Madeleine McCann: McCann Incorporated, McCann Ink And Going Back To Portugal
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Tapas 7 in despair at all the ‘lies’”
They say they are also called the Tapas Nine? And the Sangria Seven
“The Tapas Seven are “in meltdown” over the failure of Portuguese police to make any meaningful progress in the hunt for Madeleine”
“IT’S OUR D-DAY - McCanns return to Portugal - EXCLUSIVE Kate and Gerry set date in April for Algarve showdown They’ll tell cops: show your evidence or clear us for good”. Like that D-Day back on November?
“Despairing Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to return to Portugal for a face-to-face showdown with police who think they killed their daughter Madeleine”
They are going back. Now..?
Well, not exactly: “A close friend said the the couple were likely to go back after their ‘D-Day’ of April 11, when their three-month extension is up, and added: ‘They feel they’ve waited long enough with this cloud of suspicion hanging over them. They know their return would be very high-profile. They believe investigators do not have the evidence against them to bring charges, and their presence in Portugal would embarrass them. They’ve so far held off going back there, but they see it as their trump card”
They will go back once they have been allowed to see the police first on them
Says the paper’s source: “They see April 11 as their D-day. They have decided to give the police reasonable time to clear them, or at least open the case files so they can see the evidence against them”
That’s good of them…
FIONA Philips, of GMTV writes: “Have a heart”. Yes, that Fiona Philips
“Unbelievably, every time I write about the McCanns I get messages saying, ‘I used to like you, until you started supporting the McCanns.’ Nice, eh? So I hope you’re happy now that Kate and Gerry have blamed themselves for Madeleine’s disappearance”
Happy?
“In a list of ‘if onlys’, Gerry said: ‘I wish I’d stayed in the apartment that night.’ Now, I expect more bile on praising them for considering making a documentary on the case. Surely you can’t tell me that there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t do anything possible to find their missing child?”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’We pray she’ll be at party for twins’”
“Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too. Kate, 39, has vowed to go ahead with the bash for Sean and Amelie even though she is still waiting for cops to quiz her again. Mother-in-law Eileen said: ‘The party’s on and it will be an even bigger one if wee Madeleine is back. All we can do is hope and pray.’ Sean and Amelie turn three on February”
Touching stuff. Gerry McCann is a “heart specialist”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been told that the proposed documentary about their daughter’s disappearance can go ahead only if she is found – alive or dead.
A source says: “It was awkward to raise but there would need to be an ending – either Madeleine being found alive or a body being discovered. If this wasn’t the case, and there was a major development after filming and editing, it could render the documentary redundant”
Or the parents or some other person or persons are charged, perhaps?
THE OBSERVER: “A good week for … a bad week for …”
“A bad week for …
“Tradition – A Lib Dem MP called Lynne Featherstone has made a bid for the limelight by reporting the monarchy to the Equality Commission because it goes in for primogeniture”
“Marcus Agius The chairman of Barclay’s was the target of £10,000 fraud”
“Good Taste - Or indeed any taste at all. A London based agency which supplies celebrity doubles has employed a small girl to rent out as Madeleine McCann. 20 per cent”
It was a “good weeks for… Washing up”
“THE Maddie story is already a soap opera, so why the moral panic over a movie? - Don’t get me wrong - nobody wants to see Maddie: The Musical. However, needs must if the McCanns want to continue trying to find out what happened to their daughter and they do, despite the devastating expense (their somewhat unproductive detective agency alone costs £50,000 a month) and the increasingly shabby odds.”
Maddie: The Musical, eh..?
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Strange case of the detectives trying to trace Madeleine”
“After a week when commercials deals were more apparent than clues, we investigate the investigators”. Why not investigate the case?
“Just when the Madeleine McCann saga couldn’t get any more agonising, along came a raft of developments last week that began to achieve what you would hope would be impossible: turning a little missing girl into an industry – Madeleine Inc. Item: a London agency hawking around various small girls as Madeleine lookalikes. Item: US television bringing a team of psychics to bear on the disappearance as part of what they no doubt hoped would be a money-spinner of a show. Item: her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, exploring the possibility of selling the book and film rights to the case”
Madeleine became a brand long ago. Brand McCann…
“Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents”
Or Madeleine Ink – see the press
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ron Liddle writes:
“So, get yourself ready for Maddie – The Movie (PG, until you fancy nipping out for something to eat). Kate and Gerry McCann’s press spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has confirmed that the couple met with representatives from the US entertainment company IMG before Christmas and that while nothing was agreed, the meeting had been ‘positive’. A day later Gerry McCann hastily backtracked and said no, no, they weren’t planning a movie. Who to believe? And which British actors will Hollywood cast as the parents if there is a film? Sacha Baron Cohen and Catherine Tate? Am I bovvered? Look at my face – is it bovvered? And maybe Matt Lucas as the shady-looking Robert Murat? Norman Wisdom as the Portuguese chief of police?”
