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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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AthWat · 07/03/2025 14:33

autisticbookworm · 07/03/2025 13:27

I may not know the whole story but do people believe a 100 year old man deliberately conned the public out of money?

Hannah and her husband were stupid though a charity like that was obviously going to be under major scrutiny. I don't know how they thought they would get away with it

I'm not saying Tom Moore conned anyone, but why does his age matter? Do you think if someone is an absolute scumbag all their life they turn nice on their 100th birthday?

TheLast5Percent · 07/03/2025 14:27

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.

She tried to piggy back on his popularity and make a bit of money for herself but people have done worse. I'd say she is on par with politicians who abuse expenses. Her father raised £39 million for NHS charities and as far as I know the charities did receive all of this money so I struggle a bit to understand the hate for this family.

crumblingschools · 07/03/2025 14:25

@Mightymoog the money given to walk round the garden wasn't a scam. That went to NHS Charities

Mightymoog · 07/03/2025 14:19

Skandar · 07/03/2025 14:13

"It’s a shame that this is what people remember of the CTF and not how it lifted people’s spirits during a very difficult time"

I never really got how an old man walking slowly around a car park was meant to lift people's spirits tbh. It didn't lift mine.

I think only a certain type of person would have felt their spirits lifted by watching a man they didn't know participate in an obvious scam

crumblingschools · 07/03/2025 14:19

The money that was raised by his walking did go to NHS charities, so that wasn't a con. That's where most of the money raised went. It was the separate charity that was set up that had the issues and that the daughter profited from

Skandar · 07/03/2025 14:13

"It’s a shame that this is what people remember of the CTF and not how it lifted people’s spirits during a very difficult time"

I never really got how an old man walking slowly around a car park was meant to lift people's spirits tbh. It didn't lift mine.

krustykittens · 07/03/2025 14:01

TheignT · 07/03/2025 13:28

Thank you. I suppose I'm petty to still bear a grudge but it did hurt that day.

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I do not think you are petty at all, you were subjected to some pretty nasty behaviour and no one has had the maturity to apologise for it.

prelovedusername · 07/03/2025 13:58

snowmichael · 07/03/2025 11:43

> I don’t think she’s a criminal,
The Charity Commissioners disagreed

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No, not correct. The Charity Commission for England and Wales is not a prosecuting body. They are a regulator with investigatory powers. The CC is concerned with protecting the public confidence in charities, and clearly what happened with the Captain Tom charity was very damaging.

Banning H I-M from being a trustee was a strong measure to demonstrate the seriousness of their findings. Any criminality would have been referred straight to the police.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:47

sidebirds · 07/03/2025 13:41

Robert Rinder is possibly worse than the awful Ingram-Moore. Foul pair, self-serving vanity is off the scale.

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I don't disagree with your view on that self-serving mutt but place the blame firmly at the door of a vacuous general public. We really don't deserve the tripe we get served but, what to do?

Thank goodness for firesticks and streaming services!

ThatOtherAustenSister · 07/03/2025 13:47

sidebirds · 07/03/2025 13:41

Robert Rinder is possibly worse than the awful Ingram-Moore. Foul pair, self-serving vanity is off the scale.

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However, he did a good hatchet job today.

BeckyBismuth · 07/03/2025 13:44

Good old Rob, I say.

ThatOtherAustenSister · 07/03/2025 13:42

I think her book is self-published. And the paperback version will be printed to order, I guess.

The info on it isn't showing any publisher.

It wouldn't surprise me if she's used a ghost writer, as it's a self-help book rather than an autobiography. And she's zero qualifications to write about grief other than her own experience.

sidebirds · 07/03/2025 13:41

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:31

Oh you're spoiling it for the fawners now... there's a pedestal needs positioning.

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Robert Rinder is possibly worse than the awful Ingram-Moore. Foul pair, self-serving vanity is off the scale.

