I don’t think I’ve ever EVER been told via text of anyone dying in my family - it’s always been a phone call - even family dogs
Telling someone their relative has passed is so hard. My nana died when I was 14. My grandad took the call, and he fell apart so not only did I have to talk to the hospital (would never be allowed now) who explained everything, I also then had to phone my dad (her son) and other relatives while consoling my grandad and wee sister who was there too. Grief does weird stuff to you as I went on autopilot doing the usual...if you are busy then you don't have time to think thing and looked after my parents, little sister and others and helped with arrangements...going with my dad to get the certificate, filing it and helping with arrangements for the funeral. It was about a week or so later when my aunt's boyfriend sat me down and asked how I was doing that I finally broke.
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A "BBC Anchor" having the nerve to comment on a successful singer. Does Michael know how stupid he looks doing this?As if there needed to be more proof that most associated with the BBC are knobs:
BBC Coverage of Liam Payne’s Death Criticized by Former Anchor, Who Called Him ‘A Drugged Up, Faded, Boy Band Singer’
Former BBC anchor Michael Buerk has criticized the extensive media coverage of Liam Payne’s death, calling him “a drugged up, faded boy band singer.” Buerk, who was the face of BBC News for almost 30 years until his semi-retirement in 2002, was speaking on Radio 4 show “Today” about how foreign...
He's someone's father, son, brother, and it's disgusting to refer to him as he has in that article.
Maybe question yourself about how he ended up where he did Michael Buerk, whilst giving your head a wobble, I'm sure your association suitably profited anytime he appeared on anything BBC related.
My algorithm has betrayed me by bringing this up today (FFS lol), when checking you're correct and it did originally come out on 24th Oct.
But then would we be talking about it if the headline had been “a popstar who’d struggled with addiction issues…”? Respect and truth don’t sell.
He had only really "faded" as you say because people were sending him a stupid amount of hate, jumping in at any chance they got and in the last 2 years before his death people chose to believe a man who filmed bodies in a suicide forest over a man who was clearly put in a vulnerable position by men who knew he had problems with alcohol addiction . People still hated on him even after Louis Tomlinson defended Liam and said he was clearly vulnerable. Then all the Maya stuff was coming out and people jumped on that. In his past 3 years alive, all Liam got was hatred, death threats and horrible comments sent his way. The last thing his family need (and after the mother of his son said to have empathy and respect) is more horrible headlines.
With all due respect, the reasons for his popularity waning are irrelevant in the context of this particular story. You need to take that up with the toxic fandom. The truth is, for whatever reason, people weren't buying/streaming his songs in the same numbers as they did for 1D. And I imagine that's the same for all the lads, possibly excluding Harry (I don't care enough to check). In that respect, they all are/were "fading" in comparison to the 1D heyday, and that's totally fine and expected.
But he wasn't giving a statement about Liam or his character. I doubt he even knew who Liam was until after his death. He was talking about how reporting has changed over the decades and used Liam's death coverage as an example because it happened days prior. He probably would have said the same thing after Michael Jackson died, or Whitney Houston, or Amy Winehouse. I don't like the guy (some of the stuff he's said previously is absolutely disgusting) but I think you're blowing this comment way out of proportion.
No, there are rules about what happens when someone doesn’t have a will, and it goes to the oldest child usually.
