Have any celebrities gone missing?!

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No AIBU just posting here as more people use this topic.

I know being famous means you cannot leave your old life and start again like some missing people must.

Some people just vanish though don't they? Taking no money or ID.

Can people just "disappear? I know a lot of these people will have been murdered and no evidence found but how come it hadn't happened to anyone famous.

Had a drink tonight abs I can't really put it into words what I'm trying to say.

@TallulahBetty seems hard doesn't it? I have trouble understanding how even regular, non-famous people disappear, though I know they do, frequently. There's so much surveillance everywhere, so many digital traces. It seems like everything we do is trackable in some way.

Andrew Godson for me too, what on earth happened?

Claudia Lawrence has been mentioned a couple of times on this thread: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58320985

While I have immense sympathy for Andrew Gosden's family, I find it odd that his disappearance has become such a talking point. So many teenagers go missing in the UK every year and barely get a mention.

I think he took himself off to London for an adventure and trusted the wrong person. Poor kid, we all have these plans and ideas as teenagers without having the world experience to deal with risk.

@dayswithaY

While I have immense sympathy for Andrew Gosden's family, I find it odd that his disappearance has become such a talking point. So many teenagers go missing in the UK every year and barely get a mention.

I think he took himself off to London for an adventure and trusted the wrong person. Poor kid, we all have these plans and ideas as teenagers without having the world experience to deal with risk.

It must be frustrating for the other parents. I only really know of him and Madeline. I suppose it depends who the media take an interest in???

I suppose it depends who the media take an interest in???

I always wonder about this, it's a lottery really - slow news day, photogenic, intriguing story. Doesn't seem fair though. In murder cases it's referred to as "White Woman Syndrome" because they get more attention - the "right kind" of white woman though ie, young, attractive and not a sex worker.

Lots of young people that go missing do so repeatedly and are known to the police, social services etc, they are found quite quickly. I think with Godsen it was totally out of character, not very streetwise and doing well at school and had a normal home life.

I had a neighbour who was a repeat runaway, she was found dead in Kings Cross from drugs, she has been working as a 'child prostitute', which is what they were called back then (1999). She was only 13. I found out she had died when I seen her on the news. She had invited me to her 14th birthday but she never made it.

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[quote TeachesOfPeaches]Lots of young people that go missing do so repeatedly and are known to the police, social services etc, they are found quite quickly. I think with Godsen it was totally out of character, not very streetwise and doing well at school and had a normal home life.

I had a neighbour who was a repeat runaway, she was found dead in Kings Cross from drugs, she has been working as a 'child prostitute', which is what they were called back then (1999). She was only 13. I found out she had died when I seen her on the news. She had invited me to her 14th birthday but she never made it.

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That is so sad. Poor girl. What does sexually precocious at age 5 mean? She was sexually abused? Why not say that? It makes it sound as though this was her choice 😔

@dayswithaY

I suppose it depends who the media take an interest in???

I always wonder about this, it's a lottery really - slow news day, photogenic, intriguing story. Doesn't seem fair though. In murder cases it's referred to as "White Woman Syndrome" because they get more attention - the "right kind" of white woman though ie, young, attractive and not a sex worker.

Yes. See the Yorkshire ripper case. The police only started to take it seriously when an ‘innocent’ woman was killed.

@Handsoffstrikesagain

It’s a disgusting choice of words isn’t it revolving. The same sort of words were used to describe Shy Keenan. She was being abused and raped virtually everyday by her step dad and his friends. She was 3.

I've not heard of her but can't bare to Google 😔

Detailing but regarding the media only reporting about certain cases.

I thought this about "The Peru Two Michaella McCollum" if this was a male or Black / Asian woman we wouldn't hear about it. (I'm white btw).

Yet because she's white and young and "pretty" she's made money selling her story and filming a documentary. Yes she's been in prison and "done her time" however I don't agree with it.

[quote RevolvingPivot]@Elderflower14 I wonder whether the choir had more publicity and therefore help / money. I was actually in shock when they appeared on BGT. Those poor finalise. I wondered whether it crossed Simons mind to offer assistance? [/quote]
He may well have done - he's privately very generous to certain charities (and no, I am NOT Simon Cowell).

Andrew Gosden update...

Andrew, who was aged 14 at the time of his disappearance, has not been seen since he left his home on Littlemoor Lane in Balby, Doncaster, in September 2007. He was thought to be on his way to school but was next seen on CCTV outside Kings Cross Station in London.

In the last few minutes, South Yorkshire Police have confirmed they detained two men, assisted by officers from the Metropolitan Police, on Wednesday, December 8 last year.

@HirplesWithHaggis They found his body didnt they? Obviously no proof it was him apart from the word of whoever identified him (same as with any body I suppose), but a body was recovered.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-really-happened-night-crooked-25390316

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Underworld?