Katie Hopkins on Kate Garraway.

She will not have had access to the money the Schumacher's had. The costs she will have been incurring will have been beyond description.
They were both public people , I know my husband would not have agreed to that level of publicity but that is because I know him. I do think there are important discussions to be had about consent though.

I think Kate wanted people to remember what covid had done to so many people and how it had affected so many lives and I’m pretty sure she knew her husband well enough to know that he would approve of what she was doing.

Thank you Sago for your post you have very succinctly said what I said last week and I was lambasted on Gransnet for it by all and sundry.
She should have allowed her husband to die with dignity.

I think there are considerable risks with that idea, I am talking generally rather than this specific case.

I think that someone who is in the public eye must surely have had his consent? once he was able to give it, although it made for uncomfortable viewing maybe it helped her to get treatment abroad for him?
They were both media types until he changed his profession, so I’m sure he would have been ok with it.
It wouldn’t be the way I would have handled something to awful.

Sorry that was in response to Maybee.
I think it's quite risky to assume that people will always act with the best motives, consent is really complex. Again I mean generally rather than targeting a specific individual who has gone through a terrible experience.

I too felt that she allowed the public to intrude far too much into her husband’s illness. If he could have consented would he have wanted the world to see him in that state? She earned money from what she did, but presumably she was already very well paid as a tv presenter. Basically, she took away his dignity. Michael Schumacher has, rightly, been kept away from the public gaze. Of course he is a multi millionaire and there is no financial need to sell access to him, but I feel that KG went much too far and it was not purely in order to raise awareness of the damage which covid can do. It always felt to me like an exercise in self promotion at her husband’s expense.

I agree with Maybee and Galaxy

Kate Garraway had a family to support during a desperate time for them and Aldo wanted the best care possible for her husband. That would have been expensive and she needed to earn good money for ypthat.

I imagine Derek would have approved of what she did to raise awareness of what Covid can do to people, destroying not just their lives but those if their loved ones too.

Katie Hopkins is a vicious, spiteful piece of work, she certainly knows how to time her attack, just a couple of weeks after the family was bereaved.

Awful woman.

I don't know what has happened with my autocorrect - it changed Kate into Aldo for some reason 🤔
Apologies.

Whatever anyone thinks about the rights and wrongs of the programmes about Derek Draper, surely no-one could ever condone what Katie Hopkins has just done to a desperate, grieving family?

Dreadful, dreadful woman. 🤬

I didn’t follow the filmings but did recently see one bit on the news where the children were brought in to hug him. I felt sorry for them having to do that in the public eye but maybe, if I’d watched more, I’d have perhaps seen that they were used to it.

It amuses me that opinions are changing rapidly from the post that I answered to last week and was castigated for. Are people so easily swayed?
Thank you GMS I wish you had said this last week it consolidates what I said.

Sorry GSM.

I'm glad it amuses you Bella23

However, I find none of this amusing in the slightest.

Some of the posts on a bereavement thread were a disgrace. Most posters refrained from airing their views out of respect for Derek Draper's wife and especially his distraught children.

I agree Callistemon21. Hopkins is a vile woman and will sink to any level for the publicity she craves.

I just didn’t want to post my views on the bereavement thread Bella as I didn’t feel it was appropriate. Here I can say what I have thought about KG’s actions for a long time. I consider what she did very distasteful.

I sometimes wonder whether Katie Hopkins suffered brain damage as a result of her (previously) poorly-controlled epilepsy. There must be some reason for her awful behaviour!

Fair enough, Germanshepherdsmum

We're all entitled to our views but there is a time and a place.

I still think Hopkins is out of order so soon after a bereavement.
At least Australia had the nous to deport Hopkins after she boasted about putting frontline staff at risk of catching Covid from her. Unfortunately we had to take her back.

Apart from wanting to highlight the effects of Covid, Kate Garraway needed to sell their story to pay for the 24/7 care, otherwise he would have had to stay in hospital. I read that she will probably have to sell her house.

vintage1950

I sometimes wonder whether Katie Hopkins suffered brain damage as a result of her (previously) poorly-controlled epilepsy. There must be some reason for her awful behaviour!

She was necking red wine when she made the vile video apparently.

vintage1950

I sometimes wonder whether Katie Hopkins suffered brain damage as a result of her (previously) poorly-controlled epilepsy. There must be some reason for her awful behaviour!

Harsh!
Katie Hopkins had severe epilepsy, she had a very risky procedure to cure the epilepsy.

I'm keeping my opinion on Kate Garraway to myself, but Katie Hopkins is the lowest of the low - she knows exactly what she is doing and will deliberately say the most vile, cruel things just to get more attention. She is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

Personally I have found the actions of Kate Garraway uncomfortable...while I can empathise with her wanting people to see the reality of her husband's condition and perhaps the impact of being a carer, it was all a 'bit too much' for me - the man deserved privacy and dignity, unless of course he had consented?
Katie Hopkins on the other hand...well I can't think of any nice way to describe her!

"Celebrities" will always court fame and attention full stop.

But KG has brought Long Covid into public awareness. I am still amazed at the number of people who still say to me Long Covid what's that? And often surprisingly people who I would not have termed Hard of Thinking.

What KG has done no doubt one of us would have done and who would be interested anyway. And I have no idea what KH has said, but it sounds like par for the course. Ignore ignore.