Madeleine McCann: Fiction, faction and a single unbearable fact
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January 13th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
343 Miss Match Says: January 13th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I find Clarence Mitchell’s comment that a film will only be made if Madeleine is found dead or alive despicable.
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Actually, and I may be incorrect here, I thought it was the film makers (IMG??) who said that the case needed to reach conclusion before they could consider making a documentary?
Simple commercial logic dictates this. The Movie/DocuDrama/Money Spinning Thingie could be seriously hampered financially if significant new developments occurred in the case once the thing had been shot. And of course, people making money is far more important than discovering Madeleine’s fate, in my cynical opinion of course.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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Daisy Says:
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Didn’t say that I’ve read every single post of yours, only that every post of yours is defending the mcs.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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Ade Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
i wonder if those nice mcconn people have booked a holiday for early may 2008.
i wonder if any foreign country would let them in
we should be told
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i heard the pj have arranged a little holiday for them
January 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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Julie,
Since I stared posting a few weeks back, because I am one of the minority who is not convinced that the possibility of an abductor should be excluded, I have been the target of nasty remarks, songs, poems, insults, etc. But, I have overtime learned to recognize the ones that are persona non grata in my books. I don’t know how often you post here, but I do believe you may have missed some of my post, the same way I do not spend the whole day here (I work) to catch up with everybody’s post from days past.
I express myself the best way I can in English, it might not always be the correct way, but in general other posters understand what I am saying. I don’t know what your particular problem is with me, really. I can use whatever expressions I see fit and provided I am not insulting anybody on a personal basis, I think it is acceptable by Anorak.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Val 309
CUDDLE CAT NOW STARRING IN ‘GERRY SMART’S CIRCUS’
Watch his sensational leap from the bed onto the high ledge. Watch in amazement as he gingerly prowls along to the end of the ledge like a tightrope walker. Be astounded, as he performs another death-defying leap back down onto the bed! Meow does he do it???
Roll up, roll up, roll your eyes up! Last chance to see these amazing stunts, before he enters police training next week as the first cadaver cat to locate bodies concealed up a tree or hidden in the shrubbery in next door’s garden!!
(Loved the ‘Matilda’ poem Gloria)
January 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
393 Ade
i wonder if those nice mcconn people have booked a holiday for early may 2008.
i wonder if any foreign country would let them in
we should be told
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Well, you could ask the pj to inform us? It seems they have to inform them [or leic. police?] if they leave the house for more then 5 days?
January 13th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
“[...] some people believe in… god jesus krishna allah mohamed
and yet there is no proof any of them exist [...]”
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Without proof or fact it’s called “believing”, WITH proof it’s called KNOWING
January 13th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
392
Wanderer,
you’re right, however we should beware of falling into the trap “a close friend said” “a source near the couple says”.
I plea quilty on falling into that trap also [sometimes]
January 13th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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I have no idea about the photos (didn’t see them, I don’t think). But it is nice of you to join in.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
i wonder if those nice mcconn people have booked a holiday for early may 2008.
i wonder if any foreign country would let them in
we should be told
January 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
387
I agree, Totje. I automatically thought “well one of them could go and then the other could go later”, but if they were “locked up” that would mean they’d need more money, as Gerry couldn’t work. But if Kate went…well, they already seem to be making little comments that don’t seem too good for her. (they being the McCann’s whole group)
January 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Re post 347
Many thanks for clarification M&A.
Very strange in my opinion but I suppose it’s just yet another unanswered question.
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Things get brought up again for discussion,you never know
January 13th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
342 Matt. Says: January 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
339…Peter O
And stop gazing into the mirror as you type.
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!duL’M degrahc sa ytliuG
January 13th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
382 Wanderer Says to Dazey
“And in response to 372, that sounds like you start sparring with people because they are upsetting your sensibilities (not to speak of the McCanns in that way and I’m assuming anyone involved with the case that way) . . . .”
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Her posts are abusive to my sensibilities. A yellow card, at least.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
385…Leeza
Don;t worry about it.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
330 Jolie : I would like someone who believes in the McCanns’ innocence to explain why they will not go to Portugal to be reinterviewed to answer any questions the PJ have for them unless their status is changed[...]
