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I would divorce my husband if he behaved like Giles Coren did

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WilheminaModel · 15/11/2023 16:37

I read an article in the Mail on Monday about how Giles Coren abused his neighbour who is the mother of an autistic child by pretending to be a delivery driver to gain access to her house in a row about parking. I am the mother of an ASD child and would divorce my husband if he behaved like this. I can’t believe someone who is employed by the BBC has so little control over himself. No wonder he was issued with a police caution. His poor neighbour.

Link to copy of online article: https://uk-times.com/news/giles-coren-accepts-police-caution-for-verbally-abusing-neighbour-after-row-over-parking-outside-his-home/?amp=1

I would divorce my husband if he behaved like Giles Coren did
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Cumberbiatch · 15/11/2023 16:43

So would I. I'd have left him years ago for the horrid ways he's treated people. He's a terrible role model for his kids.

SwedishEdith · 15/11/2023 16:46

I've never heard any stories about him being alright.

myotherkidisacassowary · 15/11/2023 16:48

YANBU. For multiple reasons the man is an irredeemable shit.

Motnight · 15/11/2023 16:49

He is well known to be a nasty person.

Unbelievable that he still continues to get work.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 15/11/2023 16:50

Horrible man. Doesn’t surprise me.

DisingenuousBatshittery · 15/11/2023 16:50

I would have left him for the excessive wanking. And then again for the article he wrote about the wanking.

FictionalCharacter · 15/11/2023 16:50

I’ve been utterly revolted by him ever since he wrote rather gleefully and at length about his obsession with rather nasty porn and wanking all the time (which he allegedly gave up).

FictionalCharacter · 15/11/2023 16:51

Cross posted @DisingenuousBatshittery !

newnamethanks · 15/11/2023 16:51

He's famously vile, it's all he's got going for him. Good luck Mrs Coren.

SecondUsername4me · 15/11/2023 16:52

He was the one who spread the false rumours about Prince William and the affair. He let it go on for years then finally, when it was round the globe, quietly put out that he had made the whole thing up.

NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 15/11/2023 16:52

Why do I suspect alcohol and/or drugs may have been involved?

JemimaTab · 15/11/2023 16:53

DisingenuousBatshittery · 15/11/2023 16:50

I would have left him for the excessive wanking. And then again for the article he wrote about the wanking.

Or that article he wrote about taking his daughter on holiday.

WilheminaModel · 15/11/2023 16:53

Giles Coren actually sounds dangerous. It was 11.30pm at night! I feel so sorry for the poor autistic boy who got dressed and felt scared in his own home as a consequence of Giles Coren’s actions. And his poor mother! It would have taken hours to calm my daughter down if someone had done something like that. She has really bad insomnia and anxiety, which caused night terrors when she was younger. According to the article he knew his neighbour had an autistic child.

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ginasevern · 15/11/2023 16:53

Doesn't surprise me. He's a nasty piece of work. There have been lots of things about him over the years in the papers. He posted something vile on Twitter not that long ago about someone who had just died (a journalist I think). Totally entitled prick.

topnoddy · 15/11/2023 16:54

DisingenuousBatshittery · 15/11/2023 16:50

I would have left him for the excessive wanking. And then again for the article he wrote about the wanking.

Goes to prove that he actually a wanker then !

And his sister seems so nice

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 15/11/2023 16:55

There was the time he wished a female journalist who died in her 30s would burn in hell.

The man is a capital C.

AboutYouTalk · 15/11/2023 16:56

YANBU. Didn’t he write about finding his 3 year old daughter attractive? Weirdo.

JemimaTab · 15/11/2023 16:56

WilheminaModel · 15/11/2023 16:53

Giles Coren actually sounds dangerous. It was 11.30pm at night! I feel so sorry for the poor autistic boy who got dressed and felt scared in his own home as a consequence of Giles Coren’s actions. And his poor mother! It would have taken hours to calm my daughter down if someone had done something like that. She has really bad insomnia and anxiety, which caused night terrors when she was younger. According to the article he knew his neighbour had an autistic child.

I bet he wouldn’t have tried this with a man.

myotherkidisacassowary · 15/11/2023 16:58

AboutYouTalk · 15/11/2023 16:56

YANBU. Didn’t he write about finding his 3 year old daughter attractive? Weirdo.

He also tweeted about whether he should rape, murder and burn the body of his TWELVE year old neighbour because the kid got a drum kit for Christmas. He’s genuinely vile.

JemimaTab · 15/11/2023 17:02

I do think he’s lost a lot of work though. That hotels programme, for example. But he still writes for the Times, I think. He’s really benefited from the goodwill towards his father.

VernonScrips · 15/11/2023 17:06

Didn’t he write an article about wanking into the sofa?

And also one about how going on holiday with his three year old daughter was ‘the sexiest holiday ever’.

Ugh

TheTecknician · 15/11/2023 17:09

@JemimaTab Interesting that you should mention Alan Coren. Is his father the only reason GC is famous ? Does he have any discernible skill or talent of his own ?

Blueberrycreampie · 15/11/2023 17:09

Giles Coren is a supercilious, horrible man. He has always had a sense of entitlement (IMO) and this just proves it. Wish he'd been given more than a caution.

TomatoSandwiches · 15/11/2023 17:10

Most people would have never married the cunt in the first place, even with a gun against our heads.
Vile Giles is his name in our house.

sep135 · 15/11/2023 17:11

Until the last five years, I thought his humour just about trumped his twattiness. Partly as I quite liked his wife's blog.

Sadly that balance has now shifted to humourless smug twat.