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 4:11 pm
652…Freddy
What is it about the words “Shove off, Hideki”, you don’t understand ?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
656
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
apart from the last few posts I missed
I liked hideki
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Hideki posted something before xmas that I found sickening to read, I ignored everything from him/her from that point on.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
625 man on a hill
Hold on to your pity, save it until after the trial.
as i said before
burn the witch
January 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
653
Rosemary Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
was Hideki Icke?
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Well, it certainly rhymes.
As does thickie…
January 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
631 Salomon ES Says:
“Ferdinand
My secret theory is that Madeleine was never in PDL. How about that?”
Outlandish. But not secret any more.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Bring back randall and hopkirk(deceased) they would tell us where maddie is……….or icke he aint afraid of making a twat of himself….he could find out from another source maybe HPandHEINZE who knows?????
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Sorry. That was “Mrs Healy”
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
apart from the last few posts I missed
I liked hideki
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
of the reptilian DNA?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Mrs Haly has had a religious conversion now. It seems to be catching.
Her message of support is fourth-ish post down.
http://users4.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g43-09628-ad
Everybody’s praying…..
January 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
was Hideki Icke?
January 10th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Freddy IS Hideki. Don’t get sucked into conversation.
M & A said he is a multi server user still trying to post his bile.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
648
delboy
must google for photos of them doing the “sign”
January 10th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
623…Ferdinand
But then again…best put it in the bin.
The PJ are sure that, sadly, Madeleine is deceased.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
646..brandon…cant be any worse than what we already have??
vote icke I say…here here..
January 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
lone pigeon
I bet he drank in all those pubs
We better start there
January 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
644
delboy
I know
Icke for prime minister
January 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
632…Freddy
Shove off, Hideki.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
The illuminati……Gerry is a twatfaced reptillian…..icke was right fooooookinel!!!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Time for a rest methinks!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
623…Ferdinand
Why be so coy about it ?
After all that is what the Forum is about…exchanging theories and debating
their good points and bad points.
Post your theory for debate.
You do like to discuss trash/support other’s theories.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
638 I think that some of the posters here might benefit from some professional guidance.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
632 Well thanks for that useful contribution ‘freddy’!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
633
brandon flours Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
lone pigeon
shall we try to solve it after this dries up!
We could be a good team
I’m with you all the way baby
January 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Hideki was vehemently anti-paedophile and it takes such a person to fly off the handle at the McCanns, who obviously have some connection with paedophilia, direct or indirect
hmm.
strange how a lot of people who work for these anti-paedophile organisations, usually the most vehement speakers on the subject, end up in court for practising it though.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
If the blood specks found in the apartment (under that famous tile) really belonged to Madeleine McCann and if they’d been washed off with water and cleaning products, yet the apartment had not been cleaned since Madeleine was reported missing… only the McCanns could have washed off the blood.
Is this a viable route of investigation?
January 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
621 Karen Says:
“No one in Glasgow leaves their door open unless they’ve nothing worth stealing, they’ve forgotten, or they’re high.”
I know! O tempra o mores!
January 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
lone pigeon
shall we try to solve it after this dries up!
We could be a good team
January 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Ferdinand
My secret theory is that Madeleine was never in PDL. How about that?
January 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
622
Ian Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Blimey, whose Freddy!
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Hideki