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but has Natalie Cassidy been heading for huge fall for a while??

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tl10 · 26/05/2011 20:42

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1390608/Natalie-Cassidy-emerges-time-fianc-Adam-Cottrells-arrest-calms-nerves-cigarette.html

Sounds very cruel but after months (have just returned to work from maternity) of reading trashy magazines in which she attacks anyone who goes to work/ bottlefeeds/ is a new mum but looks 100 times better than her and then shows off about how much sex she has with her husband (yeah, thanks for sharing) as if she is the authority on motherhood for us all, that her relationship may have so mething to do with her issues with everyone else and need to constantly show off? I feel for her horrible experience but she has made herself seem hideously smug and hypocritical over the last year- ugh rant over.

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Portofino · 26/05/2011 23:12

None of us know her - why should she be judged ny comments in the DM/OK Magazine? They are both well known for speaking absolute truths......Hmm

IprivateI · 26/05/2011 23:14

I think what OP was trying to get at was that karma can be a bitch. You show off about something (like great sex with your DH) and it can be jynxed and taken away. Although I am pretty sure she's coming out on a good light with this beating story. Poor thing didn't deserve it. The making of a personal documentary is the end of happiness for these celebs.
For the record, she annoyed the shit out of me on Eastenders and I am not very fond of her.

TheCrackFox · 26/05/2011 23:16

LDNMummy - that was the only episode I have ever seen and I do remember thinking he was an arse then.

Portofino · 26/05/2011 23:17

"Although I am pretty sure she's coming out on a good light with this beating story. Poor thing didn't deserve it"

What the fuck ?

IprivateI · 26/05/2011 23:21

Well any publicity is good publicity. She's not the bad person in the story is she? So what OP is saying is wrong. She hasn't really taken a huge fall, in terms of celebrity status she's probably gone up a notch or two. Harsh truth.

redflagsahoy · 26/05/2011 23:57

just in case natalie cassidy is a MNer...Natalie no one deserves that. I actually she is quite pretty and not everyone is a supermodel (thank god) she has a nice ordinary look, I hope she will be ok. I don't think she is smarmy or smug, hope her and DD will be ok.

Blondeshavemorefun · 27/05/2011 00:12

NO ONE should be beaten up by their partner :(

whatever decision she now makes, it will be the wrong one in some peoples eyes

if she stays with him,people will say shes mad as could do it again and she should have more respect for herself and eliza

if she leaves him then she will be targeted as a then single mum and splitting up a family

she cant win :(

just hope they can sort things out amicably for their daughters sake

BimboNo5 · 27/05/2011 06:10

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FellatioNelson · 27/05/2011 06:32

I agree with regflag - we've become so accustomed to every female on the TV being there because they are particularly pretty that we are then aghast if we are expected to take an interest in someone who is merely average. She may not be head-turningly gorgeous, but how many of us are? I think there is a horrible implication here that had she been more beautiful she wouldn't have had this happen to her and it serves her right for trying to be up there with the big-timers.

LoveBeingAbleToNamechange · 27/05/2011 06:33

Kitty has it spot on from what was on the programme. They met at a festival and iirc hot pg very quickly and engaged.

Ldn is correct they'd gone to another festival and he got battered, she was shown very upset the next day.

I think she is an old fashioned family girl at heart, her mum died when she was very young, her subsitie mum died a few years ago.

But even if she was the biggest bitch on the planet no-one deserves to be beaten by their partner. Added to that a bunch of faceless posts on the Internet say she deserved it and she's ugly with ideas above her station - nice

lynehamrose · 27/05/2011 06:57

Quite aside from her looks though, Natalie cassidy really went to town on the 'i cant understand how any mother could leave their baby with a stranger and go to work' bollocks. It was really repulsive stuff, reeking of smugness, and e even allowing for the exaggeration of magazines and newspapers, she was obviously going around spouting that sort of crap. If shes feeling vulnerable right now, she'd do well to ponder on the vulnerability of Many women who are in the early stages of returning to work, and realise that her comments splashed across magazines were really unsupportive and judgemental. I also think that her attitude of not wanting to work, and just earning money here and there doing ridiculous magazine shoots, is leaving her more likely to end up relying on a man and perhaps staying with someone who isn't treating her properly- she needs the reliability of a steady income.
I am not for one moment condoning violence, and the op has got that totally wrong- but I do think Natalie Cassidy has been spectacularly unsupportive of other vulnerable new mums, and I hope she reflects on that and sees how nasty and unhelpful it is

Bumfuzzle · 27/05/2011 07:19

For those who are asking why the OP got a rough ride.

Her thread title "but has natalie cassidy been heading for huge fall for a while?"

heading for a fall definition - to be behaving in a way that is likely to cause problems for you.
Greg's heading for a fall - he gets to work late and spends hours talking to his friends on the phone.
behaving in a way that will result in something bad happening to you

let me repeat that - behaving in a way that will result in something bad happening to you

the bad being being beaten up by her partner

The OP, in the OP listed the following crimes

"attacks anyone who goes to work/ bottlefeeds/ is a new mum but looks 100 times better than her and then shows off about how much sex she has with her husband (yeah, thanks for sharing) as if she is the authority on "

"made herself seem hideously smug and hypocritical over the last year"

ugh rant over.
ugh? noise of disgust at natalie
rant over? ranting about natalie and her crimes as listed above

when you combine the title of her 'heading for a fall' and what the phrase 'heading for a fall' actually means, and the 'ugh' rant as the reason why she was heading for a fall - when heading for a fall means to suffer as a result of your behaviour!!!!!