WearyAuldWumman · 07/03/2025 13:40

Mightymoog · 07/03/2025 13:12

I genuinely didn't realise people were doing it in real life
I assumed it was a thing put on for tv cameras till weeks into it my mum told me she was doing it and i almost passed out from secondary embarassment

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It happened in my neighbourhood. My elderly neighbour phoned me one night, worried that she'd fallen asleep and had missed it...She was obviously concerned that folk would think badly of her.

ThatOtherAustenSister · 07/03/2025 13:38

Tomatotater · 07/03/2025 13:07

Her book is about the grief she felt after he died, but she took a 100 year old man to Barbados in the middle of a pandemic, conveniently accompanied by her and her entire family! She really is not coming across well in this. She clearly thought she could just go on and say 'Oh I've written a book about grief' and thought she wouldn't be challenged. She either was completely unprepared or she really cannot explain herself.

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There are many books about grief and coping with it that are written by far better qualified people than she is.Authors who are counsellors, psychotherapists etc.

My understanding of her motive having watched the clip is that she wanted to discuss (in her book) how she couldn't grieve properly because when anyone met/ talked to her about her dad, she provided a listening ear for their grief experiences.

I really doubt that anyway.

But the point is, the book is all about her.
Which is what all her behaviour is about.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:37

Coffeeishot · 07/03/2025 13:35

Hannah is that you ?

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I'm talking about judge rinder. Wow. I didn't realise there were so many truly silly people around.

Coffeeishot · 07/03/2025 13:35

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:31

Oh you're spoiling it for the fawners now... there's a pedestal needs positioning.

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Hannah is that you ?

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:33

TheignT · 07/03/2025 13:28

Thank you. I suppose I'm petty to still bear a grudge but it did hurt that day.

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I bet it did. Your neighbours are indescribable morons and I wouldn't want to mix with them, ever. Integrity is something that can't be taught.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 07/03/2025 13:31

TizerorFizz · 07/03/2025 13:19

For the sake of clarity, Rob Rinder is not technically a top barrister. He's not a KC. He mixes being a barrister with being a tv personality. More of the latter these days.

Oh you're spoiling it for the fawners now... there's a pedestal needs positioning.

Mightymoog · 07/03/2025 13:29

autisticbookworm · 07/03/2025 13:27

I may not know the whole story but do people believe a 100 year old man deliberately conned the public out of money?

Hannah and her husband were stupid though a charity like that was obviously going to be under major scrutiny. I don't know how they thought they would get away with it

yes, i believe a man conned the public.
I also believe his age was irrelevant to his con with the rest of the family

BustingBaoBun · 07/03/2025 13:29

Her husband has a lot to answer for too. He was on the awful Piers Morgan interview when they wheeled the children out too. He sounded just as bad as her.

Coffeeishot · 07/03/2025 13:28

autisticbookworm · 07/03/2025 13:27

I may not know the whole story but do people believe a 100 year old man deliberately conned the public out of money?

Hannah and her husband were stupid though a charity like that was obviously going to be under major scrutiny. I don't know how they thought they would get away with it

Because of her father she honestly thought she could do anything. She "believed " her own con.

Mightymoog · 07/03/2025 13:28

TheignT · 07/03/2025 13:23

It was a real performance here, drums and trumpets and people walking along arm in arm, so much for distancing. They were so supportive of the NHS but when it came to having friends to stay they didn't seem to worry about spreading the virus.

The whole thing was really weird.

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Luckily I don't have many houses round me so could be oblivious to the weirdness.
Also explains why I was happy to not go along with the no visitors/ ixing thing as no one to threaten to snitch!

TheignT · 07/03/2025 13:28

krustykittens · 07/03/2025 13:23

@TheignT I am so sorry to read that, that is awful!

Thank you. I suppose I'm petty to still bear a grudge but it did hurt that day.

autisticbookworm · 07/03/2025 13:27

I may not know the whole story but do people believe a 100 year old man deliberately conned the public out of money?

Hannah and her husband were stupid though a charity like that was obviously going to be under major scrutiny. I don't know how they thought they would get away with it