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 1:48 pm
473
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
“Do try and get over your disappointment with your Master and Mistress”.
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You forgot your smug smilie - wasamatta, have I put you off?
January 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
462 Garth
We have indeed.
Its not mine of course, its Tanners and Gerry’s 5 minute window and its never been proven or otherwise.
However its formal and defined testimony from the McCann camp and provides the only rock in a tumultuous raging sea.
Nothing will bring the child bak, its now about punishment and justice being seen to be done, prevention of recurrance and harm to other children.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I know I said I wouldnt post anymore, but really want to share this……….
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because……
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms………WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents .
We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
T h e past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
firestar
that was ian oogilvy
pmsl
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
444
Stickler Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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I think you are overlooking the salient point.
They got paid for the article.
Which means VF had them over a barrel on the content.
I suspect that the Fund is a hell of a lot more depleted than they are letting on.
And it’s a great way of stitching Kate up…
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
471…Garth
Do try and get over your disappointment with your Master and Mistress.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
449 brandon flours Says: January 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
funny
theres quite alot of men on here feeling sorry for kate today
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I don’t feel sorry for her…. I could probably feel a degree of sympathy for what she has/may be going through, if she went back to Portugal and helped the PJ with their enquiries. Somebody/ies knows something(s)….
January 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
464
Karen Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Brandon
I want a statue of St Jude. We only have one of St John Ogilvy - bore.
i thought he was quite good when he played simon templar.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
459
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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Oh jeez…………he’s off with his usual shite
and same smiley faces………..zzzzzzzzzzzz
January 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
See what a few tears get you (a bit off topic, perhaps):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk:80/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=507189&in_page_id=1811
January 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Karen
St Jude and St Anthony are the tops !!
January 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
458
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
kate wears the pants
I bet they’re a big pair of bloomers lol
January 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
449 brandon flours
sorry for her fragrance?
not me
burn the witch
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
449 Brandon
I think its the vanity fair thing.
It does seem as if its actually Gerry people respond badly to.
I reckon Kate is verging on the edge of insanity, I think she seems unhinged in her odd commments about the ’special’ nature of Maddie and the way its always others telling her the things the twins have said, rather than her hearing it first hand (as if that confirms its truth).
I can imagine her going ‘incandescent’ too, but I dont think the McCann machine should be saying iot - but then I have always been taken aback at the use of ‘fury’ in their PR - surely they shouldnt be painting the McCanns in any aggressive way?
I think that if Kate had married someone else and this had occurred, there wouldnt have been a media circus and there would have been no mystery.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
457
Karen Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Firestar
I think the publicity is Gerry’s fault - but you should watch the Panorama programme - she doesn’t make a good case for herself.
thats part of why i think she did it, but is raving mad.
the weird ‘poof’ and she was gone stuff, and not being able to cry even when she must have been trying to on telly for ages.
this could even all be about gerry not wanting people to know he has a mad wife.
wonder if not being able to cry is a sign of some psychopathic -ism or other?
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Brandon
I want a statue of St Jude. We only have one of St John Ogilvy - bore. And my degree’s a lost cause so I really need St Jude.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
447
Ade Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
410 chenier
didn’t he balls that one up recently too
i remember mi6 bods had to be sent home from there because they were bribing the taleban
carry on up the khyber
true fun
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Balls would be a particularly fine way of summing up the double-barreled one…
I suspect that the Fund is smaller than we think; VP paid for the article, which means Team McCann had to put up with the slightly less than glowing sycophancy in order to get their hands on the dosh.
I was pointing out to Will earlier on that the payments to the McCanns are not only taxable but also probably should have been paid under the deduction of tax for onward transmission to the Trearury.
That can put a very large hole in the money as well…
January 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
451
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
445 Rosemary
9:10 Gerry, with love all but bursting from his heart, looks down on Madeleine for that final time, thinking ‘How lucky am I that the kids arent with us at dinner’ ooops sorry, wrong quote…’How lucky am I to be the PARENT of such beautiful children’
Or was that little Jack Horner?
Anyway…then 9:15 a cartoon man rides by….
5 minute window of opportunity.
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Are so bleeding stupid you cant see. Weve been over and over you 2 second window of opportunity so many bleedin times it really is starting to become very irritating. A little bit like your continuous jibes at the McCanns for leaving the tots on their own. Get over it. It aint gonna bring her back.
