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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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cait967 · 21/02/2025 11:42

Dotjones · 21/02/2025 10:54

Anthea Turner used her wedding as a Cadbury's Flake promotion.

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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

LostFuse · 21/02/2025 11:40

Pedallleur · 20/02/2025 19:11

How do they bring in this money and where can I see the balance sheet?

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https://brandfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/1/brand_finance_monarchy_press_release.pdf

Vitriolinsanity · 21/02/2025 11:39

Katie Price

SchoolDilemma17 · 21/02/2025 11:28

Finallydoingit24 · 21/02/2025 10:34

Not a fan of Meghan but why shouldn’t she be allowed an expensive wedding (which literally all the royal brides have had) because she’s been divorced? Is that because you believe she’s damaged goods and should get something lesser?

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.

Girasole02 · 21/02/2025 11:23

The family of that lad who went missing in Tenerife

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 11:22

Zebedee999 · 21/02/2025 11:01

We've had two MPs killed by nutters in the last decade or so; I don't want to see another. So many expressing hate for Truss simply encourages and emboldens the nutter to come forward.

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I agree. They have to have protection, and that's the deal.

Seiheiki · 21/02/2025 11:19

labtest57 · 20/02/2025 18:07

Jack Munroe, and Jessica Taylor. Both grifters and pathological liars.

We share the same list

Girasole02 · 21/02/2025 11:19

Giovanna Fletcher
Amy Dowden
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Stopped following them all due to their daily 'brand deals' and promo of freebies including a new kitchen, holidays fashion, skin care, random high end stuff etc

Captain Tom's Daughter

Zebedee999 · 21/02/2025 11:01

PerfectforStealth · 21/02/2025 10:49

Liz Truss. I saw her in London recently, getting out of her police protection Range Rover. With another Range Rover right behind. All paid for by us as the tax payer. For someone who was PM for 50 days. We will pay for this for the rest of her life.

We've had two MPs killed by nutters in the last decade or so; I don't want to see another. So many expressing hate for Truss simply encourages and emboldens the nutter to come forward.

lifeonmars100 · 21/02/2025 11:00

PerfectforStealth · 21/02/2025 10:49

Liz Truss. I saw her in London recently, getting out of her police protection Range Rover. With another Range Rover right behind. All paid for by us as the tax payer. For someone who was PM for 50 days. We will pay for this for the rest of her life.

Knew that all former PMs get £115k p.a. for life but was not aware that they got a lifetime of security too.

MayaKovskaya · 21/02/2025 10:56

Dotjones · 21/02/2025 10:52

Toss up between Hannah Ingram-Moore and those scumbags who used their charity sausage roll Xmas singles to sell their tat.

Rachel Reeves is quickly working her way towards trumping both of them to be fair.

You may not like her politics or her policy decisions. It does not make her "a grifter".

Lovethegreydays · 21/02/2025 10:55

PerfectforStealth · 21/02/2025 10:49

Liz Truss. I saw her in London recently, getting out of her police protection Range Rover. With another Range Rover right behind. All paid for by us as the tax payer. For someone who was PM for 50 days. We will pay for this for the rest of her life.

Makes me seethe

Dotjones · 21/02/2025 10:54

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 21/02/2025 10:46

What does punting flakes mean? Genuinely no idea

Anthea Turner used her wedding as a Cadbury's Flake promotion.

Lyannaa · 21/02/2025 10:54

PerfectforStealth · 21/02/2025 10:49

Liz Truss. I saw her in London recently, getting out of her police protection Range Rover. With another Range Rover right behind. All paid for by us as the tax payer. For someone who was PM for 50 days. We will pay for this for the rest of her life.

I agree. It's people like this who are the real scroungers.

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 21/02/2025 10:52

@Redheadedstepchild This made me smile! 😁

Dotjones · 21/02/2025 10:52

Toss up between Hannah Ingram-Moore and those scumbags who used their charity sausage roll Xmas singles to sell their tat.

Rachel Reeves is quickly working her way towards trumping both of them to be fair.

PerfectforStealth · 21/02/2025 10:49

Liz Truss. I saw her in London recently, getting out of her police protection Range Rover. With another Range Rover right behind. All paid for by us as the tax payer. For someone who was PM for 50 days. We will pay for this for the rest of her life.

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 21/02/2025 10:46

What does punting flakes mean? Genuinely no idea

Queratin · 21/02/2025 10:41

Moonlightstars · 21/02/2025 07:51

He is not a grifter. You don't win repeated gold medals by grifting. He was also a trafficked child and a slave. He pulled himself out of a hideous childhood, worked his arse off to achieve what he did.

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Exactly! Anyway, someone who has won those medals at the Olympics can get all the deals they want, in my book. And surely it is sensible for him to look at other ways of earning money now his former sporting career is over.

wholettheturnipsburn · 21/02/2025 10:40

Farage is the personification of grift. It's embarrassing how many people he has conned.

Queratin · 21/02/2025 10:37

Karen Matthews, Shannon’s mum.

Discombobble · 21/02/2025 10:36

WOW! What a bitchfest! Apparently grifter = someone who has more than you and doesn’t deserve it/Daily Mail does not approve of

Finallydoingit24 · 21/02/2025 10:34

Not a fan of Meghan but why shouldn’t she be allowed an expensive wedding (which literally all the royal brides have had) because she’s been divorced? Is that because you believe she’s damaged goods and should get something lesser?

Hadjab · 21/02/2025 10:30

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.

I very much doubt the Royal Family would have been happy with anything less than a £32M wedding.

She's been divorced once.

MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 21/02/2025 10:15

Ger1atricMillennial · 20/02/2025 22:48

My point is the term originated in the US, and has not been in common vernacular in the UK which is evidenced by the amount of people mis-understanding it on this thread.

We would use the term hustler, swindler or con-artists as evidenced by the UK programme "Hustlers"

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I have hheard the term grifter before and each time it was used by a British person. Maybe it's you who are not that clued up.