A year-to-the-day on Matthew Steeples asks: “Whatever became of the libel suit of gobby Jack Monroe v gobby Lee Anderson MP?”
Exactly a year ago to the day, on the 16th May 2022, the nauseatingly noxious ‘food poverty campaigner’ Jack Monroe promised to sue the nauseatingly noxious Tory twerp ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson MP for libel.
In the time since, using crowdfunding platforms and most likely the ‘tip jar’ ‘she/it’ continually bangs on about, Monroe has supposedly raked in funds to ‘support’ such an action. In one way, that would be understandable as Anderson – now quite ridiculously elevated to the position of deputy chairman of the Conservative Party – is quite frankly one of the deservedly most hated politicians in Britain; in another way, it most definitely isn’t given Monroe is equally grating and grim. Here is a case where, most definitely, both sides deserve to lose.
As she trended this morning on Twitter, I asked: “Exactly a year ago, gobby campaigner Jack Monroe promised legal against gobby Tory MP ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson. She supposedly crowdfunded to aid her in this ‘endeavour’ but no filing appears to have been made. Should she come clean and return funds raised?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 16th May 2023, the very, very clear majority of the 536 responses to date, 65.1% in fact, were unsurprisingly: “Yes; outrageous behaviour.” Another 25.7% took the view: “Yes; it was just a stunt.”
I’m left with just one question: “Isn’t it time Jack Monroe explained herself and isn’t it time ‘she/it’ explained what has happened to money given in good faith towards a libel action against Lee Anderson that has still failed to materialise?”
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Exactly a year ago, gobby campaigner Jack Monroe promised legal against gobby Tory MP '30p Lee' Lee Anderson. She supposedly crowdfunded to aid her in this 'endeavour' but no filing appears to have been made. Should she come clean and return funds raised? https://t.co/5Olbmwq2PS
This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Exactly a year ago, gobby campaigner Jack Monroe promised legal against gobby Tory MP ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson. She supposedly crowdfunded to aid her in this ‘endeavour’ but no filing appears to have been made. Should she come clean and return funds raised?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 16th May 2023, the very, very clear majority of responses were unsurprisingly: “Yes; outrageous behaviour.”
In a video uploaded to YouTube on 20th May 2022 by the media outlet ‘Tortoise’ featuring an interview with her, Monroe enthusiastically declared: “I have instructed libel proceedings. I am limited to what I can say in public about that whole situation now… It is on the record… I am, I am sending a legal letter letting him know that what he said was libelous and defamatory and has contributed to the downfall of what I have, what I have of a ‘reputation.’ And that he might want to reconsider his stance publicly and to all the agitators and instigators of that… I have instructed lawyers and we are in touch. Unfortunately, my lawyer decided to go off and get married this week; it’s a bit rude. Yeah, it’s been being planned for a few years, but he could have timed it better.”Social media users reacted to the threat of the libel action issued during the ‘Tortoise’ interview by making comments that included: “So, Jack Monroe has initiated legal action against Anderson and Daubney? (11 min) Yet they confirm receiving no letter before action. She’s a complete fraud and should run out of the charitable sector, as well as the media.” Others added: “What a charlatan” and “I hope Lee Anderson wipes the floor with her.”Yesterday, ‘GB News’ presenter Martin Daubney stated: “Jack now needs to answer questions about the missing funds for her non-existent legal case against us.” Within two minutes, Monroe had responded: “They’re not missing; they’re exactly where they’ve always been, and I’m doing exactly what I said I’d do with it. (I’m quiet because I have a very full and pleasant life outside of Twitter!)Is there anyone Monroe doesn’t want to have a pop at? Her own family even are ‘fair game’ for her bile, it seems. In July 2020, ‘she’ declared: “My brother was in the RAF last time we spoke, a couple of Christmases ago, when he described Iain Duncan Smith as the best thing to happen to this country and told me I had chosen to have a baby outside of marriage so deserved everything I got. It’s fair to describe us as ‘estranged’ these days” in a bizarre rant about potatoes and their link to suicide.In August last year, a Monroe recipe that involved rinsing canned spaghetti hoops of their accompanying tomato sauce, microwaving, microwaving a bit more and adding butter, oil, cheese and a pinch of pepper trended on Twitter. It was hardly revolutionary, helpful or intelligently thought out and though the mouth of the south thought it amusing to call it the work of a ‘Tin Can Cook,’ all it did was make her look like a buffoon and a berk.Michael Portillo very effectively shut down the ‘Thrifty Kitchen’ author in May 2019 when he forced her to step down from supporting ‘milkshaking’ right-wing politicians by asking if she’d do the same to centrist and left-wing figures. She had to pathetically concede: “Oh, OK… I condemn it.”