Katy French in a critical condition

rovers_runner

Katy French Watch:

08:50 - Andrea Roche emerges into car park only to be pounced on by press.
"Can you turn around, come back and start the interviews again she asks, she's clearly had a tough day......."

manc

If anyone has the Sunday Indo have a look at the back page of the Living(?) section I think its the Double Edge, they were talking about her party on Saturday night and quite clearly talking about her cocaine use.
And again if you look at todays paper online, similar in the last paragraph,

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/model-katy-still-fighting-for-her-life-1236234.html



news stories now have the life-support machine and heart attack.....if you play with fire expect to get burnt...


From breakingnews.ie........

04/12/2007 - 08:29:08

Concern is growing for model Katy French, who is understood to be in a critical condition in hospital after falling ill at a party during the weekend.

The 24-year-old was reportedly rushed to hospital in Navan in the early of Sunday morning after collapsing at a friend's house in Ashbourne.

Reports this morning say is on a life-support machine and showed no sign of improvement over the course of yesterday.

The cause of her illness is unknown, but media reports this morning claim she may have had a heart attack.

A HSE spokesman is quoted describing her condition as "very serious".

ang

It is very strange that her family and friends are refusing to comment on what is wrong with her. This is the girl who reveals everything about her personal life to the papers after all.

rovers_runner

sssshhhhhhhhhh, we can't be talking about Cocaine use in this country.
Tis taboo ya know, the upper/middle classes have no problem with being laced with the stuff as long as they are safe from the health dangers and the criminal gangs.

I'm sure we'll see an outcry from the very people that created this monster, the Independent news group, the irony.

rovers_runner

Katy French Watch:

09:45 - Some ugly ginger bloke enters hospital car park claiming to be a journalist who knows the star.

tbh

dude, you're feckin hilarious, please please keep posting your comedy stylings.

:rolleyes:

whiskeyman

ang wrote: »

It is very strange that her family and friends are refusing to comment on what is wrong with her.

eh, because it's not her job too be 'seriously ill'.
Being a model in Ireland, she knew that most of her private life and lifestyle would be under the spotlight, and could be used to boost her profile in the Irish modelling scene.

At the moment, friends and family now want the total opposite to what she normally endures. She is at he most vunerable, and that's when you want to shy away and hide, but it's when everyone really wants to look.

I don't 'hate' these models, but you have to admit to the large part they play in celebrity, showbiz and media circles... this being the reason I posted it here, and not in AH. If I put it there, it'd be full of anti-katy / model posts, which aren't needed in this case.

The truth will eventually come out.

tbh

as the post I was replying to has been deleted, I'll just say this. If you have a source to say that she's ill because of drugs, or even that it's heart-related, by all means, link to them here. Anything else is hearsay, and uncalled for.

IMO.

daveirl

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Stargal

I'm going to spell this out for the cheap seats in the back - No more potentially libelous speculation about what happened to Katy French.

Have a bit more cop on than that folks. I've already had to delete, edit and ban far too many people. I don't want to close this thread but I will if the current levels of muppetry continue.

r3nu4l

Stargal wrote: »

I'm going to spell this out for the cheap seats in the back - No more potentially libelous speculation about what happened to Katy French.

Have a bit more cop on than that folks. I've already had to delete, edit and ban far too many people. I don't want to close this thread but I will if the current levels of muppetry continue.

Lux23 wrote: »

Potentially libelous crap

Lol No, you're not entitled to write that down, boards.ie can still be taken to court over your post...a defence of "Well he said it first" is not a legal defence

tbh

Lux23 wrote: »

Potentially libelous crap

you don't know that she took drugs. You've no idea what happened. Taking drugs deserves death - I'll bear that in mind. you must be delighted over what happened in Waterford.

starn

Incidentily, while we don't yet know what caused her illness, it's not unusuall for youmg people to have Hearth attacts. My uncle died from a massive one at 26. I also had one 18 months ago. I had just turned 24. He didnt take drugs and neither do I

Lux23

tbh wrote: »

you don't know that she took drugs. You've no idea what happened. Taking drugs deserves death - I'll bear that in mind. you must be delighted over what happened in Waterford.

Its more hyprocrisy that deserves death to be honest. I hope she pulls through so she can be flashing her tits on Grafton Street in a matter of weeks.

tbh

Lux23 wrote: »

Its more hyprocrisy that deserves death to be honest. I hope she pulls through so she can be flashing her tits on Grafton Street in a matter of weeks.

amen

Archeron

Sad to see a beautiful young woman critical like this, regardless of the circumstances. I hope she pulls through.

starn

starn wrote: »

Taking drugs does not deserve death. But its about time that people realised that cocaine is a class A drug for a VERY GOOD reason.

