To ask who is the biggest grifter you've seen?

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I remember Anthea Turner punting flakes at her wedding. Carol Vorderman was always quick to front a financial product. Just seen Carole Malone on my timeline oiling on about weight loss jabs.

Any others spring to mind?

Come on, it's Farage. He didn't show up when he was an MEP and his constituents haven't seen him for dust in Clacton.

Jack munroe or whatever she her name is now.

Farage was top of my list. MEP for years..did nothing other than embarrass the UK. Now as an MP he is not even doing the basics. Ultimate grifter. But people fall for it every time.

Ollie London. I'm trans-Korean, oh I'm a trans woman, no, a few weeks later I am an anti-trans campaigner saving the children and the identifying as a trans woman wasn't at all a grift-y stunt to make lots of money from right wing people. Oh, also I support the IDF to own the libs but because of all the other shit I'm associated with anyone watching my stuff will probably be recommended more antisemitic content by the algorithm but that's not my problem. Pathetic human being. 🙄

Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

The whole situation is appalling.

That bloody captain Toms daughter
the scrounger!!!

Good Law Project/Jolyon Maugham. They have about 40 staff and very expensive offices in Covent Garden but all they seem to do is write complaint letters and lose court cases.
Do the soft touches who pay for it all by monthly direct debit think they're funding some brave resistance movement?

I don't really think I can beat Captain Tom's daughter and I'm not quite sure if this character is a grifter exactly in the correct sense of the term but he's certainly very slippery. More slippery than a bar of slippy soap on an ice rink type slippery.

Russell Brand.

He's a born again Christian now, y'know.

Any and all the solicitor firms that advertise that they can process your marriage allowence claims for a % fee.

It takes one phone call to the HMRC, that's it.

Probably Meghan Markle, considering how much she seemingly conned the RF and public. Honestly, a £32 million wedding for a twice divorced actress! Personally I didn't have a good feeling about her from the start, and have since been validated.

Prince Andrew. (The whole Royal Family, really). Though I see the argument for Farage.

Capt. Tom’s daughter takes some beating.

Boris Johnson manages to make very little intelligence go a very long way through sheer grift and bluster.

Meghan Markle, obvs.

But the ultimate has to be Trump, surely?

I think Boris Johnson is actually incredibly smart. I don't like him, and he's certainly the master of free handouts, but he certainly isn't a man of little intelligence.

We’ll have to agree to disagree.

Sally Hines and Judith Butler.

That’s not true. He turned up once to berate an MEP for not having a proper job. The man was an MEP on the side, his day job being a brain surgeon.

There’s loads on instagram. That mamas still got it woman, Vicki pattinson sponsored by Greggs…

Someone like Geri Halliwell.
She's completely devoid of any talent whatsoever and lies to sell her god awful children's books that she probably didn't even write herself.
Can't sing, can't dance, can't present. Has zero creative acumen and the most annoying, fake, simpering personality.
Her voice grates on me severely as well.
Sorry I sound mean but she's bloody awful.

It has to be Trump doesn’t it?

Or possibly Musk?

Both “self made” men 😂

Captain Tom’s daughter, hands down. Michelle Mone is probably second, awful woman.

L. Ron Hubbard and the "Church" of Scientology. By association, David Miscavige who's apparently running the shop these days.

^^This! The amount Jolyon’s outfit rakes in makes Captain Tom’s daughter look like a minnow.

Plus yes to Farage. And tbh, the biggest grifter of all has got to be Trump. Trump steaks, hats and Trump bitcoin, anyone?

A woman I knew in my 20s who projected an image of huge success and wealth whilst she actually shared a bedroom with her sister at her parents’ house, years before influencing was even a concept. Massive grifter who never worked but got PR invites everywhere and basically lived off them.

She’s set up a sportswear company, last I heard. Just looked it up and it made 40k last year, and she’s been made an MBE for services to fashion and women in business 😂

Stacey Solomon. Quite how she's gone from an X Factor finalist all those years ago to now presenting multiple primetime TV shows, flogging everything from cleaning products to deodorant, and her multiple homeware ranges etc. is beyond me!

She's positioned as an interiors and home organisation guru but to me she comes across as fake, phony and just not very intelligent.

Celebs - Harry and Meghan. Two people who aren’t particularly bright and have no talent or charisma prancing about the globe using the birthright he moans about to use whichever person gives them the most clout that day before moving on to the next fool.