Madeleine McCann: Kelsey Lynn Kudia For Hire, Paris Hilton And Propaganda
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN front page: “’MADDIE’ FOR HIRE”
Tonight Kelsey Lynn Kudia is Madeleine McCann. Kelsey looks likes Madeleine McCann. She’s not in Morocco. She;s nopt Bouchra Benaissa. She not in Malta. But for the right fee she might be. Kelsey is a working Madeleine McCann double
Pages 4 and 5: “The boss of a lookalike agency who hopes to make a fortune out of a little Madeleine McCann double said last night: ‘It’s not sinister – it’s entertainment’. Shona Adams reckons three-year-old Kelsey Lynn Kudla’s similarity to missing Maddie could earn her £9MILLION for starring in a proposed feature film about the vanished tot”
Well, someone would have to play the missing child, unless she is found alive and well…
Says Shona, owner of London’s Juliet Adams Model Agency: “If the film about Madeleine is ever made, then the world is Kelsey’s oyster. If someone like Steven Spielberg made it, she could make £9million easily – of which I’d take 20 per cent. She will become a name in her own right and make it as a child model or actress because she’s got her foot in the door”
Just when you thought it was safe to holiday in Portugal…Dum-dum…
Of course, great acting careers have begun with less. Didn’t Tom Hanks play the baby in a Cry In The Dark?
She continues: “And from there, her earning potential is limitless. It’s not sinister. And if the McCanns are upset, there’s nothing they can do because it’s a democracy. I wouldn’t back away from it because, if a film is being made, then it’s entertainment”
Kate and Gerry McCann are “doctors”.
Says Shona: “I wouldn’t put Kelsey in a position of doing anything bad taste”
SLAP IN FACE FOR McCANNS: Sun columnist Lorraine Kelly says: “It makes you recoil to think a lookalike agency would have a Madeleine on their books alongside someone who looks like Jack Nicholson or Paris Hilton”
Whatever could she mean? Neither Nicolson nor Hilton were available to defend themselves…
DAILY EXPRESS: “The Madeleine lookalike on hire for £600 an hour”
Do you want to get your resort or country in the papers? Hire Kelsey to be a “Madeleine” and attract the world’s media to your locale as she is spotted time and time again
Kelsey is American
“PARENTS trying to ‘distract’ police
A source “close to the official police” investigation says: “Who do the McCanns think they are? The discovery of new witnesses in the last few weeks lead the authorities to believe they are at war with a gigantic propaganda machine. The McCanns have some very powerful people on their side - millionaires, celebrities, even politicians”
Says Robert Murat’s lawyer: “Robert Murat does not have millionaires supporting him, nor campaign funds. “He just wants to see his name cleared in this case as he has nothing to do with Madeleine’s disappearance, despite every day people emerging trying to forcibly incriminate him”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – The £600 an hour lookalike”
Page 7: “MADDIE DOUBLE FOR HIRE”
“A sick mother is touting her daughter as a £600-an-hour Madeleine McCann lookalike,” says the paper, amid adverts for “adult fantasies”, “nasty sex” and FILTH”
She is an “unnamed American girl” - see the Sun above
Says Clarence Mitchell: “This is an offensive way to make money out of Madeleine’s disappearance. This is deeply offensive to parents Kate and Gerry”
MADDIE: THE MOVIE: “Yesterday, Channel 4’s head of documentaries Angus Macqueen said he had attended a meeting with the McCanns’ representatives to discuss a movie. He tells us: “Of course we are interested in making a film about this compelling story. We have a history of making quality films about crime matters”
That’s entertainment: “Meanwhile, producers of US psychic TV show Haunting Evidence have been in Praia da Luz planning their own show about Madeleine’s disappearance”
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns are ready to sack detective agency”
Says a source: “We will carry on the search for Madeleine, but not necessarily with Metodo 3. We are stuck with them to the end of the contracted period. The question of whether it is renewed or not has still to be decided. They have faced not having their contract renewed every since Francisco shot his mouth off… It was made clear what they were doing was foolish and unhelpful”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “US TV psychics join hunt for Madeleine McCann”
“Three clairvoyants from the hit show will travel to Praia da Luz in a bid to find the missing four-year-old”
Come in Madeleine…
Kate and Gerry McCanns have received “1,500” offers from psychics hoping to find Madeleine. Like the Psychic Barber…
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We did receive an offer and chose on this occasion not to respond. We are grateful for any assistance they bring to bear in the hunt for finding Madeleine. We thank them for their concern and any demonstrably checkable fact is passed on to the police or the private detective agency”
Tune and pick up into Madeleine on the telly…
Madeleine McCann: the entertainment, speculation and lookalikes…
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January 12th, 2008 at 1:20 am
1355…jo
To be fair to Brown…blair was the PM when it all started.
