helen is from a wealthy background

[the truth]

thats what i was told, wealthy and middle class...private education
no doubt she will find other excuses for her appaling behaviour

[JoshBB]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

[Tip]

I suspect we shouldn't always believe everything we hear.

Anyway, wealth has never been a guarantee that you have a happy, loved, safe and secure background.

[Yaki da]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

She grew up in a leafy suburb and went off the rails as a teenager.

[AbbieJ]

Her father is a music teacher who used to teach at Salford University and I believe her mum is/was a teacher

[erinp5]

Miss Wood was raised in a £300,000 bungalow in Bolton by Dr Wood and his ex-wife Mary, a primary school teacher.

Her brother Gareth, now 29, married and works as a nurse. Another brother, Daniel, went on to university.

Miss Wood became pregnant at 16 by electrician David Warburton, who was just a year her senior.

When she gave birth in November 2003, a month before her 17th birthday, she listed her occupation on her son s birth certificate as housekeeper and was allocated a council house on an estate near the centre of Bolton. Dr Wood and her mother divorced shortly after.

In 2008 she entered the world of escort agencies and Premier League footballers which afforded her a dramatically different lifestyle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449296/Helen-Wood-life-of-a-middle-class-prostitute.html

another article regarding her background
http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html

[Cold Sweat]

So there is no substance to rumours that Helen and Danielle had previously met while attending an exclusive Swiss finishing school for young ladies?

[AnnieK]

thats what i was told, wealthy and middle class...private education
no doubt she will find other excuses for her appaling behaviour

You don't have to be from a impoverished background to be badly behaved. I went to a private school (on a scholarship) and there were people with bad attitudes from all backgrounds- rich and poor

[hijaxers]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

Yes she is ! and she only has one child she seems to have forgotten about

[JoshBB]

Ashleigh lives on a council estate in Derry.

Not relevant.

She grew up in a leafy suburb and went off the rails as a teenager.

She's not "wealthy" then, is she?

[Yaki da]

Not relevant.



She's not "wealthy" then, is she?

Depends what you mean by it. But she's not someone who grew up like Jade Goody, despite behaving worse than her.

[arista]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.



Yes a Top Hooker

[waterhog]

you can take big helen out of big brother but you can not take class out of her as she don't have any.

[jet]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

Nobody forced her to do that. It was her choice, probably to make easy money. Plenty of single mothers with one child manage to work in respectable jobs without resorting to prostitution. (Not that I have anything against prostitutes as a rule - I just don't think her child should be used as an reason as to why she became one.)

[hijaxers]

Nobody forced her to do that. It was her choice, probably to make easy money. Plenty of single mothers with one child manage to work in respectable jobs without resorting to prostitution. (Not that I have anything against prostitutes as a rule - I just don't think her child should be used as an reason as to why she became one.)

Well said

[JoshBB]

Nobody forced her to do that. It was her choice, probably to make easy money. Plenty of single mothers with one child manage to work in respectable jobs without resorting to prostitution. (Not that I have anything against prostitutes as a rule - I just don't think her child should be used as an reason as to why she became one.)

Do you seriously think she did it for fun? Obviously we don't know the scenario but it must have been dreadful for her to turn to prostitution. Nobody in the right mind would do it "for the lols".

[Cherie]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

Firstly she has one child! and secondly she went into prostitution to pay off a 500.00 debt borrowed to go on holiday to Spain!

[Tip]

I didn't realise all these ancient class stereotypes were all still so alive and well these days - funny stuff!

[Crimson Dynamo]

No she isn't. She had to become an escort so that she could feed her children.

LOl

no one has to become a hooker, just as no one has to shoplift. There are jobs available.

[chuff me dizzy]

Firstly she has one child! and secondly she went into prostitution to pay off a 500.00 debt borrowed to go on holiday to Spain!

:clap1:

[JoshBB]

Firstly she has one child! and secondly she went into prostitution to pay off a 500.00 debt borrowed to go on holiday to Spain!

Source please?

[dyfed]

Firstly she has one child! and secondly she went into prostitution to pay off a 500.00 debt borrowed to go on holiday to Spain!

Holiday:rolleyes

[erinp5]

Source please?

^^^ Links are posted

[Cherie]

Source please?

I will have a dig and find it for you Kizzy posted the link right at the start of the series.

[Tip]

Miss Wood was raised in a £300,000 bungalow in Bolton by Dr Wood and his ex-wife Mary, a primary school teacher.

Her brother Gareth, now 29, married and works as a nurse. Another brother, Daniel, went on to university.

Miss Wood became pregnant at 16 by electrician David Warburton, who was just a year her senior.

When she gave birth in November 2003, a month before her 17th birthday, she listed her occupation on her son s birth certificate as housekeeper and was allocated a council house on an estate near the centre of Bolton. Dr Wood and her mother divorced shortly after.

