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

Trump, farage and any Tory.

Waity Katy middleton who basically stalked a rich man till he married her and now lives a life of luxury and is workshy.

Oh hell yes!

I've got them blocked on my Facebook and YouTube because I wanted to curl up in a ball every time it flashed up.

It takes a special kind of fucker to pull a stunt like that.i can't imagine how you could live with yourself knowing your life of luxury has been funded in such an abhorrent manner.

Not just Harry and Megan, I think all the royal family are grifters.

@slashlover for example

Last week, Spotify and Archewell Audio released a joint statement saying they had “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together”. However, sources close to Spotify have said the royal couple did not meet the productivity benchmark required to receive the full headline payout from the deal, having only produced one 12-episode series, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“I wish I had been involved in the ‘Meghan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation. ‘The Fucking Grifters.’ That’s the podcast we should have launched with them,” Simmons said on his podcast, the Bill Simmons podcast. “I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories … Fuck them. The grifters.”

Can anyone explain the Meghan and Harry thing?

They were paid to write a book, they wrote a book.
They were paid to make things for Netflix, they made them.
They were paid to produce a podcast, they produced a podcast.

You might not think they were qualified or enjoy what they make but they did make them.

I'm not disagreeing H&M are grifters ..... But ..,.

£32m wedding? Really? £32m???

Twice divorced? Really? I thought there was one ex husband, not two?

What's wrong with being an actress?

Belle Gibson came to my mind when I first saw this thread. I was reminded of a tv documentary I watched some years ago about a kabbalah based cult which would sell cancer cures. This guy with leukaemia had remortgaged his house and lost everything he owned pretty much to pay for useless cures. It was horrific to watch how evil some people can be.

Why would we be less entitled to judge his sincerity on this than on anything else?

Some of the biggest grifters out there declare themselves christian.

(Edited to make it clearer I don't mean all christians are grifters).

Well said !

Winner

The Environmental Law Foundation is a charity with an income of approx 120k last year. The Good Law Project is set up as a company limited by guarantee that, nevertheless, gets its 4million+ income mainly from donations.

So not that similar.

Why Matt Haig? I only know him as a children’s author

I would have said Anna Delvey/Sorokin until I watched Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix and learned who Belle Gibson was.

Anna grifted in a business way. Belle took advantage of people with cancer. That's unforgivable.

I think the Good Law Project is like the Environmental Law Foundation- the offices are gifted and the staff are law students/volunteers- it's easy enough to check, I have personal experience of ELF and they are excellent.

I’ve seen a lot of that. People going to clinic after clinic until one tells them what they want to hear. I don’t deny that some doctors misdiagnose but I do get the impression that some people get the told what they want to hear of they pay enough.

I’m also adding private clinics that make diagnoses over Zoom. Especially neurodivergent diagnoses. I know someone who was told by the NHS AND a very reputable private clinic that they don’t have ADHD. Then BOOM a 1 hour session over Zoom confirmed a diagnosis and they now spend £100 a month on medication they probably don’t neee. Shocking vultures making money of vulnerable people.

A grasp

Yoko Ono.. annoying, talentless and rich

Angela Rippon used to be on Rip Off Britain exposing faulty Smart Meters and rogue energy companies and their nefarious activities. Now she's switched sides and is promoting Smart Meters. I would have thought she'd have had more integrity but I suppose everyone will sell out for a price. Shame on you Angela Rippof.

God yes! I do miss laughing at her, back in the days when Twitter was sort of ok I used to follow an account called the Daily Dorries that used to post extracts from her many works of fiction, usually the soft porn bits, it was hysterically funny and the comments were gold. i loved these too, ://youtu.be/8H-5wfMbr8g?si=76zp2Y4PKikklApG://youtu.be/8H-5wfMbr8g?si=76zp2Y4PKikklApG

I wonder what the collective noun would be. A falsehood of grifters, a con-trick of grifters?

It's got to be Farage closely followed by captain Toms daughter.

How Farage gets away with not only getting cash out punters but also the government for simply not doing his job and fluffing his not inconsiderable ego boggles the mind - more fool people voting to let him get away with it

kardashians not a talent between them total grift

i never understood the hilarious (as i all hher) baldwin pretending to be spanish thing

i wont have a wordsaid against judi dench-she ant see properly anymore so is taking small jobs now