‘Thrifty Kitchen’ was torn to shreds when it was published in January 2023 and mocked as “complete drivel.” Ideas for using fluff and water from tumble dryers – devices that anyone cutting back on costs would have already have stopped using during the cost-of-living crisis given how expensive they are to operate – were slammed as were Monroe’s thoughts on towels. To save money, the whack job stated: “Both me and my son can dry our entire bodies after a shower with a hand towel and a bit of vigorous application.” She laughably then added: “I have actually already perfected this down to the humble flannel.” Quite frankly, this nonsense was called out for the gibberish it truly was and will forever remain.“Cooks cook” Jamie Oliver has done more to help those struggling to feed their families than most. That he has been repeatedly attacked by a self-declared acid tongued “freelance food-and-politics-gob” who once crassly had a pop at David Cameron after the death of his son – she shockingly claimed “he uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends” – is indicative of the lowbrow tendencies of the person making such attacks.If the Southend-on-Sea born daughter of David Hadjicostas MBE and Evelyn Hadjicostas wanted people to like her a bit more, why doesn’t she adopt the humour of the late, great council house estate born Keith Floyd. Here was a legend – from the very same humble beginnings she claims to be from – who enjoyed life to the full and who cooked simple yet delicious food that brought joy to millions. Some positivity and joie de vivre might actually get her somewhere.Equally, the late, great Julia Child could also inspire better things of Monroe. This Pasadena, California born ex-Office of Strategic Services worker once stated: “I believe in cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food.” Reading the works of a true cooking legend like this might provide the Moaning Minnie former call handler for Essex County Fire and Rescue Services with something to actually enthuse about. If the author of ‘A Girl Called Jack’ would only pay attention to the words of the wonderful young man that is Big Zuu, she might be more widely appreciated. In 2020, this rapper turned inspirational cooking sensation remarked: “’Big Zuu’s Big Eats’ is the show for people who don’t live near a Waitrose or who can’t afford to go to one. I’m a massive fan of all cooking programmes, but I think this show stands out as we’re sourcing the food from local shops rather than big chains. I’m hoping it proves to people, especially in my generation, that cooking can be a fun and affordable experience. A lot of people I know can’t be bothered to cook and think it costs too much so they’d rather just get fast food. Hopefully, ‘BZBE’s’ can change that for some people.”
Jack Monroe likes to pick fights; amongst those she’s had a pop at are…
When ‘she’s’ not living-it-up with I’m A Celebrity bestie of Stanley Johnson, Georgia Toffolo, aside from myself, Jack Monroe has variously kept herself busy launching warbling words of war against:
Lee Anderson MP.
The Right Honourable David Cameron and his deceased child.
The Conservative Party – with their members in Bath being particularly high up on her list of ire.
Germaine Greer.
Katie Hopkins.
The Labour Party.
Jamie Oliver.
Michael Portillo.
The late The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher LG OM DStJ PC FRS HonFRSC.
The Right Honourable Liz Truss MP.
And many members of the Twitterati… And many, many others elsewhere.
As the Duchess of Sussex gets busy with ‘lemon olive oil cake’ for a new cookery book and revives ‘The Tig’ also, one is left wondering if she’ll collaborate with Elizabeth Arden and promote ‘todger cream’ as well
Now, with news that this deranged diva is submitting such for inclusion in a cookery book and planning to revive her tedious The Tig blog, it seems that the mendacious meddler formerly known as Meghan Markle clearly has aspirations of becoming the next Nigella Lawson.
Not content with interfering in international affairs and throwing hissy fits about not being welcomed into the royal family in the manner that she demanded, here is a pugnacious pest who simply doesn’t understand that the world would rather she just shut up and sauntered off to Siberia.
According to the Mirror’s Sophie Goodall, the duchess has given her “famous recipe” (“famously awful,” more like) to the Spanish chef Jose Andres for his forthcoming tome, The World Central Kitchen Cookbook.
Confirming this on the Archewell website, a statement from ‘MeGain’ patronisingly declared that she’d sent a letter to accompany her recipe and that it read:
“Sometimes we overlook how much it matters to express thanks and show appreciation. Perhaps we realise now more than ever that fundamental human moments, like enjoying a meal together, fill us up with more than just food (even if that food is delicious!).”
“To that point, we hope you enjoy the offering we baked for you – a small token of thanks, from our home to yours. Our hope with this effort is to show that, when we all participate, even the smallest actions can have a ripple effect. Even individual actions can impact the whole of us.”
In it its previous incarnation The Tig was subtitled with a message informing followers that they must pronounce the wine after which it was named ‘teen-ya-nello.’ God only knows what she’ll be captioning her oil slick cake with; a message from Elizabeth Arden about ‘todger cream’ perhaps?
