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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Ok not inclined to click through to Daily Mail links and Guido Fawkes Twitter accounts or "PopBitch" (that's a new one) but is there any merit to this? Or is it just some slag with an axe to grind?
I guess that’s what we’re all waiting to see. Obviously the sender has got a real axe to grind, you don’t send emails this long to try and wreck a wedding without some fairly major motivation.
It was sent to a bunch of senior journalists, so you can bet your appendage of choice that they’re right now trying to figure out what is true so they can take it to press. It’s too explosive and semi-public not to.
PopBitch is fun by the way, weekly email newsletter about celebrities being dicks. I’m not a celeb gossip person but I get entertainment from it.
popbitch is, for me, on par with Private Eye. This is how they reported the story….
Wedding hell << We all got mail ********* EDITOR’S NOTE *********
We have been contacted by George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ lawyers who inform us that ‘The Email’ alluded to in this story is “full of false information” and subject to a legal complaint and police investigation.
Pointing out – as we did – that most of London’s media and much of Westminster had been sent an extraordinary/unprintable email is perfectly accurate and in no way suggests that we endorse the actual contents of the email.
We stand by what we wrote – but while the investigation proceeds we have agreed to not encourage any further speculation. We would also encourage any readers who have a copy not to share it or try to publish it. If you want an almighty headache, there more fun ways to get one.
on par with Private Eye
...dear god man. I mean, it's great at what it does, but comparable to the Eye? No. Just... no XD
We have been contacted by George Osborne and Thea Rogers’ lawyers
This, though, may as well be a straight-up admission of truth.
"PopBitch" (that's a new one)
They've been around for knocking on 20 years, if not longer.
Absolutely nothing more noble than a gossip-sheet (and they don't aim any higher either, to be clear), but they are legit and are broadly non-partisan.
Bloody hell. That's some serious accusations.
I mean, let's be real - it's totally inconsequential. We've known for years who he is and how he fills his days waiting for his inheritance, and more importantly, none of this stuff, even if true, will actually affect him in any meaningful way.
But I can't claim for a second that I'm not chuckling at his misfortune today.