Secret Celebrity Gossip #16

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PrincessCharming said:
Can’t remember if I mentioned it before but my friend who was cabin crew for BA long haul, first class said Princess Michael was a horror. Crew weren’t allowed to look at her directly and any talking was done through her assistant.

Friend confirmed Cilla was an arse and Kylie wonderful (I do remember mentioning that before).

She also ended up on a night out with Duran Duran at a nightclub in Hong Kong and said they were very generous with the champagne.
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These are the level of entitled non entities who should have been kicked out if Royal residences decades ago and told to make their own way. Nasty racist bigoted woman.
 
TheJoanCollinsFanClub said:
Can’t say I’m suprised by her behaviour, as she has long been accused of being a racist, hence the wearing of the Blackamoor Brooch. Didn’t they sell their country mansion a few years ago, and banked the money before moving to Kensington Palace for a peppercorn rent? And then they were “forced” to move out to make way for Harry & Meghan?? Not sure where they are living now, or if they have separated (but not divorced) and have separate houses now? And didn’t Freddy Windsor marry Claudia Winkleman’s sister? Jeez, imagine having Princess Michael as your MIL?!!! Poor girl !!
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You're mixing up the Kents and the Gloucesters there a bit, the Gloucesters moved to another smaller house on the KP grounds after vacating their much grander place (rumoured in favour of Harry & Meg).

The Kents have been in the same apartment since the 70s or 80s, used to live next door to Charles & Di (which are now offices) and sold their country place because the "peppercorn rent" isn't a thing anymore, everyone who doesn't "work" for the royal family has to pay commercial rent and the Kents couldn't afford commercial Kensington rent on top of their country house, one of the two had to go and they decided to stay at KP.
 
vikka said:
You're mixing up the Kents and the Gloucesters there a bit, the Gloucesters moved to another smaller house on the KP grounds after vacating their much grander place (rumoured in favour of Harry & Meg).

The Kents have been in the same apartment since the 70s or 80s, used to love next door to Charles & Di (which are now offices) and sold their country place because the "pepper corn rent" isn't a thing anymore, everyone who doesn't "work" for the royal family has to pay commercial rent and the Kents couldn't afford commercial Kensington rent on top of their country house, one of the two had to go and they decided to stay at KP.
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Ah, thanks for clarifying!! Are the Kent’s still together? As there were rumours of affairs on both sides?
 
Won’t you have a cup said:
Laughing (in recognition) at the Woodpecker cider!

There is a common factor for the ‘wild children’, and it is their mothers. Mandy Smith’s mother appears to have been quite at ease with Mandy and Nicola going to clubs when underage, trying to catch the eye of rich men. I can’t imagine that they developed that strategy themselves: as Red Magnolia points out, most girls of that age would have been happy with some cider and copping off with a boy from school down the youth club disco at 13 (or 15, in Nicola’s case). I suspect that dear old mum encouraged them and told them where to go and how to act.

i suspect that she also taught her daughters that the most important thing in life was looking glam and finding a wealthy man to pay for things. They absorbed that message well.

i can recall Emma Ridley’s mother posing for a ‘saucy’ photo shoot for one of the tabloids in the eighties, after Emma had been in the news repeatedly. It was really embarrassing. Apparently she did it because the reporter said, “it will be sensational”. Eh? Where was Emma Ridley’s mother when her daughter was drinking, drugging and dancing on tables in nightclubs in sexy underwear aged 15? Perhaps she also encouraged her daughter’s behaviour.

I feel sorry for the daughters, in a way. Imagine your life’s focus being getting a man to pay for things for you, and believing that your appearance is all you are worth.
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Definitely the mothers pimping their daughters out. Who let's their 13 year old go to clubs? They were the Kris Jenners of their time, although at least Kris pimped her daughters out to get them careers rather than to bag them a rich man, any man.
 
lalalanded said:
She was awful, just awful. Pixie wasn't much better either. Bob should be ashamed to have daughters behaving like that. The press absolutely loathed her at the time but after she died it was article after article about what a vulnerable, helpless girl she was. It went on for weeks and it was nauseating. I can tell you for nothing that girls with serious drug problems and small children living on council estates do not get that kind of love, least of all from the press.
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Do any of you remember a programme where Peaches went on an 'assignment' to a Muslim country to meet a typical teen girl. It was Morocco. Anyway after a few days there her most insightful comment was - 'it's really wierd. They don't have any proper fashion'. :rolleyes:
 
Not got any real celebrity gossip, but I did go to a nightclub in Aberdeen in about 2008 where Michael Barrymore had gone to after a stint in His Majesty’s. He had clearly fallen off the wagon and was making out with some poor guy known to have an alcohol problem.