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Pictured Top – ‘Mucky Meg’ baking cakes; no doubt there will be a lot more of this going on when the revived ‘The Tig’ launches, but will Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow, for example, be bothering to join in?
What’s the truth about the stories that abound about the Duchess of Sussex?
Of her claiming having got married the day before she actually did, Mr Markle stated: “Lying about the archbishop? How can you say: ‘We’ve been married three days before we got married’? Her lies are so obvious, I don’t know why she says them.”
Her very own half-sister, Samantha Markle, who is currently bringing a defamation case against her, has called her out as a liar on multiple occasions also. It has been proven that the duchess’s claim that she hasn’t seen her sibling in over 20 years was untrue given a photo of the pair together 14 years ago proves quite to the contrary.
Her very own half-brother, Thomas Jr., said of her: “I told Prince Harry, I think she’s going to ruin your life. She’s very shallow… She’s a phony, a bully, a jaded, shallow, conceited woman.”
The wife of Prince Harry has been called out on multiple occasions for spinning stories against other members of the royal family, most especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Staff who’ve worked for her have complained that she is a bully and investigations into this remain ongoing.
The Duchess of Sussex is a known manipulator of the press and paparazzis and it has been claimed that she’ll “twist the truth” to get any headline she wants.
Questions remain as to how many times she’s actually been married in total. Some say twice, some say thrice.
What’s the truth about Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland? Is this clearly equally manipulative woman an honest and decent citizen or is she a jailbird who has spent time in the clink?
Did the ‘Montecito Meddler’ meet Prince Andrew or Prince Harry first? Rumours abound that she could have spent time and holidayed with the former as long ago as 2001 and that her claim to have no prior knowledge of the royal family until 2016 is just utter baloney.
If the petulant public and most definitely anything but private pest that is the ‘Modern Day Mrs Simpson’ dares to talk of Tignanello on ‘The Tig 2.0,’ sales of that wine will most definitely plummet.That this former ‘Suits’ actress thought it appropriate to give prostitutes bananas that she’d daubed “you are loved” across about sums up her lack of class, decency or common care for fellow humans. The Duchess of Sussex ought to jolly well just remain silent; it’d be the best course of action.The thought of ‘Murky Mucky’ taking over any kitchen would be enough to turn anyone off their supper. Given her predilections for temper tantrums, even Gordon Ramsay might run for the hills if she dares enter his culinary domain.
Part 1 of Matthew Steeples’s ‘Meghan Markle Expose’ interview with Shaun Attwood has been watched over 193,000 times on YouTube. Subsequent episodes 2, 3 and 4 have also been watched many thousands of times in addition.
As McDonald’s attracts mockery for placing a “darkly comical” advert for their McCrispy sandwich next to a crematorium sign in Cornwall, we discover a journalist enthusiast for the processed chicken product who even wears McDonald’s branded leisurewear
Shufflebotham – a lady with a penchant for dressing up in clothing emblazoned with the brand’s logo even – claimed many customers were “devasted” and argued they were “losing, quite literally, a legend.” She enthusiastically, however, tempered that the McCrispy had “already won over celebrities Maya Jama and Leigh Francis following a successful star-studded launch in Salford.”
Going further of “McDonald’s first new permanent chicken burger in fifteen years,” the journalist claimed she was “excited to try it for the first time” and enthused that “there’s no denying that it’s attractive.” Shufflebotham’s surprisingly detailed fuller review of this processed chicken sandwich follows at the end of this article.
On Friday, however, the McCrispy attracted a very different kind of attention when it featured in a Daily Star article by Perkin Amalarah and Lee Trewhela. In it, the pair highlighted that McDonald’s had come under criticism after a large advert for the ‘new’ product on a bus shelter right next to a sign giving directions into the Penmount Crematorium in Truro, Cornwall.
Photographed and shared by eager beaver ‘Angry People in Local Newspaper’ types on social media, thousands had come to comment on this “ironically placed poster.” Some found it “hilarious” whilst others thought it “disgusting.” One went as far as to say: “Could have been worse. They could have added: ‘Extra crispy’” whilst another added: “Will they be playing Alicia Keys’ This Girl Is On Fire at that bus stop also?”
On Saturday Evening, picking up on this “bad taste” news story, The Guardian reported: “[A spokesman for the] chain said the company was not aware that the McCrispy bus stop ad in question was so close to a crematorium road sign. ‘In light of the concerns raised by Cornwall Live, we have asked for our advertisement to be removed,’ the rep’s statement added.”
