To think Catherine Tyldesley is a CF - cakegate

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I can’t help but feel that when you’re in a position of privilege and a celeb of any description, you shouldn’t by asking small independent businesses for free shit...

But, if you do, at least own it. The video of her belittling “the cake lady” really shows what a tramp she actually is.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/catherine-tyldesley-ex-coronation-street-star-hits-back-after-bizarre-row-over-free-cakes-12932578

Normal people have parties that match their budget. There's no shame in buying from a supermarket rather than an independent baker or inviting 50 rather than 100 people. She won't be able to sell it to OK Magazine or the kinds of people who follow influencers but that's not the end of the world. It's funny that NVRLND were working for free- they managed to get lots of exposure with this screw up.

When you go on the original post on FB, someone in the comments said, ‘you should name and shame’ and the baker responded saying ‘I don’t know who it is!’

Not sure why Catherine then decided to out herself with the most ridiculous video ever. Why should someone accept work for free? When they say no, you’re now bitter on social media? Embarrassing really.

She’s also turned her comments off so just goes to show what people think of the video

not keen on your language about her, OP, but in principle i agree it is awful. I saw her Instagram post - i notice she doesn't allow any replies so - meh.

do I think the bakery needed to have gone public initially? Prob not. BUT the sheer cheeky duckers of asking for that volume of work for free was insane so I caN see why they did it.

I think there IS a need for small businesses, freelancers etc to bring this kind of CFery to the public eye. The bakery didn't even mention the CFs name, she outed them and herself. It is going to do her reputation no good. again, meh for her, and now I've seen pictures of the cakes the bakery provides, I'm a bit sorry i'm not in a position to order some.

Wow, just watched that video. Even if she didn't know, she has really made herself look worse with that video. She is so up her own arse.

If you look at NVRLND’s reviews on Google, it’s rather interesting. All within the last two days. Several five-star ones and then lots of one-star ones taking the piss.

She was outed by the Daily Mail comments section. I read a number of comments and people had clearly worked out it was her. I guess she thought she was putting herself in a better light by commenting on it but it would have been dead in the water by now if she'd just kept her mouth shut.

‘distasteful’ give over 🙄

Different but similar, my partner is a wonderful musician, and there is always some CF expecting her to work for free for exposure or the pure love of music. It infuriates me. It's interesting to see what society sees as worthy of payment. Are you creative/in the arts? What some exposure?

I do think CT's rather ill-advised video is what amplified matters, and the actions of the PR company were awful and cringey. But I think making CT responsible for all the ills of the world for the last few days, the story being front page of daily newspapers, or her carrying the can for all the piss-takers of the world is highly disproportionate. There are also some really hateful misogynistic comments about her online elsewhere.

I don't particularly care what celebrities are like as a person, particularly unless they do something really beyond the pale. I quite like her as an actress and am disappointed she has come across not as down to earth as I hoped, but, you know, I'll live with it, it's not something someone deserves not to work in their chosen career for.

I just think the now prolonged hoo-ha and pile on for asking for free cakes is quite a contrast to what is happening with say, Mason Greenwood right now. There were thousands of comments online yesterday about how he should start playing for Man Utd again, and even worse, loads of people apparently think that women and girls should be prosecuted if they are raped and the rapist is found not guilty.

Time to move on now surely.

I have similar as a photographer- drives me nuts

Ah.. the good old #bekind trope. Basically you’re saying that anyone can treat anyone like shit and when they’re called out on it we all have to #bekind. That’s not what the hashtag was designed for

Sorry to hear that Candy. It absolutely stinks.

That’s what I don’t get her husband appears to be a photographer with a small business. Presumably he wouldn’t be interested in doing wedding photography for an ex soap actress for free yet this was same level of freebie.

I once was working somewhere she attended with a free bar. There were some expensive bottles on the back of the bar that were gifts for specific stakeholders that the host was handing out at the end. CT attended and wanted one, I explained they weren’t part of the drinks available and she pulled out a “don’t you know who I am”. There were much bigger names there than her, they weren’t grabby and tipped the staff at the end of the night. Her and the group she was with had the attitude that they were better than the staff.

I think bad behaviour needs to be called out and it wasn’t wrong that she got named and shamed for her CF behaviour but it just goes on and on with countless online threads about it and OP calling her a tramp. It’s been done now, where does it stop? I agree that people whip out #bekind as a screen to pass off their behaviour but some of these comments are unnecessary.

Absolutely this

well, what happened to "be kind" to the bakery from the CF? I mean, the bakery didn't name her, they politely but firmly turned down a request to work for free. If they publicised that? not a problem either, since it helps other people facing similar requests to realise that they, too, can say no.

If you make twatty videos exposing yourself as a bit of an idiot, knowing the internet has been like this for the last 20 years? well. Maybe you need a better PR agency and some personal coaching (which i could offer, but not for free. I'm very expensive)

She is well known for being nasty (and she's friends with the equally odious Anthony Cotton) so it came as no surprise to me.

In the past, she's also been gifted other products on the basis of advertising the company on social media but has then refused to do it. Awful woman.

Me too, I don’t watch soaps but have seen Katherine Kelly in lots of other stuff and like her a lot. I think, with the Corrie link, at first glance people could confuse the two

it says upthread that CTs husband is a photographer.
I wonder how often he is asked for (and turns down) freebies "for exposure"?

She doesn't make her main living as a social media peddler though, she is an actor.

I don't think actually that choosing which bits of your life you make public, or making money out of that gives everyone free range to do or say everything about you or for journalists to hound you, or film your family on holiday (not saying this all happened to CT but it happens).

There is a still a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy and some of these journalists are far more vile than the celebrities they gossip about and make their money out of.

That's not to say no-one should be criticised either (and I agree, an events company asking for free stuff on her half is deeply cringey and shameful) but it has to be proportionate.

I wonder how much the Daily Mail online makes from advertising? It absolutely thrives on stories like this and would not exist without scandals and gossip.

They also do it to members of the public who get unwillingly caught up in big stories, sometimes in the midst of grief or other personal tragedy.

When you are writing nasty and disproportionate things about celebrities online just have a think that one day you could be the source of national or international gossip and through no fault of your own. Nicola Bulley's family for example recently. So many threads just on Mumsnet and some really disgusting comments.

She's not done herself any favours has she.

@SydneyJKL have you ever hear a man use the term bekind to another man?

No.

Why is that? Other than the answer "because he would look like an idiot", have a good think about why, and who mainly uses it against who.

I think where it blew up was the events company (not a PR agency - stop getting them mixed up) sending a legal letter to the bakery. tHAT was the point where the mainstream press sat up and started covering the story

I do wonder, though, if this is getting more traction because she's a woman (can't think, off the top of my head, about any equivalent men who have done this)

But it kind of should stop #BeKind in its tracks. Because if we must be kind to CT (and i agree some of the comments here, elsewhere and particularly the OP) are wide of the mark and not acceptable. But. The original post didn't name her, she has outed herself (after some Mail readers sleuthing?) and has shown herself to be a) nasty b) vindictive (can't fault her, i am too) and c) unacceptably dragging another women's actual business through the mud.

She is going to get a lot of hate for this, mostly undeserved, but she cannot now go all wide-eyed and say "oh boy, didn't expect that". She probably expected a billion offers of freebies for the party and everyone to be on her side. That's on the people around her for letting her develop that as a personality.

Aspiring to be an influencer, or monetise your fame as a way to keep a roof over your kids heads? I can live with people doing that.