I'm going to goahead and be pedantic and tell you that is a British system of classification. There is no equivelent in Irish law.

gcgirl

Archeron wrote: »

Sad to see a beautiful young woman critical like this, regardless of the circumstances. I hope she pulls through.

same here for me! she is ill and some of the replys i have been reading are something else, totally bitchy ! i hope she is ok !

MayMay

I just can't believe how nasty some people are being about a seriously ill girl in hospital who may not recover. I'm not her biggest fan either, she pisses me off just as much as the majority of people but at the same time how would the people that are dissing her in this thread feel if she died? She hasn't killed anyone, hurt anyone, done anything wrong. I suppose Glenda Gilson, Rosanna Davidson etc all deserve to die for showing off their bodies do they? If that's the case so do thousands of girls all over the world who make money from their appearance.

Pathetic. Shame on some of you.

Iago

MayMay wrote: »

how would the people that are dissing her in this thread feel if she died?

I'm guessing they wouldn't really care one way or the other and they'd be right. What does it matter if she dies? How much more important than anybody else is she exactly?

24 people die of starvation every minute of every day, how many people care about that? Not enough to stop it happening obviously.

Death is part of life, when it's your time it's your time.

seamus

starn wrote: »

Incidentily, while we don't yet know what caused her illness, it's not unusuall for youmg people to have Hearth attacts. My uncle died from a massive one at 26. I also had one 18 months ago. I had just turned 24. He didnt take drugs and neither do I

As you're no doubt aware, this sort of condition is generally congenital. If one person shows it, it's now common practice to test all first and second blood relations for it. I would be surprised if she had a heart attack out of the blue, but it's far from unheard of.

Apparently she told the press on Thursday that she had a kidney infection and was on antibiotics. Perhaps she took some sort of reaction to the drugs, or some sort of toxic poisoning from her own condition (i.e. if the drugs weren't working).

daveirl

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underpants

daveirl wrote: »

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Your thinking about it all wrong!
you've got to be PC about it all. You can moan about her all you want when she's healthy cause that's ok but if she's ill then you have to be nice to her.
Same goes if she was in a horrible accident, say like the joker, and eventually recovered but was hideously scarred. Then you have to be nice to her cause she's ugly now.
you see?

Healthy beautiful people deserve a bit of ribbing because they are superior to us all but we can't make fun or mock seriously ill or ugly people because they're lower than us.

Superior people, make a joke,
lower than us, no need to poke

...at least I think that's how it works.

hawkwing

it's the parents and sister that you feel sorry for..she was very stupid and selfish if it is her own fault,but hopefully she will get better whatever happened.

Ger the man

I wonder will we ever see a time where people will stop taking such an interest in so called 'celebritys'. It saddens me to think that we are more interested in celebs than are own lives. These people are famous for being famous and do nothing meaningful for society, at some stage they bring a book out: (My Life, I Bounced Back etc...) and will retail for about 25 euro, give it 6 months and you will get the same book full of useless info for a fiver. We spend a fortune on useless glossy magazines and our own lives pass us by. The real celebritys of this world are the brain surgeons, cancer/aids research specialists, red cross, voluntary workers etc.

Get a life people!

And before you ask.... - Yes - Im a member of the St.Johns Ambulance.

panda100

Laslo wrote: »

Don't read rags then. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Have you seen any of the Irish papers today?
She is on the front of the mail,the indo,the sun,the mirror,the herald and she even apperas on page two of the Irish times,one paper you would think that would have a bit more cop on.
I really hope the poor lass is okay and pulls through but It quite franakly sickens me that someone is given so much attention just because she fits whats society deems as 'beautiful'. In Saudi Arabia today a women is getting 200 beatings because she spoke out about being gang raped,that doesnt even get a mention in the Irish media. In the Daily Mail today they describe Katy as the poster girl for modern Irish women. Is this all we Irish women have achieved during the celtic tiger? The ability to groom oursleves to prefection, and whoring oursleves to get attention?

Procasinator

Archeron wrote: »

Sad to see a beautiful young woman critical like this, regardless of the circumstances. I hope she pulls through.

Yes, a young woman is sad enough. But a beautiful young woman should be bringing blood to your loins, not tears to your eyes. :rolleyes:

I feel sorry for the girl for being in the public eye in this particular moment. Not that a celeb should be able to flick fame on or off, but she should be afforded the same amount of respect as anyone else on this one.

I think it is a matter of if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. You can hate her now, and you can hate her whatever the reason, but you don't need to express it just because the opportunity to discuss her arises.

whiskeyman

Ger the man wrote: »

The real celebritys of this world are the brain surgeons, cancer/aids research specialists, red cross, voluntary workers etc.
.