In 2008 she entered the world of escort agencies and Premier League footballers which afforded her a dramatically different lifestyle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449296/Helen-Wood-life-of-a-middle-class-prostitute.html

another article regarding her background
http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html


They were also posted on this thread - check out the second link?

[erinp5]

another source
At 19 she got a job working for a technology company. She left the council house and moved into a rented place on a quiet cobbled street in Sharples. 'I was doing admin and marketing and I thought I could work my way up,' she says. But the company started to flounder and Helen found herself, 'last hired, first fired'. She had just returned from a holiday in Marbella, funded by £500 from a loan shark.


http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/rooney-vice-girl-helen-wood-talks-sex-and-superinjuctions-6414703.html

[Cherie]

Miss Wood was raised in a £300,000 bungalow in Bolton by Dr Wood and his ex-wife Mary, a primary school teacher.

Her brother Gareth, now 29, married and works as a nurse. Another brother, Daniel, went on to university.

Miss Wood became pregnant at 16 by electrician David Warburton, who was just a year her senior.

When she gave birth in November 2003, a month before her 17th birthday, she listed her occupation on her son s birth certificate as housekeeper and was allocated a council house on an estate near the centre of Bolton. Dr Wood and her mother divorced shortly after.

In 2008 she entered the world of escort agencies and Premier League footballers which afforded her a dramatically different lifestyle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449296/Helen-Wood-life-of-a-middle-class-prostitute.html

another article regarding her background
http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html

doh Erin has posted the link JoshBB

an excerpt
This is the story of an ordinary girl who became a single mother at 16 and then got herself into debt. She had borrowed £500 from a loan shark for a holiday to Spain. When she was made redundant from her £260-a-week office job, she had no way of paying it back. The pressure was on and the bailiff was knocking at her door, not to mention her landlord, who was sniffing around, asking if she would pay him in kind. Worried one night, she phoned her friend who suggested that she join an escort agency. The friend told her that she had been working the - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html#sthash.3lpolyr6.dpuf

[Marsh.]

thats what i was told, wealthy and middle class...private education
no doubt she will find other excuses for her appaling behaviour

So being working class means you have all the excuses in the world? Being middle class doesn't?

Here's a little tip, working class doesn't mean you have an awful life and middle class doesn't mean you'll have a great one.

[Marsh.]

She mentions the £500 borrowed for a holiday in this interview. :hehe:

YfgvlowadoQ

[Cherie]

If only Wonga had existed, we might never have clapped eyes on Helen :laugh:

[MrWong]

another article regarding her background
http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html

My favourite quote from The Independent article..

They make all sorts of requests such as for anal sex, which she refuses point blank -- "That's pain, and no amount of money is worth having a baggy arse."

:D

[MrWong]

If only Wonga had existed, we might never have clapped eyes on Helen :laugh:

:joker:

[Marsh.]

"That's pain, and no amount of money is worth having a baggy arse."

She's so wise. :joker:

[Northern Monkey]

Not bothered about her upbringing,She's still filth.

[Kazanne]

thats what i was told, wealthy and middle class...private education
no doubt she will find other excuses for her appaling behaviour

Just because someone is from a wealthy background does not mean their life is plain sailing,something has obviously been lacking for her to be angry and aggressive,as for all the people calling her names like 'filth' etc shame on them,it's no better behaviour than you accuse Helen of,very hypocritical in my book.

[Kazanne]

Miss Wood was raised in a £300,000 bungalow in Bolton by Dr Wood and his ex-wife Mary, a primary school teacher.

Her brother Gareth, now 29, married and works as a nurse. Another brother, Daniel, went on to university.

Miss Wood became pregnant at 16 by electrician David Warburton, who was just a year her senior.

When she gave birth in November 2003, a month before her 17th birthday, she listed her occupation on her son s birth certificate as housekeeper and was allocated a council house on an estate near the centre of Bolton. Dr Wood and her mother divorced shortly after.

In 2008 she entered the world of escort agencies and Premier League footballers which afforded her a dramatically different lifestyle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8449296/Helen-Wood-life-of-a-middle-class-prostitute.html

another article regarding her background
http://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/helen-wood-confessions-of-a-working-girl-26750972.html

This is all old news,I cant see the point in repeating everything,some hate her,some like her,are all the hate threads supposed to make some of us change our minds? I don't give a rats arse where she was brought up or how much money they had,I like her,I find her interesting.

[arista]

She mentions the £500 borrowed for a holiday in this interview. :hehe:

YfgvlowadoQ


Just 3 years back
seems not the same

What went wrong?

[Marsh.]

Just 3 years back
seems not the same

What went wrong?

The only thing that is different to me is her style.

It seems weird that the same voice we've got used to over this series is coming out of a completely different face. :eek:

[bots]

Yes yes yes, we all know how every word written in the press is completely accurate and should be treated as gospel.

