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Captain Toms daughter

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sourgrapes45 · 07/03/2025 08:22

Is currently getting her arse handed to her by Judge Rinder on Good Morning Britain...

She is not coming across well.

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itsjustbiology · 07/03/2025 09:34

Disgusting,entitled cow of a woman with very skewed morals in my view.

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 09:34

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tuvamoodyson · 07/03/2025 09:33

kellygoeswest · 07/03/2025 09:15

I still can't believe she went to Barbados with him in December 2020 (while most people were still in some form of lockdown) only for him to pass away from covid less than 6 weeks after returning. The whole thing was opportunistic and she deserves the backlash. I just don't know why she's still going.

Yes! Wasn’t it lucky that he’d always wanted to go Barbados and not Rhyl?

MrsPeterHarris · 07/03/2025 09:33

jackspratswife01 · 07/03/2025 08:36

I had to turn over as it was uncomfortable viewing but also she is a total charlatan so glad she got the roasting. She has to live with tarnished reputation forever so that's her commence. I have to say I didn't get the whole captain Tom thing but that's a different story.

I agree - i thought the Captain Tom thing was ridiculous at the time as it felt very dodgy to me but then I figured I was just a hard hearted cow!

AreYouTheFarmer2025 · 07/03/2025 09:30

Because of this, decent charities are struggling now because she's put people off donating.
She's awful 😞

NewMarmiteJar · 07/03/2025 09:29

This grifter is angling for reality TV. Shameless woman.

Weepixie · 07/03/2025 09:28

Mightymoog · 07/03/2025 09:07

Why do people tink he was ignoant of the con just because he was old?
Odious man

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Yes. He was odious. His comments about his sex life with his first wife were beyond the pale and showed very clearly who and what he was.

AreYouTheFarmer2025 · 07/03/2025 09:28

Newgirls · 07/03/2025 09:22

Thing is she doesn’t need to make a living. She prob inherited that massive house and could live somewhere nice quite happily I’m sure. But she wants to be rich. So here she is spinning things to her own ends.

The house is on the market. Had to reduce the price last I heard.

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 07/03/2025 09:27

RedHot2025 · 07/03/2025 09:21

This.

Greedy, self serving and found a way to make money whilst people donating thought it was going to the NHS or charities rather than her families pocket.

Vile.

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An awful lot of charities and 'good causes' work on the basis of 'it's all for charity' when it comes to aggressive fundraising, but make some highly controversial choices when it comes to spending/directing the funds... but at least they know not to push it too far and not to kill the golden goose.

Cakeandcardio · 07/03/2025 09:26

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 09:01

Lordy, I hadn't realised so many copies were sold!

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Was Spare not the fastest or biggest selling autobiography ever? Record breaking

Good to see Judge Rinder giving her a roasting. It's a shameful state of affairs all round with them

Trainarmrestfairy · 07/03/2025 09:25

She’s not the only culprit. Her father was just as bad - he knew what she was doing and her long term plans. I’ve read in several pieces that she has a sister who wanted nothing to do with the whole affair (walking, books etc).

With the exception of that sister, the whole family were/are a bunch of crooks and we’re (those who did anyway) a nation of idiots who fell for it

Jessbow · 07/03/2025 09:23

https://www.itv.com/watch/good-morning-britain/2a3211

presumably watch-able tommorow

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 07/03/2025 09:23

THREE books, though?! Makes Dan Brown look like Jane Austen!

Newgirls · 07/03/2025 09:22

Thing is she doesn’t need to make a living. She prob inherited that massive house and could live somewhere nice quite happily I’m sure. But she wants to be rich. So here she is spinning things to her own ends.

RedHot2025 · 07/03/2025 09:21

Iknowaboutpopular · 07/03/2025 08:30

Pfft, shes got absolutely zero fucking shame.

This.

Greedy, self serving and found a way to make money whilst people donating thought it was going to the NHS or charities rather than her families pocket.

Vile.

