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The royal family

Will Charles attempt to bring H&M back?

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EdieLedwell · 17/09/2022 18:47

I've been wondering about this all week.

What do people think? Would William want that ? Would Kate?

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Celticandco · 21/09/2022 17:27

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FirstTM · 21/09/2022 17:32

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skullbabe · 21/09/2022 17:41

DFOD · 21/09/2022 16:01

The interview is Oprah distancing herself from the content - Gayle is the interviewee.

Oprah is trying to save her own reputation here by saying the content surprised me and I did not set out to do a bombshell interview.

All of which is crap - she knew the value, she knew the content and she monetised this situation. She had every opportunity to edit anything unpalatable and she chose not to - at the time or since - until she sensed that she might well be on the wrong side of public opinion and complicit in bringing distress to HMQ - but only after her death.

British (some) public opinion of her really isn’t a feature and to be honest she’s been on the wrong side of some pretty negative opinions and scandals in the US and has been unscathed. Oprah has done more contentious interviews than H&M and her reputation is absolutely fine in the US which is her primary market. She will be just fine (she is after all a billionaire).

All she said was that she was surprised it was described as a bombshell interview when she wanted to give them the opportunity to provide clarity on why they left and allow them to tell their story. Some of the things were a surprise to her but the objective was to get their word out and be the first to do it.

I’m not sure how this is distancing herself because it doesn’t sound like it to me.

Snog · 21/09/2022 17:44

Well somewhat paradoxically It seems it is you FirstTM who is in denial about your own obsession.

Why do you feel the need to try and perform psychiatric diagnosis on a stranger on an Internet forum and issue a prescription on how they should live their life? Maybe concentrate on your own life decisions and quit with the judgment on me (unless you are in fact my mother)

I'm not a public figure and have no media presence or PR representation. M&H invite controversy as of course you already know.

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2022 17:46

@Snog 👏 bravo!

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 17:49

BasiliskStare · 21/09/2022 16:11

& Also Oprah is backtracking - a decent researcher or even she would have known questions she should have asked or probed

What is Oprah backtracking from? She says she wanted to give the opportunity to tell their own story and she did. She didn’t say she wished she hadn’t. She said she didn’t think it would be as explosive as it was. That’s it.

Roussette · 21/09/2022 17:57

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 17:49

What is Oprah backtracking from? She says she wanted to give the opportunity to tell their own story and she did. She didn’t say she wished she hadn’t. She said she didn’t think it would be as explosive as it was. That’s it.

It's no different to Emily Maitlis commenting on the PA interview, after the event. She was taken aback as to what he was saying.
Ditto Oprah

FirstTM · 21/09/2022 17:58

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Cameleongirl · 21/09/2022 18:00

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 17:49

What is Oprah backtracking from? She says she wanted to give the opportunity to tell their own story and she did. She didn’t say she wished she hadn’t. She said she didn’t think it would be as explosive as it was. That’s it.

The Nelson Mandela comparison revealed during the podcast went down really badly here in the US. Not a slightly shocked reaction I mean really, really badly.

Oprah could be trying to distance herself from them?

Cameleongirl · 21/09/2022 18:05

@FirstTM Are you suggesting that older women dislike MM? That they’re jealous of her for some reason? Why?

notanotheroneagain · 21/09/2022 18:10

@FirstTM you will quickly find that you are quite correct.

A poster has less than a handful of posts, and they are called obsessed - by posters who post almost nearer to 50 posts a day, denigrating MM.

Reminds me of Angela Levin who could not even answer a question where she was asked to justify her hate. Ended up being so defensive, claiming she was being attacked. She could not last a day in MM' shoes.

notanotheroneagain · 21/09/2022 18:12

Showing us a torygraph reporter's hot take on MM does not prove anything except how pathetic the British media is.

notanotheroneagain · 21/09/2022 18:13

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 17:49

What is Oprah backtracking from? She says she wanted to give the opportunity to tell their own story and she did. She didn’t say she wished she hadn’t. She said she didn’t think it would be as explosive as it was. That’s it.

