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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?

OP posts:
MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:24

MikeRafone · 20/02/2025 20:21

Why particularly Zara and Mark? Just curious what did they do?

Mark Phillips hasn't been in the public eye for about 50 years! Prior to that, I think he earned his own money. He was certainly never high profile.

Siriusmuggle · 20/02/2025 20:24

Bloody lad baby. Him and his gurning wife. They do the down to earth man of the people shtick while the kids are in private school. A school they take them out of in term time to gurn their way through freebie cruises. I loathe them and I get the rage every time I’m behind their flash car with the personal plates.

CanadianJohn · 20/02/2025 20:25

sternocleidomastoid · 20/02/2025 19:52

a nice example being that for years and until very recently, if someone died without a will or next of kin in the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, then the queen/king/prince of wales would snaffle their whole estate.
Not just grifters - grave-robbers.

In the UK, if someone dies with no will and no living heirs, the entire estate passes to the crown.

"If no living relatives can be identified, the estate is passed to the Crown, also referred to as "bona vacantia". This typically applies where the deceased has no traceable family. "

What Are Intestacy Rules? UK Law on Dying Without a Will

You don't like it.. lobby to change the law.

Viviennemary · 20/02/2025 20:26

MikeRafone · 20/02/2025 20:21

Why particularly Zara and Mark? Just curious what did they do?

They don't actually do anything. Or not very much. They make money from their royal connections, I totally disapprove.

tothelefttotheleft · 20/02/2025 20:26

butterfly0404 · 20/02/2025 18:36

Jack Monroe - now allegedly working as Policy Adviser to the Head of Southend Council. She has grifted hundreds of thousands of pounds with her fake illnesses and shit recipies

She talks about only having GCSEs.

How has she got that job?!

Chuchoter · 20/02/2025 20:26

Any of the celebrities making fake sad faces and asking the public to dig deep!

Gillian Anderson who is a very attractive and glamorous woman is made to look shabby and plain whilst appears to be very sad and asking you to donate!

Martin Sheen is another despicable fellow who does the same.

All grifters that line their own pockets whilst asking you to donate!

Chuchoter · 20/02/2025 20:27

Apologies it's NOT Martin Sheen it's that awful man Michael Sheen.

MaidOfSteel · 20/02/2025 20:28

Markle and Trump. Every word from those two is a lie.

Serpentstooth · 20/02/2025 20:28

Bigly. He's blagged his way into a whole country and it's just the beginning of his Bigly Empire. A Bigly casino in every country.

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:29

Chuchoter · 20/02/2025 20:27

Apologies it's NOT Martin Sheen it's that awful man Michael Sheen.

Oh yes. He annoys the heck out of me.

Purplebunnie · 20/02/2025 20:29

sternocleidomastoid · 20/02/2025 19:52

a nice example being that for years and until very recently, if someone died without a will or next of kin in the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, then the queen/king/prince of wales would snaffle their whole estate.
Not just grifters - grave-robbers.

The government do this. Die intestate and it all goes to the government. Unless a firm of solicitors tracks the kin and then takes a cut

FKAT · 20/02/2025 20:33

There should be a definition of grifter at the top of this thread because many of the responses do not fit the definition. A grifter isn't a celebrity you dislike or someone you think is dishonest or horrible or untalented or whatever.

A grifter is someone who spins you a story and promises to deliver something in return for money and then does not. A swindler, a con artist.

Nigel Farage is not a grifter. He promised to deliver Brexit and he did. That was his whole openly stated objective from the very moment he came into public view. You might not like it and you might think he used dishonest tactics (cos he definitely did) but at no point was he 'grifting'. The SNP on the other hand whose whole purpose is to get independence for Scotland are almost certainly led by grifters (police investigation ongoing).

C-list influencers who get paid by brands for promotion are not grifting - they get paid by click/engagement.

Celebrities you think are talentless are not grifting. Stacey Solomon brought out a book, you bought it, you didn't like it but she did deliver the book. Unlike Jack Monroe. Kim K and sisters are billionaires because they sold products to people who brought them. You might not approve of the product or the profit but nobody who gave money to the Kardashians (or the Beckhams or the Spice Girls or Mrs Hinch) did so without getting something in return.

