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 11:59 am
296 Slyfox
I dont think you are being cynical at all - I think you are spot on.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
104 nice one meg
are you the mystic one or the mad one?
great comment about making stupid mistakes sometimes
these weirdos make catastrophic blunders every day
excellent sport and good fun fun fun
January 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
289
Fair Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Brandon F
Why don’t you phone him up & tell him? It’s a phone in…
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I have and emailed him and texted!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
284
Ian Says:
“….The question of the McCanns falling into religion becasue of their guilt is, in my view, actually beyond question. Kate would want priests on the night her child is missing for what reason exactly? Access to their sensitive noses?”
All this publicity is great for the collection plate as well. They are veery religious are they not? Lots of christian and catholic sympathisers ALL OVER THE WORLD and in US of course….very useful, fruitful swimming with cash types of groups…and a great pot to exploit for recruitment to team McCann and their propaganda machine too.
Am I getting too cynical?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Here’s a question for you coolandcalm. Which of the following is the worst PR disaster?
1. Publishing the words;
Edit…..”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”.
or
2. The masses finding out about a resignation from the Mcfund board.
CM is not clever, Goebbels was not clever. I think we just come at life from a totally different angle cool and for that i am truly grateful.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
271 Karen Says:
“Ferdinand
Stop being so up your own arse. You’re clearly crap at psychology - it’s not a mystery why people gossip about crime and celebrity and you blatantly love the McCanns, so go back to defending them and quit all this I’m-superior-I’m-Only-Studying-You bollocks.”
C’mon, that’s not fair. Everyone has it’s own motives to follow this forum. You wouldn’t say that gossip and hate are considered honourable behaviour, would you? But seems to be human nature, so as long as it’s practised in an internet forum and does nobody real harm, it’s OK. In some way we are not better than all those visitors to the naughty sites of the http://WWW.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:55 am
287 Garth
No prizes for guessing.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:55 am
284
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Contrary to what some posters think, if Clarence were good, then my Mother in law wouldnt be convinced the McCanns were murdering bastards! She only ever reads the papers - even I dont think they murdered her, but plenty do.
I believe the world is made of:-
1. Those who support the McCanns because - well - because they ‘think’ like McCanns or they are, frankly, stupid or naive people.
2. Those who hate the McCanns because the McCann are sanctified and ’superior’ yet act in a very inferior manner. In the NHS Consultants are treated like gods, its a fact.
3. Those who see through their fabrications and are utterly amazed that everyone else cant see through the tissue of lies.
The question of the McCanns falling into religion becasue of their guilt is, in my view, actually beyond question. Kate would want priests on the night her child is missing for what reason exactly? Access to their sensitive noses?
I doubt the McCanns will ever receive their just desserts, but I am sure they will never enjoy the clean celebrity and new careers they hanker after. When I say ‘the McCanns’ I include the hangers on (Corner for example) and I actually tend to excluse Kate, who I suspect is a victim of all this - even though she might have been the perpetrator.
I think that is very good post.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:54 am
279,
Matt,
I hope so
January 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
284
Excluse? No I too have no idea what that means!
I’d not touch her with a barge pole - I suspect she may have ‘known a few’ in the biblical sense.
I meant ‘Exclude’.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Brandon F
Why don’t you phone him up & tell him? It’s a phone in…
January 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Doonesbury on Radio 4…
January 10th, 2008 at 11:53 am
284
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
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Now what category do you slot into my little hornets nest?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
How about this for a potential lie?
On the Panorama program Jon Corner said something like:
“I told Kate and Gerry that they and not Madeleine might become “The Story” “
I’m paraphrasing him…..
I reckon he told them that they “had to become the story in order to get people to stop asking questions about Madeleine”.
Just my opinion, no evidence to support it.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
281
Will Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
273 chenier
With respect I don’t need to seek specialist advice as what I am suggesting is how I believe the fund made the payments - as capital sums, not income. I will though attempt to contact ‘the fund’ to see if they are prepared to deny or confirm what I have suggested.
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You do seem to be overlooking the point here; what the Fund thinks is irrelevant to what the Treasury thinks.
HMRC relies on long standing legal precedent for its views; claiming that a payment is capital is such a decomposed horse that no specialist advisor would even bother slapping it, much less flogging it.