He did continue I know…..but has now drawn back from it…it seems.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:19 am
1346
jo,
With four eyes! 100%
January 12th, 2008 at 1:18 am
1345
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:11 am
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Yes,Matt, the PJ must interview all of them.The PJ slowness,in my little eyes,hides something.The PJ knows more than we think.Im thinking back about Gordon Brown”s first involment and subsequent withdrawing from it.Im thinking it is may be political etc…but who could have the heart(or better put NO heart) to put parents under such pressure.There is a little child involved there…it just makes me mad whatever way i look at the whole thing.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:17 am
1350…Ferdinand
I don’t think you said those words in yesterdays discussion.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:17 am
936
Tony Bennett Says:
Cheryl said: “Generalizing and thinking about statistics, in 80% of the cases regarding missing children [of that age] a family member or someone with access to the family is involved. That leaves 20% who aren’t involved”.
Tony Bennett replied: “But if you confine that to cases where a child has gone missing from *inside a house*, the 80% figure rises to more like 99%”
Cheryl came back: “Tony B., yes BUT that is from in their own home! These people were on vacation with their youngsters in a foreign country, strangers around, country known to be frequented by paedophiles, and left their children alone in an apartment. This wasn’t as if being at home, Tony B”.
FURTHER REPLY: Two points:
1. I stick by exactly what I said; 99% of all claimed ‘abductions’ *from a house* (whether residential home or temporary holiday home) urn out on fuller investigation to be intra-family murders
2. Name me ONE case in previous history - anywhere in the whole wide world - where a child has been snatched from a house (or holiday home if you want to give me an example of that) whilst the parents have been absent.
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Absolute nonsense. Cheryl does not need to find a case were a child was snatched **while the parents were absent** in order to challenge your statistics - or use of these.
The absense, or presence, of the parents isn’t a variable in the statistics you rely on, being abducted ‘from a house’ is.
Here is a case of a child abduction from a holiday home where the family were not the killers - although the mother was wrongly convicted of just that and her father was convicted as an accessory after the fact. The mother was later freed on Appeal.
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Nine-week-old Australian baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip with her family.
Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo.
An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, supported this assertion. The findings of the inquest were broadcast live on television — a first in Australia. Subsequently, after a further investigation and second inquest, Azaria’s mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was tried and convicted of her murder, on 29 October 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Azaria’s father, Michael Chamberlain, was convicted as an accessory after the fact and given a suspended sentence.
The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals, including the final High Court appeal. After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery of a piece of Azaria’s clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain’s release from prison, on “compassionate grounds.” She was later exonerated of all charges. While the case is officially unsolved, the report of a dingo attack is generally accepted. Recent deadly dingo attacks in other areas of Australia have strengthened the case for the dingo theory.
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I could also cite the case of the boy dragged from a family tent and eaten by a bear.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:17 am
1342
Cheryl,
Yes, I’m sure people will write books about what happened. Look at the book that is already published in Portugal. And films etc. will be made. And as long as the ‘mystery’ isn’t solved, they can write all kind of stories I’m afraid.
I can’t remember what the family trademarked. They can’t trademark a name I think.
I can only hope some money goes to trustworthy organisations that help finding missing children. Sadly I doubt it though.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:16 am
1348…chenier
Goodnight , chernier.
Sleep well.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
1319 Matt. Says:
“…and that the abduction was to do with Inter- Govermental matters.”
Actually, what I have in mind is a more asymmetric constellation rather than an inter-governmental matter. It seems a bit far fetched that a government ordered the abduction of a british child.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Totje Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
1331
jo,
Me too. And Smethurst convinced she’s alive. People like Kennedy, Branson, etc. saying they KNOW the parents are innocent of her disappearance [as the parents also say].
Its bugging me!
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As I mentioned before on here, I’ve been through this over here with my very close friends (god parents for one of my boys) whose daughter was taken and never found. They always held on to the belief or rather hope I think is a better word that someday she would be found. Think about it - you desperately want to think your child could be alive until proven otherwise. Maybe it is a defense mechanism in our minds to keep from having to accept odds are our child is deceased. The past few months over there in the UK, those young girl’s bodies were found missing for what 18 or 20 years? As the one father said ‘now we can closure.’ Until then one always lives in limbo - is our loved child out there somewhere in the world or is he/she deceased.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
I must to bed; I really should get going on the kitchen again.
Note to self: hide computer
Night, all
January 12th, 2008 at 1:14 am
1346…jo
Sadly….no chance of that.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:13 am
1341
Totje Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
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I think we are all bothered,disturbed,unsured,upset.Deep down,we do not really want them to be guilty(yeah,they are guilty of neglect ok, ok).As I say and repeat,this is a bigger issue than we all think.I have doubts,I admit I am confused:I wish madeleine is alive,I wish….they would pick up the courage to speak up and stop the circus…May be they cant,may be…only THEY know.In my heart of heart….please,let her come back,please,dont harm her,please,please…you see?
