
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 14th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Since nobody is listening I am going to go out on a limb and make a prognostication: news is going to break this week!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Anyone awake?
January 14th, 2008 at 2:09 am
what a nite!
nite all. what 2moro brings is, well, anyone’s guess!
January 14th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Bye everyone.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:49 am
1000
I think post 531 and 611 explain a bit why Chenier asks about Chaplin’s.
1002
Warm and fuzzy is good, I imagine that is what Anorak sets out to make people feel…that and that pain you get from laughing to hard and you think you can’t breath. No doubt Anorak is willing to hire a few out of work doctors to see to us!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Miss Match is well . . . words escape me, but sentiment warm and fuzzy
January 14th, 2008 at 1:40 am
996/997
lol, aww! I was working through some older threads, trying to find something, I came across Miss Match from back then, nice to see you back (as I believe I remember reading you come and go? If not…just accept a general compliment)
January 14th, 2008 at 1:39 am
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I’ve seen many posts mixing up things printed in the papers [and how trustworthy are they?] and rumours they’ve read at this or other forums.
Look at the ongoing discussion about the Chaplin’s night!
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I have. I was one of the people asking for some evidence about it.
On the other hand, my unwillingness to accept unsubstantiated claims has led me to conclude that it is highly unlikely that there was an abduction.
This cuts both ways…
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chenier,
before you go cutting yourself both ways, what does it mean to you whether the McCanns were at Chaplins or not? i notice your persistence in this one, but what’s your cause?
(take your time in answering - i’m still way back on page 41)
January 14th, 2008 at 1:38 am
998 Pray For Little Soul Says:
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it’s hard to stay current; TB has been censored and he didn’t even know it!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:36 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
711 Sledgehammer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
More speculation ?………Matt went down to the 24-hour reception at the bottom of the hill to raise the alarm.
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Do you know Matt?
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LOL!
well well… anyway, back to pg 41 for me (cathcing up)
January 14th, 2008 at 1:26 am
996 Miss Match :
January 14th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Peter O - Oh me, oh my! I just realised what I said. If I am not careful, I am going to get a reputation as the forum trollop, (ludicrous, unhelpful and hurful), with my innocent, yet potentially suggestive comments. Goodness, naked cartwheels and back flips and now my throbbing comment. Ahhhh, tomorrow is another day and a clean slate! Sleep well.
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just thinking about your dreams makes me blush
January 14th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Peter O - Oh me, oh my! I just realised what I said. If I am not careful, I am going to get a reputation as the forum trollop, (ludicrous, unhelpful and hurful), with my innocent, yet potentially suggestive comments. Goodness, naked cartwheels and back flips and now my throbbing comment. Ahhhh, tomorrow is another day and a clean slate! Sleep well.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Night everyone who is heading for bed (there are lots, plus some I missed before). Have a good Monday.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Right. Time I hit the sack to. The Waltons are bitching about all the lights and noise…
G’night Wanderer, can’t say no, Totje, anyone else who’s loitering.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:20 am
991 Miss Match Says: January 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Peter O - before I finally go to bed, I hope your finger is not throbbing too much and gets better quickly!!!!
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Now, there’s a leading ques…… No no, go to bed! Sweet dreams.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:19 am
988 Wanderer Says: January 14th, 2008 at 1:16 am
985
And in an amazing turn of events the McCanns get their revenge through the newspapers, lovely twist!
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Brilliant! Made me chuckle!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Peter O - before I finally go to bed, I hope your finger is not throbbing too much and gets better quickly!!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Nite nite Miss Match.
I have to go to bed too. Should be warmed now by mrT.
Bye all who’s left [Wanderer, veritablequandary and all]
And Cheryl, you might reconsider your decision?
January 14th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Totje - you make me laugh!!!! I’ll keep a lookout for Lulu if she appears. Really, really going to bed now. Goodnight all!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:16 am
985
And in an amazing turn of events the McCanns get their revenge through the newspapers, lovely twist!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am
981
Miss Match,
Like I said, you could be sisters
She didn’t do a cartwheel though.
And loves guys in suits.
Peter O got into real danger when he confessed …..
January 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Night Totje. I’m going to bed too. I have only a small amount of touche éclat left and the bags under my eyes tomorrow will need heavy coverage.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:14 am
984 can’t say no Says: January 14th, 2008 at 1:12 am
grrrr
hate scissors
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I wish to complain about the paper cut on the end of my thumb!
January 14th, 2008 at 1:12 am
grrrr
hate scissors
January 14th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Okay here I go
Nite nite Peter O
Nite nite Can’t say No
Nite nite John Boy, Sue Ellen [or Mary Ellen, still don't know] Walton
January 14th, 2008 at 1:11 am
929 veritablequandary Says: January 14th, 2008 at 12:42 am
925 can’t say no Says: January 14th, 2008 at 12:38 am
I miss garthy
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What do you suppose has happened to him?
Two days absent without leave?
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Time off for good behaviour?
January 14th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Totje - a festive airblown Christmas Jaws, with a hat, sounds just like my cup of tea.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am
978
lol, okay CSN, it’s a shame…everyone watching. I thought I only had Santa and God to be good for…but guess I’ll have to add three more and leave some room for lawyers to my list.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am
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Peter O Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 1:07 am
965 RedRooster Says: January 14th, 2008 at 1:00 am
im off again guys gotta be up to take the little chicks to school..nite all - lets hope theres some news this coming week
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I’m not far behind you, metaphorically speaking, and for similar reasons.
If you are still here… my spam filter has just picked up some e-mail obviously intended for you:
Rooster-challanged men can now improve their lives!
Any idea what that’s all about?
Good night!
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havent got a clue, but i guess the wine probably doesnt help
January 14th, 2008 at 1:09 am
973

Wanderer
Now i’m gone