honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Ray wrote:
I've no sympathy for people who set out to provoke other people. If you poke someone with a sharp stick, don't go crying to the papers when they react more aggressively than you expected. Is it years of sitting on a couch, saying what one likes about people on the screen, that makes them think they can do the same when the people are actually in front of you? Or is it years of tapping insults on a computer that has the same effect? The person who deserves vilification here is the idiot father who thinks he can hide behind 'banter' when things backfire. I bet he'll feel so deflated once this story dies he'll have to haul his daughter back out to wind up another celeb, so that he can belatedly get outraged again. Absolutely pathetic.

A two finger salute would have sufficed.

Yes, and no goading at all would have sufficed. Time and again this pathetic behaviour is excused whilst all the criticism is laid at the door of the public figure who reacts. The crapulous idiot who started this now tells the papers: 'It hasn't worked out like I expected'. Well, how DID he think it would work out? Lots of free drinks down the boozer, a bit of cash from a tabloid and some cuttings for his scrapbook?? It's all too common these days - wind someone up and expect no consequences at all.