Anyone with life experience (the phrase of the series) will know that wealth and good fortune for a family do not make it a properly functioning, stable and happy one.

Think I am now done with all these hate threads, they are beyond boring

[arista]

The only thing that is different to me is her style.

It seems weird that the same voice we've got used to over this series is coming out of a completely different face. :eek:


Sure
but I think after that TV
she had harder times
and became Harder

[dyfed]

Just 3 years back
seems not the same

What went wrong?

The only difference no foul language ,I would recognize her.

[Kazanne]

Yes yes yes, we all know how every word written in the press is completely accurate and should be treated as gospel.

Anyone with life experience (the phrase of the series) will know that wealth and good fortune for a family do not make it a properly functioning, stable and happy one.

Think I am now done with all these hate threads, they are beyond boring

:clap1::clap1::clap1:

[smudgie]

Middle class does not mean you will be wealthy either.

All this class malarkey is like hocuspocus.:joker:

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Since when does being poor or rich excuse bad behaviour?

I don't think you can really judge Helens character on living in a £300,000 bungalow (not house) anyway she hasn't lived there for 11 years.

She is a single mother and currently lives in rented accommodation as far as im aware. Her father has openly said he is ashamed of what shes done and apologised to the rooneys.

They do not have a relationship, why do you think when everyone got letters from home hers was from her friend?

A background based on earnings and properties means nothing, my parents both have lovely homes, 2 cars, 2 gardens ect but I rent a 1 bed flat in ****ing Cardiff lol.

In an interview about her parents this is what she had to say..

'I had parents who bickered every single night and effed and blinded at each other and I'd rather have been in a council house, living in poverty with two happy parents than having two parents who despised each other. When I was 15 I slit myself all the time with razor blades.' At 15 she moved out to live with a school friend whose mother called social services and she was put into foster care with a vicar and his wife who she loved. But, a few weeks later, she lost her virginity to a 17-year-old boy and became pregnant. Her parents were by this point were about to embark on divorce proceedings and had signed her into permanent care (she must have been a deeply threatening teenager to merit such a stark rejection, 'I was never violent unless provoked,' she says). Social services would not allow her to remain in foster care while pregnant and moved her into a council flat which her baby bump's father would visit. 'The first time he beat me to a pulp I was six months pregnant. It was because he couldn't find his keys,' she says.

She hasn't exactly grown up as the normal everyday teen would but I know a lot of girls who were in the same circumstances and thinking about it are quite head strong and aggressive to a point.

[Kazanne]

Since when does being poor or rich excuse bad behaviour?

I don't think you can really judge Helens character on living in a £300,000 bungalow (not house) anyway she hasn't lived there for 11 years.

She is a single mother and currently lives in rented accommodation as far as im aware. Her father has openly said he is ashamed of what shes done and apologised to the rooneys.

They do not have a relationship, why do you think when everyone got letters from home hers was from her friend?

Background means nothing, my parents both have lovely homes, 2 cars, 2 gardens ect but I rent a 1 bed flat in ****ing Cardiff lol.

In an interview about her parents this is what she had to say..

'I had parents who bickered every single night and effed and blinded at each other and I'd rather have been in a council house, living in poverty with two happy parents than having two parents who despised each other. When I was 15 I slit myself all the time with razor blades.' At 15 she moved out to live with a school friend whose mother called social services and she was put into foster care with a vicar and his wife who she loved. But, a few weeks later, she lost her virginity to a 17-year-old boy and became pregnant. Her parents were by this point were about to embark on divorce proceedings and had signed her into permanent care (she must have been a deeply threatening teenager to merit such a stark rejection, 'I was never violent unless provoked,' she says). Social services would not allow her to remain in foster care while pregnant and moved her into a council flat which her baby bump's father would visit. 'The first time he beat me to a pulp I was six months pregnant. It was because he couldn't find his keys,' she says.

She hasn't exactly grown up as the normal everyday teen would but I know a lot of girls who were in the same circumstances and thinking about it are quite head strong and aggressive to a point.

That's interesting reading tbh,it does answer a few things.

[Tip]

That's interesting reading tbh,it does answer a few things.



I think Jeremy Kyle could testify that it "might" answer a few things, but plenty of youngsters go through worse and don't necessarily choose to behave in certain ways as adults.

Still, it appears some of her past might be considered of some relevance now but those rejecting that previously?

[puzzled]

Just because someone is from a wealthy background does not mean their life is plain sailing,something has obviously been lacking for her to be angry and aggressive,as for all the people calling her names like 'filth' etc shame on them,it's no better behaviour than you accuse Helen of,very hypocritical in my book.

Yes, yes, yes.

(I was somewhat appalled to read that her father publicly apologised for his daughter's behaviour in the Rooney situation. I think that shows something that was lacking in her relationship with her father. If my Dad were her father, he would have said nothing, or that it was an unfortunate situation, but it's over.)