Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann Talks With Vanity Fair
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADELEINE: THE BIG INTERVIEW”
“Our regret”
“GERRY: I wish we have never gone to the tapas bar”
“KATE: I wish I’d seen the stranger watching us”
“READ THEIR HEARTBREAKING WORDS INSIDE”
Voyeurs, campaigners, police and handwringers come see the pain, the suffering the agony. Prepare to be heartbroken!
“Riddled with guilt, the distraught” Gerry will tell all to the Mirror. Well, not to the Mirror, rather to Vanity Fair magazine. Journalist Judy Bachrach spoke with Gerry in October near the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire
And the interview is not with Gerry and Kate. Only Gerry McCann was interviewed, says the Mail. Kate McCann’s words come via friends and family
Pages 4 and 5: “I WISH”.
It reads very much like a prayer, or a camping speech by Barack Obama. Says Gerry McCann:
“I wish I hadn’t gone to the tapas bar.
“I wish I’d have stayed in the apartment that night
“I wish I’d stayed in the room when I checked on her five minutes longer”
A wish…
Says Gerry McCann: “”At the time we did it, it was not irresponsible. Of course we feel guilty about not having been there and that is just something we have to deal with for the rest of our lives. You are not asking anything we don’t think about on a daily basis. We live this 24 hours a day”
Gerry says his world went “all black, with maybe tiny points of light” in the days after Madeleine vanished. “We can’t cry our eyes out every day because that’s not helping. So after three days I picked myself up…quicker than Kate could. Grief washes over you. It’s like a big wave, mostly I was able to beat it back”
And the Madeleine ‘Look into my eyes’ campaign? Says Gerry: “We thought it was possible this could hurt her. Her abductor might do something to her eye. But in marketing terms it was a good ploy”
THE SUN: “Life’s bleak but I cling to hope”
Says Gerry McCann: “People can support you in your darkest hours and in our case the darkest hour was of course when Madeleine went missing. Now it is just bleak”
In next month’s Vanity Fair: “The interview with Gerry came as it emerged GORDON BROWN has snubbed the McCanns’ request for a meeting; furious Kate EXPLODED when cops first told her she was a suspect; and family spokesman Clarence Mitchell has given a university SPEECH on the topic Missing Maddie McCann — the perfect PR campaign
“A pal of the McCanns said Kate, 39, believes the family were STALKED by Maddie’s kidnapper in the days before she went missing”. WOW
COUPLE hit back on film. Says Clarence Mitchell, the spokesperson: “It is not us being greedy. It is us being needy“
DAILY MAIL: “It’s all my fault, admits Maddie’s father”
Well, not quite. Gerry McCann is making no confession. He maintains that the fault lies with a kidnapper. Says the Mail: “Gerry McCann is tortured by guilt that Madeleine’s disappearance is his fault”
Will he tell all? Mr McCann tells Vanity Fair’s Judy Bachrach: “I can’t talk to you about the details of what happened. I live under threat from the Portuguese - if I do talk - of two years’ imprisonment”
“THIRD POLICE SUSPECT BREAKS HIS SILENCE” – Says Robert Murat to Vanity Fair: “All I can say is that I am innocent”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE - MOTHER IS SHUNNED BY PRIEST”
Page 9: “KATE’S SCREAMS AS POLICE TOLD HER: YOU’RE A SUSPECT – KATE McCann screamed when told by police that she was a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance, it emerged yesterday. Opening the door of her rented villa to a Portuguese officer the family had come to know, Kate, 39, shouted: ‘Do you honestly believe that I would murder my own child?’”
Gerry McCann is a “39-year-old cardiologist”. Facts!
On the speculation: “Gerry says bitterly: ‘Yes, yes, I know. Kate killed her in a frenzy, Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs – in which case you would have thought they’d have found her body. I’ve heard all of that. There are a huge number of theories in the media. But what I want to know is, who told them all that?’”
DAILY STAR: “Anguished and painfully thin, his wife Kate was too upset to answer even a single question during the interview with glossy US magazine Vanity Fair. Gerry revealed in the 7,500-word magazine article he had to be coaxed by a counsellor into talking publicly about his daughter in the days after she disappeared”
DAILY RECORD: “Maddie’s Dad: Slim Chance Of Getting Her Back”
“Distraught Gerry McCann has admitted the chances of him seeing his missing daughter Madeleine again are ‘slim’”
VANITY FAIR: “Unanswered Prayers”
“After three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on a family vacation in Portugal, her parents pursued a high-stakes strategy: media saturation. It succeeded beyond their wildest imaginings—winning the aid of everyone from J. K. Rowling to the Pope—and failed miserably. Getting the first in-depth interview with Gerry McCann since he and his wife, Kate, were declared suspects, the author re-traces their footsteps to their daughter’s empty bed”
And then a policeman appeared. His name Ricardo. “Because for months they used to have regular weekly meetings with the Portuguese police, and then they stopped,” recalls Gerry’s older sister Trish Cameron
“Do you have something to tell us?” Ricardo asked.
“No,” Kate replied. “Do you have something to tell us?”
“He nodded. “Yes. You are being made arguidos”…
Eight months of talking - read it all…
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January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
1000
RedRooster,
Shall I get my clothes-hanger? You know what happened and you were lucky you didn’t get it. Btw it took me ages when I returned from work to spit through all the posts.