McDonald’s previously caused offence in May 2017 after screening a television advertisement for their Filet-O-Fish sandwich in which a boy asked his mother about his dead father. The promotion showed the boy looking sad as he was told the pair wouldn’t have had much in common, but then happy as he eats a Filet-O-Fish with his mother announcing: “That was your dad’s favourite too.”
Later, after public outrage, the ‘Dead Dad TV advert’ was removed and a spokeswoman for the firm remarked: “It was never our intention to cause any upset. We are particularly sorry that the advert may have disappointed those people who are most important to us: our customers.”
On Saturday, The Steeple Times approached Bethan Shufflebotham for comment via Twitter; we have yet to hear if she thinks this sandwich saga “on fire” or just plain “tasteless.”
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Pictured Top – The offending advert next to the sign for the Penmount Crematorium in Truro, Cornwall.
McDonalds launched the product on the 12th October 2022 (pictured left) in Manchester with a fanfare. Guests in attendance numbered ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’ contestant Olivia Attwood, comedian Leigh Francis (AKA Keith Lemon) and television presenter Maya Jama. Meanwhile, definite enthusiast Bethan Shufflebotham (pictured right) has written extensively not only about the McCrispy, but also plenty also about the fast food chain in general on other occasions.The McCrispy® is described on the McDonald’s website as: “100% chicken breast fillet in a crispy, crunchy coating. Served with iceberg lettuce, black pepper mayo and a delicious sourdough-style sesame topped bun.” It is listed as giving 2031kJ per portion and containing 18g of fat, 6.9g sugars and 1.9g salt. The meat used in the product is supplied by Cranswick PLC in Hull – a firm that has had to fly in 400 butchers from the Philippines to deal with the success of it and which has seen its revenue rise by 12.4% as a result.
Responses to the saga of McDonald’s placing advertising next to the Penmount Crematorium sign on social media…
“I’m not livin’ it… Tasteless.”
“Shouldn’t the subline on the advert be: ‘To die for?’”
“Will they be playing Alicia Keys’ This Girl Is On Fire at that bus stop also?”
“I laughed so hard that Satan said I get a free bus ride to hell.”
“Last meal rights, I’m guessing.”
“Would you like fries with that?”
“Ideal if you’re hungry after the funeral.”
“Inspiration for the funeral buffet.”
“It might suit in the cost of living crisis as a budget reducing option.”
“At least it’s not Burger King, flaming good.”
“Wouldn’t an advert for McRibs be more appropriate?”
“At the crematorium café, when I asked for a steak, they asked how I wanted it done. I replied: ‘Cremated.’”
“They should have given a flame-grilled option in that location.”
“In protest against all the Cornish who were offended by this McDonald’s advert, I will be putting my cream on before the jam until further notice.”
“At least it’s not at the turning into Lancaster Crematorium which is on Powderhouse Lane.”
“There’s a crematorium in Durham Massey, Altrincham on a street called ‘Charcoal Road.’ When I pass, it always makes me giggle.”
“Our dad died alone in care home during Covid and his funeral was not the send-off he deserved. Seeing this sign would not have been appreciated.”
“I think how funny it is will probably depend on how long ago you followed the crematorium sign wearing a black tie.”
“At the ‘crem’ where my dad was created, there was a sign that read: ‘Dead slow.’ It made me smile and I knew my dad was looking down laughing.”
“Well it got them plenty of more notice didn’t it! Bad placement without thinking hum, I don’t think so! I only recently lost two loved ones and to be honest if I’d seen that sign near the crematorium I would have smiled. I don’t find it offensive at all.”
“Showed this my grandpa and his first response was: ‘Guess some people got really burned-up about it.” I peed myself.”
“I’d have been in stitches if I’d have seen this on the way to my dad’s cremation. I don’t think he ever had a McDonald’s in his entire life, but he’d still have laughed also.”
“I think it is brilliant. McDonald’s DO NOT move it. It’s funny… Anyone who doesn’t find it funny needs to get a life.”
“Too many snowflakes getting upset… Only the Karen and Susan types of Cornwall would get offended. It’s funny. End of.”
“It’s like putting up a temporary roadwork sign saying “cat’s eyes removed” right outside a veterinary surgery.”
“It’s hilarious. They should leave it there… Everybody dies, so why not have a laugh about it?”
“Turned out to be a great advertisement. Everyone’s talking about it.”
“Perhaps they should replace it with a life insurance advert.”
“Could have been worse. They could have added: ‘Extra crispy.’”
“No more tasteless than any of their offerings.”
“Is there a taxidermist down the road?”
“All I can conclude is: ‘Well done.’”
