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Old 05-01-2014, 23:36
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So, you don't like her because she claims benefits.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:44
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She angered me too! There's lots of people in this country on benefits, trying to find work where they can get it. I would bet my life on the probability that she wasn't seeking proper work like the rest of benefit claimants. Linda is going to have a huge awakening when the money she made from CBB runs out. I hope when she turns her nose up at work that doesn't fit in with her showbiz background, that the Job Centre sanction that bitch and stop her benefits!
Why is she a bitch

In order to actually claim benefits you have to fit the criteria and I'm sure someone relatively well known like her will be properly look into before she could claim.

Anyway she clearly said up until last week she was on benefits so she is no more and therefore can do what the Hell she likes. I wasn't particularly interested in her but I have warmed to her now and really hope she does well.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:47
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she was on benefits for a year wasn't she - she's not now - she had breast cancer, she lost her husband and her sister,, and there may be more life circumstances that happened that i've left out, or we don't know about - Why shouldn't she be entitled to claim something when the chips are down and she's been in need - i'm sure she filled in forms same as anyone else - I wouldn't bash her for this, there's no point - she hopefully will get some work after this and not need to claim in the near future. Some people need a break, life can dish up some tough cards and mean they have to make tougher choices.
Completely agree with you
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:48
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Why is she a bitch

In order to actually claim benefits you have to fit the criteria and I'm sure someone relatively well known like her will be properly look into before she could claim.

Anyway she clearly said up until last week she was on benefits so she is no more and therefore can do what the Hell she likes. I wasn't particularly interested in her but I have warmed to her now and really hope she does well.
My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:48
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Everyone acting all emotional at Nolan's "brave" admission that she is broke and on benefits makes me sick. She's had her 15mins of fame and has obviously pissed the money up the wall... And ohhhh so you're on benefits and thank god CBB has come along?? So... You can't just go out and get a job like everyone else has to?? Or is that too beneath you?

So now she's got a space on this show (uh why) so we can all fund her debt problems??

Fair enough they're all in it for the money in some respect but her pitiful benefits reference really was scraping the barrel
The fact that she's being slagged off here for being on benefits proves the point that she was brave to admit it! And being on CBB is a job. She's worked in entertainment for many years and this is an entertainment job...nuff said!
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:53
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My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
She may not have been on JSA.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:54
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My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
she was working looking after babies and children to give foster parents a break actually - and intends to continue doing more of the same after CBB- we don't know how well that paid work was and for how long either.
...but how do you know she wasn't 'actively' seeking work while on benefits anyway ? you don't know her private life and circumstances to even make such an assumption.
There are forms, questions and lot of info that has to be declared before she'd have been entitled to a penny from the benefits system,like anyone else making claims for benefits - why you think she'd have been any different. And if she was struggling and had to claim benefits, why wouldn't she apply for a job like working in a supermarket, who are you to say she'd feel above that kind of job - we don't know her. Lot of people in that industry work in bars and supermarkets and call centres between jobs, why would she be any different - and she has suffered from ill health too by the way.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:55
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She may not have been on JSA.
Ah, well that's another issue. What alternative is there? ESA, for the ill and disabled? As far as I can tell, she's perfectly fine. She seems to be coping well in the Big Brother house. I'd be even more angry if I found out she was claiming ESA, as she's clearly fit enough to work.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:58
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My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
Thing is imagine her working in a supermarket and every eejit popping in for a pint of milk taking her picture, tweeting about it, the endless whats aisles the salsa in cos im in the mood for dancing jokes... It would be hard to get and keep a job in that sort of enviroment.

Im sure she hss her reasons for being on benefit and entitled to keep it to herself.
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Old 05-01-2014, 23:58
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she was working looking after babies and children to give foster parents a break actually - and intends to continue doing more of the same after CBB. And how do you know she wasnt 'actively' seeking work while on benefits anyway ? you don't know her private life to even make such an assumption.
I know if I was in her position I'd realize that my career in showbiz is over, and I need to start planning an alternative career in the long term to support myself. Like I said, she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother which is all well and good, but that won't last, and she'll be in the exact same position, perhaps worse.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:01
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Lol at the benefit haters...you simply have no idea
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:01
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My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
She wouldn't be able to get benefits if she wasn't actively seeking work as I'm sure you know. More than one person has said on here she has been doing a job that can be very well equated with normal IE looking after babies for foster care relief. She is no longer on benefits as she is working and if she needs to sign on again I'm sure she will have to apply and it will be up to the authorities whether she will receive benefits or not.

