Noel Radford

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AIBU to point out that Noel Radford got together with his now wife very young and they had their first baby when she was THIRTEEN and he was SEVENTEEN.

Four years difference but a lifetime in maturity. A man old enough to drive a car and a child.

As others are in the firing line for age differences despite no implication of any wrongdoing, is everyone okay with this?

If so, why? Is it because they were in care?

Can I suggest you have a look for the hundreds of other threads on her about this instead of starting yet another thread

Mumsnet is really going down the pan lately.

You can of course suggest it but perhaps you may like to answer the question?

Today seems to be ‘judge the famous person and the age gap’ day so thought I would join in

I am only making a point in line with all the other threads.’

People are creating threads to slag off other famous people so I thought that’s what we were doing today

Who is Noel Radford? Off I go to look him up…

To be fair, as you would expect, most of the threads about the Radfords focus on their vast number of children and the ups and downs of their lives in such a massive family.

There aren't that many threads focusing specifically on this issue ... and it is very relevant now that the discussions around this scenario are firmly in the news again.

Never heard of Noel Radford. Just had a quick google.
I have absolutely no idea what the.point of this thread is.

Oh well, I will leave you to it then. I have better things to do.

The dad from 22 Kids & Counting.

Clearly not 😬

I do wish they would bring back the laugh emoji. Good Afternoon OP.

The whole family is repulsive

They are on the telly quite a bit.

Of course there is no suggestion that either of them
behaved inappropriately but I find a four year age gap at that age interesting.

They weren’t “in care”, they were both adopted as babies and met each other other as children. They obviously started a sexual relationship right away as she had her first baby aged 14. They both seem quite vulnerable, damaged individuals but they’re clearly devoted to each other and their huge family, have built a successful business and made a good living from their media career.

He’s not preying on little girls, they’ve stayed together their entire lives. I’m not sure what you’re trying to stir up here but there are plenty of other targets more justified of your ire.

The only thing I noted from my quick Google was he seems to have 20 children or thereabouts. I dont see how that makes him any sort of role model. I think its quite disturbing.

Christ, not this again. I've never watched a minute of any of their TV programmes - in fact I don't think I'd even heard of them till I read about them on Mumsnet - but I must have seen about 50 threads mentioning this fact.

I’m not suggesting it was dodgy but surely you can see that having a baby at 13 with a 17yo man could be seen as problematic?

It’s great they are still together of course.

Can someone explain why its okay and why people like Jonathan Ross are being slated for a ten year age gap between two travelled people who are starting their careers.

What are "travelled people"? Personally I couldn't care less about Jonathan Ross and his wife either.

Didn't his friend from Edinburgh get caught messaging young girls? Can't remember his name. They have lots of kids too i think

This is all getting ridiculous now. MN has turned into a witch hunt the past few days.

That's uncalled-for - none of it is the kids' doing.

He’s had a lot of stick for this so I’m not sure why you think everyone thinks it’s okay. I’ve never watched them on TV or followed them but I know it too. I’m not sure anyone thinks it’s okay for 13 year olds to be getting pregnant either, by anyone of any age - but it seems to have worked for them.

But FWIW, I had an 18 year old boyfriend at 14 and have been with DH since I was 19 and he was 27. There has never been any inappropriate dynamics in either of those relationships, even as I look back now as an adult. If anything, the power balance has tipped in my favour in both relationships because I’m very self assured, bossy and a bit imposing and have been since about aged 5.

Well not ideal to have your first at 14. But they've raised/are raising 21 kids that aren't feral, which they work hard to pay for. More than a lot of people can say.

14 yo and 18 yo do have sex. It happens. Yes, it is illegal but in the Radford's case, there wasn't much of a power imbalance. Nobody appears to have been hurt.

I'm more pissed off about the NHS costs they must have racked up by having all those children and how they have produced 22 new consumers.