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Mods and Admin
‘not bring her back’ no it won’t, but it might find her remains, give her a dignified resting place and justice. Of course she wouldn’t need all that had she not come to accidental or possible deliberate harm when left alone. Its called neglect, and its not a jibe, its an offence
January 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
About the pleasure of gossiping…
After Christmas I decided that I had enough of saying my word on the forum, because I thought too much about it and it took too much time and it was gloomy etc… It took me about one week to come back to it. And guess what made me come back to it : I read in the news an article from The Independant, referring to the McC’s case, and in its title, it said “British Life”. I thought it would be something interesting with an analysis of the media coverage, reaction of the Government, reaction of the people on the forums, etc… if not great thinking, at least objective. The more I read it the more it appeared it was one more plea for the McC, as if the author was their lawyer, and a bad one too, since it ignored completely the unsolved aspects of the case in its description. It also went along with the bashing of the Portuguese, with something like “everybody knows that the PJ was sloppy…”, as far as I remember. Such bad faith, such propaganda, were unbelievable. And I felt like finding a place again where I could say I didn’t want the newspapers to think instead of me. I don’t think I enjoy the gossiping, I even can say it makes me feel quite ill at ease with myself.
Anyway the pleasure of gossiping doesn’t explain it all. We could as well be gossiping about Britney Spear or anyone else. So why this case? For myself I have an idea, but I won’t tell it now, as I would like other Anorakian fellows to tell me what attracts them specially to that enigma, if they know. Ferdinand, what about you since you raised the question?
January 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
re my post at 452
Last sentence. By “PR” I mean more smoke screen companies like Metodo3, private detectives, SAS (-: who can keep the posibility of an abduction in the media.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
458…brandon flours
I think that Dr G P is the dominant one in that household, in the worst
sense of being dominant that is.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
kate wears the pants and loves to play ” woah is me” for gerry to be her prince on a charger!
Madeleine got in the way!
January 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Firestar
I think the publicity is Gerry’s fault - but you should watch the Panorama programme - she doesn’t make a good case for herself.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
449
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
funny
theres quite alot of men on here feeling sorry for kate today
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Why would they????is this male”s solidarity or somethin like that?
January 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
449
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
funny
theres quite alot of men on here feeling sorry for kate today
not just today.
gerry doesn’t seem the type to do something that would look so mad i don’t think.
and it fits with the open bible she had.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
karen
I agree
Thats why stand at the back near st jude looking guilty
January 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
449…brandon flours
Not sorry for her….but Dr G P is a controller and if needed he would
drop her like a hot cake if it helped his case.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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Joanie Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
406 Matt
I always thought catholics were like everyone else.
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No, I wasn’t trying to say that catholics or any other christian denomination were stupid. What I was saying was that by the international nature of the church, it’s network, and it’s raising of funds, any support requested by the McCanns from that network for support could be lucrative., . Having the McCann’s picture with the pope being blessed is a great propaganda tool and would encourage more support and more donations.
That picture exists. It can’t de-exist! The pope admin might have removed the MF from the website, and the PDL priest might have said he felt he had been deceived but the vast majority of religious symathisers will only be aware of the meeting with the pope, the picture, and the McCann’s religious convictions. Therefore money flows in, sympathy, and practical help.
There seems to be a real push for money at the mo’ and they’re not stupid about where they can get it from. Now including from the media. I wonder if they feel thye can - with two new directors - decide to fund the defence and maybe pass some onto the defence of the other tapa members. Mckvey said there was no legal barrier to this just a moral one. Will the NF directors feel that helping to save the McCann’s own skin is more important than the moral highground. After the film fiasco, telling the media that they are after some of the money made, requesting donations in envelopes, it’s now about money, defence, and PR - IMO of course.
Sorry, long post.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
445 Rosemary
9:10 Gerry, with love all but bursting from his heart, looks down on Madeleine for that final time, thinking ‘How lucky am I that the kids arent with us at dinner’ ooops sorry, wrong quote…’How lucky am I to be the PARENT of such beautiful children’
Or was that little Jack Horner?
Anyway…then 9:15 a cartoon man rides by….
5 minute window of opportunity.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Matthew 6:3
It goes on to say that hypocrites love to be seen praying in public, but God knows the truth (or Anorak readers in this case) - I think the McCanns should read their bible more.