I was also on X Factor and got to the judges. Simon made a whispered fat shaming comment about a contestant who worked in Burger King about her eating all the burgers. It was cut out of the edit but he was put in his place by the contestants cup singer.

Cheryl was cold and moody.
 
The mothers of the 'wild child' girls appear to have lived vicariously through their daughters - getting dressed up to the nines and consorting with rockstars, I bet that's what they secretly wanted to do. But the rockstars in question weren't interested in age-appropriate women, they wanted pretty young girls. John Peel was another one, he had the Schoolgirl of the Year competition on his radio 1 show. He died most conveniently, and is still hailed as a hero for promoting alternative music, instead of being labelled the dirty pervert that he was.
 
Won’t you have a cup said:
I have more sympathy with Mandy because she was groomed. Not sure why Bill Wyman isn’t the subject of revulsion.

i can remember the ’wild child’ era. Mandy Smith regularly appeared in Mizz and similar magazines in the eighties, after the Wyman story broke. I find it odd, looking back, that the magazines felt it was appropriate to celebrate a girl who’d been seduced by a much older man, had had her childhood robbed from her and had become famous as a consequence. But there she was, telling us what she did over Christmas and what she wore out clubbing in London; she was still 16 at this point, I think.

What is weird is, when the antics of the ‘wild child’ girls were reported in the tabloids, it was all, ooh, aren’t they naughty the little minxes? As if the stories were sexy, not disturbing. It was a very different time. I can recall one headline, perhaps relating to Amanda de Cadenet or Emma Ridley, along the lines of, I was dragged crying from the bed of a 32 year old man when I was 15 (where we were told that she’d gone willingly, and it was the police or her parents removing her). As if that would be served up for titillation now!

Mind you, that was in an era when Sam Fox, Suzanne Mizzi and Maria Whittaker were photographed for page 3 with cuddly toys and being described as 16 year old sizzlers etc. Christ!
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This is slightly before of my time but I definitely remember them in the papers and it really didn't seem a big deal at the time. Holy hindsight!! It's sickening to look back on it now and clearly all of those girls have big problems or are ashamed of their past. I don't feel like they should be, they were exploited plain and simple. I remember Mandy's wedding well (my God - that DRESS yikes!) because it was a big song and dance and there was just a HINT of a whisper about her age which was only seen as mildly controversial. YUCK!! Fleet Street was run by dirty, grubby old men who were labelling them little temptresses which now makes me want to heave 🤮 . The 70s and 80s have a LOT to answer for -namely the exploitation of children.
 
lalalanded said:
This is slightly before of my time but I definitely remember them in the papers and it really didn't seem a big deal at the time. Holy hindsight!! It's sickening to look back on it now and clearly all of those girls have big problems or are ashamed of their past. I don't feel like they should be, they were exploited plain and simple. I remember Mandy's wedding well (my God - that DRESS yikes!) because it was a big song and dance and there was just a HINT of a whisper about her age which was only seen as mildly controversial. YUCK!! Fleet Street was run by dirty, grubby old men who were labelling them little temptresses which now makes me want to heave 🤮 . The 70s and 80s have a LOT to answer for -namely the exploitation of children.
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Completely agree with you, and the newspaper’s at that time used to call these underage girls “Lolita’s” as if it was their fault for tempting these much older rockstar perverts...🤢
 
TheJoanCollinsFanClub said:
@Gagiteebo going through my past posts with a sick emoji....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


Do you remember the wedding??!!! And then they were both interviewed by Terry Wogan, who was basically congratulating Bill Wyman for pulling a girl like Mandy. Can you imagine that happening now?! Actually, Mandy wrote a book about her life with Wyman, I can’t remember the name, and it came out in 1995 (I think) so it might not still be in print, but it’s well worth hunting down, if I can find it, I will post back.
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Too right I do! And that episode of Wogan. God almighty. Gina Lollobrigida was also a guest. I remember her coming on and throwing confetti at Mandy and Wyman. As if it were something to celebrate. How times have changed!
 
