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Kidnap victim on TV talent show
Valere
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http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/16042011/19/kidnap-victim-tv-talent-show.html
How is talking to the Sun in any way keeping quiet? What a silly moo. She obviously IS using the story, and it seems that she cares more than anyone else because this is the first I've even heard of her case.
Ms Griffiths said she wanted to be known for her talent rather than her story.
She told the Sun: "I want to impress people for who I am and what I can do, not because I was kidnapped as a baby.
"People were saying I should tell the judges my story as it could help me get through .
"I've watched loads of these shows and I know people use sob stories to get the judges in their side. But the producers understood my decision to stay quiet - and I don't regret it."
How is talking to the Sun in any way keeping quiet? What a silly moo. She obviously IS using the story, and it seems that she cares more than anyone else because this is the first I've even heard of her case.
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When she was kidnapped, it was national news and everyone kept a look out for her.
Had she not come straight away and told the producers that she didn't want to ride off the back of a sob story, they would have found out anyway.
She didn't have much choice in the matter. I admire her for that.
Why? We don't even know if she's any good yet.
Even if the story would have come out in the press, she could have tried the "no comment" route if she was serious about not wanting to use it.
I remember this incident too. It was a terrible thing to happen.. But fortunately they found Dawn's baby Alex unharmed. But like you say hospitals after this tightened up their security on manternity wards and made them save today.
Alex is a mirror image of her mum to look at. Good luck to her when she appears on the show.
True, but it still would have come out, with or without her cooperation - it was HUGE story at the time - I didn't have kids and I remember it very clearly, down to exactly what her mother looked like - sounds like there was already wind of it in the press and so she's chosen to speak about it now, and perhaps stop the press making up things if she chose not to talk to them - the point is she didn't use it to get to where ever she got to in the competition.
It wasn't a case of her disappearing for a few days and then being found, the results of what happened, as has been said, lead to the security etc we have on maternity wards to this day.
I remember the kidnap very well, huge story at the time. She does look like her mum.
It would never have stayed a secret as soon as her audition had been televised. She still has a recognisable face (very similar to her mother) and though I was only 10 at the time, I remember the story.
You can bet 99% of the same people criticising her for talking about it would be calling her a stuck up cow for not doing so.
Some of them would be difficult to keep out of the papers though, this story included. It was a massive story at the time and had an impact on not just the family, but the whole country, and there has been interest in the family since it happened.
As soon as her name had appeared on the screen under that very recognisable face that has hardly changed since she was a little girl and that is so much like her mother, many members of the media would have known who she was and many viewers would have recognised and started asking if it was her.
And Natalie Horrell, stolen from her big sister at a shopping centre after a woman posing as a security officer told her mum that she needed to speak to her because they thought she had been caught on camera shoplifting. She was also found safe like Alexandra and Abbie.
These baby abductions rarely end up any other way, thankfully, because the culprits tend to be women who are desperate for a child so won't hurt them.