Celebrities, injunctions and the Archbishop,of Canterbury- do we care?

I'm amazed that anyone should be interested in this day and age. I wondered at the motives of the person who brought it to Welby's attention and hope it wasn't malicious. Especially as it was a time of emotional importance for him. I thought Welby was a good man and a good bishop in the short time he was in Durham. And as for the initials kerfuffle . Do I care? No. Or perhaps I do as I certainly wouldn't want to know them.

If I was looking for a conspiracy theory, I would say that The Telegraph ( owned by tax dodging Barclay Brothers) is filling the pages with this gossip rather than the tax affairs of the rich and infamous, like them. As for the other business, everyone has guessed, nobody cares, get over yourselves and take care of the children that you profess to love.

What do you mean Grumppa?

exactly -

Just shows the Torygraph and its readers are no different from the red tops and theirs.

The way Justin Welby has responded to this information is a lesson to us all, especially those of us of the Jeremy Kyle persuasion. I admire his mother, who acknowledges having been dependent on alcohol but sober now for (I think) 50 years. JW's step father has been his father and seems to have been a very good influence. All this talk of 'real' rather than biological fathers needs knocking on the head. The 'real' father is the one (or more than two) men who fulfil that role.

As for the celeb 3some - I read the British Celeb couple involved have an open relationship so it seems hypocritical to use their children as the emotional blackmail to stop their names being publicised. All over the internet, US and Scottish press anyway

I thought I must be missing something when I saw all the reports about the AofC because I don't understand why it's such a big story.

I know who is involved in the injunction tosh and TBH I'm a bit disappointed in the person. Obviously I don't know him personally, but I think it's a shame for certain reasons. I'm not surprised he's trying to cover up his behaviour. It's another example that we're all human.

Ah but celebrities like hoohaa on the whole. Part of how they make their money.

Exactly, suzied. Welby just goes "Wotevs" and moves on. End of story.

The press is always looking for salacious gossip. If you just shrug and don't make it a big deal, it's not salacious so they go and look elsewhere.

The celebrity injunction couple should take a leaf out of Justin Welby!s book, he has shown humanity and dignity. If they'd just admitted it and got on with their lives, whether that is threesmes with strangers rubbing olive oil all over each other or whatever, there wouldn't be all this press hooha.

A few years ago the BBC were doing DNA tests on a village. Most of the inhabitants were fascinated to find out where their ancestors had come from, but the "Lady of the Manor" was going ballistic because they had found Gypsy DNA in her family. She was going to sue the BBC for suggesting such a thing. I thought it sounded really romantic and decided that one of the squires must have been unable to sire an heir so his lady had bedded a passing gypsy. So much more interesting than her own marriage!

I'm an amateur family history addict, sparked by trying to find out who my grandparents were, as I didn't know, so from a FH point of view, the AOC story is interesting. It also shows that just because you discover who your ancestors are on paper doesn't mean they're actually your kith and kin!

The 'threesome' celeb story I don't think is interesting in itself but it's interesting as it being a 'one law for the rich' situation. Their names were published in Scotland today anyway.

Some stories I guess are interesting but I do wonder what century we live in when being illegitimate is news.

Come on Bags! Use it!

No idea if she is upset, I did say possibly upset ,she may be delighted that it is now public that she had a one night stand very shortly before her marriage

So, in answer to the OP, no, I don't care but I do like the story. It's like something out of a novel.

Is Mrs Welby senior upset? I thearticle I read I didn't get that impression. She may even be secretly delighted. I hope so.

Of course there's nothing wrong with being illegitimate. Happens to the best us.

But the whole thing has been very cruel to his mother. The journalist is a male bitch.

DH said the A of Cs story (in which I am supremely uninterested) was to detract the attention from David Cameron - what an old cynic - but is he right?

Mollie, it's what newspapers do. All this has done is possibly cause upset to an 80 year old woman

It's interesting gossip, as you say, suzied. That's all. A lot of people like interesting gossip. What harm is there in it? None, as far as I can see. So the Archbishop of Canterbury's dad isn't who he (or his mum) thought he was. Shrug.

Why shouldn't the press and the rest of us 'forgive' his mother? She hasn't sinned against us or the press. The one thing I like about such stories, not that I look for them but I'll read them if they're made public enough on news sites, is that it shows human beings as human beings, which is always rather sweet.

Certainly 'end of' but the question now is why did the Daily Telegraph feel the need to dig about in this bit of dirty washing in the first place? What did they hope to do? Embarrass Justin Welby? For what purpose?

He was approached by Charles Moore and a newspaper, he then decided to have a DNA test and chose to make the facts known himself , so he did the right thing, stopped bits of nudge,wink, in the press . End of now .

Couldn't care less really. It's something far more widespread than most think. Researchers into Huntingdon's Chorea found this genetically carried illness in families where it shouldn't have been. Their only solution was that some children had been fathered by someone other than the man they believed to be their dad. It's a wise child.......

I wondered why it was 'news' didn't know if the decision to go public was done willingly or forced upon him. What a non story anyway.