Jelly Bean said:
Do any of you remember a programme where Peaches went on an 'assignment' to a Muslim country to meet a typical teen girl. It was Morocco. Anyway after a few days there her most insightful comment was - 'it's really wierd. They don't have any proper fashion'. :rolleyes:
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I remember that...it was embarrassing !
I wonder how the other Geldof girls are getting on.
Pixie seems to have disappeared from society.
Fifi always kept out of the limelight, the sensible one.
 
TheJoanCollinsFanClub said:
Completely agree with you, and the newspaper’s at that time used to call these underage girls “Lolita’s” as if it was their fault for tempting these much older rockstar perverts...🤢
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In about 1986 I went to school with a girl who lusted after older men. We were 11 years old. Then I moved hundreds of miles away and we wrote to each other all the time. She used to go to Butlins type places with her mum. She’d send me pics of whatever perv she’d hooked with. They were in their 40s or even 50s. She was 11-15 years old. Her mum allowed it. It used to make me feel sick. I had to hide the pics she sent me because my dad would say it was vile. I’m still friends with her now. We‘re 44 now. Her husband is 65 and a Roy Orbison impersonator. But looking back I do wonder if her going to Butlins was an arrangement when dirty pervs knew there would be accommodating mums allowing vile behaviours with their daughters. But it was just accepted.
 
Lalla said:
I'm a similar age too, I wasn't even allowed out to the offie, let alone to nightclubs 🤣🤣 I do remember though having adult men following me down the road in their cars trying to talk to me when I was 13 or 14, and although I looked a bit older, I was obviously still a schoolkid in uniform, shoes and socks. Proper creepy. Also at school we used to have to walk along a major A road to get to PE lessons (in short PE skirts), the comments we used to get from passing car and lorry drivers were grim.... I knew a few girls at school who had 'boyfriends' in their late 20s when we were 15 - with their parents full knowledge and approval (which always baffled me, even back then!) It's odd how normalised something like that was comparatively recently.
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Yep, it started at 14 for me as well. Just walking down the street was asking for trouble as cars would constantly pull up beside you. It makes me feel sick now.
 
Ambrosie said:
In about 1986 I went to school with a girl who lusted after older men. We were 11 years old. Then I moved hundreds of miles away and we wrote to each other all the time. She used to go to Butlins type places with her mum. She’d send me pics of whatever perv she’d hooked with. They were in their 40s or even 50s. She was 11-15 years old. Her mum allowed it. It used to make me feel sick. I had to hide the pics she sent me because my dad would say it was vile. I’m still friends with her now. We‘re 44 now. Her husband is 65 and a Roy Orbison impersonator. But looking back I do wonder if her going to Butlins was an arrangement when dirty pervs knew there would be accommodating mums allowing vile behaviours with their daughters. But it was just accepted.
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Roy Orbison impersonator 🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
TheJoanCollinsFanClub said:
Completely agree with you, and the newspaper’s at that time used to call these underage girls “Lolita’s” as if it was their fault for tempting these much older rockstar perverts...🤢
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God it's gross, how did they get away with it and how was it not brought up in the #metoo?

(New to this thread so been reading most of the day and not sure why I'm shocked about the amount of celeb scandals and crappy behaviour 😳 ...keep it coming!)
 
My late husband was 29 years older than me when we started dating. I was 20, but looked younger. The names we were called by strangers were disgusting not just the age gap but also because I'm white and he was Brazilian (born in India).
Despite age gap, we somehow clicked and connected and we were married 19 years. I think what people said about us made us stronger. But I was an adult, capable of making my own mind up. It was strangers saying he was a weirdo and a perv to our faces. We used to laugh and thank them for taking such an active interest in what we did in the comfort of our home.
I remember the Mandy and Bill headlines. She looked so much older, though I'm sure me and her were the same age. Can see why men of Bill's age would fall for her. But the more I read into it, the more I felt so sorry for her. Being a mum to a daughter myself, the last thing I could ever do is pimp her out to the highest bidder.
 
TheJoanCollinsFanClub said:
Completely agree with you, and the newspaper’s at that time used to call these underage girls “Lolita’s” as if it was their fault for tempting these much older rockstar perverts...🤢
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The irony of that Lolita tag. That book was based on an obsessive pervert who married a girl's mother to get to the girl. Too effing relevant in this day and age for my liking.
 
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