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 6:41 pm
801
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“Clarence Mitchell, the family’s spokesman, said Mr McCann had not been paid by Vanity Fair and had instead requested donations to the fund in return for cooperation with future projects.”
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I’m beginning to wonder if he’s worried about collecting his own pay.
His job is PR, not fund raising. So why is he beating the drum for money?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
801 can’t say no Says:
Can I vomit ????
why certainly, and if you collect it into a post office approved container you can send it as your contribution to the slush fund
January 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
http://www.msif.co.uk/familybusiness/family_photos/view2_9.jpg
Another picture of Jon Money Around The Corner.
The bald chap with the dollar signs in his eyes.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
806
CSN
I agree, it will never happen.
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1fXhLVaBBY&NR=1
January 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
The McCMURDERS ,will never go to trial.
Who is behind them
I’m lost with so many “names”
Till later
January 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
800,
Ade
Yes it wasn’t generally known it would be him! A big surprise for all of us - I was with someone who knew who he was, luckily.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Mods and Admin
“She isn’t a witch!”
How do you know, have you weighed her against a duck?
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Mods and Admin
No self respecting duck would be that thin! and I know a witch or 2
witch/bitch or sow/cow/mare etc just a human,judge her as that
January 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
http://www.river-media.com/
Photo of Jon Corner the baldheaded vulture.
Creep.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
626 another way would be the simple use of strong words,the simpler the better and constant use would be needed;eg; GM IS A FAILURE. FAILURE AS A MAN.FAILURE AS A HUMAN BEING.FAILURE AS A FATHER,if said often enough it becomes accepted as fact by the person it is being,it is something sai to work on all personalities,
January 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“Clarence Mitchell, the family’s spokesman, said Mr McCann had not been paid by Vanity Fair and had instead requested donations to the fund in return for cooperation with future projects.”
Can I vomit ????
January 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
792 rosemary
aha good ol’ slowhand
i like the reprise (which few buggers ever played on the radio)
doesn’t eric just show up at the bexley pub?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
786 Matt
Being married to someone like G would certainly put me under a hell-of-a-lot of pressure. I couldn’t take the flip charts and constant spelling mistakes. I would probably throw a wobbly when tipsy too.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
mods and Admin
a thought occurs to me: she may be alive but in a vegatitive state, the money angle? may be, not impossible?
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Interesting thought; emergency tracheotomy succeeds but by that point the brain damage is irreversible.
But then how do we explain away the smell of death and the bodily fluids?
And on that cheerful note I must get some dinner…
January 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
795 Chenier
I believe so.
Helping each other out….?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
789
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
782…chenier
Careers aren’t everything…..conscience is.
I could survive without a career and pick up somehow.
But…to dispose of a child’s body…for the parent’s sake….never.
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But not everybody feels the same way…
January 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
789
Fair Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
782 chenier
I would have to agree with all of that, however I keep thinking that there is something else..
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I think O’Brian is the A&E person, isn’t he?
Failed emergency tracheotomy, perhaps?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
time to eat.
Good sleuthing !!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
791 Ade
Totally agree! He’s like all the others as they are all the same. Self serving ******
January 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
781
Ade,
Yes, in need of light relief. Saw EC play this as Derek at the Black Prince, Bexley - great guitarist, one of my all time favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANgBX5Ft12c
January 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
788…man on a hill
I think your dreams will be realised…sooner than you may think.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
783 fair
peter hain is full od shite
when he (and when 1) was a student he was a liberal who dug up cricket pitches in protest against s african govt policies.
he sways with the prevailing wind
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Mods and Admin
Ade, see my post in the Forum: Hansard etc, email from my MP about him!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
782…chenier
Careers aren’t everything…..conscience is.
I could survive without a career and pick up somehow.
But…to dispose of a child’s body…for the parent’s sake….never.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
782 chenier
I would have to agree with all of that, however I keep thinking that there is something else..
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mods and Admin
a thought occurs to me: she may be alive but in a vegatitive state, the money angle? may be, not impossible?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
784
Dream about arrests, it might come true.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
780..man on a hill
No worries, man on a hill……am fully resistant to such wiles.
I was meaning more in the line of he being Domineering in private…..
have heard of such situations within marriage…and the affects
can surprise….more so by how the domineered wife behaves.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
nite hannasus
January 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Goodnight all.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Peter Hain been a naughty boy not declaring cash.
Nuclea power plants being approved.
Hmm……
January 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
778
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
775…chenier
If he had nothing to do with the death…helping to dispose of the body would
be a very very stupid thing to agree to..
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Why?
The forces that drive doctors to cover things up are almost universal; the forces involved in the accidental death of a child which occurred when a group of doctors including OB were knocking it back at the bar, having left all of their children alone, would certainly destroy their careers.
Why do you imagine that people trained by the MDF in how to respond to suggestions of neglect ie. by total denial, would work any differently in this case?
The whole point about the dastardly villain is that it gets all of Tapas 9 off the hook…
January 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
774 rosemary
nostalgic fun