Peaches Geldoff Dead
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I find it strange that people would think its not front page news - she's a high profile young person who has died, she's famous in her own right as well as having a highly public upbringing as a result of her parents.
Are you that naive? Of course its front page news as it should be.
I met her in 2011 outside a bar on Hackney Road. She was chatty, friendly and gregarious - she seemed really nice actually, and pleasantly the complete opposite of how I'd imagined. I then saw her a few months ago walking out of Victoria Park with her husband, kid(s) and dog - again she seemed happy and healthy.
It's a massive shame for her family and friends that she's passed on, and I sympathise wholly with Bob. People are going on about a 25 spoiled brat, but you'd have to be blind to not see how tumultuous and difficult it had been for her. Her mother cheated on her dad, and it was spread all over the tabloids. They then divorced, and had a bitter court case over the kids, then a new father figure in her life committed suicide. Shortly after, her mother attempted suicide and then died of a drug overdose... Every stage of her life has been covered by the tabloids - you'd never get a minutes rest. As an 11 year old kid, that's going to leave you completely haunted.
It's a massive shame for her family and friends that she's passed on, and I sympathise wholly with Bob. People are going on about a 25 spoiled brat, but you'd have to be blind to not see how tumultuous and difficult it had been for her. Her mother cheated on her dad, and it was spread all over the tabloids. They then divorced, and had a bitter court case over the kids, then a new father figure in her life committed suicide. Shortly after, her mother attempted suicide and then died of a drug overdose... Every stage of her life has been covered by the tabloids - you'd never get a minutes rest. As an 11 year old kid, that's going to leave you completely haunted.
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Can we not change the thread title to the following:
Peaches Geldof has peacefully passed away
Dead is such a grim word!
Peaches Geldof has peacefully passed away
Dead is such a grim word!
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but shes famous for kind of all the wrong reasons, no?
A teen that flew way off the handle, did more coke in a year then most rock stars do in a life time, had her nude pics spammed on the internet and then kind of sorted herself out towards the end.
and lets not pretend that her previous habits havent had some sort of effect on her health and eventual death.
I read your comment as "Peaches Geldof has peachfully passed away".
Also, you don't know it was peaceful.
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It might deserve to be front page news in the celebrity obsessed tabloids, but it doesn't deserve much attention from any serious media.
And i notice it's the same mod who throws his weight around in these threads again and again. If he's too sensitive then maybe he should reconsider being a mod
Really? I've barely heard of her in the last decade, i think this is getting more coverage for who her dad is rather then who she is herself. Pretty much how she went through life as well
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Well it didn't end in a blaze of glory? Or fit of tears did it?
Why? She was a columnist for the Telegraph, as well as contributing to several other of the "serious media" outlets.
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Was reading about this yesterday. Absolutely tragic. Thankfully their kids were OK.
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Why what? Do you have multi-page threads every time a journalist dies?
What we're trying to do here is uphold common decency. The phrase "don't speak ill of the dead" comes to mind.
We're not holding her on a pedestal, or anything like that. She's getting no different treatment than others who have also died this year.
We try to uphold discussion, but when comments go over the line then we're forced to take action I'm afraid. We're also not saying that everything you say has to be good about her, or whomever has died. We're just saying that how they are put across should be respectful of the fact that she has now died.
Hopefully that clears up the stance going forward, not just for this thread but also future threads.
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Have you started a thread to discuss that?
No, did you?
I personally think this is an outmoded and horribly old-fashioned why of thinking and needs rethinking. No ones above criticism just because they're dead
Just out of curiosity... does that mean no jokes of the dead, ever?
I haven't and don't want to post a joke (I had no idea of this monday song etc... [my poor connection with music there] and its not overly funny anyway). Its not really a discussion for this thread, but saying "don't speak ill of the dead" whilst there are people on OCUK wishing other celebs were dead and speaking ill of them (and thats okay) seems very odd.
I get the common decency thing, but that should go both ways - but then we wouldn't have any jokes - as someone is always the butt of a joke (in modern jokes anyway)
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