Eoghan Quigg Has The Madeleine McCann X Factor
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “NO CHEERS FOR TEARS”
It’s sardine munching Tony Parsons. He’s got mourning sickness.
If Eoghan Quigg wins The X Factor tonight, it will be because he tugged the nation’s heartstrings by sobbing like a big softy on last week’s show…Even boyband JLS would be preferable to cry-baby Quigg and his croaking, fist-punching High School Musical routines…
But cry-baby Quigg could nick it after blubbing his heart out when Diana got the boot. Personally, I thought I was going to vomit.
Sod Cowell and Tweedy’s Cry In - who’s for a game of Tabloid Bingo?
I remember when we said goodbye to another Diana, and William and Harry walked behind their mother’s coffin, their hearts breaking but their eyes dry.
Tick. Tick. Tick. (It’s a quick game.)
And I remember how Kate McCann never cried in front of the cameras, although she must have wanted to cry and never stop - in complete contrast to the crocodile tears of kidnap creep Karen Matthews.
Tick. Tic… Bingo! …k…
We all feel like crying sometimes, but it should be as private as prayer. But as we saw with William and Harry at Diana’s funeral, and as Madeleine McCann’s mother showed, real grief is frequently beyond tears.
Only she did cry. And the mawkish Mirror was there to tell us all about it. Entertaining stuff.
What is that howling hobbit Eoghan going to do when he faces real tragedy - such as the death of his pet hamster?
Blame the Spanish ?
THE AUSTRALIAN: “Price of money for nothing”
IN May last year, four-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment in Portugal where her family was on holiday. Her disappearance dominated the news in Britain and across the world. Despite a reward of pound stg. 2.5million being offered for her safe return, nothing has been seen of her.
Well, not nothing. She has been spotted in Lapland, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Belgium, Brazil, Holland, Bosnia, France, Australia, Venezuela, on a letter and Dorset.
But one mother’s anguish proved another’s opportunity.
Back in England, watching daytime television in her council house in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 32-year-old Karen Matthews got to thinking about that reward. She contacted Michael Donovan, her present partner’s uncle, with a plan to abduct her own nine-year-old daughter, Shannon, and hide her at Donovan’s house. After a few weeks, when a reward was offered, Donovan would claim to have found Shannon and the two conspirators would then split the money.
Indeed. So they did it for the money, right?
Yet it has to be worth trying, for something urgently needs to be done to halt the growth of the welfare underclass. If these latest reforms fail, Brits can expect to see many more dulled, hardened faces like that of Matthews staring out from the front pages of their newspapers in the years to come.
Weren’t me, guv. The nanny state made me do it.
Image: Liverpudlian artist Lee Jones chose to recreate the sculpture on canvas and feature Cheryl as his muse explaining: ‘”As an artist I feel the overwhelming warmth of the northern people towards Cheryl Cole and I wanted to portray this by depicting her as our very own Angel of the North.
‘” Isee her as a new icon of popular culture for the 21st century, a beacon of light in these bleak times - a fine example of a northern lass making good.‘”
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
But he will be going on as a singer and he will not be allowed to influence Louis Walsh by dancing. He will have to keep his legs still and just move his arms. A bit like Riverdance but upside down
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 am
I luv George but he shouldn’t b allowed to go on the x factor if he’s already wun britains got talent
December 15th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
And good to see our Moscow correspondent checking in; how goes it with you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnz7LJMECOg
December 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Ah yes Red Square is lovely in the snow, some are not all they seem, did I say one of my friends works for a publisher.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
My apologies, S’not Right, I did know who John Galt was. I just felt that Shakespeare had a better grasp of economics than Ayn Rand.
Admittedly a brain-dead gnat has a better grasp of economics than Ayn Rand; one of the highlights of the year for me was when Alan Greenspan had to finally admit that he was an idiot for ever imaging that she was anything other than an idiot.
Not much comfort to the many millions of people shafted big-time by Greenspan and his cronies, but a laugh is a laugh and you get them when you can…
December 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Aplogies Chenier - typo - it was John Galt of Atlas Shrugged I referred to.
The question “Who is John Galt?” is answered courtesy of Wikipaedia for you — John Galt is a man disgusted that non-productive members of society use laws and guilt to leech from the value created by productive members of society, and furthermore even exalt the qualities of the leeches over the workers and inventors. He made a pledge that he would never live his life for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for him, and founded an enclave, separate from the rest of the country, where he and other productive members of society have fled.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am
S’not Right Says
Who is John Gault?
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He was dying, Egypt, dying, and as he died he cried:
‘This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out,’
A searing condemnation of the sale and lease-back of commercial properties if I ever saw one, and if Woolworth’s had taken the Bard on board there might still be a Woolworths!
December 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Truly unbelievable Mr Gault.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:32 am
44 - It’s incredible isn’t it…
December 15th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Anorak Says:
December 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
71 - yep. Traffic up 25per cent. New sites being launched and already launched. Partners with big publishing house.Head of BBC a “fan”. It’s fucked! Thanks for your message - it made all the difference…
Is that from the UK National Office of Statisitics?
If you only have four posters a 25% increase is easy-peasy.
Who is John Gault?
Atlas Shrugged.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:06 am
I miss everybody - Anorak is cruel - cutting us off just slightly past our prime…..
December 15th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Saul! I hope you get this message ……… Eddie and Keela want to open their own forensics laboratory in the South-East ……. and I am a bit concerned for their safety.Would like your thoughts on this before they start building their hopes up.
