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 7:36 pm
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/col…..e-madness/
So many people here are so easily hooked by the tiniest bait!!! Vanessa Feltz is still pushing ABDUCTION!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
837
Ade
January 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
827
can’t say no Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Just came back
To join All those who told beware with this Forum !!!
i don’t understand what this means…
January 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
829 aha the headless chicken returns from the McRoost
bristling with evidence of a abduction
a mad mare living in exeter sort of says o - sometimes
erm… that’s it
is bagabones in a straight jacket yet?
January 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
BREAKING NEWS!
There’s a THIRD Madeleine “research team” on the loose led by EDWARD SMETHURST who just happened to join the FraudFund!
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/clitheroe/display.var.1857924.0.east_lancs_solicitor_leads_madeleine_hunt.php
January 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
and it’s clear I still don’t understand the bold/italic thing. I won’t bother with it in future.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
from the Vanity Fair article describing Gerry:
“…There are those, including a onetime close associate, who find him difficult and controlling, feeling he has the trademark arrogance and self-regard of many surgeons…”
So here’s yet another article which makes a point of highlighting Gerry’s less than likeable nature. Put this together with the thinly-veiled criticism of Gerry’s proud, loud, braggish, jokerish etc. behaviour as described in Bridget O’Donnell’s article and it seems to meet Gerry is to have your teeth set on edge!
The wording of the tabloid headlines are also very interesting today - they imply a confession not only to leaving Madeleine & the twins alone but also to what we all know is the bigger accusation which is as yet un-trumpeted from their front pages but which must be tempting many tabloid editors, as it is already springing from the Anorakers’ keyboards.
BUT still nowhere in their latest ‘in-depth interview’ do Gerry or the absent-must-dash-off-to-pray Kate admit to the one thing that so many of us have wanted to hear from them; we want them to admit that leaving 3 children under the age of 4yrs alone, in an unlocked apartment, is as FAR from responsible parenting as you can get and it is THIS and only THIS which left Madleleine vulnerable to accidental death or abduction, whichever proves finally to be the case.
Yours in pontification (and I don’t mean that in a Popey way)
Gloria
January 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Slyfox Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
…..I do feel that G & K have misled their accomplices in some way.
…So all in all I think the McCann’s have deceived their friends.
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This is what I’ve been thinking too. In fact I’m thinking that behind the scenes the McCanns have told the Tapas that the PJ have something on them so that they need to stick together.
It’s weird, because it’s almost like they’re a bunch of puppets with Gerry working the controls.
Perhaps that’s just the type of person he surrounds himself with. Easily controlled.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Kate’s such a hottie. I dig her a lot!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
746
Matt. Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
743
man on a hill Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
737 Matt
OB supplied drugs, Mc’s blamed drugs on M’s death(when it wasn’t),Mc’s blackmail OB and JT into helping in cover up.
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OK…If I were OB and supplied drugs….and did not give any to Madeleine…
and she died later….I would know I didn’t give her any…and if she had died
because of the drugs…then the McCann’s must have given them to her.
Supplying drugs doesn’t make me a killer….and thus, relatively a much lesser
crime (depending on which drugs of course)…and I certaintly wouldn’t want
to get involved in a crime of disposing of a body. There has to be something else.
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Hows about. The drug supplied by OB was still in the research phase so not legal. OB’s kids were also given the drug (maybe other tapas kids).
Fessing up to Maddie’s death would have had serious consequences for all of them.
Neglect
Illegal drugging of children
Death - whether they believe it to be from drug/accident/angry Kate
Tinking thinking. I do feel that G & K have misled their accomplices in some way. Maybe using the drug illegality and post mortem as well as neglect to get the source of the drug to co-operate.
What I’m curious about is why the PJ would think it was manslaughter by Kate. If M woke up, wandered, got hurt, died.
Or If she died of an adverse drug reaction
Where does that fit with the PJ’s accusations? There must be somehting we don’t know.
So all in all I think the McCann’s have deceived their friends.
Jees that was a ramble!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
821
Stevo
Hi, Stevo what do you make of that photo?
By the way , did you get my e-mail?