Bethan Shufflebotham reviews the McCrispy for the ‘Manchester Evening News,’ 21st October 2022…
Never could one imagine someone getting so enthused by a McDonald’s product, but Bethan Shufflebotham most certainly did:
“Made with 100 per cent chicken breast fillet, the McCrispy comes in a yellow box, and on lifting the lid, there’s no denying that it’s attractive. The patty comes served in a four-inch glazed bun making it look like one of the chain’s more premium burgers, topped with lettuce and mayo.”
“Biting into the stack, it’s evident that this is far superior to the Mayo Chicken, with a definite crunch to the crispy coating. Marinated in black pepper and cayenne, it’s got a bit of a kick to it, but not enough to put a Korma-orderer off. Not only that, but the bun balances any heat with its sweet nutty toasted flavour, making it a really enjoyable and filling meal. Having had the potato waffles prior, I couldn’t finish the last bite, despite being desperate to polish it off.”
“The McCrispy costs £6.49 for an extra-value meal, which comes with fries and a drink, on its own, it’s £4.99. In comparison, the Mayo Chicken is 99p, but it is pretty bland and far smaller in comparison. It’s your call as to whether you want to pay the additional £4 for a more full-bodied burger and bun.”
“A friend of mine who tried the burger the same day said: ‘It was like eating a massive Chicken Select encased in bread.’ And when you consider the price of three Chicken Selects is £3.29, the price seems to be put in perspective a little better.”
The entrance to the Penmount Crematorium (opposite where the offending advert was placed on a bus shelter).Will this chicken sandwich survive its moment at the crematorium or will it be incinerated by McDonald’s after the public relations debacle an advert for it caused?
As noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell rots in jail living on grotty grub and unable to afford an appeal, her husband Scott Borgerson is spotted living it up with his sexually saucy sidekick courtesy of the £15 million the mucky madam transferred to him
Whilst submarine pilot Scott Borgerson lives it up at his £6.5 million Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts mansion that nobody seemingly wants to buy with his sexually saucy “yoga enthusiast” with an “ass that could crack open a walnut” lover Kris McGinn tomorrow, his estranged (possibly, possibly not) ex-wife Ghislaine Maxwell will spend Christmas Day – which also happens to be her birthday – rotting in the clink.
“She will be forced to skip the Cornish hen and all the yummy side dishes like garlic macaroni and cheese. Instead, the birthday girl’s prison tray will be full of vegetables like stuffed green peppers without meat, brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce, and fruit.”
“Maxwell’s vegan lifestyle will also restrict her from the yummy dinner rolls with butter. She’ll most likely go without a birthday dessert, too, as FCI Tallahassee only lists one sweet on the menu: red velvet cheesecake.”
“And while that dessert sounds delicious, we highly doubt anyone at the prison will make it vegan friendly for the convict, who’s turning another year older.”
Meanwhile elsewhere today in the Daily Record, it was revealed that the convicted sex offender’s estranged husband or soon to be ex-husband (if not already ex-husband) has been spotted living it-up courtesy of the £15 million trust fund transferred to him by his “secret wife” since 2015 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
Mr Borgerson, a 47-year-old somewhat significantly younger than his until tomorrow still 60-year-old wife, was spotted with another cougar, his new 50-year-old journalist ‘kissing partner,’ Scott McGinn, and a person whose identity was concealed by pixelation on Friday.
Presently ‘The Bouncing Czech’s’ deviant daughter faces a deadline of 23rd January to lodge an appeal, but given she owes one law firm alone, Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, at least £700,000 and others sums estimated as high as £2.3 million, it’s certainly not looking like a very merry Christmas will actually be the priority on the mind of Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Pictured Top – In times past, the grubby groper got to spend holidays hanging out with her fellow and since croaked grubby groper Jeffrey Epstein; in times present, she might remember happier times with her either ex or soon to be ex-husband Scott Borgerson.
Scott Borgerson and “new flame” Kris McGinn got papped in Manchester-by-the-Sea out Christmas shopping on a “wintry day” by a photographer employed by the “Daily Record.’ They remarked on how he ended his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell with a “phone call while she was in a New York jail awaiting trial” and claimed “he has moved on.”Tofurky® was on the menu for Ghislaine Maxwell for Thanksgiving, but if ‘RadarOnline’ is to be believed she’ll just be getting sprouts on her birthday tomorrow.Given her liking for such, perhaps someone could be as kind as to buy Ghislaine a pair of tweezers off the FCI Tallahassee commissary list this Christmas. The price is just $0.60.Someone especially generous could gift the grubby groper a $61.50 self-powered radio. She might even get lucky and listen in to King Charles’s Christmas Day missive.
