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Caroline Flack found dead

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LittleScottish · 15/02/2020 17:39

Poor, poor woman...

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SnorkMaiden81 · 17/02/2020 19:41

Andrew Brady would have been better served by keeping quiet right now imo.

APatchyTomCat · 17/02/2020 19:43

Is Andrew Brady the same guy who posted the pic of the NDA?

If so, brass neck.

queenjaneappro · 17/02/2020 19:44

yes he posted the NDA

bobstersmum · 17/02/2020 19:50

He has absolutely no room to talk what a scumbag.

Redcrayons · 17/02/2020 19:57

Andrew Brady. Has he forgotten he was hawking the NDA round last year, dropping hints about DV?

He needs to step right away from social media.

MrsEsss · 17/02/2020 19:59

That statement by Andrew Brady is awful.

YouCanNeverHaveEnoughGIitter · 17/02/2020 20:02

Andrew Brady is clearly grieving and in pain.
As is Lewis Burton.
Her management are blaming the CPS.
Andrew Brady is blaming the paparazzi and her management.
When it was probably a mix of all of it: the tabloid stories (the Valentine's card story was particularly toxic), the upcoming court case and enforced separation from LB who presumably would have been called as a witness against her, the depression/mental health issues she was suffering from, the fact that she had been (temporarily) replaced on her show.
Add all of that to it being Valentine's Day - it would have all added up to a just want to make it stop scenario.
I did not know the lady and nor did I read much about her on here or in the tabloids, I just knew and loved her from Strictly.

Bluntness100 · 17/02/2020 20:08

From the Mirror -

The mirror has mis reported. Surprisingly enough. The case was referred to the crown court by the magistrates court and that is where it was being heard on the fourth of March.

YouCanNeverHaveEnoughGIitter · 17/02/2020 20:13

Given in that statement he says he feels guilty, is sorry and that he ''probably added to it'' it would appear that Andrew Brady already feels awful having disclosed his NDA and having alluded to being a victim of abuse. That instagram would/should also have shut down him being harassed in December. If he was a victim of DV, whether he had signed an NDA or not (Rose McGowan, anyone?), he is allowed to believe the CPS had the right to act. That does not mean he has no right to grieve.

SouthWestmom · 17/02/2020 20:14

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/02/17/andrew-brady-breaks-silence-ex-caroline-flacks-death-furious-statement-12255467/amp/

Full statement - can't see it on Instagram anywhere maybe he regrets it.

It's quite weird really.

ChicChicChicChiclana · 17/02/2020 20:16

Yes but what about the vitriolic attacks on her personal management team? Very unwise to say the least.

ChicChicChicChiclana · 17/02/2020 20:17

I must say all of this makes a very compelling argument to present to teens and young people about the dangers of living your life on SM.

Bluntness100 · 17/02/2020 20:17

I think we all didn't know her, and we were shocked, so it must be worse for Andrew, the shock and possibly the guilt, and the grief. I would give him a pass on this one, but I also find him declaring his love for her a bit disturbing.

SouthWestmom · 17/02/2020 20:24

I think it would be slightly less odd to make a public statement of sorrow and a private message to the family.

Darlingsleepthief · 17/02/2020 20:39

I think he’s obviously grieving and probably drunk Sad

SouthWestmom · 17/02/2020 21:14

You are more charitable than me then.

Redcrayons · 17/02/2020 21:15

@YouCanNeverHaveEnoughGIitter thanks for posting that, she was a lovely dancer. Her partnership with Pasha was lovely. Her Charleston is still one of my all time favourites.

YourVagesty · 17/02/2020 21:32

Andrew Brady? The 'I was normal until I met her' pile-on ex?

Well okay.

GabsAlot · 17/02/2020 21:44

thought lewis said that as he was being taken to the hospital?

Fedupwithmyhouse · 17/02/2020 21:52

Jeez what a lot of rubbish he wrote. And he’s almost illiterate.

MitziK · 17/02/2020 21:58

Meh. He's had the Daily Venom poking long distance lenses in his direction since the news broke. Odds are he's being doorstepped day and night with offers of vast amounts of money to 'let the truth come out now'.

ShatnersWig · 17/02/2020 22:01

It was allegedly Lewis who said that, not Brady.

Bouledeneige · 17/02/2020 22:06

It's quite a bizarre and regrettable post by Andrew given his previous publication of an NDA and implications about DV. It's like he's wildly lashing out at new targets, full of rage.

So now we've had the blame laid at the door of the press, the CPS, ITV, her management company, her boyfriend, her ex fiancé and even, cruelly, her friends and family for not supporting her enough.

Most people seem to think she was a vulnerable person who couldn't face the public shaming of her prosecution. Clearly she denied the accusations but she was not confident that she would be exonerated in the courts ur that even if she were her career and reputation would recover. And despite the life she led appearing like a gilded cage to those of us outside - it's loss clearly seemed u imaginable. Even though we might think having a more humble life out of the limelight might have actually been a happier one.

I'm not sure I think a male celebrity would have escaped the media coverage she experienced as a result of the police call. And I'm not sure there would be an outpouring of sympathy for a man who committed suicide in these circumstances - but we can't know that for sure.

For many years I think she did enjoy a lot of positive promotional press - I don't think it was all negative. As a woman a lot was made of her image and looks and this worked for the kind of TV she did - Love Island is a case in point. So it worked for ITV and the press was fed with lots of stories. Presumably with her ready cooperation. There will have been lots of perks that went with her fans. Unfortunately at the same time the press appetite led to less admiring stories - her dating a 17 year old boy, reeling out of pubs with a succession of boyfriends. But not that much worse than others - and not half as bad as the coverage someone like Katie Price gets to this day.

So in the end the last few months of her life were a misery. Understandably - what famous person wouldn't struggle with prosecution for DV? Whether proven or not it clearly was a truly regrettable evening that would play on your mind - if only, if only. And she herself had admitted that after winning Strictly she had a bad period of depression coping with the aftermath of that supreme high.

But we probably have to leave it there. Blaming her boyfriend, her family and friends, individuals in her management company or the CPS does nothing but perpetuate the suffering. It leads to more trolling and vitriol. If we assume most of those people are positively motivated to do the right thing then we just see a tragic end to a messy, distressing saga and a troubled life.
It's not a life I'd choose for my daughter even without that ending. Meaningless puff and candy floss TV.

SpanishFly · 17/02/2020 22:11

Bloody hell. Andrew Brady's post is really worrying. It makes no sense at all. Please please, I hope someone is looking after him.
My friend was in a terrible relationship and even though she now has a fabulous caring man, she still cries over her ex husband. This seems similar to me - the Stockholm syndrome type of empathy for the abuser. So sad and frightening.

SouthWestmom · 17/02/2020 22:22

It makes no sense in the context of his previous ' finding myself glad I escaped someone else is now in my shoes' narrative until today.

He attracted some abuse (unjustly) on Twitter maybe he's trying to redirect it elsewhere

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