And by the way …….. I hope you don’t let Eddie off his lead when he stays at yours …… The little bastard was half way across the graveyard before I could even light my cigarette tonight - and I was scared to death that there might be a dog-napper about. Please be careful with him.
I haven’t seen him that bloody lively since his day out in PDL last year!
December 15th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Châtelaine Says:
December 15th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Chenier, I had completely forgotten about Maria. Thank you for bringing her back to memory. Am sure I’ll have no problem sleeping now. Bonne nuit.
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AND! What about CHERYL and Saint Marie Nicholas? Where are they? I miss them very much. XX
December 15th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Yampster!!! TB does not need defending for what he is doing but I must say that your last comment is really unfair!.
The book has been published to fill a gap in the market - due to unprecedented Press moves in the UK.
TB will not profit from the publication. Add up his petrol, phone, printing and time - not to mention legal work that he will have to do with others and you will see that he cannot possibly profit from this book.
Check out the proce of a Barrister’s opinion these days! Amaral will tell you it is bloody extortionate. A Barrister earns more than I do these days - and I am a bloody Judge.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:08 am
On the Dark Side
You can say just what you please
On the Dark Side
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
On the Dark Side
Come on now, people, don’t be stunned
On the Dark Side
You can feed TB’s pension fund
On the Dark Side,On the Dark Side,On the Dark Side
Rpt. ad nauseam
December 15th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Châtelaine
If we could have bottled her posts Big Pharma would have gone bankrupt, and we would be billionaires by now.
and bonne nuit!
Coco
If you can even contemplate the possibility of dinner with Rupert then little short of tactical nuke would disconcert you.
But I do wonder when the Portuguse court will finally make its mind up; will it be all over by Christmas?
December 15th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Chatalaine! Chenier! Alas …… I only feel slightly better!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Chenier, I had completely forgotten about Maria. Thank you for bringing her back to memory. Am sure I’ll have no problem sleeping now. Bonne nuit.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
chenier Says:
December 15th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Coco
Rupert is a sad old man, and undoubtedly needs a dinner with someone to brighten his life; the poor chap has lost lots and lots of dosh, and it’s so hard on old age pensioners…
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Just about to slit my wrists then! You just stopped me in time!
Honestly Chenier - Do you think he would dine with me? I don’t really want a job on his papers anyway - I’m a Telegraph girl in Real Life - but I would enjoy a date with him - just so I can write about it ……
I reckon that all the paper newspapers will be all but dead in less than five years - And if it gets any easier to load down any TV station for free than it is now - I agree with you - Murdochism will be a thing of the past.
Even old men are watching the news on a pod-cast on the way to work these days. I was on a train a couple of weeks ago watching a jolly old Gent watching the news on his i-phone!!! The World is changing - just like Obama said it would ….
December 15th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Châtelaine
Au revoir!
Coco
Your reference to being a creature of habit is most worrying; there was once a poster here whose claim to nun-hood was quite sufficient to put anyone off habits for life…
December 15th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Feel better, Coco?
December 15th, 2008 at 12:19 am
OK Coco: Hello Snr Amaral
December 15th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Btw … whatever happened, not sure they did it, but I’m convinced they know it.
Tata!
December 15th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Please Madame!!! Chatelaine don’t leave me like this - it is too soon! I am a creature of habit …… I fear I may fade away ….. and errrrr …….. meet my end in sticky circumstances - if you leave me at this critical stage in the proceedings of the current Planetary movements.
Mr. Amaral will appreciate us being on many threads …….. Imagine him as a cute little spider - His name should be littered on many threads - including this one.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Coco
Rupert is a sad old man, and undoubtedly needs a dinner with someone to brighten his life; the poor chap has lost lots and lots of dosh, and it’s so hard on old age pensioners…
December 15th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Coco!
I’m not leaving you!
But I have to go on.
There’s nothing more to say here.
Like for Brandon, Anorak was my first, maybe not love, but definitely blog discovery and addiction.
But it seems to be over.
Love hurts and separation too.
Hope to see you again some place else.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:10 am
ANORAK Says: ”If these latest reforms fail, Brits can expect to see many more dulled, hardened faces like that of Matthews staring out from the front pages of their newspapers in the years to come.
Weren’t me, guv. The nanny state made me do it.”
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I hate being unwell and having to take all these tablets!
I read much more into this passage than was actually there - I thought there was a subliminal message in the last line!!!
- But then I saw the word ’state’.
I didn’t see it the first time I read it - I thought it said the ‘The nanny made me do it!!!
I thought it was a bloody confession from somebody! 
I think Anorak should also have included the name McCann in the line about ‘hardened faces’ though - in fact - I would have chosen K-Woman’s hardened face over Matthews face to be honest!
I now see why I can never be an Editor for Rupert Murdoch.
But Rupert - there’s no harm in us having dinner one evening soon! X
December 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
That’s right - Just fuck off and leave me all alone …… As if I was some ineffectual three year old child in the middle of Portugal!
December 14th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
chaterlaine im under the same name
anoraks still my first web love though
will love it forever ! 
December 14th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I’m still lurking Brandon, but I will sign in soon there.
Cu
And good luck Mr. Anorak; always happy to make a difference ….
December 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
chaterlaine
Its a very good read, one we all were part of.
Meet me on the other side
xx