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By:
Hamsterdam
When: 07 Apr 14 22:12
Possibly an accidental booze/benzo overdose happening all the time especially with celeb's.

Doesn't explain the weight loss though.

RIP - whatever happened. I found her somewhat naive but likable in the documentaries she did.
By:
History Maker
When: 07 Apr 14 22:13
Sorry for generalizing.

It is a very varied illness though.

Not that I particularly want to publicize it.
By:
SlippyBlue
When: 07 Apr 14 22:15
I'm old school obviously, a few on here have run the gauntlet, none more so than myself.
By:
dewey
When: 07 Apr 14 22:22
Unexplained death - mention of aneurysm.
By:
David Fishwick Minibus Sales
When: 07 Apr 14 22:24
by nirvana?
By:
call me a taxi
When: 07 Apr 14 22:29
He's too busy quizzing.
By:
HonkyJoe
When: 07 Apr 14 22:30
Nirvana.  The Ralph Morley of Chitchat...
By:
Velasquez
When: 07 Apr 14 22:53
Surprised at this as she was looking so happy with her kids, etc.

Remember watching her (on telly, like Plain) meeting Fearne Cotton and then Katie Hopkins on This Morning. I think she was more like Katie Hopkins than she'd care to admit. They had Peaches on as some kind of spokesperson for "attachment parenting." She always seemed to be "into" some esoteric idea and she'd be proselytizing for whatever the cause was on that particular day or week.

It was noticeable that she wouldn't really let Katie Hopkins have her say -- and that is going some.
By:
The Leopard
When: 07 Apr 14 23:03
Newsnight now
By:
Zazu
When: 08 Apr 14 00:53
I couldn't care less.

People die everyday its not like she had won a bunch of Noble Peace Prizes


Media coverage is ridiculus and can't believe its raced into a 100+ thread on chit chat Cry
By:
kenny mann
When: 08 Apr 14 00:59
correct.
By:
Back High Lay Low
When: 08 Apr 14 01:39
a quick google suggests that somewhere around 150,000 people die everyday
By:
Facts
When: 08 Apr 14 01:41
' Not caring less  'about the untimely death of a young woman is incredibly callous.

I didn't know her, I like I didn't know Amy Winehouse. But I did know my ex wife's daughter. She died at the age of 25.
It is a tragic loss, whoever they are. It is natural if they are in the public eye to feel someone else's pain. Bob Geldof  must be absolutely heart broken.i don't know him, but I know what he's done to help people in this world. There are two babies who will never know the love of their mother. Like Peaches didn't hers. Like my ex wife's daughter, her mother died of breast cancer when she was 12., her Father died of cancer two years earlier. She died at 25 of liver failure, caused by excessive alcohol abuse. Everyone has a life, and a story to tell of suffering.

Don't be quick too judge.don't be ' smart ' by passing disparaging comments. Just for one minute, think of someone you love and care about, and imagine if they were to die unexpectedly.
By:
Back High Lay Low
When: 08 Apr 14 01:54
You're too good for this forum, we don't deserve you.
By:
Clungehungry
When: 08 Apr 14 02:04
I can't agree Facts. How much do you care about all the other people who died today? What did you to show your upset? Did you take the day off work to support their family? Lie in bed crying all day? Or...nothing?
By:
Facts
When: 08 Apr 14 02:29
Don't be ridiculous
By:
Clungehungry
When: 08 Apr 14 03:04
I won't. But I will make calm, measured and decent posts.
By:
Clouseau
When: 08 Apr 14 08:19
Whilst it is a very sad event for family and friends of Ms. Geldof is it really something that people are actually going to talk about in the course of any verbal conversations with others, as you would if it had been someone you actually personally knew or was close to someone you personally knew of?

I doubt very much that users of this forum are going to be going down the pub and strike up a conversation with the barman about the sad demise of this young woman.
By:
Steamship
When: 08 Apr 14 08:22
During the summer I met this girl who my friend said looks like Peaches Geldof. I said I had not seen her in years as I did not watch her programmes or read her articles.
Funnily enough I called in at my mums and she was watching This Morning and on came Peaches and Katie Hopkins and Peaches talked about her two young children and how she would sleep with them and attatchment parenting, she seemed decent, clever and beautiful. That's all I know of her, but I know that those children don't have their mummy this morning.

For any of us who lost a parent whilst still being a child know it has a devastating affect on you through life  so if you still have yours thank your lucky stars and hope that your children see you grow old.

