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Original poster

To think Myleene Klass will win no friends with this...

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CarlaVeloso · 05/02/2015 11:46

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11391753/Myleene-Klass-Ill-be-collecting-unicorn-money-for-my-daughters-birthday.html

She has tweeted two emails from mothers at her daughter's school asking for cash donations for their children's birthday parties. She's changed their names but clearly they are still recognisable to anyone with children in that class and presumably the whole school will know about it nowthat it's been published in the papers and online.

I agree the emails are completely crass and I would privately think the same but they haven't committed any crime or sent her an expletive-filled rant about something. I opened it expecting to see a request for an actual kindle when they are just suggesting £10. Crass, vulgar, materialistic etc etc, yes, but I think her response (shaming them publicly) is really nasty and may not win her or her DD any friends at the school gate.

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UmizoomiThis · 06/02/2015 08:05

What the actual fuck with MN tweeting their support on behalf of their posters.

Aeroflotgirl · 06/02/2015 08:08

Her kids go to a private school, expect that kind of behaviour from parents. It's not the amount, but the method. Very crass.

dexter73 · 06/02/2015 08:08

I wouldn't have thought MNHQ would want to support someone in humiliating other parents in a school environment

Totally agree and a bit disappointed to see that.

LittleBairn · 06/02/2015 08:14

I was suprised and disappointed by MN towers tweet too but I shouldn't have been their as bad as Myleen with publicity courting.

Interesting that the artical claims the emils were sent a year ago if true then this whole situation is clearly a set up by Klassless to gain media attention and remind people of her high opinion of her mothering skills.

TheXxed · 06/02/2015 08:22

I really don't understand why people are downplaying the grabbiness of these mothers. They weren't being helpful, they were probably hoping someone does they same for the own DCs birthday.

I think it's a dangerous precedent to set. Why should you expect gifts? When did this become the norm? Its gauche.

kungfupannda · 06/02/2015 08:22

So much for 'by parents for parents.'

In this case it's more like 'by parents at other parents.'

MN have a lot of followers. So they've now spread this even further. Even if those other parents are complete pains in the backside, the matter should have been dealt with privately.

I'm just imagining that horrible moment when the women involved read the messages and realised that they were being held up for ridicule in front of hundreds of thousands of people, over something that happened a year ago.

I would imagine that there's been enormous distress and embarrassment. So for a major support network for parents to laugh along and encourage the perpetrator is probably going to be another kick in the teeth to these women - who may well be members here.

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CarlaVeloso · 06/02/2015 08:23

I wonder if the senders could take legal action actually.

I'm glad they challenged her. Her response was ridiculous though. They have to take her to task privately but she can mock them in front of half a million Twitter followers?

The email she sent them was so nasty. Who behaves like that once they are an adult?

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TheXxed · 06/02/2015 08:27

legal action because someone posted an email!!!! Yeah focus on that and ignore their grabbiness.

BoozeyTuesday · 06/02/2015 08:33

Round here it's common practice to just stick a fiver in a card. I Wouldn't expect nor give a tenner.

FamiliesShareGerms · 06/02/2015 08:35

Am also disappointed in MNHQ for re- tweeting...

If I read the emails correctly, the suggestion is £10 for both girls - ie £5 each. Hardly extortionate / grabby and not an unreasonable amount to spend on a present, surely?

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CarlaVeloso · 06/02/2015 08:37

I don't need to focus on their grabbiness. It was a private email. MK put it in the public domain. Can you imagine being a parent at that school knowing that any email or correspondence between parents (or even from teachers) could end up in the newspapers just because one of your number is a publicity-hungry celeb?

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wobblebobblehat · 06/02/2015 08:39

So glad i don't have kids...

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 08:39

Anyone else getting a subtle impression that the OP is one of the grabby email parents?

TheXxed · 06/02/2015 08:39

People post screen grabs of conversations on social media all time, if I take a look at my timeline I am sure I will see a few. Whenever I post or send anything I always assume that it might be read by someone other than they person I am sending it to.

TheXxed · 06/02/2015 08:41

Crowd funding for a desk or a kindle is wank. If you want your child to have one get it yourself.

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 08:42

Can you imagine being a parent at that school knowing that any email or correspondence between parents (or even from teachers) could end up in the newspapers just because one of your number is a publicity-hungry celeb?

Yes. That's ANY parent at ANY time. Remember a couple of weeks ago the parent who sent an invoice out to the no-show at the party kid? They weren't celebrities. That was reported on the news here in Australia!

I don't think this is anything to do with her being publicity hungry! There would be much better ways of her attracting publicity than this! I think she just spoke her bloody mind!

30somethingm · 06/02/2015 08:45

I used to like her until she demonstrated how out of touch she was when she told Ed Miliband that £2 million homes are the norm in London and not the homes of the wealthy.

vindscreenviper · 06/02/2015 08:49

"Anyone else getting a subtle impression that the OP is one of the grabby email parents?"

No, but I'm beginning to wonder if somebody from MK's mangement company or pr are on this thread.Grin

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 08:50

Me? Grin

vindscreenviper · 06/02/2015 08:54

Not you DropYourSword, you're too forthright. Grin

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 08:56

Dammit! Was envisioning exciting new career change.

for precisely 4minutes and 10 seconds

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CarlaVeloso · 06/02/2015 08:59

Me???? (I'm the OP)

Nope. If you read my OP you'd see I thought the emails were crass but that MK's response was worse. As do most subsequent posters.

It's pretty childish to suggest I must therefore be the sender of the email.

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Bambambini · 06/02/2015 09:03

"I think it's a dangerous precedent to set. Why should you expect gifts? When did this become the norm? Its gauche."

I must live in some strange place because it's always been the norm wherever I've lived for kids to bring presents to a party and the kids do expect it. That doesn't make them entitled or grabby as it is what people have always done. If some kids don't, that's ok - I'm happy to have them just the same (hate loads of tat presents anyway) as their presence is more important than a present of course. Trying to imagine all these parties where kids turn up with no presents.

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 09:04

Subtle impression does not equal must.

You just seem very invested in this. Grabby email parents friend?

FamiliesShareGerms · 06/02/2015 09:12

No, I think you're on your own there, Drop, re the OP...

Bambini - ditto. I have never ever been to a kids party where there are no presents.