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to hope Imogen sues?

218 replies

fastedwina · 23/05/2011 14:15

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1389599/Imogen-Thomas-threatens-sue-footballer-blackmail-claims.html

No time for her or him other than the entertainment it has provided. But, I'd like to see her turn the tables on him and sue his pants off - AIBU?

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shortround · 23/05/2011 14:41

i have no sympathy for either of them, but I have never liked him, so if there was team t-shirt to be worn, I would be in team Imo!!

I hope she sues his pants off! (and his wife needs to chance the colour of her lipstick)

Amateurish · 23/05/2011 14:46

takethatlady her witness statement in court stated that she wanted to publicise the relationship in the Sun (plus the Mail, the Mirror and some others). The court proceedings were started when her story (orchestrated by her publicist Max Clifford) appeared in The Sun.

The latest court decision makes interesting reading:

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2011/1232.html

To be clear - the interim injunction is only put in place pending a full hearing where the court will rule on the allegations of blackmail.

"The evidence before the court at that stage, therefore, appeared to indicate, rightly or wrongly, that Ms Thomas had arranged for photographs to be taken, having already agreed a payment or payments from the newspaper. Despite that, she was still requesting £100,000 from the Claimant. This was the background against which I had decided that there was ample reason not to trust Ms Thomas."

"At all events, it seems probable that she had agreed at some point to contribute to the story in The Sun that was published in its issue for 14 April (i.e. prior to the hearing of the injunction application). It is thus ironic that Ms Thomas has subsequently complained of the court's supposed unfairness in according anonymity to the Claimant but not to her"

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 14:47

Apparently, the first she knew that of it being leaked to the press was when they started hammering on her front door. She denied the allegations to the press. Why would you deny something that you're hoping to make a lot of money from?

I actually believe her. Like I say, I'm not an apologist for her but i think she's been naive and fished in by an absolute shitbag. Imagine if she was your daughter. This happens millions of times every year, the world over: powerful man uses his charms to lure in pretty young thing, promises her the earth then ditches her like a hot potato. She won't be the first to fall for some letch's charm offensive. It could be one of our daughters in this situation one day. Would you be calling her a whore?

CoffeeDodger · 23/05/2011 14:47

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HonestyBox · 23/05/2011 14:47

If you are getting an injunction to hide an affair surely you would make sure it covered both parties? It would then be a non-story. She probably should sue him as he hasn't got the brains to realise this.

TotemPole · 23/05/2011 14:48

Wouldn't they have to know beforehand to set up a covert camera or something? Are these photos in the hotel room or foyer ?

OracleInaCoracle · 23/05/2011 14:50

its very easy to get carried away with the "romance" of the moment.

Amateurish · 23/05/2011 14:50

bupcakes having an affair is not illegal. Morally wrong, arguably. Blackmailing is illegal. The purpose of the injunction is to prevent blackmail. The current injunction is temporary pending the full hearing.

aldiwhore · 23/05/2011 14:53

I feel for her, no matter what she's like as a person, it doesn't matter if she has NO morals at all, when the super injunction was imposed it should have covered her too.

It does annoy me that the ones who are actually married and have made an oath to be monogamous seem to get off more lightly than those who have made no such promise... much as it galls me that anyone would sleep with someone married it annoys me more that those who are married would sleep around.

Its all rather dirty, but if she's been unfairly and dispreportionately treated (partially because of HIS action of getting a superinjunction) then yeh, if she can she should sue him.

I don't have much sympathy for either of them, but I don't like to see people being hounded...

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 14:55

It's true, lissie. We'd ALL like to say "oh well of course I would never do such a thing so I can take the moral high ground on this"

Imagine that you are single, young and attractive and someone you've had a teenage crush on shows an interest in you. There is a mutual attraction. He tells you his marriage is dead and he is merely living with his wife as a kind of formality. He tells you that you understand him in a way that his wife never could and that he will leave her for you...

You see where I am going with this. Yes, many of us would be able to say "no thanks" Not everyone is as strong.

