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To ask who is the biggest grifter you've seen?

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2025ohdear · 20/02/2025 16:41

I remember Anthea Turner punting flakes at her wedding. Carol Vorderman was always quick to front a financial product. Just seen Carole Malone on my timeline oiling on about weight loss jabs.

Any others spring to mind?

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EdithBond · 20/02/2025 21:04
  • Hedge fund managers, who know taxpayers have to bail out their gambling.
  • Shareholders of utility companies that make millions while putting up prices.
  • People who make millions commodifying supplying accommodation to people who are homeless.

Celebrities are an irrelevance.

MikeRafone · 20/02/2025 21:01

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:46

I actually think she's quite unwell

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Is that why she keeps getting points on her licence but not losing the right to drive?

ChocolateTruffleAssortment · 20/02/2025 20:57

weareladyparts · 20/02/2025 19:11

Agree with both of these and there's a domestic abuse charity in Cheshire currently giving them a run for their money allegedly.

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What’s the story about the charity?

CheshireCat1 · 20/02/2025 20:54

I’m spoilt for choice there’s that many, Nigel, Boris and Andrew would be in my top ten.

ExercicenformedeZ · 20/02/2025 20:53

TheMeasure · 20/02/2025 20:46

Katie Price.

Absolutely.

Chuchoter · 20/02/2025 20:52

Hufflemuff · 20/02/2025 20:36

The McCanns - millions raised by the public, yet Scotland Yard continue to fund a search. They have always refused to register as a charity or disclose the amount spent on the investigation or how much was raised. Plus its all their own fucking fault for leaving her alone anyway.

There was time on Mumsnet that if you criticised the McCanns in any shape or form, you would be carted off, hung, drawn and quartered and told never to darken the doors of Mumsnet ever again!

My sister posted a link to a video showing how far they were from the apartment when they were wining and dining that evening and she was instantly banned!

ExercicenformedeZ · 20/02/2025 20:52

MinistryofThyme · 20/02/2025 19:17

Can’t believe no one’s said that ‘hero plumber’ DEEFER CIC yet.

Definitely agree re Tony H’s parents, JoMo the bekimonoed fox killer, Jack Monroe, and that horror Hannah Ingram Moore.

Who is the 'hero plumber'? I've never heard of him?

Ger1atricMillennial · 20/02/2025 20:52

So is a grifter simply a swindler.. like the folks who made the emperor's new clothes? Like Del-boy, sell you something with no value but you can't hold them accountable?

Changeissmall · 20/02/2025 20:49

Loving the Jack Monroe pile on. From the very first article about she/her surviving on sixpence because she/her was done so wrong by everyone else including the Fire Service.
Absolute epitome of a grifting lying narc.

Picklewicklepickle · 20/02/2025 20:48

Those awful sausage roll singers.

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:46

TheMeasure · 20/02/2025 20:46

Katie Price.

I actually think she's quite unwell

TheMeasure · 20/02/2025 20:46

Katie Price.

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:45

In the Royal family the biggest grifters are
Andrew
Meghan Markle
Harry - that book! How he lost his virginity 🤮
Eugenie and her tequila husband
Beatrica and Mapelli Mozzi

I don’t mind the others so much. Zara at least was a very successful sports person.

ExercicenformedeZ · 20/02/2025 20:44

UrsulasHerbBag · 20/02/2025 18:35

That awful man who fundraiser for his baby daughter, I think he was from love island. Ashley Caine.

OMG I'd forgotten about him! I was very sorry about the poor little baby, but he turned it into a scam.

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:43

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:42

Same.

I think someone confused him w Peter Philips maybe?

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Ah. The son? What does he do? I have to admit I'm not really aware of him.

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 20:43

@Pussycat22 He was probably aware of her yachting and burger flipping days as well then!

BustingBaoBun · 20/02/2025 20:43

I think the poster probably mean Peter Phillips not Mark Phillips.

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:42

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:42

Yes, he's made money from horse training and eventing. He might be retired now. He's very low profile. I can't see how he's a grifter?.

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Same.

I think someone confused him w Peter Philips maybe?

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:42

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:40

Mark Philipps is Zara’s father and isn’t he a horse trainer or rider or something.

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Yes, he's made money from horse training and eventing. He might be retired now. He's very low profile. I can't see how he's a grifter?.

Redheadedstepchild · 20/02/2025 20:41

WtP · 20/02/2025 19:13

Really!
A swift kick in the nuts would be better for them both.

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I was trying to be charitable because the worst thing any vain and egotistical man can suffer is pity.

I feel sorry for them. I pity them. Disdain is a great weopon used correctly. All men fear rejection. You can be a grandma and they still feel it.

Amateur psychologists night out here

ThereTheirTheyreYourYoureToTooLEARNTHEM · 20/02/2025 20:41

LunaNorth · 20/02/2025 17:36

Capt. Tom’s daughter takes some beating.

Boris Johnson manages to make very little intelligence go a very long way through sheer grift and bluster.

Meghan Markle, obvs.

But the ultimate has to be Trump, surely?

Yeah, I was surprised Trump’s name wasn’t mentioned sooner. 🤣

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:41

NZversusLondon · 20/02/2025 20:40

Jack Monroe - hideous chancer
Liz Frazer - what more can I say
An awful grifter on Insta (‘coming home to autism’) who shares every aspect of her fifteen year old son and his autism.
Saccone Joly gruesome pair who exploit their children and don’t when send them to school

Don’t get me started on that awful couple and their trans child. How convenient 🙄

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:40

Viviennemary · 20/02/2025 20:26

They don't actually do anything. Or not very much. They make money from their royal connections, I totally disapprove.

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Mark Philipps is Zara’s father and isn’t he a horse trainer or rider or something.

NZversusLondon · 20/02/2025 20:40

Jack Monroe - hideous chancer
Liz Frazer - what more can I say
An awful grifter on Insta (‘coming home to autism’) who shares every aspect of her fifteen year old son and his autism.
Saccone Joly gruesome pair who exploit their children and don’t when send them to school

Pussycat22 · 20/02/2025 20:39

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 17:29

Probably Meghan Markle, considering how much she seemingly conned the RF and public. Honestly, a £32 million wedding for a twice divorced actress! Personally I didn't have a good feeling about her from the start, and have since been validated.

Prince Philip said "one should only walk out with actresses not marry them"