The irony here being that so many of these research trusts / care units depend on the work of 'celebs' / their famous patrons to spread their word, do promotion etc... to get vital funding...

Procasinator

panda100 wrote: »

In Saudi Arabia today a women is getting 200 beatings because she spoke out about being gang raped,that doesnt even get a mention in the Irish media.

Oh god it's not like the media haven't covered that already. That particular story is being discussed by everyone. It's harsh and apathetic to say, but I'm sick of hearing about it.

The fact is this news interests a large portion of Irish readers, and that sells papers.

panda100 wrote: »

Is this all we Irish women have achieved during the celtic tiger? The ability to groom oursleves to prefection, and whoring oursleves to get attention?

No, the lot ye haven't. Only she has achieved it. The majority of the rest of ye are still far off from being groomed as well as her. :P

Only joking, but I hate to see blatant feminism stick it's ugly head in when it's uncalled for. Ranting on about that is just silly. Don't be so begrudging.

But I have to admit I'm a bit silly myself, I'm chucking over the fact that you spelled perfection as prefection because I see a tiny bit of irony. I'm way too easily amused.

nellie07

Hi Guys,

Im not a major fan of Katy French, I think she is an attention seeking little madam, but hey I wouldnt wish anything bad to happen to her.

However I do find that she jumps on the band wagon, in a hot press interview lately when asked Have you ever taken Cocaine she gave a one word answer No.

Then a week later after all the publicity with those poor young lads in waterford she pipes up and basically says she was an addict but she has 'changed' and that she wanted to raise awareness about Cocaine.
Anything and I mean Anything to get her blondie head in the paper.

Now this may be absolutely nothing to do with drugs whatsoever and if it isnt then of course I have pity for her, but if by chance it is to do with cocaine - does she not realise that bad things dont just happen to young lads in waterford. bad things can happen to anyone including Katy French herself when you do drugs. End of.

Hope she pulls out of it -

nellie07

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/concern-growing-for-seriously-ill-model-katy-french-1236346.html

Theres the link that suggests she has had a heart attack and its not from the Daily Mail.

Calm down everyone!

Stargal

Procrastinator wrote:

Only joking, but I hate to see blatant feminism stick it's ugly head in when it's uncalled for. Ranting on about that is just silly. Don't be so begrudging.

Blatant feminism? What a strange phrase.

Panda's point is neither a rant nor begrudgery. The debate about how much attention we focus on to people just because they look good has been going on for years and it's an interesting one. I have serious problems with the Mail describing Katy as a 'poster girl' for Irish women. I can recognise that she has done well in her chosen career but she represents something very different to what I consider admirable in a woman.

Anyway, Mod heal thyself - back on topic!

Ger the man wrote: »

I wonder will we ever see a time where people will stop taking such an interest in so called 'celebritys'. It saddens me to think that we are more interested in celebs than are own lives. These people are famous for being famous and do nothing meaningful for society, at some stage they bring a book out: (My Life, I Bounced Back etc...) and will retail for about 25 euro, give it 6 months and you will get the same book full of useless info for a fiver. We spend a fortune on useless glossy magazines and our own lives pass us by. The real celebritys of this world are the brain surgeons, cancer/aids research specialists, red cross, voluntary workers etc.

Get a life people!

And before you ask.... - Yes - Im a member of the St.Johns Ambulance.

This is a thread about Katy French, not about the vagaries of celebrity. Although you may disagree with the topic, this is the Celeb/Showbiz forum and this is what is discussed here. There are already threads about why celebrities get so much attention so you can post there if you want. Otherwise please stay on topic.

And before you ask... Yes, I was in the Order of Malta for 9 years

Time Magazine

Katy French is a beacon of feminist upheaval in a world all too dominated by phallic-centric minds. How many icons of female liberation and independence have risen so ferociously in recent decades? And how many with so much approval of Man? Her accompanying commercial success is an external by-product but only furthers her idyllic status: today, financial success is truly a necessary precondition to liberation of the egalitarian aims of the broader feminist movement. Her eloquence of speech ("Some say I am a sex object. They're right; when someone mentions sex, I object" Sunday Independent (2007)), candour and pragmatism should be celebrated in the pursuit of the greater egalitarian aim. Alas, her condition only enlightens the fragility of the female voice in this post-modern post-9/11 post-Celtic Tiger world.

