Kelsey Parker (Tom Parker from the Wanted's widow) pregnant

[TonyMammoth]

What are thoughts on this? I read this morning that Kelsey is pregnant by her new boyfriend who's a tree surgeon called Will. He looks a really decent bloke from the article I saw. She was in the news for starting a relationship with a man who had been in prison for manslaughter 8 months after Tom's death and this man seems to be the total opposite, seems they have been together since some time last year.

Do people think it's too quick? Tom's parents have said they're happy for them, but is that being diplomatic because of the possibility of later down the line not being able to see their grandchildren.

None of anybody else's business, of course, but it seems they want it to be people's business when these stories are posted all over the internet and they state they are "going public".

Interested in thoughts and if they are the same as friends with children that I have.

No clue who they are so I had a google and it’s sounds as if they have only been together since last September, he’s already moved in and now she’s pregnant. I personally don’t think that is great for her children they must be very confused and this isn’t the first man introduced to her children either.

OP if you had posted with the following information

• new boyfriend you had met 6 months ago
• new boyfriend has moved in
• Widowed three years prior
• two young children
• second boyfriend within the past year

You would be given advice that it’s far to soon and unfair to the children so Im quite surprised at the responses on here.

Yes, they'd be given that advice. Because they would have posted asking for advice.

This woman, a pregnant widow, has not posted. Not asked for advice.

OP has posted about them, a pregnant widow, despite not being involved at all.

Completely different.

Yeah seems that a few people feel that way, it’s not something I understand myself as I feel a death of a parent is far more destabilising than a divorce with contact continuing with both parents. But I don’t really care how quick anyone moves on in either circumstance, what’s right for one family won’t be right for all.

Yeah that's quite a difference

None of anybody else's business

Says the OP before starting a thread on the subject which is none of their business

but it seems they want it to be people's business when these stories are posted all over the internet and they state they are "going public".

As excuses go for starting nosy, judgmental and prurient threads on anyone vaguely near the public eye and subject to paparazzi this is pretty pathetic.

Interested in thoughts and if they are the same as friends with children that I have

AKA I'm nosey and judgemental but want to pretend I'm not. Your aspidistra needs watering.

She puts her life online. She wants people to take an interest. You don’t get to choose that that interest is all positive, especially when it’s controversial to introduce new partners to children quickly, move a partner into your children’s home and have a baby in such a short time. Everyone judges people, regardless of if they’re asked to. People that act like they don’t are lying.

Yep! All the holier than thou “we don’t judge” people are worse than the honestly judgemental people in my opinion! I take it none of the non-judgers have ever followed a celeb on social media or commented on someone who is the subject of a newspaper headline or tutted at the court reports in the local paper or rolled their eyes at someone making a scene in a pub, etc, without knowing any context? We all judge every day. All we can do is try to be aware of it and consider the context and examine our personal biases that are informing our judgements.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

I think she's a fame hungry, attention seeker and I'd like her to go away, stop calling the paps every time she nips out to the shops with the new boyfriend, stop selling stories to OK magazine, and stop plastering those kids all over her insta in stupid, coquettish poses (they were signed up with a child talent agency more or less the minute they were out the womb). At least the latest boyfriend doesn't served time for manslaughter so that's a step in the right direction.

Other than that, I wish her and her family a happy life in obscurity (same as I would wish for most people).

Do people think it's too quick? Tom's parents have said they're happy for them, but is that being diplomatic because of the possibility of later down the line not being able to see their grandchildren.

He died about 3 years ago.
Joe long do you think her period of mourning should be?

What's the point of this? Do you know her? Do you know Tom's parents? Mind your own business.

According to her Instagram, she publicly declared him her BF in September. He's already moved in and they're due a baby in 5 months. Bearing in mind it's January.

What she does is of course her own business, but to be earning a living (if you can call it that) selling photos of herself, her children and her new boyfriend with the headline using Tom's name is unsavoury at best. And had she posted on here "is it too soon to move a new man in with my bereaved under 5's" she'd have had her arse handed to her on a plate.

Massive double standard as usual on MN, the home of double standards. As others have said, if she’d posted on her asking if it was OK to move her new boyfriend in with her young kids after a divorce, and get pregnant again within a few months, she’d have been told she was completely in the wrong. MN is bizarrely far more sympathetic to widows moving new men in.

I clearly remember when I’d introduced my boyfriend to my (donor conceived, never had a father) kids after a few months, being told on MN I was wrong. At the same time there was a thread by a newly widowed woman who was introducing her boyfriend of a few weeks to her bereaved kids, and her thread was full of love and support, with posters telling her what a great mum she was for providing her kids with a new daddy!

Of course the subject of this thread hasn’t asked for advice, so technically we shouldn’t be expressing our opinions. But nevertheless the double standards of some of the posters are quite shocking.

As you say no one else's business so why post?

Another story in the news about Kelsey today apparently being upset that Max George doesn't see enough of her and the kids. Where do they get these stories from? Picking up on their Instagram?

Why are you so obsessed with her?

Back with another story? Goodness, for someone who thinks it's not anybody's business you sure are obsessing over her OP!

That story is yet another one she's sold. Source was supposed to be "her friends". The thirst for fame is very real with this lady.

Friends who rush to the tabloids? Some friends indeed!

Butt out and focus on your own life is my view.

MN has hundteds of thousands, if not millions of users. Why would individual posters have the same standards and views as another? Think on, will you?

They still managed to turn up at Kirstie Allsop's wedding when she hadn't told anyone! Someone spills the beans.

The choice of venue will be how the press knew about KA's wedding - that's the kind of chapel the press will keep half an ear out for banns as it's popular with the rich and famous.

My mam was young widow, early 30's, she was devastated & found (mostly the wrong sort) comfort in others after a few years, grief is the worst, I'm not saying it's worse for "The Merry Young Widow" down the road compared to an elderly one but I wish my mam had found someone decent, she was far too young to spend her life by herself

I think this a nice story & what Max George has to do with it is beyond me?

She's unfortunately had a stillborn baby boy.