OracleInaCoracle · 23/05/2011 14:55

just reading that, why would he give her a signed football shirt and match tickets if she was trying to blackmail him?

maighdlin · 23/05/2011 14:55

bupcakes my sentiments exactly.

worldgonecrazy · 23/05/2011 14:56

bupcakes - I hope I bring my daughter up with more sense than to believe the sugar-coated lies of a famous man using his charms to dip his wick. I hope my daughter has inherited my cynicism and discretion.

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 14:56

He might have thought she could get some money for it and it would look less suspicious to his wife than £100K going bye-bye from the bank account...

That's IF this actually happened as isn't spin from his lawyers.

OracleInaCoracle · 23/05/2011 14:56

exactly bupcakes.

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 14:58

"bupcakes - I hope I bring my daughter up with more sense than to believe the sugar-coated lies of a famous man using his charms to dip his wick. I hope my daughter has inherited my cynicism and discretion."

Well, you can but hope. It doesn't guarantee anything, though.

bemybebe · 23/05/2011 14:59

YABU.
I hope they both disappear from my radar and her suing him, him suing her, his wife suing them both will keep all this lot in the news FOREVER.

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 15:04

Oh and if anyone wants to know who the presenter/journalist facing jail for breaking the injunction is, PM me Grin

Amateurish · 23/05/2011 15:06

The name of the footballer was given (in a rather obvious way) on 10 O'Clock Live a few weeks back. I wonder why they didn't get in trouble.

RottenTiming · 23/05/2011 15:10

Well, to the poster who said "if she was my daughter...."

If she were my daughter I'd be very sad/embarrassed that she made her living part-time modelling (although to be fair that bit I could live with providing she'd got her A levels in the bag along the way, to fall back on) and being a minimally clad, girl about town, WAG wannabe, selling stories/photo opportunities to the gutter press relating to encounters with celebrities (or famous sportsmen).

It fuels the ambitions of the silliest early teenage girls to make a living through their looks or through bagging a rich husband/someone else's husband for long enough to generate an income form the encounter, be that maintenance/child maintenance or, allegedly in IT's case, hush money.

IT's parents don't seem to have popped up in the press yet and credit to them for remaining silent, how does one justify the much publicised recent lifestyle of a daughter like that ?

knittynoodle · 23/05/2011 15:12

I thought she only sought Max Cliffords advice after the story broke. On her first This Morning interview, she said she had no representation or advisors when told she was being badly advised.

Blackmail was only mentioned after this interview, and by then Max had been appointed.

bupcakesandcunting · 23/05/2011 15:15

You MIGHT be sad that your daugter had chosen this as her career path but she doesn't deserve to be called a whore. She didn't make the choice to have an affair because of her "career", I'm sure. Look at the other girls who've had it off with high-profile, married men: there have been actresses, air stewardesses, teachers...

Another point is that her career is a matter of taste. It might not be to my or your taste that she makes her money by posing in bikinis/being papped on the town but it's legal, plenty of people do it and it's hardly comparable to being a coke mule or a prostitute. Just because she hasn't chosen a high-flying career path doesn't mean she can be treated like a piece of shit by superior others.

Amateurish · 23/05/2011 15:20

kittynoodle the court report says she was represented by Max Clifford some time prior to the hearing of 14 May (which was the same day that the Sun story broke).

izzywhizzyletsgetbusy · 23/05/2011 15:25

Unfortunately genetic traits can skip a generation or 10 world

O I so love a legal circus and it looks like this one will run and run, much like Imogen should have done when she met Mr Name & Privacy Completely Protected Footballer.

She's seen him sans footie shorts and I hope she now sues the shirt off his back.

MrsDrOwenHunt · 23/05/2011 15:31

lololol at the greatest footballer of his generation!! he kicks a ball around a pitch and gets paid an amazing amount of money for it whilst there are people starving in the world, hope she gets loads of money off him slimy slithery, hairy cunt that he is