Captain Toms daughter

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Is currently getting her arse handed to her by Judge Rinder on Good Morning Britain...

She is not coming across well.

Exactly this, she’s making loads of money that’s all she is bothered about . We are thinking she feels shame like we do, she’s convinced herself she’s owed it.

I remember the first early nights of covid, when an old boy was ''walking for the NHS''...He had raised a few thousands at that point, and I sent a £10 thinking he was a Veteran and doing good-
I had NO IDEA about his grifting daughter, otherwise I'd have given the £10 to JR Whippet Rescue!

He didn't set up the charity though. She and her DH did. That places them in a different position. He obviously co operated. It was a decent enough idea if properly run but he should never have been a Sir. Hardly given his life to charitable work,

Absolutely this, @BrownPapery . We {like most people in UK} have had old Veterans in our families, WW1, WW2 that were of that generation.
I didn't realise that he himself was ''slightly dodgy'' but looking back , the parading with zimmer and a suit and medals was part of the act- he wasn't walking in his casual clothes, it was done for show.

The knighthood was absolutely bonkers the worst thing though was his song with Michael Ball it was just awful, i just think Tom just got swept along in it i don't think he was a "grifter" like his Dd and son in law.

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves No way!! Who would want to read the autobiography of this nobody.

Chapter 1: Forced dad to do laps round the lawn to get him out from under my feet.
Chapter 2: Raised lots of money.
Chapter 3 Pocketed lots of money.
Chapter 4: Waved at the lesser mortals at Wimbledon like the Queen of Sheba.
Chapter 5: Got my arse handed to me and it's not fair. Everyone's so mean.

Fastest selling non-fiction book.

You don’t have to like someone to be curious about their life experiences, it’s not mutually exclusive.

I only saw a clip. What she did was dreadful and will put folk off from giving to that kind of fund raising.

It was obvious to me it was all a grift during their carribean freebee holiday when covid cases were starting to rise again. To be fair to Tom he looked very uncomfortable in his suit and mendals during the posed holiday photos. Sending a 100 year old man on a long haul flight because the daughter wanted a free holiday seemed really cruel to me.

God I'd forgotten how much they rang him dry with the merch. Including this random. I mean did CT even drink gin, did he like it? Who cares get his image on a bottle and get it flogged for £100!

Autobiography? Er, Mrs Tom, people will have to want to buy it. I think you may have missed the bus.

I have no sympathy for her. I also wonder about Captain Tom's other daughter, never seen. It's a common theme with elderly parents (see the MN Cockroach Cafe threads) that there is a goldenballs sibling who dominates and isolates an elderly/vulnerable parent in order to control the wealth and access, to the detriment of other siblings. I hope that's not what happened here, but it fits the pattern.

Even if that's not the case, I do feel sorry for the other sister, having her dad's name tarnished and exploited by her own sister and brother-in-law, and seeing them rehashing it all yet again.

You don’t have to like someone to be curious about their life experiences, it’s not mutually exclusive.

Indeed. We're not all tuning in to this thread to share our heart warming thoughts on dear, kind Hannah Ingram Moore, are we.

Having said that, it doesn't sit comfortably with me that she is getting all the hate. As PPs have mentioned, her father was not all sweetness and light either and there will be others who have benefited from the money donated in good faith so it's worth remembering she was not acting alone.

Haven't seen Rob Rinder having a go, but I read the article about her yesterday. Her defense seemed to be a regret that she'd set up the charity in her father's name, in other words if she'd called it something else it would have all been ok,😒.
And repeating that her father wanted the family to benefit from the book.
Didn't come across at all that she was apologetic for her and her husband's actions.

If people were relating to him as they couldn't see their own family then more fool them both for falling for it and being daft enough not to see their own family

Why do you feel sorry for her? Her reputation is in tatters through her own actions, looking meek and uncomfortable are the skills of any petty actress.

Segment available now. https://www.itv.com/watch/news/do-you-have-any-shame-hannah-ingram-moore-grilled-on-role-in-captain-tom-foundation/qvfw570

Loving all the sympathy for her, I wonder if it would have been the same had he had a son who cheated like she has, or is it the usual MN standpoint that a woman can't be wrong?

That isn't very professional though is it. I think he's very pompous.

The whole "Captain Tom" thing was the DD's idea apparently - it taps in to the nation's nostalgia for the war (particularly as we'd just had the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020). The public loves a little old man in a suit and medals. Yes, the bloke was a veteran but so was pretty much everyone else's grandad if they were that generation! He left the army after the war so it's not even though he spent a whole career in the military...

Absolutely. My grandad made it to a similar age, but the thought of dragging him on a long haul flight at all, nevermind during covid would have been absolutely ludicrous.

I think he's great. Glad someone says it as it is and stopped pussyfooting around the issues. Can imagine if it was Kate just there doing the interview. She'd be declaring her undying love for her 🤮😬🙄

It’s a shame that this is what people remember of the CTF and not how it lifted people’s spirits during a very difficult time,

It didn't lift my spirits in the slightest. Me and my adult DCs quietly voiced between us that there was something wrong with all of this. We had to keep that to ourselves though. And I massively blame the BBC for giving the whole thing so much airtime, every bloody morning, there they were.
There were plenty of other people doing some wonderful fundraising for the NHS , they didn't get a look in because of this family.

She's got a nerve doubling down. Yes, why doesn't she donate the £££££££ she made from the book for the 'mistake' of her father saying it was his chance to raise more money in the foreward.

Honestly, people are just plain stupid for the most part. They’ll lap up any old media frenzy with barely one critical thought in their tiny minds. Perhaps 10% of the population - maybe less - have a functioning brain lol

I think that is very unfair, I'm not particularly a fan of Kate but but she's too professional to show her personal feelings like he did.