Captain Tom’s Family

[TheSassyTraybake]

I realise I’m late to the party on this. Just listened to the interview they did on Piers Morgan. They’re really bad at interviews, not sure why they keep doing them.

Controversially I kind of get what they’re saying though?

He raised money for charity. Good for him (I didn’t get the hype about it at all - a man walking round his garden? But he raised money so fair play). Then signed book deals which were for him personally to earn money from. Again fine in my opinion. Then he died and wanted his family to cash in on his fame.

I may well be missing out on other information here (I haven’t followed it all that closely) but if I was in his shoes you better believe I’d want my family to cash in if I died. Squeeze every penny from my name that you can.

I think the problem the family have is that the public think every penny earned from his name should go to charity and they’re saying no, the charity and the money making stuff are 2 separate things.

Anyone more informed about this than me want to set me straight? Or who just disagrees with me on this?

Didn't Del Boy keep magically 'remembering' an extraordinary large and varied amount of heartfelt 'last wishes' that their mum had expressed to him on her deathbed, every time he wanted to persuade or emotionally blackmail Rodney into something?!

How can you believe anything that daughters says?! Of course she is pushing the narrative that he wanted them to have the money, and no one can ask him now. But there’s no evidence that he did. Everything about their behaviour; the cracking of funds, building the spa, etc, show that they are a bunch of absolute grifters. I hope the charity regulation authorities are investigating because everything points towards fraud and misappropriation of funds.

Captain Tom was as much on the make as his daughter and it's because people can't admit that to themselves that they focus so much on her.

😂😂 certainly did. And tbh every time I hear Hannah talk earnestly about "my father's last wish" (that coincidentally is also something she would benefit from) I hear Rodney's voice in my head going "cor, mum didn't half have a lot to say on her deathbed"!

Her husband seems to escape most of the criticism as well, and I highly doubt that he hasn't been a co-driving force behind all this fiasco from the start.

I have no issue admitting that but for me its more that he isn't actively on the grift right now. Unlike Hannah.

Didn’t they pay themselves giant salaries and consultancy fees out of charity funds as well?

I have a family member who has the exact personality as hannah
If there is a sniff of being able to take something (normally money) from something,they are all over it
The whole world could say that they are wrong and they'd dig their heels in and double down

In one case,a family friends dd was diagnosed with an illness
This family member was at the front,centre and back of the fundraising for equipment for this child
Purely for the praise and the creaming off a percentage of the money raised

They will never see what they did wrong as they 'deserved' a treat after all their hard work

The other dd did well to stay out of it

It’s not about whether you’d want your family to ‘cash in’. It’s about having the legal benefits and reputation of a charity while using said charity for personal gain. Can you not see that?

I doubt he walked up and down a small bit of the garden more than a couple of times for the cameras in any case. People weren't in the frame of mind to question what a PR an adoring daughter said was happening and then it was the kitschy feelgood, 'aww, veterans, daily exercise, sunshine and flowers, isn't it grand?' that caught on when the rest of the world was going to shit.

That's a very good point, actually: did they ever say how many laps he was reckoned to have done, or was it just that he was doing it?

Either way, it was hardly comparable to the Proclaimers' support-us-by-the-mile sponsored walk!

They claim they didn’t do that though. The salary she was offered was allegedly offered by the independent trustees of the charity. They benchmarked the salary from someone of a charity with that level of funds available.

And having worked with charities I think you’d be amazed at some of the salaries people are taking from them.

Someone asked if I had seen the Rob Rinder interview, I have now. She certainly comes across as someone on the take, I agree.

He was doing a set number every day under the advice of his GP to help his mobility.