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

594 replies

2025ohdear · 20/02/2025 16:41

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?

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WanderingDreamingSpires · 20/02/2025 21:30

ThejoyofNC · 20/02/2025 18:23

Zelensky without a doubt

That's a joke, right?! Poor taste

BustingBaoBun · 20/02/2025 21:31

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:43

Ah. The son? What does he do? I have to admit I'm not really aware of him.

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Grifts! He sold picnic hampers for queens 90th for £150 and trousered a lot of dosh

NavyViewer · 20/02/2025 21:31

Boris is smart but incredibly lazy

thinktwice36 · 20/02/2025 21:33

Trump
Harry & Meghan
anyone from Love Island

MotionofTime · 20/02/2025 21:34

Oh god I confused grifter with grafter for a second then and was very confused

Ger1atricMillennial · 20/02/2025 21:36

Is grifter a US term, thats migrated via social media, because its very similar to grafter and I always think it someone who works hard?

lifeonmars100 · 20/02/2025 21:38

Sacked from every job he had due to his loose understanding of truth, so not that smart. I wonder how much longer he is going to last as the Mali's star columnist. He has a certain low cunning and knows how to use things and people to further the interests of the only thing that matters to him, which is of course himself. Didn't somebody once say "The only people who like Borisi are the ones who have yet to meet him"?

AmiablePedant · 20/02/2025 21:39

ThejoyofNC · 20/02/2025 18:23

Zelensky without a doubt

WTF????

RobertaFirmino · 20/02/2025 21:40

Mickey Bricks and Three Socks Morgan

CrazyOldMe · 20/02/2025 21:41

Captain Tom's daughter...

If you read the threads on here/ Reddit from the time, the aggressive defense of her is hilarious now! Like her or not, she was good at what she did!

lifeonmars100 · 20/02/2025 21:44

Ger1atricMillennial · 20/02/2025 21:36

Is grifter a US term, thats migrated via social media, because its very similar to grafter and I always think it someone who works hard?

I became aware of it when that film "The Grifters" came out in the 90's and began to use it after seeing it but it was not in common use at the time. I knew a couple of people on the outer fringes of my social circle who had no job but always seemed to manage to survive reasonably well and we used to think of them as scammers or con merchants which is a very similar thing.

mathanxiety · 20/02/2025 21:47

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 19:29

Word from the top suggested it was widely known that they were having an affair at the time of Truss's leadership.

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That would make at least two for her :-(

lifeonmars100 · 20/02/2025 21:47

ExercicenformedeZ · 20/02/2025 20:44

OMG I'd forgotten about him! I was very sorry about the poor little baby, but he turned it into a scam.

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hasn't he had at least one more kid? not that I follow what he is up to but I seem to remember something cropping up on my timeline. I too was very sorry about the baby but there was something "off" about the way he seemed to market his grief

Ger1atricMillennial · 20/02/2025 21:48

lifeonmars100 · 20/02/2025 21:44

I became aware of it when that film "The Grifters" came out in the 90's and began to use it after seeing it but it was not in common use at the time. I knew a couple of people on the outer fringes of my social circle who had no job but always seemed to manage to survive reasonably well and we used to think of them as scammers or con merchants which is a very similar thing.

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Fair enough, its not in common use in my circles we would use con artist or swindler, but I have been seeing it alot of SM so I thought it would be from the US.

Mumlaplomb · 20/02/2025 21:52

Meghan Markle. Expensive tastes and appears quite ruthless in getting what she wants.

ToWhitToWhoo · 20/02/2025 21:52

Michelle Mone and her ghastly husband.

Nigel 'hate the EU but loved its gravy train' Farage.

ToWhitToWhoo · 20/02/2025 21:55

Ooh, how did I forget to mention one of the absolute worst: ANDREW WAKEFIELD.

CrazyOldMe · 20/02/2025 21:57

To be fair, the likes of Stacey Solomon are talented. She can sing and is famous through merit.

Mumlaplomb · 20/02/2025 21:57

CrazyOldMe · 20/02/2025 21:57

To be fair, the likes of Stacey Solomon are talented. She can sing and is famous through merit.

Yes I think she works bloody hard and her shows are very popular.

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 21:58

Mumlaplomb · 20/02/2025 21:57

Yes I think she works bloody hard and her shows are very popular.

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Yes, she's not a grifter.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 20/02/2025 22:00

Backupnorth · 20/02/2025 17:10

That bloody captain Toms daughter
the scrounger!!!

She isn't fut to Polish his shoes. He will be turning in his grave. He, on the other hand, is a legend.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 20/02/2025 22:02

Would somebody define grifter please

nestofvipers · 20/02/2025 22:05

The fake Spaniard- Hillary Hayward-Thomas AKA Hilaria Baldwin.

I don’t think she’s been mentioned yet, but that’s some dedicated grifting spending over a decade pretending to be Spanish.

EdithBond · 20/02/2025 22:06

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 20/02/2025 22:02

Would somebody define grifter please

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/grifter

HRTQueen · 20/02/2025 22:07

nestofvipers · 20/02/2025 22:05

The fake Spaniard- Hillary Hayward-Thomas AKA Hilaria Baldwin.

I don’t think she’s been mentioned yet, but that’s some dedicated grifting spending over a decade pretending to be Spanish.

And she recently forgot that she had been found out and slipped back into her Spanish accent

😆