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to think this is a new low for Piers Morgan. He's tweeted about Ariana Grande

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Orlantina · 25/05/2017 21:17

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Agreed.
Might have been nice if @ArianaGrande had stayed to do the same.

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God bless The Queen and her kind heart #StayStrongManchester

So basically he said that Ariana Grande should have stayed to meet the victims?

Fucking hell. I can't imagine what Ariana must be going through after what happened.

But no. Piers Morgan has to make his point.

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blubberball · 26/05/2017 05:31

She did the "right" thing to go home and keep quiet. No body would like it or think it appropriate for her to be swanning around the memorial ceremonies and hospitals, smiling and waving as a pop star. She's done nothing wrong.

The children and the families in hospital might have found it even more traumatic if she showed up.

Tiredemma · 26/05/2017 05:41

God there's some dickheads on here.

Look at the picture of her getting off the plane. She looks like she still has her stage make up on.

I imagine she really is "broken" as described. Nothing good would have come of her visiting the hospital.

The comment about prince Harry is quite frankly ridiculous. Even if you would have survived with a few minor injuries, the mental injury of seeing dead and injured people around you would be enough for you to not even give s shit if Elvis rose from the dead and visited your bedside.

Piers and Katie h are nothing but attention seeking dogs.

MrsLucyEmerson · 26/05/2017 05:42

Most people would rush home after a horrific experience such as this. Her home is in the US. End of.

RainyDayBear · 26/05/2017 05:55

I agree with the majority of posters, she did nothing wrong. I'd have thought far less of her if she'd turned it into a PR opportunity, and taken a 'the show must go on' mentality. I think anyone would want to go home under those circumstances! I thought her offering to pay for the funerals was very classy.

elkegel · 26/05/2017 05:56

What an utterly worthless tosser he is.

ChestnutsRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 26/05/2017 06:00

Her staying wouldn't have helped and she must feel terrible. A 23 old isn't a child though. Emergency and ward staff of that age and younger would have been attending to the horrific wounds and psychological state of those injured.

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 06:15

It really doesn't strike me as a huge thing to do.

Says a poster who wasn't the specific target of a terrorist event and who hasn't been expected to do bedtime rounds to maimed children. The fuck are you on about limitedtimeonly? Do you understand the situation at all?

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 06:17

Not to mention that again some people might be triggered by seeing her in the first place. Just because you think you'd want to fan girl in that situation doesn't mean most people will

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 26/05/2017 06:17

^ That's true, but those are 23 year olds trained for it (as indeed the queen has been for her role too). I think it would be a very rare 23 year old who had already developed the confidence and skills involved in helping people who've had a fucking horrific experience feel even slightly better, if that wasn't part of their professional training.

And that's aside from the fact that this 23yo is presumably also massively traumatised by what's happened, as numerous PP have pointed out.

NellWilsonsWhiteHair · 26/05/2017 06:17

Oops, DS interrupted me typing what was meant to be a quick reply to Chestnuts.

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 06:18

Also the Queen while obviously very famous doesn't get chased by swarms of teens. It would be a very different sort of media situation for a pop star to show up

RockyTop · 26/05/2017 06:24

If I was 14 again and an Ariana Grande fan I'd be thrilled to wake up in hospital after being injured at her concert and see her face.

Really? You know exactly how you'd react and feel if at the age of 14 you'd been the victim of a terrorist attck, seen unspeakable things, maybe lost loved ones and facing your own horrific injuries? There's a big difference between being 'just injured' at a concert and then meeting your idol and what these people have gone through.

Iris65 · 26/05/2017 06:27

She was a victim ffs. Maybe not killed or injured but I bet she feels shit. 22 people murdered at her concert. Not sure if ever want to perform again if it were me. She's only young herself.

This ^^ How dare anyone dictate how a victim should respond to something that hopefully most of us will never go through.

Iris65 · 26/05/2017 06:28

And if she had turned up I have no doubt that there would those saying that she was attention seeking.

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 06:28

I'm slicked by the vast quantities of stupid on this thread.

Fliptophead · 26/05/2017 06:29

Shocked even Hmm

EtonMessi · 26/05/2017 07:47

I'm shocked by the vast quantities of stupid on this thread.

Ditto.

Dianneabbottsmathsteacher · 26/05/2017 07:57

I am actually shocked that some people have so little understanding and empathy of trauma grief and the fact that lots of these children are in comas and others have life changing injuries.

For the parents it's usually worse.

The press will be trying to trick hospital staff to enter the wards and it may well be that the hospital itself could be considered s terrorist target.

Piers is a complete twat

originalbiglymavis · 26/05/2017 08:06

Did anyone expect the band playing at the Bataclan to go and visit people in hospital?

I suppose we can only be grateful that Piers didn't visit the injured himself.

CaptainMarvelDanvers · 26/05/2017 08:07

Piers lacks the ability to feel empathy, I pity him.

originalbiglymavis · 26/05/2017 08:10

I'm never quite sure if he is just playing a part (like Dennis Pennis) or if he really is just a git.

bakewelltarty · 26/05/2017 08:24

I don't really know what the 'right' thing for her to do was. Im not going to pretend that I do.

However, I don't agree with the 'she's only young ' etc etc. By that age I was married with a child.

She's a global star. She has earned millions from young girls and boys all over the world. She is in a protected little bubble and it looks like that bubble took over and whisked her off with little regard for what they were leaving behind.

It is thanks to the people who love and support her and lost their lives on Monday night that she enjoys the life she has. With money and power does come some responsibility.

Dianneabbottsmathsteacher · 26/05/2017 08:41

bake

Utterly disgusting post. Don't you have a brain to understand she would cause a huge media circus around a hospital on lock down with huge extra members if staff and equipment who have traumatised parents and children to deal with?

Of course she would be told to stay away.

When my dd was involved in an international incident the hospital had guards on the ward door as reporters were trying to take pics of the injured girls. Parents teachers and the girls were trying to come up terms with death loss and life changing injuries.

Much much later a pop group did visit to surprise them in the rehab stage but not immediately.

Ariana did the right thing as any adult should.

RufusTheRenegadeReindeer · 26/05/2017 08:41

Morgan is pond scum

I agree with many other people on this thread

It would have turned into a media circus if she had turned up and there was nothing wrong with her leaving to go home

And we all know that if she did turn up old shit for brains would have tweeted about how inappropriate it was to make it all about her and isnt it typical of these 'stars'

Meatbadger · 26/05/2017 08:47

Pretty sure that - even at 23 - after a situation like that my mum would have said I was staying at home for a while. Terrifying for everyone involved.