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SueEllen replied

26 February 2023, 14:48
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

He's never been on Who Do You Think You Are and it would be wise of him not to...

They actually choose a selection of famous people but some of their backgrounds have nothing interesting in it so they never have a show made about them.
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ladymuck replied

26 February 2023, 14:31
Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

Indeed. Philanthropy seems to have lost its shine in the UK. What's going to happen if Sir Rod is found to be a long distant relative of a shipping magnate with connections to the slave trade?

He's never been on Who Do You Think You Are and it would be wise of him not to...
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Zigenare replied

25 February 2023, 19:14
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

It's a generous thing to do that is genuinely helpful rather than virtue signalling.

Indeed. Philanthropy seems to have lost its shine in the UK. What's going to happen if Sir Rod is found to be a long distant relative of a shipping magnate with connections to the slave trade?
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ladymuck replied

25 February 2023, 12:12
It's a generous thing to do that is genuinely helpful rather than virtue signalling.
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vetran replied

24 February 2023, 17:33
ah back to Victorian values when the rich used to fund hospitals directly will they get a Maggie May wing?
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24 February 2023, 17:31
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Rod Stewart pays for scans at his local hospital

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...ssex-pay-unit/

Sir Rod Stewart has reduced a hospital’s waiting list by 10 per cent after paying for a mobile scanning unit for a day.
The singer-songwriter last month called a live phone-in segment on Sky News and offered to pay for people to have hospital scans, having just returned from having a private scan himself.

He committed to paying for other patients’ scans to speed up their diagnosis and treatment.

The 78-year-old arrived at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, in a white Rolls-Royce, where he had paid for the cost of a mobile scanning unit.

He said he was “here not to talk about politics, please, because otherwise it overshadows what we’re trying to do”.
If the day was a “big success” he committed to paying for further units in Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester, he said, adding that he hoped “other people follow me”.
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