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The Leopard
07 Apr 14 18:12
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Report elisjohn • April 7, 2014 10:07 PM BST
alexander bastedo was arguably the most beautiful woman ever , she starred in the champions
Report History Maker • April 7, 2014 10:08 PM BST
Sorry Joe, that's not how depression works Sad
Report HonkyJoe • April 7, 2014 10:09 PM BST
I understand exactly how depression works, HM.  Thanks very much.
Report SlippyBlue • April 7, 2014 10:11 PM BST
A kid has died, no matter who she is where she has come from, that saddens me.
Report Hamsterdam • April 7, 2014 10:12 PM BST
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.
Report History Maker • April 7, 2014 10:13 PM BST
Sorry for generalizing.

It is a very varied illness though.

Not that I particularly want to publicize it.
Report SlippyBlue • April 7, 2014 10:15 PM BST
I'm old school obviously, a few on here have run the gauntlet, none more so than myself.
Report dewey • April 7, 2014 10:22 PM BST
Unexplained death - mention of aneurysm.
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • April 7, 2014 10:24 PM BST
by nirvana?
Report call me a taxi • April 7, 2014 10:29 PM BST
He's too busy quizzing.
Report HonkyJoe • April 7, 2014 10:30 PM BST
Nirvana.  The Ralph Morley of Chitchat...
Report Velasquez • April 7, 2014 10:53 PM BST
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.
Report The Leopard • April 7, 2014 11:03 PM BST
Newsnight now
Report Zazu • April 8, 2014 12:53 AM BST
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
Report kenny mann • April 8, 2014 12:59 AM BST
correct.
Report Back High Lay Low • April 8, 2014 1:39 AM BST
a quick google suggests that somewhere around 150,000 people die everyday
Report Facts • April 8, 2014 1:41 AM BST
' 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.
Report Back High Lay Low • April 8, 2014 1:54 AM BST
You're too good for this forum, we don't deserve you.
Report Clungehungry • April 8, 2014 2:04 AM BST
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?
Report Facts • April 8, 2014 2:29 AM BST
Don't be ridiculous
Report Clungehungry • April 8, 2014 3:04 AM BST
I won't. But I will make calm, measured and decent posts.
Report Clouseau • April 8, 2014 8:19 AM BST
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.
Report Steamship • April 8, 2014 8:22 AM BST
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.
Report Mikael D'Haguenet • April 8, 2014 9:06 AM BST
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?
Report moisok • April 8, 2014 11:55 AM BST
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
Report Poppydog. • April 8, 2014 12:49 PM BST
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)
Report disicipline=£££££££££££££sssss • April 8, 2014 1:08 PM BST
really national treasure?LaughLaughLaugh
Report Dotchinite • April 8, 2014 1:16 PM BST
Other than the obvious assumption that she was related to Bob I cant say id ever heard of her.

What did she do?
Report casemoney • April 8, 2014 1:25 PM BST
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 ....
Report Poppydog. • April 8, 2014 1:46 PM BST
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.
Report G1_Jockey_4 • April 8, 2014 2:16 PM BST
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.
Report lfc1971 • April 8, 2014 2:23 PM BST
Should not be on the news.
Report DStyle • April 8, 2014 2:37 PM BST
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.
Report xmoneyx • April 8, 2014 2:58 PM BST
the guy who suppied the drugs will be sh^tting himself