If you would like to cite some case law in support of your argument I’d be happy to discuss it with you.
But please don’t claim that the Fund has any choice in the legal consequences of its actions…
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Contrary to what some posters think, if Clarence were good, then my Mother in law wouldnt be convinced the McCanns were murdering bastards! She only ever reads the papers - even I dont think they murdered her, but plenty do.
I believe the world is made of:-
1. Those who support the McCanns because - well - because they ‘think’ like McCanns or they are, frankly, stupid or naive people.
2. Those who hate the McCanns because the McCann are sanctified and ’superior’ yet act in a very inferior manner. In the NHS Consultants are treated like gods, its a fact.
3. Those who see through their fabrications and are utterly amazed that everyone else cant see through the tissue of lies.
The question of the McCanns falling into religion becasue of their guilt is, in my view, actually beyond question. Kate would want priests on the night her child is missing for what reason exactly? Access to their sensitive noses?
I doubt the McCanns will ever receive their just desserts, but I am sure they will never enjoy the clean celebrity and new careers they hanker after. When I say ‘the McCanns’ I include the hangers on (Corner for example) and I actually tend to excluse Kate, who I suspect is a victim of all this - even though she might have been the perpetrator.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:51 am
260
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:32 am
253 Slyfox
So the fund and the benefactor coming together huh! Interesting, so the money can get a bit mixed up now.
I thought the fund was used to search for Madeleine, yet the fund was not used to pay for M3 and it was the JW double glazing salesman, or was it?
I’m confused - deliberately being made to feel confused? Is this the ploy? Confuse to deceive?
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Me too. But either way you look at it their chief benefactor has got his sticky mitt’s into the fund via his in-house lawyer. What that means I have no idea.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:48 am
268
Salomon ES Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
244 Rockhopper
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I think I may have handed you the wrong end of the stick.
I was acknowledging the fact that a British subject who commits murder abroad can be tried for the crime in the uk, something I had been disputing.
I’m in agreement with you that at this point in time there is no real evidence in the public domain to bring any charges (exepting neglect). What the PJ have of course is another matter entirely.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
273 chenier
With respect I don’t need to seek specialist advice as what I am suggesting is how I believe the fund made the payments - as capital sums, not income. I will though attempt to contact ‘the fund’ to see if they are prepared to deny or confirm what I have suggested.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Gaunty sounds like bill oddie on speed
January 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am
275…Rosemary
Am sure he/she is still around….deed poll facility helps.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Someone on Brians Dreams is suggesting Michel Lelievre, Marc Dutroux accomplice, fits the description of the suspicious type seen loitering near the apt on 3rd May. But he’s in jail, surely?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
270
Will Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
266
was supossed to be
…..would suggest that any payments made to the McCs are capital payments (possibly paid in installments) and therefore not income and therefore not considered as annual payments.
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And that’s tosh as well…
January 10th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Gaunty shut the fuuuucccckkk up!!!!!!!
Did you get a slice of the fucking fund or what!!!!
your kids are TEENAGERS
not babies
January 10th, 2008 at 11:40 am
269…coolandcalm
The VF jurno doesn’t think Clarence is much good.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Whatever happened to Postman Pat? Did he find the wads of cash in envelopes addressed simply
“Gerry & Kate, Rothley” too tempting and run off with the lolly?
January 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am
266
Will Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 11:36 am
261 chenier
I understand annual payments and would suggest that any payments made to the McCs are capital payments (possibly paid in installments) and therefore not considered annual payments.
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Tosh.
I would suggest you seek specialist advice; there isn’t a snowball in hell’s chance of that argument succeeding…
January 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Peter O
Thanks…
Sene Brian Child? Was CEO McCann Erikckson.
Childs bio ends with ‘He’ ….lol.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Ferdinand
You’re only curious? You’re interested in the motives of Anorak posters?
Stop being so up your own arse. You’re clearly crap at psychology - it’s not a mystery why people gossip about crime and celebrity and you blatantly love the McCanns, so go back to defending them and quit all this I’m-superior-I’m-Only-Studying-You bollocks.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am
266
was supossed to be
…..would suggest that any payments made to the McCs are capital payments (possibly paid in installments) and therefore not income and therefore not considered as annual payments.