Oprah did not backtrack on anything.

FirstTM · 21/09/2022 18:26

notanotheroneagain · 21/09/2022 18:10

@FirstTM you will quickly find that you are quite correct.

A poster has less than a handful of posts, and they are called obsessed - by posters who post almost nearer to 50 posts a day, denigrating MM.

Reminds me of Angela Levin who could not even answer a question where she was asked to justify her hate. Ended up being so defensive, claiming she was being attacked. She could not last a day in MM' shoes.

I have no doubt about it. It’s very ironic the offence that some people seem to take about being asked to consider introspection (to the point of reporting my posts to have them deleted) but it’s quite acceptable in their eyes to make up stories and write defamatory comments about an individual they do not know and who previously revealed that they wished to end their own life because of the incessant abuse they experienced from others. It beggars belief.

Snog · 21/09/2022 18:27

@notanotheroneagain I assume you yourself are one of the most frequent posters on the M&H threads along with Rousette and the other M&H "defenders"?

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 18:27

Cameleongirl · 21/09/2022 18:00

The Nelson Mandela comparison revealed during the podcast went down really badly here in the US. Not a slightly shocked reaction I mean really, really badly.

Oprah could be trying to distance herself from them?

No - the Mandela comments were received badly by people inclined to think the worst of Meghan. Most people, including myself, took the comments at face value (someone said they were dancing in the streets) but felt she was unwise to share them.

Snog · 21/09/2022 18:29

@FirstTM maybe if you practiced what you preach you wouldn't have your own posts deleted by MNHQ.

derxa · 21/09/2022 18:30

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 18:27

No - the Mandela comments were received badly by people inclined to think the worst of Meghan. Most people, including myself, took the comments at face value (someone said they were dancing in the streets) but felt she was unwise to share them.

Nobody was dancing in the streets FGS

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2022 18:32

For the purpose of clarity , it was me who reported the post , it was a personal attack on another poster for voicing her opinion, one which many share , it was also thinly veiled ageism ( particularly as this is an anonymous forum where nobody knows the age of others!)

Roussette · 21/09/2022 18:32

Snog · 21/09/2022 18:27

@notanotheroneagain I assume you yourself are one of the most frequent posters on the M&H threads along with Rousette and the other M&H "defenders"?

At least I am defending bullying of another woman as opposed to denigrating her.
I'm happy to be on that side. As opposed to yours.... just sayin'

MaulPerton · 21/09/2022 18:34

Roussette · 21/09/2022 17:57

It's no different to Emily Maitlis commenting on the PA interview, after the event. She was taken aback as to what he was saying.
Ditto Oprah

Yes, Roussette, O was taken aback during the interview, and, in the segment that has been posted of the 'we got married there days prior' clip, she is taken aback by this very assertion - her "aagh" is indicative of this. However, despite clocking the potential enormity of what M says, she nevertheless keeps this part in the interview that was eventually shown. Oprah has her own agenda with respect to H & M and it's not one that necessarily works in their best interests.

jeffgoldblum · 21/09/2022 18:35

@Roussette , as a longtime lurker, I have always thought you a fair poster , I would be disappointed to see you aligned with a new poster posting personal abuse at another poster for a different opinion.

Coronateachingagain · 21/09/2022 18:37

@Cameleongirl yeah Oprah has not joined the post at wagon not even to mention the "effort", and doubt she will want to be attached to any of it anymore. She will stay above it and move on, there is no story anymore

Cameleongirl · 21/09/2022 18:37

skullbabe · 21/09/2022 18:27

No - the Mandela comments were received badly by people inclined to think the worst of Meghan. Most people, including myself, took the comments at face value (someone said they were dancing in the streets) but felt she was unwise to share them.

The statement made by Mandela’s grandson doesn’t count?

Perhaps it’s just the majority African -American area where I live that was shocked.

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