Whatever, none of this makes her a bitch.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:01
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Thing is imagine her working in a supermarket and every eejit popping in for a pint of milk taking her picture, tweeting about it, the endless whats aisles the salsa in cos im in the mood for dancing jokes... It would be hard to get and keep a job in that sort of enviroment.

Im sure she hss her reasons for being on benefit and entitled to keep it to herself.
You have a point, I suppose. Although I think her day has passed. I certainly wouldn't recognize her, and I can't imagine she has a huge fanbase of stalkers. She's no Princess Di, the paparazzi aren't exactly hounding her.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:02
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That's what I first thought but then again remembered my sister not feeding me either every time I went to her in uni. I always had to raid her biscuits that she hid from me.
Families don't do owt.

Could not stand her sister Coleen, either in The Nolans or when she was in CBB. Linda is coming across well and I would not wish what she has gone through in the last few years on anybody. Wish her well.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:03
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I know if I was in her position I'd realize that my career in showbiz is over, and I need to start planning an alternative career in the long term to support myself. Like I said, she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother which is all well and good, but that won't last, and she'll be in the exact same position, perhaps worse.
just as well she got a job then isn't it, on CBB getting paid - or she'd still be on benefits trying to find a way out wouldn't she - AND perhaps CBB will lead to her getting more work, perhaps it won't but it often does, he sister has got work after reality tv shows - and cant see her being worse off after CBB if she's had a large payment to keep her going for a while as a cushion.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:03
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My issue wasn't with her claiming benefits, my issue is that I doubt she was actively seeking work like another claimant of Job Seeker's Allowance. She's from the world of Showbiz, and I doubt she'd lower herself to working in somewhere like a supermarket. So she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother... What's gonna happen when that runs out? She'll be back on benefits, looking for her idea of work, but by then she won't have any relevance and she'll have no choice but to get a real job.
This is all conjecture.

And in any case, we don't even know if it was Job Seeker's Allowance that she was claiming. We're just assuming that it was. Wasn't she recently unwell with cancer? Perhaps it was some kind of incapacity benefit.

You shouldn't worry about it so much.
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:05
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Fair play to her for being a foster carer thats a valuable contribution. She has had a tough few years and come through hopefully. Our Benefit system is there to support people like her who are unable to work through short term set backs. Be grateful for the safety net you may one day need.
Amen to this
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Old 06-01-2014, 00:23
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any of you thinking "the nolans" amassed fortunes are mad . they would have been lucky to have cleared 100k each from there whole career in the pop industry .
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:23
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she was on benefits for a year wasn't she - she's not now - she had breast cancer, she lost her husband and her sister,, and there may be more life circumstances that happened that i've left out, or we don't know about - Why shouldn't she be entitled to claim something when the chips are down and she's been in need - i'm sure she filled in forms same as anyone else - I wouldn't bash her for this, there's no point - she hopefully will get some work after this and not need to claim in the near future. Some people need a break, life can dish up some tough cards and mean they have to make tougher choices.

Well said.
It sounds like she's had a bad time recently so good luck to her.
I'm sure she's paid an awful lot in tax in her lifetime.
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:26
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Everyone acting all emotional at Nolan's "brave" admission that she is broke and on benefits makes me sick. She's had her 15mins of fame and has obviously pissed the money up the wall... And ohhhh so you're on benefits and thank god CBB has come along?? So... You can't just go out and get a job like everyone else has to?? Or is that too beneath you?

So now she's got a space on this show (uh why) so we can all fund her debt problems??

Fair enough they're all in it for the money in some respect but her pitiful benefits reference really was scraping the barrel
Where do you get the impression she pissed her money up the wall?

Also, if you were offered something like CBB for a wad of cash would you turn it down?

If she's offered something that's all perfectly legal and fine to earn some extra cash as she's struggling then fair play. I don't see how she's a bad person for this.
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:26
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Oh come on the peak of her fame was in the 70s/80s as part of a five piece group, how much money do you think she actually made?
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:27
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I shall employ her as my own personal maid. Problem solved.
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:28
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I know if I was in her position I'd realize that my career in showbiz is over, and I need to start planning an alternative career in the long term to support myself. Like I said, she's accepted a cheque from Big Brother which is all well and good, but that won't last, and she'll be in the exact same position, perhaps worse.
You know her personally do you?

Analyse your own life instead of pretending to know one iota about someone else's.
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:28
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I shall employ her as my own personal maid. Problem solved.
I'm sure she'll be chuffed.
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Old 06-01-2014, 01:29
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Im shocked she was on benefits it makes me wonder though when her fee runs out will she be back on benefits
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