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 07/03/2025 09:21

LittleCharlotte · 07/03/2025 09:18

I'm not convinced he was a grifter. He just started doing a sponsored walk and it went crazy because blimey we all needed something to lift our spirits at that time. His family absolutely jumped on it so I'd blame them, the evidence is there that they exploited it but there's not much that he did apart from enjoying the fame and hell why not.

I don't think we'll ever know whether he was an innocent kindly old man who was duped and exploited, just as bad as them and in on it from the start, or anywhere in between.

He has another DD who hasn't gone on the grift and has fully retained her dignity, so it's not necessarily a clear case of 'apple doesn't fall far'.

Weepixie · 07/03/2025 09:21

Doesn’t she have another book out?

Velmy · 07/03/2025 09:20

Pigeonqueen · 07/03/2025 09:04

I am astounded that after everything she’s done she’s got the balls to go on TV 😳😳 most people would be hiding in a corner having gone into hiding! Just shows what kind of person she is.

I think Rinder did an amazing job. He said what everyone was thinking and didn’t hold back.

She has a book to sell. She's had to self-publish as nobody would touch it, so she'll be taking every opportunity she can get to do TV/Radio.

CalicoPusscat · 07/03/2025 09:19

@LBFseBrom the Daily Mail would have a field day with a paperclip

IsItSnowing · 07/03/2025 09:19

Username65 · 07/03/2025 09:09

Agreed.
She accepted that it was misleading that the book introduction said that sales would go to charity and said this was a “mistake”.
How about just saying, out of respect for people who bought the book on that basis, we’ll give the money we made to the NHS….?
She could rehabilitate herself by doing that, but bottom line is she wants the money.

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Yes, I agree. I wondered why she'd reappeared in the news again and then see she's selling her books.
The woman has no shame whatsoever.
I hope people don't give her more money by buying it.

DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 07/03/2025 09:18

Username65 · 07/03/2025 09:09

Agreed.
She accepted that it was misleading that the book introduction said that sales would go to charity and said this was a “mistake”.
How about just saying, out of respect for people who bought the book on that basis, we’ll give the money we made to the NHS….?
She could rehabilitate herself by doing that, but bottom line is she wants the money.

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She's a bit like a one-woman version of the Post Office in the Horizon monstrosity.

Every single person knows that you are 100% guilty, with your reputation in tatters. We all know what the right thing is to do, to at least begin to make reparations and demonstrate your contrition; but instead, you throw a defiant toddler tantrum with no possible justification apart from "Waaaaaaahhhh - me, me, me, me!!!" and cling on to the wreckage in the desperate hope that there may just be one or two people out there, who don't already hate you, in a determined attempt to make it a complete full house.

LittleCharlotte · 07/03/2025 09:18

I'm not convinced he was a grifter. He just started doing a sponsored walk and it went crazy because blimey we all needed something to lift our spirits at that time. His family absolutely jumped on it so I'd blame them, the evidence is there that they exploited it but there's not much that he did apart from enjoying the fame and hell why not.

Butchyrestingface · 07/03/2025 09:18

Pigeonqueen · 07/03/2025 09:04

I am astounded that after everything she’s done she’s got the balls to go on TV 😳😳 most people would be hiding in a corner having gone into hiding! Just shows what kind of person she is.

I think Rinder did an amazing job. He said what everyone was thinking and didn’t hold back.

Grifty McGriftface wants the money and attention. It's the oxygen her type breathes.

Sceptic1234 · 07/03/2025 09:16

A minor point - which I've raised before!

An army officer below the rank of major cannot continue to use their title in civilian life. Military etiquette and regulations make it very clear that "Captain Tom" should never be referred to as "Captain" anything because a captain is a junior officer!

All part of the branding campaign I suppose.

BrownPapery · 07/03/2025 09:16

The whole thing was a bit of a grift from the start and I include Captain Tom. The fact that the nation collectively lost its mind over some bloke walking up and down was just an effect of lockdown. From then on it was really just a freebie jamboree, including the free holiday that ended up killing him.

Now the collective delusion is that he was a saint and she’s a devil. But the truth is that both of them were on the make. Much easier to pin it all on her than accept we fell for it.

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