http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/16042011/19/k...lent-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.

I'm sure it was harrowing for the parents, but does being kidnapped as a baby (when you wouldn't even rememberer it, at 2 days old lol) really count as a sob story. I doubt she has nightmares about it

It would never have been kept quiet.
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.

I agree, anyone my age or older would remember it, especially if they had children around the same age, s I did. Although she won't remember the kidnapping, her mum and relatives certainly will and it is likely to have affected the way people interacted with her. I hope she does well.

I remember this, my son is a similar age. I don't think it's really a sob story - she wouldn't have remembered - more of a trauma for her poor mother than her!

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 happening at the time. it was world wide news and helped to make maternity wards where they are today - doors locked and buzzers. It was a horrible story. the mother was very young and split with the dad not long after as I remember 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.

Remember, the show is pre-recorded at this stage. I think the point was that she didn't use the story to get through on sympathy.

I remember the kidnap very well, huge story at the time. She does look like her mum.

OOh, I used to know her mum, and I went out with her (Alex's) dad's brother before that This was before any of us had children. We lost touch after the kidnapping.

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.

Non of these personal experiences should be in the paper. These tend to give unfair advantages.

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.

If she did not want the judges to know her story then why tell it to the press? We do not need to know about this story and she is obviously after sympathy. It does my head in all these stories.

We would have known about it as soon as she was shown anyway, it wouldn't be hard for the press to link her name and that incident together, it's not a massive deal

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.

I remember this kidnapping. The other one that sticks in my mind more is Abbie Humphreys stolen from Nottingham's QMC in July 1994, as I was on duty on a medical ward at the hospital that day and remember the police searching our ward, checking in bins and everywhere. It's also memorable to me as my niece was born on exactly the same day as Abbie and I was pregnant with my first daughter.

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.

I don't see how the face of a baby that has been kidnapped can be the same as a 21 year old woman. Is it really the media's or public's business? Is it really in the public interest?