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To think someone should scoop Katie price up to keep her safe

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lunkitsmum · 17/02/2020 10:47

In the middle of the media storm about poor Caroline Flack and Megan Markle. I can't help thinking they didn't have anywhere near the hounding and pounding down that Katie Price has had consistently and for years... Obviously don't know her from Adam but as 1 human seeing another being relentlessly bullied wonder if there shouldn't be some sort of legal injunction to stop the tabloid attacks on her?

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izzywizzygood · 17/02/2020 12:34

I really feel for the people immediately around KP and CF... they have to deal with the fallout and inaccurate reporting too. I do read some of the reporting on KP and think the journos must get a buzz off this... laughing at someone's else expense. Yep, people do love twisting things to make themselves feel better I guess!

3catsandcounting · 17/02/2020 12:37

Exactly JillAmanda; Katie Price is not a good businesswoman; she has multiple people around her doing that (and. Or very well)

3catsandcounting · 17/02/2020 12:37
  • (and NOT very well) I meant.
daisychain01 · 17/02/2020 12:39

She's a grown woman - it's unrealistic to expect some guardian angel to rescue her.

She has a property that's worth upwards of £1M that is in rack and ruin. I won't comment on her behaviour towards her children. Business sense? Maybe I'm mistaking her for a different KP.

thepeopleversuswork · 17/02/2020 12:42

I'm all for being kind and I think KP gets a ton of shit. I think she has a far tougher hide than Caroline Flack appears to have had but obviously I don't like seeing her torn to shreds.

But can we please stop all the calls to "ban media bullying" etc. You can't ban media bullying. Define bullying. Is calling for a Prime Minister to be fired bullying? Is disclosing an affair between two public figures when one of them champions "family values" bullying? You can't have blanket rules from preventing the media from doing its job. It's been tried so many times over the past 30-40 years and its simply not workable.

Yes of course the media should not hound female celebrities - or male ones for that matter -- to the point where they take their own lives. Of course they should be respectful and judicious.

But the reality is that its impossible to prevent some famous people being scrutinised.

Caroline Flack was a high profile person accused of a crime. That in itself warrants coverage. You can argue whether or not the CPS was right to prosecute etc. The Sun's stunt was of course despicable and action should be taken for that. And unquestionably there was insensitive treatment of the matter in the media and social media.

But to argue that there is some sledgehammer approach which can ban scrutiny of public figures without massively negative effects on our right to a free press is just childish.

AnneOfTeenFables · 17/02/2020 12:46

OP since this thread is going the opposite of how you intended and is going to be inundated with people who know nothing about KP thinking they can comment on her business sense or lack of it, making snide comments about how some female celebs deserve 'saving' and other's don't, perhaps ask MN to pull it.
If I was famous, I wouldn't read any media or social media at all. You don't have to, and you can still sell them stories without reading them.

iklboo · 17/02/2020 12:57

Modern media is the equivalent of wealthy Victorians paying to visit patients in mental institutions (as they were called then) and workhouses for 'entertainment'.

BillHadersNewWife · 17/02/2020 13:09

ikboo Yes and "going slumming' in the early part of the twentieth century.

Rich folk used to go to rough parts of town to gawp and have a night out.

anotherlittlechicken · 17/02/2020 13:23

@lunkitsmum

I kind of agree a bit. Even though KP has made loadsa money from her vast publicity.

I don't like her much, but would be very sad if she also took her own life.

I wasn't keen on CF (didn't hate her, just wasn't too keen on her,) and I am really shocked and stunned and upset by her suicide. WAY more upset than I expected. It's just all so terribly upsetting and tragic.

RuffleCrow · 17/02/2020 13:26

we grown women have to learn to scoop ourselves up. No-one can make you protective or nurturing of yourself, you either aquire the urge/ knack or you don't.

Thisisworsethananticpated · 17/02/2020 13:37

I worry about her , and I was worried for CF too

UnitedRoad · 17/02/2020 13:55

I don’t think it’s fair to say that Katie Price is talentless. I think she’s given lots of different things a good try, and showed great resilience even though that’s probably taken a toll on her.

Going back a few years didn’t she have a string of best selling books? I don’t know how much she was actually responsible for though.

I’m pretty sure she tried to become a Eurovision Song Contest contestant. Also didn’t her and Peter Andre release a song together?

