PAUL ELEY’S embarrassing email has gone global. His comical search for a ‘reasonable nice to look at’ female flatmate has made headlines in Saturday’s Sun, The Express and The Telegraph.
The email has been forwarded to thousands of people since it was first circulated to colleagues on Tuesday.
‘Mail chauvinist seeks flat skivvy’ read the tabloid, while the broadsheet went for the more restrained, ‘Wanted: Pretty woman flatmate who will cook and clean’.
The stories are the latest ones to poke fun at the farce, which was highlighted in the Guernsey Press and then picked up by The Daily Mail on Friday.
Coverage reported how Mr Eley (pictured) had been disciplined by bosses at investment company Concept Group Ltd Guernsey for his sexist behaviour.
The Sun even quoted an unnamed co-worker who claimed that the 30-year-old fiduciary administrator could be sacked.
Among Mr Eley’s very specific stipulations for his ideal female flatmate was that she must be aged between 18 and 26 and preferably ‘very tidy and reasonably nice to look at’.
In exchange for free lodgings, the lucky lady must clean the whole apartment once a week, clean the kitchen every day and keep it tidy, do some of his washing and ironing and occasionally cook simple meals for him such as sausage and mash on weeknights when he was working late.
She could also choose what to watch on television – but only sometimes – and she could have friends around, only ‘as long as they are women’, he added.
‘Cheeky Paul Eley landed in hot water with bosses after sending an office email asking for a female flatmate who could COOK and CLEAN for him,’ ran the story in page four of The Sun.
So far, both Mr Eley and Concept Group have declined to comment on the spiralling media attention.
At the time of going to print, the Facebook group Paul Eley don’t ever change has attracted 639 members.
Article posted on 15th September, 2008 - 1.00pm
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