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To feel sorry for Cheryl Cole?

142 replies

queenceleste · 30/05/2011 16:42

I know, I know, show business is brutal, I should get a life.

I just feel for her, it must be so horrible despite the truck loads of cash.

I can't believe anyone ever thought she'd translate to over there, she seems so untransportable.

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IprivateI · 30/05/2011 22:34

Yes YABU. How long did people coo over her when her husband cheated on her...bloody hell, that was never ending. Then she nearly died of malaria - once again everyone was like "oh poor poor cheryl" - no one thought about the thousands in Africa who die everyday due to malaria. No one felt sorry for the children who are left parentless in Africa when their mothers and fathers die of malaria. She lived because she had the money to afford treatment. I refuse to feel sorry for her because she went on holiday and got bitten by a mozzie.

Will people ever STOP feeling sorry for her? She is a person like everyone else in the world. She is not hard done-by. She has millions in the bank. She is the face of l'oreal. She has everything. So let's stop feeling sorry for a woman who can obviously take care of herself.

IprivateI · 30/05/2011 22:36

Oh yes. She also has a criminal conviction. Part of me thinks she married Ashley Cole to get of the racist tag she'd received from that nightclub fight.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 30/05/2011 22:43

Feeling sympathy for wealthy woman who has Malaria shortly after discovering her husband has been unfaithful does not preclude feeling sorry about the circumstances of orphaned children in Africa Hmm

Iirc she raised over a million pounds climbing Killamangiro for that very cause.
What have you contributed, IprivateI?

I do not feel particularly sorry for her in her current situation, but I wouldn't dismiss her difficulties as 'deserved' because she came fom a council estate and has become wealthy.

ScousyFogarty · 31/05/2011 10:12

I think it would be more reasonable to feel sorry for the three quarters of a million young people who cant get even a lowly paid job.

After all Cheryl has made enough money to retire on at a very young age.

sausagesandmarmelade · 31/05/2011 10:26

It's getting really, really, really boring seeing her face plastered over every newspaper. To me...it's not news....there are far more newsworthy items out there.

QuackQuackSqueak · 31/05/2011 10:34

Wow there's some nasty, bitter, jealous people on here! The woman has done well for herself, why can't people just acknowledge that rather then saying "well she hasn't got any talent". It's sad and makes you look pathetic!

annoyingdevil · 31/05/2011 11:18

The whole thing's a PR stunt to sell her next album, and raise her profile in the USA. Stop watching 'X' factor and stop feeding the trolls

MrsFruitcake · 31/05/2011 11:20

I don't feel sorry for her. She has hardly any talent at all IMO, was convicted of a racist attack on a toilet attendant and has millions in the bank already. My heart bleeds.

BelovedCunt · 31/05/2011 11:22

sense of perspective wouldn't go amiss

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/05/2011 11:24

She was not convicted of a racist attack.

Vev · 31/05/2011 11:24

She made the mistake of getting too big for her boots.

Couldn't stand the way Biffa and SC acted on X Factor last year.

Oh and the fact she charged £250,000 for appearing at a breast cancer charity do.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/05/2011 11:26

Feeling personal sympathy for someone does not preclude feeling sorry for global atrocities.

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/05/2011 11:34

I would be shocked if that were true.
What charity would think it financially sound to pay an artist £250,000 to perform at an event? Any donations received would be wiped out by the fee.
It's more likely that the organisers, Next, paid Cheryl's fee.

And how do you know she didn't donate?
Facts lifted form Mirror/Sun/Star I expect.

Pedallleur · 31/05/2011 11:49

Classic rags to riches story and that's good. it doesn't happen v.often. Unfortunately she is in a business that's hungry for gossip and the next thing but that's the game. re: charities paying out, that sometimes happens but it's up to the individual to decide to contribute. Read about Amnesty International paying out £500k+ to their ex-director in a secret deal a couple of years ago. Cheryl seems quite gvfm in that light.

MrsFruitcake · 31/05/2011 12:25

Okay, morecrack, not convicted of racist attack, but assault. see here

So that's okay then, makes it all better, doesn't it? Hmm

fatlazymummy · 31/05/2011 12:32

I don't feel sorry for her at all. IMO she has been incredibly lucky, far more than her level of 'talent' deserves. There are far better performers than her that receive far less attention and opportunities than she does. She should spend more time being thankful instead of whinging and playing the victim.

cookiestar · 31/05/2011 13:02

People have short memories. She's a gobby mare with an overinflated opinion of herself. Just a few short years ago all she was famous for was forever slagging off other female artists who showed more talent...Charlotte Church, Lily Allen etc. I am always utterly amazed by the nations sweetheart label, as she seems bitter and manipulative. What goes around comes around....

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 31/05/2011 13:19

OK

Just a bit shocked at the vitriol really, seemingly because she is rich and successful, comes from a council estate, and is a 'gobby little mare'
Hmm

Some of these posts are bitter, imo. And I hate the use of 'mare' as a term of derision for a woman.

noddyholder · 31/05/2011 13:51

I don't know what all the fuss is about Who really gives a damn about her it is all tabloid nonsense. I am sure she will be fine without the nations sympathy apparently she has a good right hook

RottenTiming · 31/05/2011 14:52

Let's get Cheryl's misfortunes in perspective here.....when there are women and children living in poverty, worrying about the next gas bill or new children's shoes, women losing their homes due to redundancy , women in EA relationships and women being physically assaulted by their partners I don't really feel sorry for the ex Cheryl Tweedy, reformed toilet attendant batterer.

Her life has recovered from the unpleasant incident in her youth, she managed to get into the USA several times despite a criminal record and will no doubt continue to jet about in pursuit of glamorous work opportunities so I feel she has had a fairly charmed adult life so far (lots of women are made fools of by cheating husbands, at least she wasn't left financially responsible for a child or more with no maintenance).

She has so many things to be thankful for in her life, incuding her looks, so no I just can't manage to feel sorry for her.

cookiestar · 31/05/2011 15:12

I've got no problem with her being rich and successful or whether she was born in a council flat or in a palace.

Really can't feel sorry for someone who smacked someone in the face over a lollipop...rich and successful or joe public
Quite frankly calling her a gobby mare is relatively polite in light of this.

TootTootLick · 31/05/2011 15:28

So can you not work in the US if you have a criminal conviction?

The way I heard it was that it was an argument that got out of hand and the loo attendent cried racism. That part of the charge didn't stick and the loo attendant came across as a horrible money grabbing cow (didn't she sell her story afterwards?). Makes it hard to believe her.

mathanxiety · 31/05/2011 15:35

GA are actually virtually unknown in the US. Hard to understand how SC and the XFactor management believed Cheryl Cole would translate (in more ways than one) to the very middle of the road pop/country market the X Factor is aimed at there, where the likes of Taylor Swift conquer all before them. Countryish pablum rules the airwaves in the US, very different from the UK. The criminal record doesn't matter because it had nothing to do with ongoing drug use, which was Amy Winehouse's issue.

ScousyFogarty · 31/05/2011 16:01

Cheryl may well be feisty privately. most successful women are said to be these days. It you play the fame game you will get stung because the tabs work that way OK?..

ScousyFogarty · 31/05/2011 16:02

failed? she may have 10 mil in the bank. Plese grow up