Ghislaine Maxwell will be spending Christmas Day here…
Prisoner Register Number 02879-509, as she is more suitably now known, will be rotting at the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, 501 Circle, North East Tallahassee, Florida, FL 32301, United States of America – ‘residing’ at the pleasure of the USA
It’ll not be the happiest ever of birthdays for the woman both Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew have supposedly had a “go” with on 25th December 2022. After being convicted on 29th December 2021, she was subsequently sent to low security FCI Tallahassee in Florida.
It must not be forgotten that Miss Maxwell now must decide whether she’ll trade the names of any of the powerful men she sex trafficked to and that she also faces a second trial for perjury. A date for that remains to be set, but the chances of the possibility of her appealing her first sentence continues to narrow given she, Mr Borgerson and her brother Kevin owe an estimated £3 million ($3.6 million, €3.4 million or درهم13.3 million) to lawyers.
Scott Borgerson will be spending Christmas Day here…
Scott Borgerson and Kris McGinn will be living-it-large at The Phippen-Smith House (AKA ‘Tidewood’), 301 Summer Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Cape Ann, Essex County, Massachusetts, MA 01944, United States of America – currently for sale for £6.52 million ($6.95 million, €7.28 million or درهم25.52 million).
By contrast, the mucky madam’s possibly still husband (possibly not) Scott Borgerson will remain at a house that the pair bought back in June 2018 for £1.8 million ($2.2 million, €2 million or درهم8 million).
This morning, the Daily Record featured shots of Mr Borgerson – who controls a £15 million ($18.1 million, €17 million or درهم66.4 million) trust his wife since 2015 transferred into his name – “enjoying Christmas shopping in Massachusetts alongside his new love, Kris McGinn” whilst his ex “spends her third miserable Christmas in jail.”
Of this, they commented: “[Our] image of her husband with his new girlfriend will be a bitter reminder of the life she once had. As he rebuilds his life without his sex trafficker wife, Scott Borgerson, 47, is dating Kris McGinn, a 50-year-old journalist from Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where he still lives in the £5.8million seafront mansion he once shared with Maxwell.”
A local added of the new couple:
“Those two are like chalk and cheese in terms of their visibility in the town. Whereas we see Kris daily pottering around, Scott is like a ghost. He is seldom seen and only ventures out on rare occasions.”
“What is good though is that Rebecca [Borgerson’s first wife and with whom he has two children] has been fantastic. She is accepting of Kris and has seen her several times. It must be a relief that the new woman in his life is so wholesome given Maxwell’s convictions.”
“What has transpired though, has been a nightmare that has turned Scott’s life completely upside down. But as he continues to fight the legacy left by Ghislaine, Kris has helped put a smile back on his face.”
One of the 5.3 bathrooms at 301 Summer Street features a shower the size of a studio flat. It is quite the contrast to the bathroom at Miss Maxwell’s former Kinnerton Street home where Virginia Roberts Giuffre claims she was forced into sexual relations with the Duke of York in 2001 – a room which we were able to prove she talked nonsense about when she claimed the bathtub “too small for any activity whatsoever” when we exclusively published photographs of it in January this year. Of this bathroom, in July 2019, a “pal” and neighbour told ‘The Sun on Sunday’: “The house did have one unusual feature – a huge shower. It had Wi-Fi so they could control it from their phones, a steam unit, the whole nine yards. It was like a party shower. You can imagine what they got up to in there.” It has not been confirmed as to whether Prince Andrew ever got to try this particularly opulent shower area out.301 Summer Street was for a time where Maxwell was able to live in peace with a “secret husband” since 2015 (or 2016 depending on whom you believe) that her own siblings even didn’t know of until her arrest in July 2020 at the rather appropriately named ‘Tuckedaway.’In times past, on ‘Paedo Island’ the mucky madam Maxwell used to enjoy dinners looking out to sea with fellow sex traffickers like Jean-Luc Brunel. He’s now been ‘suicided’ whilst she’s reduced to prison tray suppers.Running is no doubt a relief from the monotony of jail for the one-time close associate of Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Kevin Spacey and the Duke of York. After two years confined indoors in the Metropolitan Detention in Brooklyn, New York, the ocean obsessed vegan must love being outdoors in the Florida sunshine.
Names in the firing line most obvious from Ghislaine’s filthy ‘Little Black Book’ (if she decides to seek to minimise her sentence)
Ghislaine Maxwell has until June 2023 to cooperate and thus “name names” if she wishes to see her sentence reduced.