January 12th, 2008 at 1:11 am
1341…Totje
Think the PJ need to interview all of them.
If they “Know”…then they are all guilty of a fraud…at the very least.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
1333
Cheryl Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:04 am
1321
jo Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
1315
Cheryl Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:54 am
1305
Totje Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:49 am
1272
jo,
Yep. But what would we be doing next? I suggested a couple of days ago we could write books and become millionaires.
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Naturally, I presume all of you fine sleuths would donate the proceeds to some Charitable Foundations to help find Missing Children throughout the World? One wouldn’t want to think you were making ‘blood’ money on a small child’s possible death, now would they!
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I would make people believe its for a good cause,of course,with CM as my spoke man…..
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Jo, he brings them out of this smelling half way like a rose none of us could afford his price, I’m sure! He’d be the most sought after PR person in the UK!
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Cheryl, you’re thinking about the trump card!?
January 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
1332…Wanderer
A rumour suggesting such was said on the MF.
Next Thursday was quoted.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:08 am
1328
Totje Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:01 am
1315
Cheryl,
I think you missed that discussion and the titles. It was not about Madeleine, just a bit satirical about us addicts.
Is there life after Anorak. How to do cold turkey on Anorak. How to loose weight after Anorak etc.
However I support your suggestion to donate to a fund helping finding missing children.
I’m afraid I won’t and can’t write a book. Sorry.
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Totje - there are going to be so many books written on this for years. Look what has happened with the late Princess Diana! People are always making ‘blood’ money on someone else’s tragedy!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
1331
jo,
Me too. And Smethurst convinced she’s alive. People like Kennedy, Branson, etc. saying they KNOW the parents are innocent of her disappearance [as the parents also say].
Its bugging me!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
1331…jo
Very few definites in this case.
But overall I would seriously doubt that she survived.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am
1325
Cheryl Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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I know what you are saying….I do joke as well
January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I like the last sentence of the Star’s snatched and murdered article:
‘The couple have faced renewed criticism in the past few days after admitting they were negotiating to sell the film rights to their story.’
‘renewed’?
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/26361/Maddie-was-snatched-and-murdered-/
January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am
ensue, I meant ensue…
Anyway goodnight.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I think that’s it for me too, I can’t keep up with everything. Hopefully some interesting conversation will ensure.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Nite nite RR sleep well and don’t peek
January 12th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Night, Rooster.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:04 am
1321
jo Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:58 am
1315
Cheryl Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:54 am
1305
Totje Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:49 am
1272
jo,
Yep. But what would we be doing next? I suggested a couple of days ago we could write books and become millionaires.
____________-
Naturally, I presume all of you fine sleuths would donate the proceeds to some Charitable Foundations to help find Missing Children throughout the World? One wouldn’t want to think you were making ‘blood’ money on a small child’s possible death, now would they!
*****************
I would make people believe its for a good cause,of course,with CM as my spoke man…..
______________________
Jo, he brings them out of this smelling half way like a rose none of us could afford his price, I’m sure! He’d be the most sought after PR person in the UK!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:03 am
1326
I didn’t mean anything bad by it, if that’s what the smile was for.
So, are we focusing on Mitchell now? He is a bit dull..did someone say they believe he will resign?
January 12th, 2008 at 1:03 am
1319
Matt. Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:56 am
1309…jo
No not a secret any more…haven’t been sworn to secrecy on pain of death
or anything. He quite happily discussed it after some gentle probing.
Basically it is that he thinks that madeleine is still alive and well and being
looked after well…..and that the abduction was to do with Inter- Govermental
matters.
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Matt,it honestly crossed my mind.may be it just because I refuse to believe/think Madeleine has died and also because of her parents “insistance she is alive and still looking for her.There is something there I just cant pinpoint.(Daisy as well).The whole lot is so weird….the connections are so incredible….etc..
January 12th, 2008 at 1:02 am
1318
Wanderer Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:56 am
1316
I do wonder if this Rooster is an early riser?
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thats it the damn bottles empty and im done………. see you all tomorrow
nite nite and sweet dream all xxx
January 12th, 2008 at 1:02 am
1324…Ferdinand
Nothing wrong with your theory….we all have one or two.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:01 am
1315
Cheryl,
I think you missed that discussion and the titles. It was not about Madeleine, just a bit satirical about us addicts.
Is there life after Anorak. How to do cold turkey on Anorak. How to loose weight after Anorak etc.
However I support your suggestion to donate to a fund helping finding missing children.
I’m afraid I won’t and can’t write a book. Sorry.