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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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uglyjessie · 21/02/2025 18:13

@BustingBaoBun

So what what?

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 18:08

Also, Meghan and Kate are not in "similar positions" at all. Far from it. They've got completely different lives.

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 18:06

Bobafett2020 · 21/02/2025 18:02

True. I guess my reason was that Meghan haters usually love Kate, and also to highlight the inconsistency with the way she is viewed by comparing her to somebody in a similar situation, who does not get treated in the same way

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Why the "hate" and "love"?. You can criticise the behaviour of a woman and not hate, admire aspects of the other and not love
I just find this polarised attitude so negative.

BustingBaoBun · 21/02/2025 18:06

uglyjessie · 21/02/2025 18:03

Surely it's the Duchess of Grifter...Meghan. She has a new insta page called What Ever...

So what?

uglyjessie · 21/02/2025 18:03

Surely it's the Duchess of Grifter...Meghan. She has a new insta page called What Ever...

Bobafett2020 · 21/02/2025 18:02

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 17:58

Why compare her to Kate? That's unnecessary. They're both different women in their own right.

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True. I guess my reason was that Meghan haters usually love Kate, and also to highlight the inconsistency with the way she is viewed by comparing her to somebody in a similar situation, who does not get treated in the same way

SeanMean · 21/02/2025 18:00

Michelle Mone has to be up there!

penguinbiscuity · 21/02/2025 17:59

Bubbles456 · 20/02/2025 17:44

Stacey Solomon. Quite how she's gone from an X Factor finalist all those years ago to now presenting multiple primetime TV shows, flogging everything from cleaning products to deodorant, and her multiple homeware ranges etc. is beyond me!

She's positioned as an interiors and home organisation guru but to me she comes across as fake, phony and just not very intelligent.

Eh?

She's a TV presenter, and a talented singer.

You might not like her but she does an actual job for a living, that's not grifting.

I love her decluttering show and think she comes across as really warm and personable. I hope that bit's not an act!

Loads of daytime / lifestyle TV shows have a presenter but actually it's the production team coming up with the ideas, is this news to you?

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 17:58

Bobafett2020 · 21/02/2025 17:56

She was once divorced, and you are really telling on yourself with that actress comment. Unlike Kate, she had a successful career and plenty of money before she met Harry.

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Why compare her to Kate? That's unnecessary. They're both different women in their own right.

Bobafett2020 · 21/02/2025 17:56

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.

She was once divorced, and you are really telling on yourself with that actress comment. Unlike Kate, she had a successful career and plenty of money before she met Harry.

Breezeblock · 21/02/2025 15:29

I think when people make up such batshit crazy rumours then it’s hard to believe anything. I’m not even a fan, particularly, but literally every very famous woman seems to get accused of fake pregnancies, affairs, and the worst thing any woman could ever do, scheming.

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 15:04

I think the trouble is, if a celebrity lies a lot, and gets caught out with the lies, it's hard to believe anything they say.

Breezeblock · 21/02/2025 15:02

deeahgwitch · 21/02/2025 14:27

How come the press haven't run with this too ?

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Because it comes from the type of forums that like to imagine fake pregnancies. Even if it were true (and 🙄) an annulment isn’t a divorce.

Jeezitneverends · 21/02/2025 14:45

Bubbles456 · 20/02/2025 17:44

Stacey Solomon. Quite how she's gone from an X Factor finalist all those years ago to now presenting multiple primetime TV shows, flogging everything from cleaning products to deodorant, and her multiple homeware ranges etc. is beyond me!

She's positioned as an interiors and home organisation guru but to me she comes across as fake, phony and just not very intelligent.

I agree with everything you’ve said. She also may come across as a bit dim and ditsy but I believe this is “curated” and that if she isn’t very intelligent, shes certainly very shrewd. Her biggest coup is “pickle cottage” which will be some kind of tax dodge as she uses it for “work”.
Don’t get me started on her sister who is trying very hard (and failing miserably) at the influencer game

MeganCarter · 21/02/2025 14:41

Motherland2624 · 21/02/2025 13:04

Captain Tom himself was the ultimate grifter

thank you for being bold enough to say this - the notion that this old man
would let alone could walk as far as was suggested was stretching the truth
and incredulity
then he ‘wrote a book’ which didn’t cover him in personal glory
for this and the National hysteria at the time, he was honoured by The Queen,
grifters look after their own

deeahgwitch · 21/02/2025 14:27

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 18:22

@Kiwi83 She has been divorced twice - look up her marriage annulment from Joseph Giuliano.

How come the press haven't run with this too ?

TheSparkling · 21/02/2025 14:00

@ThejoyofNC
I'd be really interested to hear why you've nominated Zelenski?

Cattery · 21/02/2025 13:43

Victoria Beckham
Brooklyn Beckham
Anthea Turner
Meghan Markle

Adamante · 21/02/2025 13:25

Motherland2624 · 21/02/2025 13:04

Captain Tom himself was the ultimate grifter

This properly made me laugh 😆

Something I could never have admitted I thought, even to myself, until I saw your post.

Motherland2624 · 21/02/2025 13:04

Captain Tom himself was the ultimate grifter

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 12:57

I think Meghan and Harry had a lovely wedding, I really enjoyed it. The chapel looked gorgeous and she looked beautiful. I loved the music (well done Charles), and the carriage ride. Yes, it cost ££millions, but it was great for the UK.
What I didn't like was Meghan saying later to Oprah that the big show was just for "the masses" and they really got married 3 days earlier in their "back yard" ( sic).
If they didn't want that kind of wedding ,they should just have had a quiet, small do.

Zebedee999 · 21/02/2025 12:52

SchoolDilemma17 · 21/02/2025 11:28

I am also definitely not a Meghan fan but I agree on this. Royal weddings are a key selling point for the RF and for British image, tourism and culture abroad.

Billions watched the wedding and the beautiful images of Windsor Castle and Windsor in the sun. It’s basically advertising for the Uk. One ad in the super bowl costs $40M so this was a relatively cheap marketing opportunity.

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Spot on. Lots of haters of the RF but the whole world has heard of them, few know who even the head of state of Ireland or Germany is. RF are low cost publicity for the UK and Meghan's wedding was a part of that.

Floogal · 21/02/2025 12:12

Wes Watson, Joey Stax and other beefed up fitness influencers. Such bullies

MeganCarter · 21/02/2025 12:02

Girasole02 · 21/02/2025 11:23

The family of that lad who went missing in Tenerife

O good call ! that all quietened down didn’t it - judicious investments will set them up for years.

Finallydoingit24 · 21/02/2025 11:51

cait967 · 21/02/2025 11:42

I always felt a bit sorry for her over this. She sold her wedding photo rights to one of the glossy mags. They took one pic of her and the groom taking a bite of a new style of flake and then the magazine gave one away for free that month.

I’ve seen alot worse but she’s never escaped it

feel the need to add im not a fan of hers but this always felt a bit mean

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yeah it was mean. It was the magazine that did it and they knew how it would look and so many celebs sell their wedding to OK. I think it was because the public disliked her anyway because she’d had an affair with a married man.