Those Scott Borgerson’s estranged wife has been known to associate with – none of whom The Steeple Times is suggesting at this time as having been involved in any of her crimes, but whom she might seek revenge against for not offering her what she might consider enough public or even private support – include:
Alexander Acosta
Woody Allen
Ehud Barak
Tom Barrack
Scott Borgerson
Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased)
Naomi Campbell
President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
Alan Dershowitz
Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva
Bernie Ecclestone
Bill Gates
Geordie Greig
Countess of Iveagh (AKA Clare Guinness, Clare Hazell)
Lord Mandelson
Marvin Minsky
George J. Mitchell
Rupert Murdoch
Elon Musk
Peter Nygård
Bill Richardson III
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Kevin Spacey
Jes Staley
Ken Starr
President Donald Trump and his potentially trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein wife Melania
Ivana Trump (deceased)
Chris Tucker
Harvey Weinstein
Leslie Wexner
Prince Andrew, Duke of York and his live-in ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York
The elevation of busybody-bore and all-round grim grifter Jack Monroe by ‘The Grocer’ represents a pinnacle in pointlessness claims Matthew Steeples
“A grifter’s gotta grift” has become a firm favourite phrase in 2022 and today the ultimate example of such, the vitriolic viper that is Jack Monroe, is again trending on Twitter.
This time ludicrously ‘elevated’ to “Hero of the Year” by The Grocer in an article by some nitwit named Harry Holmes, the petulant pest whom once wrote to me to tell me “I want no association with your sh*t” was then quite deservedly slammed on Twitter as a “grifter” and a “constant liar” akin to the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle.
Though laughably made out to be “an essential voice for thousands” and someone “reduced to tears” by Asda supposedly caving in after she tweeted about them not having stocked enough “value” products by ‘most definitely not Sherlock’ Holmes, Monroe was condemned as someone who’d “best make up some fresh lies and manipulate people to donate to my tip jar” by another going by the name of @Scbusiness4.
Going further, another member of the Twitterati going by the handle @SevenSeasSoBlue surmised the situation best. They tweeted: “At first I thought Jack Monroe was an idealistic spirit, a bit scatterbrained, a bit drama queen, but that her heart was essentially in the right place and that she did some good. Then I got alerted (thanks @AwfullyMolly!) and now I see what a scam artist she was.”
Elsewhere yesterday, in an especially telling feature, a blogger going by the aforementioned name ‘Awfully Molly #bekindnotblind’ shared her thoughts on the matter. She highlighted allegations that Monroe’s supposed donations to charities including the Trussell Trust had not amounted to quite what she had herself suggested.
Amusingly also, ‘Awfully Molly’ highlighted that Monroe had also tweeted fake news in April when she recommended a book titled Georgia Church Suppers in April when attempting to ‘support’ the people of Ukraine. The book was about food in Georgia in America and not Georgia, the country in eastern Europe.
‘Awfully Molly’ added: “When this was called out, initially Jack just deleted the tweet and reposted it without including the book from Georgia. Several months later, she claimed that it had been a mistake due to a lack of geographical knowledge.”
“It may not seem important, although it is another example of Jack being flesxible with the truth, but it demonstrates Jack not taking responsibility for the influence and platform she has, or showing respect to her followers.”
In August this year, the mouthy menace Monroe was quite rightly condemned after patronising the poor by telling those on a budget to “tip [canned] spaghetti hoops into a sieve and gently rinse them to get rid of the tomato sauce” and then microwave and “enjoy immediately” with “a pinch of pepper.” In 2023, we can only hope for one thing and that is to not hear from this braindead bore; sadly that’ll most certainly not happen.
Pictured top – Jack Monroe: A person of very confusing identity – who has variously been “non-binary” and going by “they/them” and “she/her pronouns,” “gay,” “genderqueer,” “lezzer” and “cisgender lesbian” according to Wikipedia – likes to fight utterly anyone. In 2018, she got into a spat with Bath Conservatives after they quite rightly called out parents who “don’t know how to feed their children” as “indolent.”
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In August this bombastic bore bizarrely turned her attention to examining Liz Truss’s name and banged on about Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May also. Jack Monroe as a conspiracy theorist is one thing, but Miss Marple she most certainly ain’t as this rabid rant most definitely proves.
Twitter reacts to the feckless food bank forager being elevated by ‘The Grocer’…
How can the pugnacious pensioner Sir Cliff Richard be spending ‘Cliffmas Day’ making gravy ‘live’ in London with queue jumpers Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield when he also claims to be spending it in Fort Lauderdale, Florida also?
If the over Botoxed, creepy Christian crooner Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb) were a supermarket product, you’d find him rotting in the bargain bucket, yellow stickered and somewhat past sell-by-date.
Now, on 25th December this year, the also past-their-sell-by-dates funeral queue jumpers Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are said to be spending Christmas Day with the Mistletoe and Wine ‘singer.’ Allegedly, if you believe ITV’s advertising diatribe, they’ll be making gravy together ‘live’ in London and allegedly they’ll also be keeping the nation in good cheer as the kids fight over their cost of living crisis gifts and the elders collapse into a drunken haze unable to afford to turn on the heating even.