January 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I note the barmy brigade, chasing around like headless chickens again today have a new Oberführer, Matt the twat. Where is all that conclusive evidence you were all going to supply today, poor Mr Bennett turned on by an easily led rabble, an idol with feet of clay, kneaded to a pulp by his former disciples. Justice for Madeleine !!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
The only and real pro-maddy is Mr. Bennet ,as far as we know
January 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Just came back
To join All those who told beware with this Forum !!!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Jon Corner has joined the fund board
Edward Smethurst and Jon Corner will replace long-time friend Esther McVey and lawyer Philip Tomlinson, who stepped down for business and personal reasons.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/ar…..96,00.html
January 10th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
819
Stevo
LOL!
He looks even creepier on his website.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
820
Marie Nicholas Says:
January 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
I know I am a bit late, but when you refer to post 619 was it another day? (I read post 619 by Ian, ther is nothing wrong with it). I agree with you that paedo interfering here would be the last thing we want.
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I’m not M&A, but it was today and most certainly not Ian’s post.
The original rant was deleted, and the thread gets renumbered…
January 10th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
812 Swannie
Excellent post and a timely reminder that humour is a great antidote to some of the quite
malicious posts on here at times.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
813 It was Bob Spink who took up the case of Michael Cook who was accused of murdering the schoolgirl Rachel Charles in the Algarve in the early 90’s. He took that to parliament.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199293/cmhansrd/1992-06-09/Debate-20.html
January 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Someone in here asked about the Madeleine ‘ghost’ photo the other day.
Here it is: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_01/McCannsDM_468×444.jpg
January 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
I know I am a bit late, but when you refer to post 619 was it another day? (I read post 619 by Ian, ther is nothing wrong with it). I agree with you that paedo interfering here would be the last thing we want.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
777 SABRINA;yes try to say it yesterday got my spelling,i believe this to be a very valid point as it dosent leave room for leagal insanity plea
January 10th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
808 lilith Says:
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
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EUREKA! He’s the EGGMAN! Look at that perfect egg-shape head!
January 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
790 Ade
I remember Peter Hain when he was a very active anti Establishment figure. I never liked him then and my opinion of him seems to have been well founded.. Iv”e just been watching
the Welsh news and it appears £100,000 is the sum not disclosed and Mr Hain is using the
excuse that as Sec of State for Wales and Scotland, and MP he left his aides to attend to such matters. No one is suggesting he knew of the donations although the amount is almost half of
the money raised to finance his Deputy Leadership campaign……….. m.akes you laugh doesn”t it and what with Tony Blair taking on a part time position at JP Morgan at an
estimated salary of £500,000, no wonder the Country is in the state it is.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:51 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.”
So what GM really said was “give the money to brother John instead…that way we keep it in the family.”
January 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
back later
lower field inspections
January 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
812 swannie
did he really say all that?
very funny
January 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Mods and Admin
Ade, see my post in the Forum: Hansard etc, email from my MP about him!!!
well and truly “spinked”, i fear
green leather bench fun
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A good bloke!!! Spink i mean
January 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
From ‘Vanity Fair’
“Gerry told how he sank into a depression after his daughter’s disappearance from a resort villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3. He said the world then seemed “all black, with maybe tiny points of light”.But the consultant cardiologist said he pulled himself out of the “darkest hours” by throwing himself into the campaign to find his daughter, adding: “Grief washes over you - it’s like a big wave, mostly I was able to beat it back.”
I found that the best way to beat it back was by using my tennis racket. So I played tennis three times a day, just to SMASH that wave. Kate tried it, but could only manage a ‘whoosh, clunk.’ She was naturally disappointed, but I persevered and found tennis gave me the willpower to SET up the fund to SERVE a ‘common purpose.’ I know we have had to face a VOLLEY of abuse about the fund, but I would like to make it perfectly clear that we did not take ADVANTAGE of the NET proceeds in any way. I would also like to emphasise that we did LOVE Madaliene and that in no way is it our FAULT she is missing. One day, the faceless abductor will get COURT. The PJ are merely playing the blame GAME and say it was Kate and me what did it, but they can’t deDEUCE anything and are no MATCH for Clarence and Metodo3. So, to all those people who think we were in some way involved in Maddie’s disappearance, I would just like to say ‘BALLS’ to the lot of you. To those who have been conned and think we are innocent; please keep sending in the PRIZE MONEY.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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Tinsel
Yes, he’s washed up after this.