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Captain Tom’s Family

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TheSassyTraybake · 27/03/2025 14:51

I realise I’m late to the party on this. Just listened to the interview they did on Piers Morgan. They’re really bad at interviews, not sure why they keep doing them.

Controversially I kind of get what they’re saying though?

He raised money for charity. Good for him (I didn’t get the hype about it at all - a man walking round his garden? But he raised money so fair play). Then signed book deals which were for him personally to earn money from. Again fine in my opinion. Then he died and wanted his family to cash in on his fame.

I may well be missing out on other information here (I haven’t followed it all that closely) but if I was in his shoes you better believe I’d want my family to cash in if I died. Squeeze every penny from my name that you can.

I think the problem the family have is that the public think every penny earned from his name should go to charity and they’re saying no, the charity and the money making stuff are 2 separate things.

Anyone more informed about this than me want to set me straight? Or who just disagrees with me on this?

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ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 27/03/2025 15:16

Have you seen the interview with Rob Rinder from about two weeks ago? It might be on YouTube somewhere.

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TheSassyTraybake · 27/03/2025 15:12

Maggiethecat · 27/03/2025 15:11

OP, are you bored of making tray bakes and wanting to revive the topic?

As I said, haven’t followed it, just listened to the interview on YouTube. I know I’m late to this.

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Maggiethecat · 27/03/2025 15:11

OP, are you bored of making tray bakes and wanting to revive the topic?

redshoesredlaces · 27/03/2025 15:05

TheSassyTraybake · 27/03/2025 14:54

Ah, well this case that does change things. I was taking the family at their word that he wanted them to have the money - that’s what they said in the interview.

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The front of the book has a little foreword where he says he is snappy that the sale the book will raise more money for the nhs

its literally there in print. That they are still lying on interview is telling

Ilovemyshed · 27/03/2025 15:05

There is another daughter who very sensibly seems to have kept out of it all.

IMHO Hannah is misguided and greedy but I don’t know all the ins and out. I expect she has some grave regrets.

JacquesHarlow · 27/03/2025 15:02

Then he died and wanted his family to cash in on his fame.

Where did you hear him say this?

With the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name

That is what it says in the book's prologue, @TheSassyTraybake .

It is seriously clear to me and anyone else, that a man who had just walked a huge amount for charity, and was working to establish a foundation in his name, would write something like this to 'raise money ... for the foundation..in my name".

He is literally saying it.

What angers me is how semantics is being used by the family, and legalese, to make it clear that somehow he actually wanted otherwise.

OneTC · 27/03/2025 15:01

They're total bandits

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TheSassyTraybake · 27/03/2025 15:00

MissJoGrant · 27/03/2025 14:57

Here's a line from the prologue of Captain Tom Moore's book:
“with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name”.

Now, with that line at the start of the book, where would you think the proceeds were going?

If you see my reply to @POTC, I took them at their word that the book deal wasn’t for charity.

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ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 27/03/2025 15:00

that’s what they said in the interview

Hannah says all sorts of bollocks. She’d say she was a Hollywood Primary School teacher if she thought she could make some money out of it.

MissJoGrant · 27/03/2025 14:57

Here's a line from the prologue of Captain Tom Moore's book:
“with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name”.

Now, with that line at the start of the book, where would you think the proceeds were going?

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TheSassyTraybake · 27/03/2025 14:54

POTC · 27/03/2025 14:53

He didn't want it to go to them though, he was quoted as saying he'd written the books to raise money for charity.

Ah, well this case that does change things. I was taking the family at their word that he wanted them to have the money - that’s what they said in the interview.

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Schoolfailure · 27/03/2025 14:53

Was it with the daughter?

She says no one will work with her now so she trying to earn money by self publishing so has been promoting her books.

POTC · 27/03/2025 14:53

He didn't want it to go to them though, he was quoted as saying he'd written the books to raise money for charity.

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