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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.)
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Posted: 13th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (103)
Madeleine McCann: The X Factor, Mourning Sickness And Celebrity Tears
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE Dianification of Britain has passed what historians will come to call the X(Factor) Point, the day when the pro-John Sergeant focus group met the lachrymose X Factor warblers in an all-singing, all- dancing tribute to Baby P.
Hey. It’s what Madeleine McCann would have wanted, so too out Princess of Hearts, say the jobbing mourners as the DVD, CD and ribbon hit the shops and broadcasters feel impelled to play it lest they lag behind in the celebrity caring stakes.
There is no escape. There is escapism, because while you watch to see the rubbish singers and the rubbish dancers fail, you are not allowed to point and laugh. That could be you. There for the grace of God…
And having exhausted themselves cheerleading and ululating with mourning sickness, the hacks have noticed.
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Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (124)
Madeleine McCann: On Lawyers, Media And Local Newspapers
MADDYWATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: “Local experts forecast liklihood [sic] of Madleine McCanns’ damages case”
DEFAMATION specialists in the region have commented on the outcome of a case brought by the parents of Madeleine McCann which resulted in four national newspapers issuing front-page apologies for their coverage of the toddler’s disappearance.
Liverpool has taken the McCanns to its big heart. Not for nothing is Liverpool the European city of Culture. Kate McCann was born in Liverpool and her mother Susan Healy lives in the area.
The local Liverpool paper has invited a panel of local lawyers to share their thoughts with locals about the local story of a young girl from Leicestershire who went missing in Portugal.
We are no longer watching the parents in the media. We are watching the media in the media. Anorak is watching the media watching the media. Thank you for watching.
THE GUARDIAN: “This reckless reporting cannot continue”
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Posted: 25th, March 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (470)
Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2007: Botham, Rushdie, Pike
KNIGHTS BACHELOR
John William Baker, CBE. Chair, Senior Salaries Review Body and Public Services Remuneration Committee. For public service. (Woking, Surrey)
Professor Christopher Alan Bayly. Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge. For services to History. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
Ian Terence Botham, OBE. For services to Charity and to Cricket. (Richmond, North Yorkshire)
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Posted: 16th, June 2007 | In: Reviews Comments (4)
