Dahl and Cullum ignore height difference

Sophie Dahl towers above Jamie Cullum

You have to hand it to Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum – they are confronting the height issue head-on, after all the comments after they got engaged. Or maybe that should be head-to-shoulder. When the celebrity couple arrived at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation gala at Hampton Court Palace last weekend, all eyes were, as ever, upon them. Seen in public, the couple’s height difference is far bigger than can be concealed by flats for her and built-up heels for him. Dahl and Cullum have been loved up for two years, and are determined that their love will see them through this challenge to the accepted norms. Biologically, men are generally taller than women and over the generations the ideal height difference for a couple is 4 – 9 inches, that means the man is taller – not the woman!

Goiod luck to them in their marriage but I fear that the strain will tell eventually. In this photo, Sophie looks as if she is walking with her little brother. The body language is not good either. Jamie is reaching for Sophie’s hand, but she is carrying a clutch bag so the move fails. The engaged couple are also walking in different directions, and are not keeping pace with each other. How could they – her legs must be 12 inches longer than his! Individually the exceptionally tall Dahl and diminutive Cullum are celebrities in their own right, but together I just think they do not gel.

Sophie stands 6ft tall, to her fiance’s 5ft 4in. A woman of Jamie’s height is considered fairly short, let alone a man. And a man of Sophie Dahl’s height stands out in most crowds. He is of slender build, she is large boned and has worked hard to slim to a size 10 from her previous size 14 – for which she earned the nickname BFG (Big Fat Giant).

The gossip is that they met on the rebound, and that Jamie makes Sophie feel safe, They need to think about spending the rest of their lives with such a visible social mis-match. Imagine the wedding photos! Sophie will not be able to look like a fairy princess, claimed by her prince charming who enfolds her in his embrace. Instead she will look like an attractive statuesque woman marrying a boy!

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2 Responses to “Dahl and Cullum ignore height difference”

Vanessa Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Dude, whoever wrote this article TOTALLY SUCKS THE BIG ONE. Seriously – Jamie Cullum freaking ROCKS, and he and his wife dated for three years before they got married – that’s a respectable amount of time to figure things out. They’re both thirty, out of the miserably immature twenties. I’m short and big boned and my husband is tall and slim. *gasp* How weird looking! Psh, who cares? It’s not how we look together, it’s how we feel together. And shut the hell up about wedding photos and having a fairy tale wedding with a tall prince charming – you can suck it. As far as she’s concerned, Jamie is her prince charming. And obviously Jamie feels that she is the one for him.
Alan Says:
March 13th, 2010 at 1:13 am
I want to point out that the book by Dahl is “The Big Friendly Giant” and not “The Big Fat Giant”… and also, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman didn’t have two children, they had none. They adopted one and their one natural baby was a miscarriage.

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