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I don’t know if I’m qualified to answer your question. I don’t know what you mean by “innocence”? Innocence to what? Innocence to something more serious then leaving the 3 kids alone [neglect]?
I’ve stated before, when the pj asks them to come over to portugal and they don’t go, that would be a clue to me. On second thoughts however, I doubt it.
Several explanations for them not to go come to my mind.
1. lawyers telling them not to go
2. the fear of being locked up during the rest of the investigation
3. would it be in the interest of the twins if they went back
4. if their statements to the pj were true, and nothing left out/they told all they knew, what good would it do / how could it help finding Madeleine
5. I don’t think their presence would be appriciated at the moment, the whole media circus would be flying back to PdL, it seems the habitants are really fed up with them
January 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Mods and Admin,
Thanks for that comment earlier regarding the spammer catching the “undesirables”.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
378
Matt. Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
373…Leeza
You quoted the “Never found”.
Please come back in several years and then equate it with the other case
if Madeleine’s body hasn’t been found by then
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or if mine isn’t found first. You really fail to impress me!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
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I’ve lost count how many times you’ve said “I am stating my opinion and am entitled to it”! Could you point me in the direction of ONE Anorak poster who has said that you are not entitled to your opinion? (Oh, I forgot, you don’t move back on posts to find references). That one is now stale Daisy, move on!
M&A intervened regarding the posts about Kate committing suicide, etc. BUT you fail to see that don’t you? You just like to harp on and on!
People making remarks about the Mc’s are also entitled to their opinion (your very own war-cry in case you’ve forgotten).
I’m afraid I really have my doubts as to your agenda on this forum, but please feel free to carry on … as I said …. from my side you can consider the “proverbial red carpet” as rolled up!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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Sally Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
248
Daisy Says:
I definetly go along with comments by:
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
rather than yours. I’ve yet to read a post of yours, Daisy that doesn’t defend the Mcs.
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Sally,
Please, be my guest! You must have missed some of my posts then.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
341
Daisy
Anorak is far more friendly now with the card system. Things would get quite heated and I think people do forget we’re talking to real people here..I doubt anyone truly wants to upset someone?
The best advice I could give you, Daisy, is to ignore those people that you feel have treated you that way, while most everyone is friendly, there are people who tend not to get “heated”.
And in response to 372, that sounds like you start sparring with people because they are upsetting your sensibilities (not to speak of the McCanns in that way and I’m assuming anyone involved with the case that way), all I can say is that you can disagree with it and move on (possibly ask Mods and Admins about it if you think it is that awful), or you can get into the more heated banter trying to argue you point (when those people are entitled to an opinion and basic free speech here, just as much as you are) or you can see beyond that.
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Thanks Wanderer, I have explained to Daisy about the perils of celebrity also, and how bouquets and insults are never far apart in tinsel life.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
344
Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
340
RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Hello RedRooster, have you had a nice weekend so far?
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yes thanks not bad, and yourself???
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Well, mine is already ending (1:28 am Monday)
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thats a shame
where are you then ??? 
January 13th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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Gloria Smudd Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
374 Miss Match
Why thank you! I might just whip off my bloomers and flick-flack around the room! So don’t look!
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dont forget to video it and put it up on youtube
January 13th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
344
Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
340
RedRooster Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Hello RedRooster, have you had a nice weekend so far?
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yes thanks not bad, and yourself???
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Well, mine is already ending (1:28 am Monday)
January 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
373…Leeza
You quoted the “Never found”.
Please come back in several years and then equate it with the other case
if Madeleine’s body hasn’t been found by then.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
374 Miss Match
Why thank you! I might just whip off my bloomers and flick-flack around the room! So don’t look!
January 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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Julie Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
LOL RedRooster … if they did, it’ll be at a cheapie motel
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doesnt bare thinking about does it??? i can see them now ranting and raving about “cutting off that roosters head” and “pulling my feathers out one by one” what do you think??
January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
372…Daisy
Wasn’t it Dr K’s Mum who raised that issue after Dr K moaned to her
about “if I had bigger breasts people woukld have a different opinion
of me” ?
Come on, Daisy….please get real.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Gloria - what a talented lady you are! Gymnast, poet, and I am sure you have other hidden talents which you are being too modest about!
It was excellent.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
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Matt. Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
302…Leeza
Jumping the gun a bit with that last similarity aren’t you ?
Never found is not applicable to this case…yet
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Taking the post a bit literally encha! Mrs Chamberlain was prosecuted even though no body had been found at the time of trial. Azaria’s body was never found. While it is possob;e that Madeleine is dead, her body has not been found, which does not necessarily mean that no murder charges will be brought to court. Geddit!