Gloria Hunniford Is On Loose Women

[trt]

today, and the girls are going to be discussing Jackie Collins passing.

Hope G/H will not bring her daughter into the conversation, like she has done on so many occasions, when someone has died of cancer is discussed.

[ummmm]

Why not? When cancer is discussed I mention my dad and uncle.

[mxyzptlk]

Seems to me you are the one with issues.

[hc4361]

It would be very odd if GH didn't mention her daughter

[Sqad]

trt......I agree, she made such a song and dance after her daughter died, which went on and on, even to the extent of cirri sing her son in law for getting married again.

It would be reasonable of her to mention it, but knowing her, she will monopolise the conversation.

[Mamyalynne]

Close friends who have someone diagnosed with cancer actually seek me out to discuss coping and caring strategies based on my experience with my late husband.

[Mamyalynne]

I hope she doesn't monopolise, that indeed would be unfair.

[Sqad]

Critising...^^^^

[Sqad]

LOL..sorry.....criticising.

[lankeela]

Why eIse do you think they have got her on?

[jennyjoan]

if talking about your grief all the time helps you then so be it.

[andy-hughes]

Gloria Hunniford has taken the tragic passing of her daughter and parlayed into a career essential.

She is now the 'got to' person whenever a cancer death occurs, and she will mention her daughter as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.

I sympathise with anyone who has lost someone to this dreadful disease, but to constantly refer to it in a way that infers that Ms Hunniford is some sort of expert on loss and grief is undignified, and detracts from whomever is taking about their own, far more recent and raw grief.

[Sqad]

Excellent post by A-H......I agree entirely.

[Ken4155]

Well..............did she? Mention it and monopolise the programme, i mean?

[jennyjoan]

well she mentioned it again but I don't think she manipulated it.

[jennyjoan]

^^^^^monopolised

[saintpeter48]

can't stand the woman, just what is her job?

[andy-hughes]

Gloria Hunniford is a TV presenter, and she crops up a lot as a guest on various daytime shows, including Loose Women.

I doubt there is a person on the planet who has even a passing acquaintance with Gloria Hunniford who doesn’t know that her daughter died of cancer – God knows she brings it into every possible conversation she can, so being wheeled out to talk about someone who has died of cancer is like a green light for her to rake it all up again.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t for one moment minimise the pain and suffering she and her family endured, but that was eleven years ago. It’s not always about her, and that is something she seems to fail to understand.

[-Talbot-]

I just thank my lucky stars I am not in the same position.
All this loathing of Gloria Hunniford because she mentions her deceased daughter is quite bizarre!

[ummmm]

Very bizarre.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //All this loathing of Gloria Hunniford because she mentions her deceased daughter is quite bizarre! //

But that’s the whole point Talbot, she doesn’t just ‘mention’ her daughter, she comes over like the only person who has ever lost a child, the only woman who knows how a mother’s grief feels, the only person who can talk about grief from a personal perspective.

And since she is usually on a programme where someone else is on to talk about their own loss, which is usually very recent, I think it is unfeeling and unkind for GH to always turn the conversation round to herself. That’s not empathising with someone’s grief, that is self-centred maudlin attention-seeking.