Finally I just wonder why some of you post vile comments on a thread about her? It says more about you than her.
By:
Mikael D'Haguenet
When: 08 Apr 14 09:06
Back High Lay Low 08 Apr 14 01:39 
a quick google suggests that somewhere around 150,000 people die everyday


Were any of them off the telly?
By:
moisok
When: 08 Apr 14 11:55
media extravaganza - gives them something to slaver over - sensationalist drivel - at least it takes up lots of space  to hide other more important news

the media loves to promote these 'celebreties' then goes ever more crazy when they get into trouble

never mind the 1000s of lives ruined every day by booze, drugs, carelessness, politicians, etc etc etc etc
By:
Poppydog.
When: 08 Apr 14 12:49
A national treasure

... is the phrase used by a national newspaper today

Heard it on the TV in the background this morning too (don't know who said it)
By:
disicipline=£££££££££££££sssss
When: 08 Apr 14 13:08
really national treasure?LaughLaughLaugh
By:
Dotchinite
When: 08 Apr 14 13:16
Other than the obvious assumption that she was related to Bob I cant say id ever heard of her.

What did she do?
By:
casemoney
When: 08 Apr 14 13:25
Being that her mother died young and sadly she has too ,is tragic ,there are 2 children without a mother to-day which is tragic in itself ,really dont know why people have to post trash on a thread about people who have died ,Either pay your respects as many have done or move on IMVHO ....
By:
Poppydog.
When: 08 Apr 14 13:46
I disagree.

Reading through the majority of the negative comments on this thread
they are denigrating the media and celebrity culture in this country,
not the poor young woman herself.
By:
G1_Jockey_4
When: 08 Apr 14 14:16
No threads about the two British women who drowned in the sea in Tenerife today who appeared to go in to the sea to try and save two children who were struggling in the waves and heavy currents.


sad but its the way of the world.

i agree though.
that should have had far more coverage.

if i was religious they should be made saints.
By:
lfc1971
When: 08 Apr 14 14:23
Should not be on the news.
By:
DStyle
When: 08 Apr 14 14:37
The truth is that if Fifi had died yesterday, it wouldn't be news.

There would be no obituary in the telegraph, and even if there were it would not be describing her chief occupation as being the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, as it was for Peaches today.

It's tough to know whether she courted the press more than they courted her.

She was the prettiest of the three daughters, and her possible drug taking and dating of music stars captured the media's attention because of the parallels it drew with her mother. The mawkish narrative that she was saved from a path of self destruction by motherhood was too much for them resist.

A husband has lost his wife, a father his daughter, and two children their mother. That is indeed sad, but headline news this is not.
By:
xmoneyx
When: 08 Apr 14 14:58
the guy who suppied the drugs will be sh^tting himself

hope its a 2nd cousin royalExcited
By:
Burton-Brewers
When: 08 Apr 14 15:12
I read somewhere that she was on some weird diet than can cause heart failure
By:
1st time poster
When: 08 Apr 14 17:30
its the people on here fawning over her that are on here the other 364 days of the year slagging off big brother,x factor and every other reality tv show,double standards me thinks
when young people say the fawning over the lokes of peaches is it any wonder they think theres a quick way to stardom and celebrity
By:
elisjohn
When: 08 Apr 14 17:38
this was a girl , like it or not was out of control, drugs orgies etc at a very young age, yet everyone says how fantastic she was etc, of course it sad that any one lose their mother , daughter sister
By:
erse2
When: 08 Apr 14 17:47
I see a collage of all the casualties of British troops doing the rounds on Facebook with a quote like "think about declaring national mourning for Peaches Geldof".

Kind of sums it up for me. Sorry to know of all the good people who are gone too soon, didn't know any of them personally but I'm sure their families miss them dearly.
By:
cardifffc
When: 08 Apr 14 18:13
ist time poster........your a real piece of filth
By:
1st time poster
When: 08 Apr 14 18:21
theres far worse posts than mine ,but i,ll wear it as a badge of honour,seems you prefer drug riddled heron users to a few home truths,strange old world
By:
cardifffc
When: 08 Apr 14 18:24
the girl was 25 years old with 2 young kids.........have you got kids??
By:
1st time poster
When: 08 Apr 14 18:28
certainly have
By:
cardifffc
When: 08 Apr 14 18:30
even more shame on you then
By:
1st time poster
When: 08 Apr 14 18:31
thanks for that
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