[Philip]

Originally posted by toya

Long-time lurker, but first time poster, hope that’s not counted against me…

1: I think it goes back further than that. Those questions answered for the old MBi site for a start. I don’t believe that Michelle answered those and became even more convinced that she didn’t when it came to light that her grandma died @ the time Michelle’s supposedly answered them.

2: ‘Michelle’ chose to post on the Nuts board, before posting on her own official forum. Again, I don’t think that was her and attempts by a member of MBO (and it’s not me) to find out why, have been greeted with two deletions and the third attempt elicited a rude and sarcastic reply from the PR which only added to the whole “it’s not Michelle answering these questions anywhere on the net” situation.

3: The whole ‘MySpace’ thing annoyed people too.

4: Stuart’s not allowed to be mentioned on MBO and they can’t even keep their stories straight about whether the pair of them speak to each other these days. PR say they don’t, Michelle says they do (see this week’s New magazine).
Yes, it’s Michelle’s official site, about her, for her, for her fans etc, but would Michelle really have had the impact she did and still be around two years later without Stu? I know that’s a completely different argument, but the fact is that they got together on BB and were a couple for a year or so afterwards and I personally object to him being written out of her history in the manner in which he is. Over half the TV programmes she did after BB were because she was part of a couple. She expressed a wish to do glamour modelling on BB, but didn’t do it for a year. Why? Because she was earning money via the ‘couple route’. I know that’s badly phrased, so please don’t take offence.

5: The other boy friend and his shenanigans on a couple of Michelle/Stu fansites and that laughable ‘press release’.

6: This film that Michelle’s got a bit part in: If it’s all “hush-hush”, then why’s the PR posting about it on IMDB one minute and telling the MBO members that they’re not ALLOWED to have any information about it?
Why’s it ok for another glamour girl who was filming at the same time as Michelle, to post about it on Nuts, complete with photo, but MBO members were still being told that they couldn’t have any details of it?

Michelle’s fans aren’t stupid and I really don’t understand why her PR persist in treating her fans/members of that forum with such contempt. It’s her fans that buy the magazines and newspapers that she’s in, and therefore enable her to pay their (the PR’s) fees. Michelle might be a glamour model now, and she may no longer wish to have anything to do with her fans from her time in BB, but there are better ways to get people to ‘move on’ than the way it’s currently being handled, especially as any ‘new’ fans will take one look at the way people are spoken to on that forum and not bother going back.

Who loses? Michelle does, and I can’t believe that either her or her PR can’t see that.

Johnny Depp, a far bigger ‘star’ than Michelle is, has said publically that he sees his fans as his ‘employers’. He knows that he wouldn’t be in the position he is without the support of his fans, who stick their hands in their pockets on a regular basis for cinema tickets, DVDs, magazines etc. Whatever he (or his PR) thinks of his fans ‘privately’ he keeps just that – private.

‘Biting the hand that feeds’ is the wrong route for any celebrity to go down, but that appears to be exactly what’s happening on MBO.

Sorry for the long, rambling post. I hope it’s readable.

First time poster or not Toya, I totally admire you for speaking your mind. Well done.

There is one person that I feel sorry for in all this and that is Michelle, because she is the one that will suffer in the end. It is a great thing to have loyal fans who have supported you from the very beginning and it would be a great pity if she lost that support through the fault of her PR/Admin because of the way they have handled things on MBO.