May she recover fully. May she inevitably co-author an autobiography in light of these traumatic events and, crucially, may her persona and success blossom.

mcquaid2007

i hope she pulls through...not only for herself....but also to sicken u cold hearted fuc**ers who couldnt care less...u may not neccessarily like the girl but man,think of her folks...what they must be going through...i know...ill not go into details but someone very close to me had heart attack and eventually died...the waiting and hoping was terrible...helpless with nothing u can do...i wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy...u really wanna look at yourself if u dont wish the girl well....like was my own birthday on thurday too,hardly that relevant like but could happen to any of us...cocaine or not....

starn

Your right I can see here doing the rounds of RTE, TV3, The Mail, Star, sun, Mirror, Indo, etc,etc. Discusing here road to Damascus moment and the inevital Autobiography. That will follow


Or maybe Oliver Tatten or Sean Quinn have just decided to take gorilla marketing to a new extreme

walt0r

She wouldn't be allowed on the beach in California. She's not even got a good body. Why are Irish models so overrated? I see girls EVERY day who are FAR better looking and should be famous but aren't.

I hope she does recover though. And maybe stop trying to be princess Di of Ireland.

AngryHippie

Archeron wrote: »

Sad to see a beautiful young woman critical like this, regardless of the circumstances. I hope she pulls through.

Hear hear.
When she recovers she will be able to satisfy all your curiosities if she so wishes. Until then, wishing her a speedy recovery is the most we should be prepared to say about the matter.

Procasinator

Stargal wrote: »

Blatant feminism? What a strange phrase.

Panda's point is neither a rant nor begrudgery. The debate about how much attention we focus on to people just because they look good has been going on for years and it's an interesting one. I have serious problems with the Mail describing Katy as a 'poster girl' for Irish women. I can recognise that she has done well in her chosen career but she represents something very different to what I consider admirable in a woman.

Sorry to derail the thread. I'm bringing in bias from the past. Panda kicked up a fuss regarding the most lickable award and it's lack of men, and she seems to bring in feminism views wherever she sees the opportunity. Not really any harm, just disagree with her.

It is an interesting debate, but I think there is a time and a place. <--- I'll take my own advice and shut-up now.

tbh

If someone offered me 5k to stand on Grafton St. in a pair of speedos holding oranges to promote artesian wells, I'd bite their ****ing hand off. Presumably a lot of people on this thread wouldn't. Horses for courses.

Andy-Pandy

I have been ringing up all off the radio stations today and trying to get Girlfriend in a Coma by the Smiths played with a dedication to Marcus Sweeney, but alas, i have still to hear it played.

Fozzie Bear

Laslo wrote: »

Don't read rags then. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

I generally don't. I read some tabloids here in work for sports coverage which is usually fairly good. Normally i buy the Indo and even that has pictures of her the odd time. I generally don't watch tripe like "Celebrities" being out in a bog for a week nor "Celebrities" appearing on Tubridy Tonight to publicise themselves and yet i know who this cretin is and what she looks like. It's hard to avoid her mug no matter what you read or look at it.

Laslo wrote: »

So what? Who's to blame anyway? Katy French who wants the attention or the media who give it to her... or the morons who read their papers/magazines?

I think i made it clear that i felt Katy French is to blame. It was quite obviously staged to she could flash her minge and guarantee her picture appears in the papers yet again. The media are just interested in filling column inches with what ever tripe is handed to them and the "morons" who buy the papers are just buying a paper to read. They are not buying it specifically to look at her. So if she keeps engineering ways to get into the press then its hard to avoid her, is it not??

Laslo wrote: »

I would agree that she's not exactly top of my respectability list as she has no discernable talent to speak of. But generally models don't - all they're really supposed to do is look pretty. That's their job.

Has it ever occurred to you that the reason Katy French is in all these magazines and papers is because people like you are buyingthem?

First off i don't buy "those" papers or magazines you refer to.

She is a model correct, so why does she not do exactly that? Model clothes? Why was she saying in an interview (in Hot Press i think) that she NEVER took hard drugs in her entire life a few weeks ago? Yet when those silly sods down in Waterford O.D. on what ever two weeks ago Miss French was in the papers stating that she did take cocaine from an early age but had now given all that up. She apparently wanted to warn us all of the dangers of cocaine, (bless her cotton socks), and it had absolutely nothing to do with getting her face in the papers again. What has that got to do with being a model exactly?