Seems very clear what she was saying.

Which was disgusting.

And that is why so many people were disgusted. There's no pack of wolves about it. It was a reasonable response to a statement that was basically saying that the woman got what was coming to her.

LoveBeingAbleToNamechange · 27/05/2011 07:19

Yeah I'm sure that's top of her thinks to think about list right now.

FellatioNelson · 27/05/2011 07:24

I really hate the way the media swoops on a celeb when they have a baby and regurgitates and twists every little thing they say into something that is to be judged as either the new gospel on child-rearing or decreed as outrageous and non-supportive to the rest of us. Millions of women feel exactly as she does, and they are entitled to. Their baby, their life, their choice. The journos have probably fed her questions and she has been naive enough to answer them honestly. Then they twist it to sound like she has made a proclamation to all mankind about the evils of working mums. It as the same when Denise Van Outen gave her baby a bottle in Starbucks. Hmm

If DVO's baby suddenly developed a ton of life threatening allergies or an immunity problem I know there would be NO END of smug crowing in a 'serves her right' kind of way on here about it.

cyb · 27/05/2011 07:41

'Posters will just ignore anything and everything - and SHE HAS SAID SORRY AND SLUNK OFF.

This will mean nothing and this will go on for another 453 tiresome posts.

Gotta love MN right now eh?' shiney I couldnt agree more

lynehamrose · 27/05/2011 07:56

Fellationelson- I agree, the Journalists no doubt encouraged her to speak what she felt, but there's a huge difference between anonymous mrs bloggs deciding she wants to stay home and not work, and someone spouting this sort of thing in newspapers and magazines. And if you are going to make money as a pseudo- celeb, splashing yourself across as many magazines as possible rather than earning money in a more respected fashion, then you should at least have the wit to see that what you say IS going to have an impact on other people.
And theres a world of difference between Denise van o being photographed unwillingly while out having a coffee, and the frequent 'listen to me, I'm being interviewed again for a shite magazine' articles on Natalie Cassidy
She has done women a disservice with airing her judgemental views

hairfullofsnakes · 27/05/2011 07:57

Oh dear OP, unfortunately you have given the MN vipers exactly what they need - an excuse to swoop out of their nests and attack someone for a badly written aibu! I understand you are not saying she deserves violence and I get that she has been a smug git lately but it wasn't worded well...

This thread does show though how some vipers can't wait to attack and male themselves feel oh so superior by doing so. Rather than tell you in an adult manner that your thread was badly worded they can't wait to lay into you and that makes them better?! Hmm

AitchTwoOh · 27/05/2011 08:04

haven't read all the thread but hope that the mood turned a bit, the OP never said that she deserved to be beaten up, she clearly meant that in presenting her 'perfect' life she was bound to come a cropper at some point. which, ya know, she probably was.

and natalie cassidy was ADORABLE on strictly, so i cannot hear a word against the girl. Grin such a shame about this recent story, do hope she gets up and gets on.

TurkeyBurgerThing · 27/05/2011 08:07

I feel sorry for her. It's like she's constantly bullied by these brainless twatty magazines.

"Ooooh look how obese she is"

"Ooooh look how underweight she is"

"Ooooh look how fat she's got again"

"Ooooh look how much weight she's lost again"

I don't have much of an opinion on her really, and I do get the impression she doesn't always help herself....but like so many of these women who have been famous since they were a young age I think much of the time she has been surrounded by the wrong kind of people.

YABU

hairfullofsnakes · 27/05/2011 08:10

Good points turkeyburger and it's good money too probably doing all Thea magazine articles so who can blame her?! If a mag wanted to pay me shit loads of money for an article - I'll do it! Grin

GwendolineMaryLacey · 27/05/2011 08:14

Really? So the two or three of you that agree with the op are right and everyone else on this thread is wrong? What are the chances of that happening... Hmm

pink4ever · 27/05/2011 08:25

Aahh the mn lynch mob has surfaced.Lovely.Really.

Bumfuzzle · 27/05/2011 08:44

You know, if there are people that think that hitting the roof because someone said that a woman who was beaten by her partner was "heading for a fall" because of her behaviour is unreasonable, then that's their choice.

Personally, I feel that suggesting that the beating up of a woman by her partner happened because she is considered by the OP to be smug and judgemental is deserving of condemnation.

She's smug and judgemental, she's heading for a fall, oh look, she got beaten up by her partner. There's her 'fall' right there. She was smug and then she got beaten up.

I think that is an awful thing to suggest.

And yes, she came on after a bit and tried to say that she hadn't meant that being beaten up was the consequence, was the "heading for a huge fall", but that doesn't mean that that is not exactly what she did, in fact, say and it is not unreasonable of people to react to what she did, in fact, say.

Fact - she was beaten up
OP - she was heading for a fall

1+1=2

I hope people do have a strong reaction to any possible suggestion that a woman deserves domestic violence.

AitchTwoOh · 27/05/2011 08:44

look up mob mentality, gwendoline, and you'll see that the chances are massive.

beesimo · 27/05/2011 09:20

OP and Others

If you think a new young Mam is being smug ect why wouldn't you say 'oh she'll live and learn let her get the cradle marks of her backside first' why would you want a lass to FALL.

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