail.
@43 & 44
Double post Fail.
I prefer Hedonism III.
At about 7:00, CT reminds me of the old man from Poltergeist II:
http://www.drivl.com/img/articles/poltergeist_2.jpg
Will the marriage between Walter and Monica Noel survive Bernie Madoff? Probably not says Divorce Saloon: http://www.divorcesaloon.com
But I here they are pretty solid.
http://www.divorcesaloon.com/is-walter-monica-noel-heading-for-divorce
Having had dealings with Tennant many years ago, I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that he is an unreconstructed snob of monumental proportions. He lives on another planet where the normal rules of civilised life no longer exist and is inclined to forget that his ownership of Mustique is due entirely to a fortune made by his grandfather out of manufacturing industrial bleach. A case of the pot calling the kettle black.
@ 49. Will you please go away? Your blog sucks, and your inability to understand why Walter is in trouble makes you lose any credibility with this crowd.
I have to disagree with the majority here. I kind of like Tennant. He’s a pompous, egotistical snob but he owns it like only somebody with a real peerage can. He’s comfortable with who he is and makes no excuses for it.
That’s why he makes the Noels sound like the faux-upper class arrivistes that they really are. I can’t stand that fake friendliness that the Noels are always putting on in these clips. At least Tennant has the balls to speak his mind.
Also, I have to second @51, Divorce Saloon. Get a clue. The Noels are not victims here. They were enablers for Madoff. At some level, Walter just had to know. There’s simply no way he didn’t.
There’s no question that the Noels are social climbing wannabes, or that they’re smug and pathetic in their attempts to make nice with this POS. But, it seems unlikely that they’re at fault for his tent thing being turned down. So, it just looks like he’s putting all his anger on people he’s not afraid of isolating socially, so that makes him a bigger turd and even more small-minded than they are.
Tennant bought the island for nothing decades ago, made some dough developing it in the early days, got in above his head and had to sell his remaining interest.
His attention-seeking activities (landing on the island and erecting an unapproved tent with a documentary crew in tow) suggest that he possesses an imbalanced mind.
Perhaps all those rocking orgies in the 60s and 70s took their toll.
Keep Mustique Weird – get rid of Noels.
Keep Mustique Weird – get rid of Noels.
Keep Mustique Weird – shoot a Noel.
It seems if one has ANY knowledge of Tennant’s character and his bygone monarch ways then a person like Walter Noel should know better than just walking onto his private property with his entourage at any given time. It’s very presumptuous of Noel. Don’t they have phones on that island? Tennant seems to be very ticked off at the board of Mustique and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over the issue. Nonetheless it seems everyone kisses Tennant’s ass to get as close to or claim association with “the blue-bloods” of society on that island. Perhaps they should rename the movie “The Ego’s of Mustique”
It seems if one has ANY knowledge of Tennant’s character and his bygone monarch ways then a person like Walter Noel should know better than just walking onto his private property with his entourage at any given time. It’s very presumptuous of Noel. Don’t they have phones on that island? Tennant seems to be very ticked off at the board of Mustique and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over the issue. Nonetheless it seems everyone kisses Tennant’s ass to get as close to or claim association with “the blue-bloods” of society on that island. Perhaps they should rename the movie “The Ego’s of Mustique”
It seems if one has ANY knowledge of Tennant’s character and his bygone monarch ways then a person like Walter Noel should know better than just walking onto his private property with his entourage at any given time. It’s very presumptuous of Noel. Don’t they have phones on that island? Tennant seems to be very ticked off at the board of Mustique and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over the issue. Nonetheless it seems everyone kisses Tennant’s arse to get as close to or claim association with “the blue-bloods” of society on that island. Perhaps they should rename the movie “The Ego’s of Mustique”
It seems if one has ANY knowledge of Tennant’s character and his bygone monarch ways then a person like Walter Noel should know better than just walking onto his private property with his entourage at any given time. It’s very presumptuous of Noel. Don’t they have phones on that island? Tennant seems to be very ticked off at the board of Mustique and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over the issue. Nonetheless it seems everyone kisses Tennant’s arse to get as close to or claim association with “the blue-bloods” of society on that island. Perhaps they should rename the movie “The Ego’s of Mustique”
It seems if one has ANY knowledge of Tennant’s character and his bygone monarch ways then a person like Walter Noel should know better than just walking onto his private property with his entourage at any given time. It’s very presumptuous of Noel. Don’t they have phones on that island? Tennant seems to be very ticked off at the board of Mustique and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over the issue. Nonetheless it seems everyone kisses Tennant’s arse to get as close to or claim association with “the blue-bloods” of society on that island. Perhaps they should rename the movie “The Ego’s of Mustique”
Wow, the rare quad post. You were so proud of that post you were going to make certain the world could see your brilliance. LOL, pwnd.
That’s a quintuple post, actually.