Selling Your Story
Whatever you think about the motivation behind anyone's decision to talk to the papers it’s hard not to notice just how powerful the press can be and how little an individual can control a story once it is out there. As knows all too well.
Daisy was Jude Law’s nanny when he was divorced from Sadie and dating Sienna. His fling with Daisy made front page news. She sold her story to the Sunday Mirror – something which she now very much regrets.
Fi,
Tell the nanny that I don't know who Jude Law is or that Sienna woman. It's not the whole world who is interested in this type of stuff, just the sadder people!
Richard
Complain about this postPeople who complain about the press publishing sordid stories should realise that ALL journalists are paragons of virtue who never have relationships outside marriage and never drink too much or do anything that could be called wrong
Complain about this postThank goodness the man in the woods was actually able to answer your questions and string a whole articulate sentence together. Unlike Daisy. It's no wonder the press had to make up her story as she is clearly unable to put together two intelligent words other than 'basically' and 'erm'. Could you not ensure that your guests can speak English before asking them on. The whole subject is very last year anyway so what was the point of her?
Complain about this postHas Daisy sold her story about selling her story?
Complain about this postI felt really cross at this woman compelling me to turn my beloved radio 4 off! did not want to get her the time of day-gonna switch back on now..
Complain about this postHi Fi,
I didn't have a story to sell, but did experience being misquoted by the press.
I worked in Japan when in my early 20s. I was interviewed by a regional newspaper as I was the first Western woman to take up kendo (Japanese martial art, like fencing). The reporter asked me what I thought about what was going on in Japanese politics at the time (prime minister and others at that time were in the midst of some scandal) I said I wasn't really bothered about politics as I didn't really trust any politicians and was quoted as saying "Wendy doesn't trust Japanese politicians"
Bit embarrassing for me as I was working in a local government office at the time!
Moral of the story - avoid reporters, and certainly don't do an interview with someone else translating the questions and your answers!
Wendy
Complain about this postFi,
Complain about this postAs a tabloid journalist myself I had to stop reaching for the sick bucket while listening to Daisy Wright's pathetic whinge about the Press.
This woman was happy to trouser several grand by telling us how she had sex with her employer ... hardly in a nanny's job description, you would have thought.
I don't mind her taking the cash, but it sticks in the craw a bit when she then attempts to paint herself as a victim of the wicked media.
Peter Nuttall
I have to say that I find this lady's apparent ingenuousness over what happened rather unconvincing. I am just an ordinary member of the public and even I am aware of how predatory and downright immoral British journalists can be.
Daisy Wright is clearly a very articulate, intelligent woman who lived with a celebrity couple. Presumably part of her engagement in this post carried the necessary warnings about saying anything to the Presss. How could she not be aware that the redtop dailies print smut, lies and rumour as fact? Sorry, I don't buy it. But I bet she's glad the tabloids did.
Complain about this postI was fascinated about the 'selling my story' item. Particularly the self pity of your guest, because Jude Law did not seem to give her any help or support in 'how to handle the press'. What did she expect INSET?
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