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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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marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 21/02/2025 00:02

Farage or Boris Johnson.

JudgeJ · 21/02/2025 00:15

Nanny0gg · 20/02/2025 23:00

Not been to the east of London recently then?

Or the NW of England? It's a common pronunciation there too. One of the reasons I often refer to Farridge, seems to represent him better, in the same way I also say Sluff for Slough, far more suitable!

stonebrambleboy · 21/02/2025 00:27

Spidey66 · 20/02/2025 18:06

I was going to say my dad. But then I realised the word was grafter, not grafter.

Eh?

cariadlet · 21/02/2025 00:52

Nanny0gg · 20/02/2025 23:00

Not been to the east of London recently then?

Not just the East End - I grew up in the Midlands, pronounced garage as "garridge" and only ever heard that pronounciation.

I didn't come across the pronounciation of garage as rhyming with Farage until well into adulthood - it always sounds a very middle class/posh way of saying it to me.

Breezeblock · 21/02/2025 01:16

Chuchoter · 20/02/2025 20:52

There was time on Mumsnet that if you criticised the McCanns in any shape or form, you would be carted off, hung, drawn and quartered and told never to darken the doors of Mumsnet ever again!

My sister posted a link to a video showing how far they were from the apartment when they were wining and dining that evening and she was instantly banned!

It’s just massively, unnecessarily cruel. Maybe that’s a good enough reason for it to be deleted.

wretchedmood · 21/02/2025 01:20

Marion Millar.

Where IS she btw? 🤔

FFSJulie · 21/02/2025 01:21

Ronnie Pickering!

Breezeblock · 21/02/2025 01:24

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 23:42

@Icanttakethisanymore More justified in being spent on a couple with a long term commitment to each other, rather than a twice divorced con artist, with questionable yachting connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, who was also residing with another boyfriend at the time she ensnared a gullible prince? Yes.

Honestly, the bile that people come out with disgusts me. You’ve got zero proof of these things, you’re even wrong about how many times she’s been divorced.

HootyMcBoobs · 21/02/2025 02:03

Agree with Belle Gibson, and her grifting actually put real people's lives in danger by encouraging them to shun conventional medicine and turn to bogus therapies and unproven alternative treatments to "beat" cancer.

Promised money to many charities who have never seen a penny.
Still hasn't paid her fines and yet takes exotic holidays and trades on the stock market apparently.

Despicable liar and a complete fantasist with no scruples.

MisterT373 · 21/02/2025 02:23

Moonlightstars · 20/02/2025 17:06

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.

I believe he's taking an MEP pension too.

lalafox · 21/02/2025 02:52

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StrawberrySundaes · 21/02/2025 04:22

Prince Andrew and Prince Harry not in any specific order.

PoltergeistsStartLowKey · 21/02/2025 04:38

The BBC.

NotMyCircus99 · 21/02/2025 04:52

Captain Toms daughter. Harry and Migraine Markle.

MumBikini · 21/02/2025 04:57

Meghan markle

JustJoinedRightNow · 21/02/2025 05:06

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She killed herself because of messages like this.
You should be ashamed of yourself

DaphneduM · 21/02/2025 05:26

Overtheatlantic · 20/02/2025 18:48

Kate Middleton obviously. Followed William to university. Is always “keen” to do projects but then nothing except to say “something something early years are important.”

Absolutely. And of course her ghastly parents - restructuring their business to ensure they weren't liable to pay off any of their debts when they went bankrupt. Left the taxpayer on the hook for their Covid loans which they didn't pay back.

Anyway, how nice for them all - lazing around in Mustique at the moment - no doubt in a free villa - peak grifting.

Add in the rest of the Royals also.

Adamante · 21/02/2025 05:30

JustJoinedRightNow · 21/02/2025 05:06

She killed herself because of messages like this.
You should be ashamed of yourself

I don’t think that poster is talking about that Charlotte Dawson. They’re talking about Charlotte Dawson, daughter of Les Dawson I think.

CowTown · 21/02/2025 05:52

Seagullsandclouds · 20/02/2025 17:42

It has to be Trump doesn’t it?

Or possibly Musk?

Both “self made” men 😂

👏👏👏

CowTown · 21/02/2025 06:00

ThejoyofNC · 20/02/2025 18:23

Zelensky without a doubt

Donald, is that you?

HelmholtzWatson · 21/02/2025 06:06

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. Or indeed most daytime TV "Drs".

Icanttakethisanymore · 21/02/2025 06:10

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 23:42

@Icanttakethisanymore More justified in being spent on a couple with a long term commitment to each other, rather than a twice divorced con artist, with questionable yachting connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, who was also residing with another boyfriend at the time she ensnared a gullible prince? Yes.

I’d say it’s hard to justify £32m on a wedding under any circumstances tbh and I don’t know anything about Megan Markle, however, I find your preoccupation with the fact she is twice divorced quite odd. Are you religious? Is that the issue? Or has the patriarchy convinced you that divorced women as damaged goods?

head2toeinuniqlo · 21/02/2025 06:27

A old friend of mine springs to mind. She's the sister of a VERY famous person. My friend has been on benefits her entire adult life. In spite of that, she has worked the entire time, she received a student grant for 5 years on top of her benefits, she claims housing benefit for the luxury flat her dad owns... I could go on. An absolute grifter and can't believe she's never been caught.

SchoolDilemma17 · 21/02/2025 06:46

HelmholtzWatson · 21/02/2025 06:06

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. Or indeed most daytime TV "Drs".

Edited

I met her at a conference once (before she was famous), she had her few lines that she repeats and that’s it. I don’t believe she is authentic she will say whatever is needed to get attention/press.

marmiteandcheeseoncrumpetspls · 21/02/2025 06:48

JustJoinedRightNow · 21/02/2025 05:06

She killed herself because of messages like this.
You should be ashamed of yourself

Eh? 🤔🤔

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