Madeleine McCann: GMTV Tears To Entertain, Jade Goody And Clarence Mitchell PR
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “Real victims who reduced me to tears”
Fiona Philips – ‘the woman with the whitest teeth and yellowest hair in daytime telly’ – “on GMTV heartaches and meltdowns”
Fiona Philips is fighting the tears as Helen Newlove, whose husband Garry has been murdered, is sat on the sofa to tell her story.
Tears are the new laughter.
She has quizzed everyone from Prime Ministers to popstars, but it has been real people like Helen, those who have achieved the extraordinary or faced tragedy and heartache, who have had the biggest impact on her.
Are you crying yet? GMTV – Greally Moving Television.
Kate and Gerry McCann’s visit to publicise the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance. Sara Payne’s tireless campaigning since her daughter Sarah’s murder. And Mark Prince, dad of promising young footballer Kiyan, 15, who was stabbed to death in May 2006.
Cry. Cry. Cry.
“Meeting people like that is very humbling,” she says. “They are what have kept me in the job for so long. Just seeing the McCanns made me feel tearful.”
Where’s there’s tears, there’s brass…
“I went in to see Kate while she was in makeup and I could barely find the words. I just said: ‘I don’t know what to say.’ You can actually see the tragedy in their demeanour. They carry it with them wherever they go. They are parents who are grieving and Kate is remarkable. I have no idea how she’s managed to cope.”
Cry. Like Heather Mills…
“We sat down in the dressing room and she poured her heart out about everything. The vilification of her and all the frustrations of her relationship with Sir Paul. “Heather had been pushed to the edge. It was shocking, awful to see someone break down like that. She was talking and talking and I had to get back to the sofa and get on with my job. In the end I said: ‘Heather, I’ve really got to go.’ And she left.
Crying…
Although horrified by Jade Goody’s behaviour on Celebrity Big Brother last year, Fiona has been moved by news that the reality star is battling cervical cancer.
Next on GMTV, we have Jeremiah… Where’s it hurt, Jerry..?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCanns’ man now speaks for Freud. Kate and Gerry McCann’s once ubiquitous spokesman - has accepted a job with a PR company”
Clarence Mitchell gets work. It’s all PR, you know…
“I’m going to specialise in crisis management for a range of clients which might include businesses, football clubs or even showbiz personalities,” says the former BBC reporter. “I want to broaden out my portfolio of interests.”
Do you have a problem? Are you in crisis? Call Clarence and he’ll do the PR (POA)…
“Kate and Gerry are happy for me to do this, it became clear that I wasn’t needed on a full-time basis to work for them anymore so this move makes sense,” he says.
NEW SCIENTIST: “Genetic data withdrawn amid privacy concerns”
A new method of forensic DNA analysis has created an unexpected headache for scientists investigating the genetic roots of common diseases.
David Craig of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, has designed a statistical method that allows the identification of individual DNA profiles from a mixture of DNA of more than 1000 people.
The danger is that the method allows possible violations of the privacy of volunteers in genetic studies. To avoid this, research organisations led by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have abruptly pulled genome data from off the web.
Craig’s method uses sophisticated algorithms to analyse between 10,000 and 50,000 genetic variants called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. These can be detected using standard DNA microarray “chips”
And…
Craig suggests that the technique might find use in high-profile missing-persons cases – such as the 2007 disappearance in Portugal of the British girl Madeleine McCann. In such investigations, he says, it might reveal whether the person had been present in a particular location, from DNA left behind on surfaces they touched.
Madeleine McCann: On it goes…
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September 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
The Real Stig
I will play the role of abductor. Only the body I’ve been told to pick up from the apartment is rather bluish…cold….hmmm…..and I’m to take it…where? And put it in the freezer and they’ll come get it in their rental car on the way to Spain?
Okay. I can play that part. Just make sure you erase my cell phone calls before the cops arrive.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I bought the flat in PDL
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Sorry, but 50 yards is more like 54 meters, no?
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M&A
Artemis
No.
50 meters is more like 54 yards.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
New thread, people…
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Well if you wanted to murder your hamster it could come in handy
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
no, i’m not a farmer though.
my estate is less than a foot square, i got it one birthday.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
HOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Did anyone see that show?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Colin Fry helped solve Sally Anns murder
Among the most high profile cases Colin has worked on was the murder of 18-year-old model Sally Anne Bowman. Linda Bowman approached him in early 2006 after her daughter’s brutal killing in September 2005. A special episode of Psychic Private Eyes went out on Sunday, May 25. Broadcast was prohibited until the outcome of the trial and, as recorded in the Croydon Guardian, pub chef Mark Dixie was jailed for life for the murder in February of this year.
“We were able to give a detailed description and profile long before the trial. We gave a physical description, even stating his name was Mark.
“If someone has been killed in harrowing circumstances you need to take quite a hard line, which is very different to demonstrations or private readings.
“I try to be very honest about what’s coming through but I’m never unkind. I think it’s very important to show the personalities of people, to keep them real to the memories.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Firestar
Hmmm
Did you see my farmer theory the other day
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Anyone in today in terms of m&a?????
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I can see NOTHING has been done about the spammer
Fantastic job ……
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I am the buyer
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
good video chenier, albeit rather painful to watch.
actuall brandon, i have a little (very little) estate in nottinghamshire, goes with the title, but it’s very little, although i sometimes make a point of visiting it just to tell southerners to keep off my grass.
many moons ago i had a trout stream and a meadow, but they moved on without me.
otherwise, my garden at home is the size of the average plant pot.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Firestar
Do you own your own land ?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’m sorry to say that I agree with you, Firestar.
On the Pick-a-Vic, that is.
Not the Fray Bentos…
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’d much rather see the Tapas Group do the reconstruction.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i quite like fray bentos steak and kidney pies.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
might be easier trying to find something i’m not biased against brandon.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
There are, quite simply, children who must never be found.”
interesting quote from Action on Rights for Children.
it’s all to do with the new government ‘pick a victim’ service they’re starting for paedophiles.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/contactpoint_more_problems/
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
real stig
Sounds like a marketing, money making scheme, tell them they might promote you!
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
While the apartment was available for rent, perhaps we should have rented it and all organised a package tour to do our own re-enactment. and try out the various scenarios.
Would I be cast as Gerry? I have got the universally hated qualification down pat. Karen could be Kate, being the only blonde I am aware of.
Or should I be the abductor? Decisions decisions.
Can you imagine us all prowling around with sheaves of timelines in our hands, furiously turning the pages and arguing heatedly about who was supposed to be doing what at that particular time.
I’m sure the easy bit would be dispatching the 8-9 bottles and clouding our collective judgment.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Firestar you sound prejudiced to mediums and southerners today and past boy band members!
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Firestar
Have you seen the video
http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/189059.html
It’s pretty awesome…
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
ade
be careful in plymouth.
it’s down south somewhere i think.
you’ll be sliding about on jellied eels and allsorts.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Have some fun for me, ade.
I’m still recovering from my experiments with frozen margeritas…
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
as i remember, brian from e17 managed to run over his own head whilst driving.
takes some doing.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
firestar Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
only thing i’ve ever seen that’s beyond belief is garth’s mothers’ hat.
quite - she has many
and they’re all crap
and thank god we now have a new mayor of plymouth
talking of which i’m off to that fair city to play some geetar
have lots of fun for me
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hi Julie!
Ciao Julie.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
brandon
it looks like that bald bloke from east 17
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
AZ
Perhaps the estate agent should also include - Not suitable for children !!