To not find Iris on this morning very funny?

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She's an elderly lady in her eighties who was interviewed on This Morning. A thirty something year old man from Egypt randomly contacted her on FB and claimed to be in love with her after a couple of weeks. Lives in his parents' property and wants to come to Britain. When asked about their first intimate moment, she described it as rough and as being painful afterwards. Everyone is finding this hilarious and it's gone viral, prompting lots of "good on yer Iris!" tweets. I feel like the only person feeling slightly disturbed about it - please tell me I'm not alone!

Good grief I saw the clip but I didn't realise she was that old! The way she was talking about not being able to walk the next day was quite horrible tbh. I sort of felt that it was uncomfortable laughing from the hosts but yeah there has been a lot of social media comments and they're all pretty juvenile and depressing. Silly woman, her family must be appalled.

Why was it even on the telly?! I don’t get it at all. It’s vile. He’s obviously after 1 thing and 1 thing only.
To the PP who said where are her family, they should be looking out for her - they’ve probably emigrated to Australia- mortified! The whole thing is grim.

lt astonishes me that women are still falling for this. The women's weekly magazines have been running stories for at least the past 10 years about situations such as this, and warning women about it.
l agree with PP, though - the media are basically ridiculing her by allowing this, and using her to fill their airtime. l feel sorry for her and embarrassed for her family.
l got chatting to a woman about 12 years ago at a mutual friend's party. She was in her mid 40s at the time, a professional woman with children in their early 20s. She'd met a young (in his early 20s) Turkish man on holiday, and she was planning on marrying him. She was complaining to me that her children weren't being supportive, and that all they were bothered about was him taking away their inheritance.
l think there may have been a degree of that, but it sounded to me like they were genuinely concerned for their mother.
Unfortunately l suspect lris is going to learn the hard way. And it'll break her heart.

I did not see that on TM but I think it is absolutely awful from what I have read on this thread.

Phil and Holly should know better than to laugh at anyone who is being taken advantage of. They should have been contacting people who could check on this man and giving the woman support and relative information to be able to judge for herself if the man has ulterior motives.
If there is any family they should be protecting this lady from what is very likely a con.

Agreed.

I’m not sure really. I watched the interview and she’s got all her marbles. I don’t think we should be so patronising towards people just because they’re older assuming they don’t know what they’re doing / are being taken advantage of. My mum ended up in a nursing home with people who had severe dementia in their 70s and 80s + and they were the people you’d be concerned about - Iris may be very misguided in her judgement in terms of the man being in love with her (who knows) but it’s no different than a 30 or 40 something being naive. She obviously enjoyed the sex and her consent is valid - it may have been rough but lots of people do enjoy rough sex!

I think if we start assuming people can’t be in their right minds or need babying when they become elderly just because they do things we don’t approve of it’s just a slippery slope. I hope people don’t tell me how to live my life when I’m old.

I think her comments on the sex being rough were because she's older and needed lots of the KY jelly and she hadn't done it for many years. Not because it was anal or rough sex. That's how I saw it when I watched it.

How come so many people fall for these guys? She definitely seemed to have her marbles though but that doesn't mean she can't be conned. Plenty of much younger women have over the years

I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Her kids must have been mortified hearing this. I am a bit worried for her to Be honest, obviously she’s old enough to know what she is doing but if the first encounter of sex with him was that rough then it’s a worry what will happen next.

He is using her to get a visa to come and live here. Expect her family have already told her that. I think her son said 'she is old enough to make her own mistakes'.

If she won't listen to concerns from her own family what can they do. It's not as if they can 'forbid' her to marry him.

The TV interview on This Morning was cringe worthy and definitely too much information for anyone!

It was totally cringeworthy, I don’t think they should have been encouraging her the way they were. Clearly this man is wanting money or a visa or has an agenda of some sort. Everyone is saying how wonderful it is she’s happy but they must be ignoring the likely fact that this elderly woman is being taken advantage of...awful!!

Agree with Fairylea. We seem to have a disconnect when it comes to older people and expect them to behave differently, as if they're retired from the cloisters.

Fairylea I think it’s more about feeling protective of the elderly rather than trying to patronise them. Yes she looks happy but I think the elderly are as vulnerable to grooming as teenagers are and families are sensible if they are concerned when a man in his thirties randomly contacts an elderly lady and within weeks they are talking marriage and moving to Britain. Yes people do like rough sex but should a young man be treating an eighty year old’s body like that? You may think she’s a sensible woman but going on national tv talking about pain after sex isn’t really the actions of someone with a sound perspective. I can’t believe people find it funny.