hope its a 2nd cousin royalExcited
Report Burton-Brewers • April 8, 2014 3:12 PM BST
I read somewhere that she was on some weird diet than can cause heart failure
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 5:30 PM BST
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
Report elisjohn • April 8, 2014 5:38 PM BST
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
Report erse2 • April 8, 2014 5:47 PM BST
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.
Report cardifffc • April 8, 2014 6:13 PM BST
ist time poster........your a real piece of filth
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 6:21 PM BST
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
Report cardifffc • April 8, 2014 6:24 PM BST
the girl was 25 years old with 2 young kids.........have you got kids??
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 6:28 PM BST
certainly have
Report cardifffc • April 8, 2014 6:30 PM BST
even more shame on you then
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 6:31 PM BST
thanks for that
Report brendanuk1 • April 8, 2014 6:47 PM BST
where were kids when she checked out?
Report moisok • April 8, 2014 6:48 PM BST
I think there should be much less sympathy and more condemning drug use, booze and celebrity fawning.
Report akabula • April 8, 2014 6:48 PM BST
@1st time poster
Who's fawning over her? like most posters I didn't know anything about her other than through the media but that doesn't stop me feeling sad at the news. I think that's a natural response.
Report brendanuk1 • April 8, 2014 6:50 PM BST
if it turns out she accidentally overdosed, ie like a smackhead, would it change opinions?
Report moisok • April 8, 2014 6:51 PM BST
I don't feel much sadness myself - more, 'what a stupid girl'.  The lifestyle of a lot of these so called celebrities are fawned over with a sort of 'shock horror' but sneaking jealousy. Pushed at young people as the 'new way' to behave and be admired.  Otherwise why would they be always plastered over papers / media etc???
Report akabula • April 8, 2014 6:53 PM BST
It wouldn't change mine Brendan. A 25 year old died, sad no matter the circumstances.
I saw a report in todays press that stated no drugs were found at her home.
Report brendanuk1 • April 8, 2014 6:57 PM BST
its odds on drugs / misadventure for me.
Report erse2 • April 8, 2014 7:09 PM BST
> if it turns out she accidentally overdosed, ie like a smackhead, would it change opinions?

not for me, seems like she could have benefitted from some counselling, from what little i know. must be pretty traumatic to know her mum/step-dad both ended it.
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 7:30 PM BST
like her mam you mean
Report Facts • April 8, 2014 7:33 PM BST
^ shut up - you moron
Report 1st time poster • April 8, 2014 7:35 PM BST
overdosed on herion,which was what erse was asking,
Report TheBetterBettor • April 8, 2014 7:51 PM BST
C.S. Lewis
Farrah Fawcett
Mickey Rooney Plain
Report TheBetterBettor • July 23, 2014 1:17 PM BST
Inquest confirms that the police were called  on the day she died and found 6.9g of "importation quality" heroin with a street value of up to £550, along with drugs paraphernalia including syringes and burnt spoons.
Report posy • July 23, 2014 3:57 PM BST
Call me hard hearted but i don't give a jot if some rich kid decides to take heroin and so end her life...there's more to be concerned about in this world than these so called celebs ending up as dust.Just what do these type of people contribute to our society.
Report call me a taxi • July 23, 2014 4:07 PM BST
Fack all.

Good riddance to her and her ilk.
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 23, 2014 4:57 PM BST
I was a heroine addict - until my mum made my take down all my posters of Wonder Woman and Xena
Report scandanavian_haven • July 23, 2014 4:58 PM BST
tbf she didn't ask to be born rich, and straight into the public spotlight growing up with cameras flashed in her face dragged off to the latest premier by her dad, and losing her mum to heroin on her 10th birthday, and as for what she contributed to society, she paid more in tax to this country than most tax payers in the country, so call D list celebs be it posh people like peaches or rent a gobs like Jordan should never be looked down upon they are good for the economy, if you want to look down on anyone do it to the dealers who supplied her the drugs, or drug traffic control who didn't do their job sufficiently. R.I.P imo.
Report The Leopard • July 23, 2014 6:01 PM BST
Good post Haven.

However, if all drugs were legal then she would have been on a clean supply with a known % concentration and would still be alive today.

The drugs laws are killing our children and putting massive amounts of cash into the hands of criminals.