I might have imagined this but wasn’t there talk about her competing at the olympics in some horse event? I think she also had a range of equestrian equipment/clothes.

It must be really hard, if you’ve lived your life in the public eye, when that light starts to fade. Even harder with a severely disabled son, an ill mother, and an ex husband who people think is perfect.

OP, I understand what you mean. I think she’d probably hate to be scooped up and looked after, but I definitely think that she could do with someone really strong in her life, and not someone who's looking to gain fame by being with her.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 17/02/2020 13:55

Agree entirely with AutumnRose, even this thread is an example of how the public don't/won't leave other people alone.

Hypocrites abound.

dottiedodah · 17/02/2020 13:57

Felt terrible about poor Caroline Flack .Just couldnt stop thinking about her .People are saying she had MH issues (This may be true ) but wasnt the reason she lost it with her BF, was because he was texting someone else and she had found messages ? Obviously no excuses here but she was provoked .KP always seems to be wanting to court the press ,and seems to hooked on getting herself in the news .Carolines whole private life seems to be on display with papers like DM showing a "vunerable" woman who courts younger men !(like this would never happen the other way round) and feeling "sorry" for her .They are all but saying she would be so much happier at home with her pinny on and a "nice "DH/DC!

Microdot · 17/02/2020 14:06

Agree entirely with AutumnRose, even this thread is an example of how the public don't/won't leave other people alone.

But this is nonsense because people who have made their living by being in the public eye don't want to be 'left alone'.

I do feel a lurching sense of dread anytime I see an article about KP but if the press left her alone she would only have to find more extreme ways of getting their attention.

As for CF, people have lost all sense of proportion there and I don't believe that she was somehow hounded to her death by media/social media.

AmICrazyorWhat2 · 17/02/2020 14:07

I agree that KP needs someone to look after her at the moment. Yes, I know it's patronising, but she's on a downward spiral and needs support from someone who cares about her as a person, not a wannabe celebrity. She doesn't seem to know how to function without media attention and a man in tow.

Didn't know much about Caroline Flack but it's sad that she took her own life.

Microdot · 17/02/2020 14:09

Obviously no excuses here but she was provoked

Well, that is an excuse isn't it? The same excuse given by practically every MAN who every beat, terrified, murdered their partner - 'they provoked me/asked for it/made me do it'. Is it ok because she was a woman? No.

PurpleDaisies · 17/02/2020 14:10

Obviously no excuses here but she was provoked

That sounds like an excuse to me.

justasking111 · 17/02/2020 14:15

I do not know how you protect someone from themself. Princess Diana courted the press, in the end it killed her. Anyone on instagram, twitter, FB is courting the public if they put it out there for clicks, no different from the press really.

ahhRats · 17/02/2020 14:33

Obviously no excuses here but she was provoked
Are you having a laugh. Would you say that if it had been a man attacking a woman?
All the cries of the cps not dropping it when the bf wanted it dropped..theres a reason
All those 100s of women who were to afraid to take it further.

ItIsWhatItIsInnit · 17/02/2020 15:30

but wasnt the reason she lost it with her BF, was because he was texting someone else and she had found messages ? Obviously no excuses here but she was provoked

Did you REALLY just say this?

Repeat this about a man beating up his wife, how does it sound?

Cacacoisfarraige · 17/02/2020 17:34

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bee222 · 17/02/2020 17:56

People really missing the point here :/

Are people only worth of kindness and understanding if you personally approve of them? Unless you are good friends of KP, none of you posting here has the slightest idea how she is feeling or why she does what she does.

All the information you have is stuff you have read in the press and what you have seen on TV. Maybe stop and think about how that information has been packaged up and reported to you.

Cacacoisfarraige · 17/02/2020 18:01

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AngelsSins · 17/02/2020 18:20

I do think Katie Price is a very good example of how the patriarchy treats women.

She started her fame as a page 3 model in The Sun, something a lot of men wanted to keep, they said it was harmless fun. She then very publicly got a huge boob job for free and got extra work from it, all encouraged by men of course, they were the ones who funded her career back then, they were her fans.

Then, as she gets a little older, they take great pleasure in ripping her apart, calling her a slag, telling her she’s a bad mum or trash etc.

The patriarchy supported and encouraged her to become this person, and then took aim at the idol they’d created.

The same has happened to other women too of course, and it seems to happen more and more.