Aside from the mere thought of Sir Cliff’s version of “Christmas gravy” being utterly noxious – in 2016, he was slaughtered on ‘the socials’ after making gravy ‘live’ on the telly box whilst wearing an anything but saucy sequin number with soy and teriyaki sauces, yes, soy and teriyaki sauces of all things, you simply couldn’t make it up – being utterly grim, it seems the one-time mate of paedophiles numbering Lord Boothby, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris and Sir Jimmy Savile could be telling porky pies.
Whilst Zoom calling might be a solution to his convenient half-truths, ‘Cliffmas 2022’ could prove a bit complicated given Sir Cliff told the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden that he’ll actually be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Christmas Day. How on earth, therefore, could he be in London at the same time also?
Without that ever so convenient Concorde that used to rocket him and the likes of ‘Lady Doors to Manual’ Carole Bamford into Barbados, will this year’s ‘Cliffmas gravy’ be left as cold as this noxious nutcase’s 2023 tour schedule? We suspect there’ll be many a ‘Cliffmas Calendar’ left rotting at Heathrow come 1st January 2023 along with the convenient nonsense of a singer who shouldn’t keep claiming that he didn’t mean to be friends with the likes of evil cretins like Lord Boothby, Gary Glitter, Ronnie Kray, Rolf Harris and Sir Jimmy Savile.
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Pictured Top – The over-Botoxed ‘Summer Holiday’ singer with his possible Christmas Day 2022 chums, the much-loathed flogger of fit-only-for-the-plughole boxed wines Phillip Schofield and his queue jumping sidekick, the not-so-fragrant Holly ‘Not Mistletoe’ Willoughby.
With friends like these… The ‘Daily Mail’s’ Richard Eden this morning reported that Sir Cliff Richard is “off to sunny Florida” for Christmas. Eden added: “There will be no white Christmas for Sir Cliff,” but neglected to make any commentary as to whether the soppy singer had any views on white powder substances however.With friends like these… The creepy Christian crooner pictured with his chirpy chum Gloria Hunniford, a woman 5 Hertford Street ‘bog photo’ posing favourite Basia Briggs seemingly has little time for, and TV chef Jamie Oliver munching on a Christmas feast back in 2016.With friends like these… With Graham Norton after doing a broadcast with him on the radio station founded by the grabber Sir Richard Branson. On 12th December, Virgin Radio cringeworthily declared: “The King of Christmas is back!” before adding that Sir Cliff had banged on about Christmas in Barbados and had stated: “The first year I spent Christmas there, it almost put me off spending it there for good. Our tree was quite tall, we have quite high ceilings, and it took me about four hours to put it up. I got so sweaty doing it, I had to have three showers! I’ve been invited to go to Fort Lauderdale in Florida this year, and of course that’s a warm, hot place too. I’m forever dreaming of a white Christmas.” Cringe or vomit now, if you need.With friends like these, who needs enemies… With sadly still living paedophile Gary Glitter – a cretin who is due to be free in the early part of 2023. We’re told he’s headed to the Isle of Thanet, Kent – where his only known wife once lived. Will Sir Cliff be paying his old chum a visit?With friends like these, who needs enemies… With sadly still living paedophile Rolf Harris. Though evil-to-his-core nonagenarian Harris has cancer and “can’t eat anymore” (diddums), him and his freakish wife, Alywn Hughes, are still known to like going for a curry at Cookham, Berkshire curry house that is also favoured by former Prime Minister Theresa May. Shame on them for allowing this revolting sex fiend entry. With friends like these, who needs enemies… With amongst others the late Cilla Black OBE – who seemed to be a magnet for wrong ‘un’s – and the thankfully croaked paedophile PR peddler Max Clifford. Unbelievably, Louise Clifford, the sex offender’s loyal to him till the end daughter, is still shamelessly trading in public relations as Borne Media after having bought the “goodwill” of her father’s vile business. How disgusting is that?With friends like these, who needs enemies… With the monster who shagged boys, girls, men, women, the mentally disabled and corpses even Sir Jimmy Savile OBE KCSG. The pair made numerous telly box appearances together and shared not only a mutual interest in crooning but many mutual friends also.With friends like these, who needs enemies… With the late paedophile The Right Honourable The Lord Boothby KBE. ‘Bouncing Bob’ Boothby was a sweaty, fat bisexual known for his affairs with everyone from Ronnie Kray to Lady Macmillan, wife of the Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He has been cited as being the Tory equivalent of the ‘Bouncing Czech’ and Labour MP Robert Maxwell in terms of his deviancy.
