Captain Toms daughter

Loving all the sympathy for her, I wonder if it would have been the same had he had a son who cheated like she has, or is it the usual MN standpoint that a woman can't be wrong?

Segment available now. https://www.itv.com/watch/news/do-you-have-any-shame-hannah-ingram-moore-grilled-on-role-in-captain-tom-foundation/qvfw570

Why do you feel sorry for her? Her reputation is in tatters through her own actions, looking meek and uncomfortable are the skills of any petty actress.

If people were relating to him as they couldn't see their own family then more fool them both for falling for it and being daft enough not to see their own family

Haven't seen Rob Rinder having a go, but I read the article about her yesterday. Her defense seemed to be a regret that she'd set up the charity in her father's name, in other words if she'd called it something else it would have all been ok,😒.
And repeating that her father wanted the family to benefit from the book.
Didn't come across at all that she was apologetic for her and her husband's actions.

You don’t have to like someone to be curious about their life experiences, it’s not mutually exclusive.

Indeed. We're not all tuning in to this thread to share our heart warming thoughts on dear, kind Hannah Ingram Moore, are we.

Having said that, it doesn't sit comfortably with me that she is getting all the hate. As PPs have mentioned, her father was not all sweetness and light either and there will be others who have benefited from the money donated in good faith so it's worth remembering she was not acting alone.

I have no sympathy for her. I also wonder about Captain Tom's other daughter, never seen. It's a common theme with elderly parents (see the MN Cockroach Cafe threads) that there is a goldenballs sibling who dominates and isolates an elderly/vulnerable parent in order to control the wealth and access, to the detriment of other siblings. I hope that's not what happened here, but it fits the pattern.

Even if that's not the case, I do feel sorry for the other sister, having her dad's name tarnished and exploited by her own sister and brother-in-law, and seeing them rehashing it all yet again.

Autobiography? Er, Mrs Tom, people will have to want to buy it. I think you may have missed the bus.

God I'd forgotten how much they rang him dry with the merch. Including this random. I mean did CT even drink gin, did he like it? Who cares get his image on a bottle and get it flogged for £100!

It was obvious to me it was all a grift during their carribean freebee holiday when covid cases were starting to rise again. To be fair to Tom he looked very uncomfortable in his suit and mendals during the posed holiday photos. Sending a 100 year old man on a long haul flight because the daughter wanted a free holiday seemed really cruel to me.

I only saw a clip. What she did was dreadful and will put folk off from giving to that kind of fund raising.

Fastest selling non-fiction book.

You don’t have to like someone to be curious about their life experiences, it’s not mutually exclusive.

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves No way!! Who would want to read the autobiography of this nobody.

Chapter 1: Forced dad to do laps round the lawn to get him out from under my feet.
Chapter 2: Raised lots of money.
Chapter 3 Pocketed lots of money.
Chapter 4: Waved at the lesser mortals at Wimbledon like the Queen of Sheba.
Chapter 5: Got my arse handed to me and it's not fair. Everyone's so mean.

The knighthood was absolutely bonkers the worst thing though was his song with Michael Ball it was just awful, i just think Tom just got swept along in it i don't think he was a "grifter" like his Dd and son in law.

Absolutely this, @BrownPapery . We {like most people in UK} have had old Veterans in our families, WW1, WW2 that were of that generation.
I didn't realise that he himself was ''slightly dodgy'' but looking back , the parading with zimmer and a suit and medals was part of the act- he wasn't walking in his casual clothes, it was done for show.

He didn't set up the charity though. She and her DH did. That places them in a different position. He obviously co operated. It was a decent enough idea if properly run but he should never have been a Sir. Hardly given his life to charitable work,

I remember the first early nights of covid, when an old boy was ''walking for the NHS''...He had raised a few thousands at that point, and I sent a £10 thinking he was a Veteran and doing good-
I had NO IDEA about his grifting daughter, otherwise I'd have given the £10 to JR Whippet Rescue!

Exactly this, she’s making loads of money that’s all she is bothered about . We are thinking she feels shame like we do, she’s convinced herself she’s owed it.

I don’t think it’s a deal, she’s self publishing she said in another interview. Which shows a different level of no shame and ego.

I think a lot of people projected a lot of feelings onto him- about our own elderly relatives in particular (at a time when we couldn’t see them) but also about our nostalgic view of the past. He was just a bloke, slightly dodgy (as lots of people are), happy to benefit from the grey area between what was being donated to the charity and what was going into his own metaphorical pocket. His daughter’s the same but you face a bit more scrutiny when you’re not 100 years old and benefiting from the whole country’s projected feelings about their own grandparents.

Why should she? When she is just adding more money to her rather well stuffed nest.

Cheers

Too many people. She knows she will make money, so no doubt is willing to put herself out there, to promote it, even though she knows what the public perception of her character is. I honestly cannot think why anybody would be interested in her book, but hey ho.

Spare is one of the biggest selling books ever

I'm sure she believes that no publicity is bad publicity and as long as people are talking about her she won't care what they are saying!