Grifters: Jack Monroe, Jessica Taylor, Captain Tom's daughter, probably Captain Tom, Russell Brand and the fox killer himself,

Posie/KJK might be a grifter but all I know is that when I've bought a product or gone to an LWS event I've got what I've paid for and I understand it's supporting her work or income - not a 'good cause'. If she said it all went to charity then that's different but afaik I buy a product from her and that's how she makes a living and supports LWS.

Vladandnikki · 20/02/2025 20:35

Belle Gibson

Pedallleur · 20/02/2025 20:35

CanadianJohn · 20/02/2025 20:25

In the UK, if someone dies with no will and no living heirs, the entire estate passes to the crown.

"If no living relatives can be identified, the estate is passed to the Crown, also referred to as "bona vacantia". This typically applies where the deceased has no traceable family. "

What Are Intestacy Rules? UK Law on Dying Without a Will

You don't like it.. lobby to change the law.

That law won't make it past the Monarchs approval. That's why he/she has it.

ExcessiveNumberOfNinjas · 20/02/2025 20:35

Viviennemary · 20/02/2025 20:26

They don't actually do anything. Or not very much. They make money from their royal connections, I totally disapprove.

How does Zara Tindall make money from her royal connections?

Hufflemuff · 20/02/2025 20:36

The McCanns - millions raised by the public, yet Scotland Yard continue to fund a search. They have always refused to register as a charity or disclose the amount spent on the investigation or how much was raised. Plus its all their own fucking fault for leaving her alone anyway.

MayaKovskaya · 20/02/2025 20:37

Pedallleur · 20/02/2025 20:35

That law won't make it past the Monarchs approval. That's why he/she has it.

The Monarch gives Assent. It's a technicality.He or she doesn't make the laws nor pass them. We have a Constitutional Monarchy and Parliament is Sovereign.
So lobby your MP.

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:38

ExcessiveNumberOfNinjas · 20/02/2025 20:35

How does Zara Tindall make money from her royal connections?

She has advertising deals. Lives rent free in a house in her mother’s estate. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11327709/Zara-Tindall-stuns-250-designer-jacket-poses-500k-Musto-campaign.html

her husband name drops the Royals in his podcast for clout.

Serpentstooth · 20/02/2025 20:39

"Nigel farage is not a grifter" 😅😅😅 He probably wrote the book on it.

Pussycat22 · 20/02/2025 20:39

ElsaLion · 20/02/2025 17:29

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 Philip said "one should only walk out with actresses not marry them"

NZversusLondon · 20/02/2025 20:40

Jack Monroe - hideous chancer
Liz Frazer - what more can I say
An awful grifter on Insta (‘coming home to autism’) who shares every aspect of her fifteen year old son and his autism.
Saccone Joly gruesome pair who exploit their children and don’t when send them to school

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:40

Viviennemary · 20/02/2025 20:26

They don't actually do anything. Or not very much. They make money from their royal connections, I totally disapprove.

Mark Philipps is Zara’s father and isn’t he a horse trainer or rider or something.

SchoolDilemma17 · 20/02/2025 20:41

NZversusLondon · 20/02/2025 20:40

Jack Monroe - hideous chancer
Liz Frazer - what more can I say
An awful grifter on Insta (‘coming home to autism’) who shares every aspect of her fifteen year old son and his autism.
Saccone Joly gruesome pair who exploit their children and don’t when send them to school

Don’t get me started on that awful couple and their trans child. How convenient 🙄

ThereTheirTheyreYourYoureToTooLEARNTHEM · 20/02/2025 20:41

LunaNorth · 20/02/2025 17:36

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?

Yeah, I was surprised Trump’s name wasn’t mentioned sooner. 🤣

Redheadedstepchild · 20/02/2025 20:41

WtP · 20/02/2025 19:13

Really!
A swift kick in the nuts would be better for them both.

I was trying to be charitable because the worst thing any vain and egotistical man can suffer is pity.

I feel sorry for them. I pity them. Disdain is a great weopon used correctly. All men fear rejection. You can be a grandma and they still feel it.

Amateur psychologists night out here

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