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to be appalled by Kerry Katona?

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EnglishGirlApproximately · 19/10/2012 18:14

Just seen an advert for (I think) Hello magazine. Kerry is now cashing in on other peoples misery with her story that Jimmy Savile once "perved" over her. Nice.

I know I'm not bu but this has made me very cross. Who buys this shit?

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EnglishGirlApproximately · 19/10/2012 19:17

I don't think it adds validity though, quite the opposite. All this story does is give ammunition to the people already saying that the victims are only 'coming out of the woodwork' for money. I honestly think it damages their story.

It could well be true, I'm not saying I don't believe her. There is going to be an enquiry, she could have told her story there rather than in a magazine column for money.

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Mrsjay · 19/10/2012 19:18

she is an arse of a woman I think it is Ok , jimmy saville groped me shocker fuck off KERRY

Chubfuddler · 19/10/2012 19:18

No I don't like her. I'm afraid she had made a commodity of her own life and that's hard not to disapprove of (she's not the only one - Chantelle haughton is going down the same route). That's fine when it's just their own nonsense, but this is all a bit boy who cried wolf to me.

Witchety · 19/10/2012 19:20

Is there a link to any of this?

JustFabulous · 19/10/2012 19:20

I don't know if it was OK! or Hello but with Victoria Beckham there is a strap line - "He exposed himseld to me." David had been in her underwear drawer but JS immediately came to mind and it feels like the magazine did that on purpose.

WRT KK - people who have never been sexually abused can never understand how it feels and the abused would never tell people in this "gossipy" way.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 19/10/2012 19:21

She's a very damaged girl. I wish she would go and really sort herself out away from the media. Seems she can't/won't.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 19/10/2012 19:21

... and not damaged by JS. This is band-wagon jumping by her.

MrsDeVere · 19/10/2012 19:22

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Chubfuddler · 19/10/2012 19:24

I saw that headline just and I immediately thought they were trying to draw that link, and that it wouldn't actually be anything of the sort. Like when they put things like "Catherine baby joy" on the cover and she's at some christening of a school friends baby. It's disingenuous when it's about inconsequential stuff but that VB headline was in v poor taste.

Mrsjay · 19/10/2012 19:24

She's a very damaged girl. I wish she would go and really sort herself out away from the media. Seems she can't/won'

She can't seem to help herself can she just constant attention seeking and 'exclusives'

ninah · 19/10/2012 19:24

the wolf did come for the boy who cried wolf though
I think we believe you has to be unconditional

Sparklingbrook · 19/10/2012 19:25

Article on Digital Spy

Chubfuddler · 19/10/2012 19:25

Yes he did. That's my point.

JustFabulous · 19/10/2012 19:30

"I always thought he was a pervert. He had that look about him."

That is such a dangerous thing to say but is prepetuated constantly. Many abusers look "normal" and it is often in retrospect that people say "s/he looked odd."

Mrsjay · 19/10/2012 19:35

really think K K should be ashamed of herself but I don't think she feels any

Fakebook · 19/10/2012 19:37

I wonder how much money she's making from that non-story.

I distinctly remember watching this Demon Savile on some charity event on TV..was either comic relief or sport relief..and I think he was standing next to Fearne Cotton, or another famous presenter. Anyway, I remember this presenter introducing a band or something and then saying "omg i can't believe I'm having my bottom touched by Jimmy Savile". I think he was feeling her bum live on air.

^^ Did I imagine the above? I am so sure I saw this. If anyone remembers this please share!

RinderThrillerNight · 19/10/2012 19:38

As I said earlier, KK is an extremely fucked up, vulnerable person. At 18 (or so), I am not surprised in the least that Savile looked at her in a 'pervy' way.

I wrote on here a few days ago about how the whole JS had made me remember a couple of incidents of being sexually abused. Writing about it is a heck of a lot easier than looking someone in the eye and telling them about it (which I did to my closest friend a day or so afterwards), I can promise you. I guess I was lucky in that it was all pretty minor. But if the Harley Street consultant plastic surgeon who touched me up following a minor procedure came into the public eye I know for sure I would stand up and add my voice. Not for 'fame' or money, but to add weight to the women accusing him.

KK lives her life through the media. She does that for many different reasons - I am neither a particular fan nor an expert in her life - but to vilify her is to also to ignore the circumstances that have led to her being quite so fucked up.

JustFabulous · 19/10/2012 19:41

Rinder - her upbringing is no justification for trying to make herself look like an abused victim.

ScarahStratton · 19/10/2012 19:43

I don't much like KK, but she has as much right to say this as anyone else it has happened to.

I thought we had a policy of 'We believe you' on here? Why should KK be an exception? If she's got a victim mentality, maybe it's because she has been one. Certainly, if she's as vulnerable as she seems it would be picked up by a predatory person.

RinderThrillerNight · 19/10/2012 19:43

But she's not really trying to make herself out to be a victim of his is she? She's just touched on a very topical subject, said she met him once and found him creepy. Or am I reading a different story to you?

JustFabulous · 19/10/2012 19:46

She isn't saying she met him once and found him creepy. She is saying he perved on her and she knew he was a pervert as he had that look about him. It just smacks of getting on the bandwagon, she isn't writing from the point of view of offering support to the people he is alledged to have touched.

RinderThrillerNight · 19/10/2012 19:50

Um, why would (or should) she write from a position of supporting others? God alone knows if KK is actually up to supporting victims of sexual abuse.

You're using semantics JustFab; what we said is both effectively the same. That KK met JS once, he looked at her in a certain way and she found that uncomfortable. Has she said anything else on the subject? Has she said that she feels 'victimised' by this; that Savile abused her? That this incident affected her long term?

Nope. She just passed comment. In her regular comment on her own personal experience of a very topical subject.

Sparklingbrook · 19/10/2012 19:51

He allegedly looked at her in the wrong way. That is not the same as a lot of the experiences we have been hearing about that would stand up in court.

JustFabulous · 19/10/2012 19:52

I don't think she is in a position to support anyone to be frank but if she had come out in that vein maybe people would be posting differently.

When it comes to sexual assault "semantics" are important and the two sentences I posted mean completely different things imo.

RinderThrillerNight · 19/10/2012 19:55

No, if she came out in that vein, then she would be vilified for having done so.

Please, can you explain the difference of those two differences to me? I am always willing to learn (and I am being serious, not sarcastic).

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