The cheek of these x-rated stars - Three little birds bakery - Keighley

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The cheek of Catherine tildsley!

Begs belief

Good on the shop owner for her great response 😃

I agree. I also think Catherine (can’t spell her last name) has only made things worse with her response on Instagram. She comes across as arrogant and entitled. If she had any brains, she’d have tried to distance herself from the PR company. I guess she’s just too self involved to think of that. In fact, she’s probably so used to freebies, she doesn’t understand what was the problem.

Like hell she didn’t

Er, yes. She also knew people were saying it was her online so set up a fake ‘ask me anything’ where someone (with a brand new profile) just happened to ask her what she was doing for her birthday? ‘Just off for a city break, no other plans’ she lied, to try and make people think it wasn’t her after all.
Today she’s had to admit it.

You’d have to be really, really naive to believe this. If she didn’t know, surely she’d be angry at the events company? She’s not even pretending to be, as she can’t afford to piss them off and lose out on her other free shit they’ve grifted for her.

It is strange that she's not angry with the events company. She said they had been misrepresented, but I think the letter was quite clear.

I stand corrected, it sounds like she did know!

A friend who owns a small business gets these requests all the time, most often from massive, lucrative events. As she says, 'What's the point of free publicity if even multi-million pound award ceremonies and sports competitions won't pay you?'

Catherine Thingummy's response just makes her look even more spoiled and unpleasant. The baker didn't even name her.

Just realised the 'x rated' typo

😳

Quite Esma

The snark didn’t help them one little bit.

Why do posts criticising someone famous always seem to have the person's name misspelt in the OP?

AFAIK, she's not a porn star.

It's beggars belief

This headline caught my eye:
Dani Dyer showcases her chic sense of style in a denim boiler suit as she arrives at radio appearance | Daily Mail Online
If that's the epitome of chic, then words fail me.

What’s Dani Dyer got to do with anything?
How bizarre.

@Beefcurtains79 , it was in the sidebar on the Mail page. Not related to the cake story.

If neither the events company nor the person who hires them have done anything wrong, then it’s on no way unkind to comment on their actions.

The trouble is, is that the initial do-it-for-free email with reference to a magazine deal that has since been disavowed, is wrong it’s greedy and grasping and really unfair to suppliers

And people don’t like having their shortcomings discussed, no matter how much they were in the wrong in the first place.

The bakery highlighted how shoddy the offer was, and they were right to do do. They have not been unkind to quite Bach the terms of the offer as it was first made to them

The ex-soap actor’s reply is one of the most graceless and counterproductive things I’ve seen for quite a while
(The MNetter response earlier in the thread was heaps better!)

@PinkFootstool

I am not part of the "be kind" brigade. My actual words were "it wasn't kind" well, it wasn't.

I think the whole "be kind" thing is utter bs and only unkind people seem to say it in my experience.

I gave my opinion, you have given yours (as have many others). I would rather try not to be unnecessarily nasty to people, you do whatever you think is right and if that's talking trash about people you don't know and situations you weren't involved in, then that's your prerogative and the others on the thread that have done the same.

Oh dear. So the baker is supposed to say nothing when approached by a grifter's pr company asking for freebies for a out of fashion actress.

The baker has been very professional towards the grifters.

As another poster said "Tough shit, innit.
Some nomark actor and a parasitical PR company get their comeuppance. It makes a refreshing change."

Lots of people get really fed up with grasping, greedy, parasites. The baker works hard for a living and said no. The response from the grasping grifters is poor.

DO YOU WORK for the PR company? You seem very invested in speaking up for the grifters that they are. Or are you the influencer ex actress in disguise?

😂😂

The ex actress soap star influencer whateverher name will have to actually PAY for a cake then. Tough

Totally.

Come on smaller businesses start calling out these CF grasping greedy freebie grabbing instagrammer acress model influencer bullshite types

I thought CT came across very entitled in her video. My hubbie feels the same as the cake shop call out these grabby influencers!!!

The irony is that all eyes are going to be on this bloomin party now

Of course she knew about it.

When you are throwing a party you decide how much money you are going to spend on it.

You don't have a party and not pay for any part of it, which is what the PR company said, and not know about it.

Why is everyone calling it a PR company? It's an entertainment/event planning company. Completely different.

Can I ask how you think sharing business enquiries on Instagram or whatever platform she did it on was 'professional'? I can just imagine the aibu here if an actual professional company was sharing a posters private messages or emails with their followers to laugh at them. I don't think anyone would be saying 'how professional of them'.

Catherine called a spade a spade here when she said she hoped they got the exposure they were looking for because that is exactly what they doing. They are far from the first to do it and knew exactly how it would go.

Like I said in an earlier post I get these requests all of the time. In my opinion it isn't professional to share them and tbh it would be down right boring and tedious if every business out there started sharing every whackadoodle email they receive.

It's pretty funny how the people who like to call influencers 'grifters' get all worked up about this sort thing and demand they be named and shamed but the minute influencers start naming and shaming the whackjobs that slide into their dms with insults they get called bullies, their posts get reported for doxxing and there is cries of how 'unfair' it is that they have sent their fans after poor old Mary who just wanted to be passive aggressive or downright aggressive in an influencers dms privately.

Ultimately the person who benefits from this is the star whose party will be covered by the tabloids.

The idea that she shouldn't pay for her own publicity - which is basically what this whole sorry mess boils down to - is ridiculous. She wants coverage in The Mail or wherever? Then she pays for her own bloody cake AND for a PR company to make sure that there are people on hand to record it.

Fucking celebrities and their belief that somehow touching the hem of their robes should be payment enough - it's absolutely nauseating.

I work in an industry related to this (social media / PR / digital).

CT will have known about this as she had briefed the party company to create an event for her birthday to a certain budget. This is a private party, not a publicity event - though it seems she was clearly planning to monetise or subsidise in some way. No events company would have done this unbriefed.

I've worked on loads of publicity events - big, front page headline ones. We pay the caterers. Never known a caterer not to be paid. Sometimes off their own back a supplier will send a few thank you cupcakes afterwards to keep the business relationship sweet. (No pun intended). But after their invoice is paid. Catering is high risk, high volume, low margin and essential. They need paying.

Social cross-promotions for mutual benefit are normal - the product wants the exposure without having to pay for advertising, the social account wants the content. However, they are the result of engagement, creativity and relationship building and the promotions have to be very relevant and interesting for the audience. They aren't the result of dropping a cold email to someone you've never met asking for free stuff. This suggests the person who sent it is junior and inexperienced.

That video is very odd. Does she have a filter on? All the body language reeks of dissimulation. I wish the lovely Caroline Aherne were still around to parody it.

The email itself is terrible. “You’ll get loads of exposure” doesn’t sound professionally worded at all, even if you leave out the bloody cheek of it

And pretty damned presumptuous to assume that a) the bakery wants loads of exposure and b) they can't organise it for themselves if they do.

Catherine called a spade a spade here when she said she hoped they got the exposure they were looking for because that is exactly what they doing. They are far from the first to do it and knew exactly how it would go

Biter got bit, then.