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no i dont i’ve been in and out all day so i must have missed it…..its a serious question, whats happened to garth?? Also i apologise for my posts this evening i just get wound up by certain creatures, although i dont think i’ve done anything wrong really (beginning to sound like gerry) OMG
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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delboy Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
don’t forget the vatican have their own hit-men, the ones that wear the barbed wire underpants.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
big city day tomorrow
sort that plonker sledgearse out for me please
back saturday maybe
nite all
January 10th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
And the flat they rented in PdL was/is owned by a Ms. McCann. (Ruth?)
January 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
if only the pope could speak what he thinks……………those b8stards took me for a right C*Nt
January 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
1007 DuncanR
January 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
1007
Don’t worry Duncan, if need be, the cameras could magically stop working…just get in with Brown.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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Melanie Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Is it a coincidence that the planning officer for Rothley is a Sarah McCann? Maybe the clan are taking over every spectrum from medicine to local government
i thought smith was the commonest surname in the uk.
obviously i was wrong, it’s mccann.
wonder if bt do a seperate phone book just for their family.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Oops, moniker. And Garth is still around I think.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
992 - Batman
‘ ….. They will be back after they have finished the current case of Rioja.’
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A disgraceful (hic!) slur!
P.S. What b*gger installed those CCTV cameras at the foot of my (hic!) garden?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
1000
RedRooster,
Shall I get my clothes-hanger? You know what happened and you were lucky you didn’t get it. Btw it took me ages when I returned from work to spit through all the posts.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Not to add fuel to the fire, but to be fair (if Sledgehammer is who everyone says he is), he did make me laugh under one monkier.
That being said, there really isn’t any need for the personal insults. Be friendly/respectful, give what you can take, or wait for the Mods and Admin to come in as everything escalates (although I think a lack of self control with such matters is sure to annoy them at some point).
_____________________
Mods and Admin
Annoys us to the point of boredom, and unpleasant for all really, ok it pees us off no end!
January 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
B*gger that. Just have to borrow some of K’s then.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
915 Marie Micholas
Noted, and thanks
January 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Do I get 1001 like the old carpet cleaner?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
866
May Says:
thats about what i think, however you put it so much more eloquently.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
991
Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Sledge..etc. I’m surprised you didn’t get a yellow card yet, while Garth did.
In fact I thought Garth didn’t deserve it, he was funny with the knitting needles.
May be you’re lucky and Mods and Admin are having dinner or putting the kids to bed?
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what happened to garth ?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Maybe kate and gerry never paid the nanny her wages,and she’d had enough so f*cked off with maddie to australia,maybe the trust fund was set up to pay her,and make a bit for themselves, but it got out of hand and became a nightmare scenario, that metado3( although now there called metado2 cos they cant afford a third wage now)…were sending the money to an address in sidney…..and to save embarrasment kate and gerry made the whole thing up,
January 10th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
992
Batman,
They’d better watch out then, otherwise when they return, they’ll find some feathers and a broken sledgehammer….
January 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
992
Batman
January 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
988
Sledgehammer Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Twatman have they taken the axe hence the clunk, to the doodle doo cockless rooster, lord have mercy.
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January 10th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
It seems I’ve warned RR and Sledge for a yellow card.
Firestar as far as I know warned us about someone else.
When two dogs fight, don’t get in the middle. So I’ll watch the fight from now on.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Buenas tardes…..
Just got back from work,dont you all beleive that its only,tequila,no,sangria,sex,drugs and rock”n”roll where i am at the moment….so,its late in the day,I dont have a clue whats going on on the Mccnn front apart that an american trio wants to find out about Madeleine.And they also want the cuddle cat.
Whassup?I havent a clue anymore….
January 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Like to share my favorite youtube video re: the mcc. It’s called Happy Talk, From: IBeThe Badman and ya gotta watch it to the very end, it’s really great and also take a moment and read some of the comments. I’d be interested in watching others fav videos on youTube also.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vEAySu-hTJo
January 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
991 Totje
Mods and Admin put the kids to bed ages ago. They are currently in the Tapas Bar at the end of their garden - but they are checking on the children every 20 minutes. They will be back after they have finished the current case of Rioja.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Sledge..etc. I’m surprised you didn’t get a yellow card yet, while Garth did.
In fact I thought Garth didn’t deserve it, he was funny with the knitting needles.
May be you’re lucky and Mods and Admin are having dinner or putting the kids to bed?
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Mods and Admin
It was cumulative with Garth, and it is only yellow and tomorrow is another day according to Scarlett, or was that Rhett?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Totje, heed this advice or check out firestars posts, beware of this particular rooster.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
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Totje Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
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the problem with sledgy is he tries to immitate garthy, only thing is garthy is funny and entertaining at times but sludgy isn’t….he wont be around long thou, hes not having the intended effect
January 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Twatman have they taken the axe hence the clunk, to the doodle doo cockless rooster, lord have mercy.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
ploy
|ploi|
noun
a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage
As in: {bi} marketing Madeleine was a good ploy {/bi}
ORIGIN late 17th cent.(originally Scots and northern English in the senses [pastime,] [escapade,] and [a trick] ): of unknown origin. The notion of ‘a calculated plan’ dates from the 1950s.
Also: ruse, tactic, move, device, stratagem, scheme, trick, gambit, plan, maneuver, dodge, subterfuge, wile.