This gives them power to corrupt our Police and security services and sooner or later, London will be as bad as Mexico where 10,000 have been murdered to date.
Report brendanuk1 • July 23, 2014 6:15 PM BST
smacked up probably
Report The Leopard • July 23, 2014 6:17 PM BST
I don't touch the stuff....just the odd beer now and then.
Report dr . atkins • July 23, 2014 6:18 PM BST
she was a junkie end of story
Report SlippyBlue • July 23, 2014 6:28 PM BST
She had two toddlers, having a fix was more important than taking care of them.
Report The Leopard • July 23, 2014 6:30 PM BST
She couldn't help it Slippy....she was able to do both.... but nobody told her that % could kill her.
Report ReaseHeath • July 23, 2014 6:32 PM BST
The report I've just read states she had a quantity of 61% 'importation quantity' heroin (whatever that means) - as opposed to 26% purity usually found at street level (I assume that's an average).

She had a total of 79 syringes and a couple of home made tourniquets - she was home alone with an 11 month old baby so - and I appreciate she was struggling with an evil addiction - her behaviour was woefully irresponsible and she was n't fit to be a parent despite her self driven media portayal as some sort of 'super mum'.

Her husband knew she had been taking heroin again since February so why did he feel it was appropriate to go away for the weekend with their elder child leaving her alone with an 11 month old child?

Her father is a redoubtable campaigner so it might help if he were to go public and highlight the dangers associated with heroin use.

I'm sorry that she's dead, sorry that she lost her mother in the way she did, sorry for her father, siblings, husband and, most of all, her children - but she had more opportunity than most to take responsibility for her own life and failed to do so.

Finally, if the scenario described in court today occurred in a family without wealth and celebrity status, social services would be involved.
Report guinness2dear • July 23, 2014 6:34 PM BST
Plenty of lies told when her body was found as well. Which bright spark decided to keep it all hush hush?
Report brendanuk1 • July 23, 2014 6:40 PM BST
yes must have been clear it was accidental over dose from moment she was found, but initial reports were "inconclusive". who decides what the public should know and when Confused
Report guinness2dear • July 23, 2014 6:42 PM BST
Even the press were involved in that cover up.. Strange one..
Report brendanuk1 • July 23, 2014 6:44 PM BST
suppose if your a knight of the realm, you might get treated differently
Report guinness2dear • July 23, 2014 6:48 PM BST
Sickening innit.

I've not seen or heard one press comment about this. I wonder if Cohen will be charged with anything?
Report Burton-Brewers • July 23, 2014 6:49 PM BST
you would have thought her mother's death might have put her off
Report Quvega • July 23, 2014 7:05 PM BST
I think it's really quite disturbing that initial media reports stated there was no indication of drugs when it must have been blatantly obvious this was not the case.

If the press can print bare faced lies about something so relatively unimportant other than to members of her family, it makes you wonder what bigger porkies we are being fed.
Report xmoneyx • July 23, 2014 7:07 PM BST
not as bad as,it was in her food
Report guinness2dear • July 23, 2014 7:08 PM BST
Quite - Mr Mare..
Report brendanuk1 • July 23, 2014 7:17 PM BST
.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/peaches-geldof-dead-no-drugs-3387214

There was no evidence of drugs at the home where Peaches Geldof was found dead aged 25, it was reported last night.

Friends of the journalist and model insist she wasn't on drugs before her "unexplained and sudden" death.
Report Quvega • July 23, 2014 7:23 PM BST
That's it brendanuk1. I clearly remember reading it.

I naively sort of hoped it was true too.
Report brendanuk1 • July 23, 2014 8:06 PM BST
Peaches Geldof's baby son alone with her body for 17 hours after death from heroin overdose
.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/peaches-geldof-heroin-death-baby-3900420

As a tribute to Peaches Geldof and with the blessing of her family, we publish her final Mother&Baby column.

The Mother&Baby team is shocked and saddened to hear about the death of Peaches Geldof, who joined the team as a columnist earlier this year. She described having children as having changed her life for the better, and with typical single-mindedness embraced her new role as a mum with an almost obsessive devotion. As a new mother, her passion and opinions on parenting resonated with us and our users

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http://www.motherandbaby.co.uk/2014/04/peaches-geldof-1989-2014

Like 2 different realities or sumfink Confused
Report scandanavian_haven • July 23, 2014 8:21 PM BST
ADDICTION

Heroin addicts would sell their mums as slaves for 20 quid if it meant getting their next fix, relapses always occur, I'm not her apologist but heroin is one the most fiercest addictions there is, it takes no prisoners, rationale and self awareness when addicted to it fly out of the window.