Laslo wrote: »

I know very little about Katy French. Maybe she's bitchy and bad natured - but it would seem, Fozzy Bear, that so are you. I don't really see the difference between bitchy celebrity types and the idiots that read about them (and then consequently bitch about "having" to read about them)

You know very little about while i know too much about her for my liking. I know what she looks like, that she had a birthday party last week where she "forgot" to wear knickers. I know that she has snored cocaine. I know that she "broke up" with some bloke that she was supposed to be engaged to who owns a restaurant. I know she has appeared on tv several times as she is a "celebrity". As i say i don't buy tabloids or read them normally, the same for gossip mags and i abhor any sort of celebrity/reality tv show. I have not researched or taken any special interest in her life and yet i know all this about her. Is that my fault or hers that i can't really avoid seeing her or stories about her?

togster

Is she still alive?

Procasinator

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Is that my fault or hers that i can't really avoid seeing her or stories about her?

Neither, it's the media for printing it.

underpants

The bottom line is people seem to lover her or hate her. just look at how much attention this thread is after getting!
even from the people who say they have no interest in her. you guys are still stoking the fires and feeding the media frenzy around katy french.
People seem to like to talk about her. It doesn't matter if it's good or if it's bad, it still sells papers or gets people talking about did you see the story/pic of katy french in the paper X.
the papers get some free publicity, sell a few extra copies, Katy gets paid and Irish citizen's get to do what they love to do best, moan, groan and begrudge.
Everyone wins!

seamus

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

I have not researched or taken any special interest in her life and yet i know all this about her. Is that my fault or hers that i can't really avoid seeing her or stories about her?

I (assume) have been living in the same country as you and this is the first I've heard of her. She's not attractive, which is probably why I haven't noticed her. How come I can unwillingly avoid stuff about her and you can't? Perhaps you actually read the entertainment and gossip columns?

kmick

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

I have been ringing up all off the radio stations today and trying to get Girlfriend in a Coma by the Smiths played with a dedication to Marcus Sweeney, but alas, i have still to hear it played.

Legend

NAGGIE03

Hows she doing anyhow!!
Can i jus say no matter whether she was posing on grafton st or milkin a pig or whatever it obviously worked cos she affected ye in some way!! Remember theres no such thing as bad publicity!! Jordan was despised by most women for years!! Now shes a heroine!! She even won woman of the year award in ELLE magazine!! who saw that comin!

tbh

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

I generally don't. I read some tabloids here in work for sports coverage which is usually fairly good. Normally i buy the Indo and even that has pictures of her the odd time. I generally don't watch tripe like "Celebrities" being out in a bog for a week nor "Celebrities" appearing on Tubridy Tonight to publicise themselves and yet i know who this cretin is and what she looks like. It's hard to avoid her mug no matter what you read or look at it.

Seriously, how much effort is it NOT to look at a picture of her, or NOT to read an article about her?

I think i made it clear that i felt Katy French is to blame. It was quite obviously staged to she could flash her minge and guarantee her picture appears in the papers yet again. The media are just interested in filling column inches with what ever tripe is handed to them and the "morons" who buy the papers are just buying a paper to read. They are not buying it specifically to look at her. So if she keeps engineering ways to get into the press then its hard to avoid her, is it not??

you don't think the papers have the choice not to publish the story?

First off i don't buy "those" papers or magazines you refer to.

She is a model correct, so why does she not do exactly that? Model clothes? Why was she saying in an interview (in Hot Press i think) that she NEVER took hard drugs in her entire life a few weeks ago? Yet when those silly sods down in Waterford O.D. on what ever two weeks ago Miss French was in the papers stating that she did take cocaine from an early age but had now given all that up. She apparently wanted to warn us all of the dangers of cocaine, (bless her cotton socks), and it had absolutely nothing to do with getting her face in the papers again. What has that got to do with being a model exactly?

Now, do you think that:
a: She rang hot press and DEMANDED to have her views printed or
b: Hot Press rang her or her agent and asked for a quote or an interview?

. Is that my fault or hers that i can't really avoid seeing her or stories about her?

Cause it's got to be one or the other, right?

If you were paid a large sum of money to post on boards would you take the job, or would you think "actually, these people don't want to hear my opinions - I'm annoying them, I'll find something else to do".

honestly now.

Stargal

The front page of the Herald says that she's 'clinging to life'. However I haven't seen any updates so don't know where they're getting that info.

Btw: This thread has had over 10,300 views in little more than a day. There have been over one hundred people anytime I've checked this morning (and believe me, I've had to check a lot thanks to all the muppets who decided to play fast and loose with the libel laws).

Ker-azy.

tbh

Stargal wrote: »

The front page of the Herald says that she's 'clinging to life'. However I haven't seen any updates so don't know where they're getting that info.

Btw: This thread has had over 10,300 views in little more than a day. There have been over one hundred people anytime I've checked this morning (and believe me, I've had to check a lot thanks to all the muppets who decided to play fast and loose with the libel laws).

Ker-azy.

10,300 views by people who don't know who she is.