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Instagram: why has Father of Daughters stopped posting?

38 replies

GreekTaverna · 27/06/2020 08:20

I just noticed he hasn’t posted in ages and there are references under his last post that suggest he was racist. Does anyone know what happened?

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VettiyaIruken · 27/06/2020 08:21

There apparently a website all about these Instagram people. It will be on there.
And that would be helpful if I could remember what the bloody site is called!

GoBackToPartyCity · 27/06/2020 08:22

Is it tattle?

VettiyaIruken · 27/06/2020 08:23

Yes! That's it. Ta. 😁

lubeybooby · 27/06/2020 08:24

also monetising international womens day www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8091869/Father-daughters-blogger-Simon-Hooper-faces-backlash.html

TheWildOnesNeverDie · 27/06/2020 08:26

During the black lives matter heating up and having an outer racist for a wife who HASNT apologised or made any effort to explain her words against black instagrammer and her ‘friend’ Candice Braithwate ....

They’ve clearly decided they don’t want to take the rightful backlash and are hiding.

ExpletiveDelighted · 27/06/2020 08:29

Having recently read Candice Brathwaite's account of how his wife has treated her I'm not surprised if he's lying low.

GreekTaverna · 27/06/2020 08:31

Thanks ladies. So it’s all the stuff from Dec with MOD and then the crass International Women’s Day post, he hasn’t done anything more?

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TheWildOnesNeverDie · 27/06/2020 08:33

Well, he’s a twat as well but I guess you could say ‘nothing more’

GreekTaverna · 27/06/2020 08:35

Ha ha. No disagreement from me there @TheWildOnesNeverDie

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TheWildOnesNeverDie · 27/06/2020 08:37
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Dinocan · 27/06/2020 08:40

I follow Candice but have never followed F/MODs. His wife is a racist who’s actions directly hurt black women who she was purporting to help. I can’t imagine he will be able to post anything for a while without a barrage of criticism. It’s annoying that CH has snuck back onto Instagram with her ‘home account’.

ABananaAndAPear · 27/06/2020 08:53

I unfollowed FOD recently. Unfollowed MODs ages ago as account wasn’t a family centred account anymore. Didn’t know about the racism.
But Iunfollowed FODs because it was basically just adverts and his cocky/ smug personality really annoyed me. I don’t know them but know I wouldn’t be able to tolerate him in real life, turns out I found him too annoying online 😆

Flippinfurloughed · 27/06/2020 09:09

Greg Rutherford has only just come back after his wife Susie did the same thing. Him and FOD clearly didn’t know how to handle it and just disappeared - Greg is back now posting ads and inane crap about his chickens, but the article about susie’s racist tweets was in the paper yesterday’s so wondering if he will disappear again.

What did MOD do to Candice? I saw that she had been pretending to be someone else on tattle but I hadn’t realised it was targeted at one person!

SionnachGlic · 27/06/2020 09:21

Probably not wanting to take on backlash if there is one! Or maybe if he is the father of your daughters, he has a new woman & doesn't want you to know!

CourtneyLurve · 27/06/2020 09:24

They have an insta dedicated to their house reno and even it hasn't been updated for 4 weeks: www.instagram.com/thehouseofhooper/

FTMF30 · 27/06/2020 09:27

I'm sick of all of these parent influencers. If they're not exploiting they're biological children, they're adopting them for likes and then giving them back. It also gets so boring when every other post is an ad.

Dinocan · 27/06/2020 09:43

@Flippinfurloughed when MOD went on that weird rant slagging everyone off in disguise she said some really nasty things about CB. I can’t remember exactly but one was that she ‘weaponises race’ and is ‘aggressive’. Particularly damaging as she had pretended to be a friend and ally (I guess) to Candice when she was trying to raise awareness of the way black women are dismissed by HCPs, partly because of racial stereotyping. CB had opened up to CH on her podcast about her horrific treatment after labour where she nearly died of sepsis. To find out someone who you trusted then went on to racially abuse you online must have been terrible. CB handled it very gracefully I must say.

I actually can’t believe how awful those Greg Rutherford wife’s tweets were! That should be a career ender right there and a permanent ban from Twitter. That can’t be explained away with ‘a bit of ignorance or insensitivity’. What a nasty racist.

SaltySammie · 27/06/2020 10:12

Heard about the Alice in Wanderlust stuff but had no idea about the racism thing. Yuck. Incidentally, I heard CB on The High Low Podcast recently and she came across as really switched on and interesting.

Wolfgirrl · 27/06/2020 10:31

If I'm being honest, I think CH just let the 'influencer' veil slip for a moment. I'm pretty sure if all the others did the same, you would see things you didn't like as well. They sell a wholesome '100% nice' image which just isnt true of 99% of people.

I think the motto is beware of false prophets. Personally I cant wait for the influencer fad to end.

Colycola · 27/06/2020 11:10

A friend of mine moved professionally in the same circles as MOD for a while. She is an event organiser and was involved in some ‘influencer’ events. Her impression of her was that she was the ultimate Alpha Mum at the school gate type. Had all the other influencer wannabes panting after her and was utterly vile to them and what she considered underlings working at the events. In fact she kicked off at my mate and actually used the phrase ‘don’t you know who I am’

So not sure how skewed the account of her is. There is a lot of questioning around the monetising of their children and I think the influencer era flogging your cute kids is coming to an end. But who knows I’m probably wrong because there seem to be an awful lot of people that still love them.

LilBlackLab · 27/06/2020 11:18

Mrs meldrum was also racist and made racist ‘jokes’.....all her and her husbands online content has now gone

I have no words for Susie Verrill!! Vile! But she isn’t married to Greg Rutherford.....yet! She made jokes about DISABLED CHILDREN which the daily mail failed to pick up on too

Atalune · 27/06/2020 11:21

I hope this is the end of the FODs and MODs. They need to go. They had their time and FOD just can’t get it right now. He’s totally tone deaf.

They are the epitome of white privilege.

Atalune · 27/06/2020 11:23

What did Susie verily do? I think she thinks she’s “keeping it real” but she is rather nasty.

LilBlackLab · 27/06/2020 11:31

Susie (or her management) deleted ALL her tweets but they are all on her Tattle thread for the world to see.....yes,I went there to look!

Atalune · 27/06/2020 11:38

......rushes off to tattle!