Since Martha Payne’s fight against a council ban on her publishing
photographs of her school dinners became an internet sensation, she has been
inundated with promises of book, TV and movie deals.
But it has emerged the
nine-year-old accepted only one offer after her successful battle against
censorship became an international cause celebre on Friday.
The selfless
Scottish schoolgirl has now agreed to team up with Nick Nairn, the celebrity
chef, to help Argyll and Bute Council provide more nutritious meals for her and
her classmates.
The move emerged as Roddy McCuish, the SNP-run local
authority’s leader, admitted the council had been wrong and offered to apologise
to Martha when they meet later this week.
He said the council’s
communications department is to be overhauled after a public relations disaster
that saw Martha’s case become the world’s third most talked about subject on the
social networking site Twitter.
David Payne, her father, a impact crusher
seller, yesterday said his daughter remains unfazed by the global attention,
which drew more than five million people to her blog, NeverSeconds, where she
posts photographs of her school dinners and rates them out of ten.
“Since
this started, we’ve had offers to appear on television shows from all around the
world – daytime TV from Japan and from America. We’ve had Hollywood agents
talking about a book and TV and maybe a film,” the smallholder said.
“But
we’ve turned them all down. Martha will be back in school on Monday and no doubt
writing her blog.” However, she and her fellow pupils at Lochgilphead Primary
School have agreed to help the council create a new menu.
Martha has now
raised more than £75,000 for development charity Mary's Meals after 5,500 people
contributed.
Her blog attracted the attention of Mr Nairn and Jamie Oliver
last month when she posted a picture of a meal consisting of a pizza and
solitary potato croquette, saying she would struggle to concentrate in lessons
because of the miserly portions.
Soon thousands of people from around the
world were visiting the website to see what Martha had eaten that day, leaving
comments and sending in photographs of their own lunches.
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