What I will say about posh rich people though is they do give their kids stupid names
Report p_r_e_m_i_e_r__f_a_n_t_a_s_y • July 23, 2014 8:27 PM BST
ADDICTION

Heroin addicts would sell their mums as slaves for 20 quid if it meant getting their next fix, relapses always occur, I'm not her apologist but heroin is one the most fiercest addictions there is, it takes no prisoners, rationale and self awareness when addicted to it fly out of the window.

What I will say about posh rich people though is they do give their kids stupid na



ermmm that's why you don't take it in the first place, ffs in this day and age it's not as if people are not aware of what the bloody drug does to you and Peaches Geldoff knew it more than most yet still choose to take it that first time
Report dewey • July 23, 2014 8:33 PM BST
What price fame and fortune........................................................................
Report SlippyBlue • July 23, 2014 8:37 PM BST
For Peaches Geldof, it was the ultimate price.
Report Shrewd_dude • July 23, 2014 8:48 PM BST
I think it's really quite disturbing that initial media reports stated there was no indication of drugs when it must have been blatantly obvious this was not the case.

If the press can print bare faced lies about something so relatively unimportant other than to members of her family, it makes you wonder what bigger porkies we are being fed.


It's not the media that carries out the investigation though is it? Unless the police say we found a a lot of drugs there then the Press shouldn't really speculate.
Report Velasquez • July 23, 2014 9:02 PM BST
One of the things that annoys me is that she was setting herself up as an expert on parenting. She was on This Morning (not long before she died) with some esoteric ideas, like she was some kind of authority, and no-one had ever raised kids before.

Out of all the mothers in the UK, there was super-mom Peaches on the telly...and she was also writing for Mother and Baby magazine...yeah...lovely...cookbook to follow...
Report dewey • July 23, 2014 9:02 PM BST
No surprises there. sad case even so............................................
Report dr . atkins • July 23, 2014 10:36 PM BST
her young child was left for 13hrs people knew she was a junkie why leave her with the kids
Report sofiakenny • July 23, 2014 10:41 PM BST
a very good point dr atkins.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • July 23, 2014 10:45 PM BST
she was celeb mother of the year dr a.
Report Burton-Brewers • July 23, 2014 10:49 PM BST
people believed she was cured
Report sofiakenny • July 23, 2014 11:13 PM BST
burton yup some did..so how come the news comes out she had been shooting up for months?
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • July 23, 2014 11:15 PM BST
Nice to see casemoney back
Report call me a taxi • July 23, 2014 11:54 PM BST
Iirc, one of the initial reports said she was found on the bed with a needle hanging out of her arm.

Any anybody who feels sorrow over this can fack off with the Sixsmith sympathiser on the other thread.

Just because they're rich makes them no better than anybody else. Geldof was a lowlife heroin junkie who knew what she was getting into when she started, she was a disgrace to motherhood, and gets no sympathy here whatsoever. 



Ibrahima Sonko
23 Jul 14 22:45   
she was celeb mother of the year dr a.


Which is a fine example of what moronic celebrity following coonts will vote for.
Report The Leopard • July 24, 2014 12:03 AM BST
She could have been murdered by her dealer over some debt .... he upped the %
Report 1st time poster • July 27, 2014 3:16 PM BST
half of those queuing up to tell the media she wasnt on drugs will probably be on drugs themselves,anyone wasting a minute feeling sorry for this family has to much time on their hands
Report geoff m • July 27, 2014 3:20 PM BST
selfish beyond beleif .addiction my @rse.
Lack of self control.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • July 27, 2014 3:24 PM BST
.
http://tinyurl.com/o27bzko
Report TheBetterBettor • July 27, 2014 11:23 PM BST
Yeah and Mama Cass choked to death on a ham sandwich
Report terry mccann • July 27, 2014 11:24 PM BST
just when it was gettin better tooo
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