Rent a maddie? Anyone?

AckwelFoley · 11-01-2008 04:37PM #1

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2007/world/1101_maddie_sp_lg.jpg

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A girl who looks strikingly similar to Madeleine McCann is being touted by a London casting agency as a $1300–an-hour lookalike.

The agency hopes American girl Kelsey Lynn Kudla will make a fortune as the star of a movie about the missing four-year-old.

“There’s one girl who’s a contender. It’s in the eyes,” Shona Juliet-Adams, the owner of Juliet Adams Model and Talent Castings Agency, told The Daily Star.

Ms Juliet-Adams said the mother of the three-year-old Maddie lookalike had sent her photos of the girl in an email.

"Her daughter is completely aware of this missing little girl and also aware that she bears an extreme resemblance to this child," she said.

"The parents are stopped everywhere — in shopping centres, grocery stores and many other places — and told how much she resembles this missing child.”

The family of Madeleine, who was last seen in Praia da Luz in Portugal on 3 May last year, have slammed the company for attempting to make money out of their loss.

"This is an offensive way to make money out of Madeleine’s disappearance. This is deeply offensive to parents Kate and Gerry," said the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell.

But Ms Juliet-Adams said she is just doing her job.

Whats next sale on T - Shirts?

11-01-2008 04:39PM

How bizare would it be if it turned out that the child was Maddie?

Somewhere manTIME is fetching his credit card, no doubt.

The_B_Man · 11-01-2008 04:40PM

snyper wrote: »

The family of Madeleine, who was last seen in Praia da Luz in Portugal on 3 May last year, have slammed the company for attempting to make money out of their loss.

eh....arent they making a film about it? gimps!!

also, how do they know this isnt the REAL maddie?

Dragan · 11-01-2008 04:43PM

The irony of that kid going missing as well would be just too much.

ScumLord · 11-01-2008 04:44PM

Maybe the mother of the lookie like would be willing to sell her daughter to the McCaans so we can all move on to a different news storie.

Lockstep · 11-01-2008 04:45PM

Dragan wrote: »

The irony of that kid going missing as well would be just too much.

I give the new kid about 6 months before some paedo who feels he missed out on Maddie and decides on the body-double

Pompey Magnus · 11-01-2008 04:48PM

Dragan wrote: »

The irony of that kid going missing as well would be just too much.

And the next day the McCanns announce to the world that their private detectives have discovered Madeline. Anyways I can understand why the McCanns are upset about this, they aren't getting a slice of the action.

m83 · 11-01-2008 04:51PM

best thread ever, snigger snigger

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 11-01-2008 04:52PM

Dragan wrote: »

The irony of that kid going missing as well would be just too much.

I've made some calls. Watch this space.

AckwelFoley · 11-01-2008 04:57PM

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

And the next day the McCanns announce to the world that their private detectives have discovered Madeline. Anyways I can understand why the McCanns are upset about this, they aren't getting a slice of the action.

Upset? cheeksy bstrds!

Gerry McCann already got his pce of action.

AckwelFoley · 11-01-2008 04:58PM

Mordeth wrote: »

I've made some calls. Watch this space.

Gerry? Is that you?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 11-01-2008 04:59PM

*whistles nervously*

Dudess · 11-01-2008 05:12PM

Well it is topical, but don't cross the line...

briantwin · 11-01-2008 06:24PM

I suppose the could clone maddie 2.0 and then stop the media blitz. Or make loads of clones and use them to search for maddie 1.0

faceman · 11-01-2008 06:28PM

Pointless thread, its going to get worse...

AckwelFoley · 11-01-2008 06:29PM

briantwin wrote: »

I suppose the could clone maddie 2.0 and then stop the media blitz. Or make loads of clones and use them to search for maddie 1.0

Somone was watching Terminator 3 last night

beautiation · 11-01-2008 06:36PM

1,300 an hour? Does she have a routine or something?

briantwin · 11-01-2008 06:38PM

yeah she does a disappearing act that would put David Blane to shame!

AckwelFoley · 11-01-2008 06:43PM

briantwin wrote: »

yeah she does a disappearing act that would put David Blane to shame!

lol.. i seen that one comming the second i read the post before yours!

beautiation · 11-01-2008 06:54PM

briantwin wrote: »

yeah she does a disappearing act that would put David Blane to shame!

Hehe

should have thought of that one meself.

edanto · 11-01-2008 07:06PM

So, why in the world would Mrs Kudla bring her daughter to an agency and push this story?

Two possible reasons - either she is a heartless bitch and really thinks that her daughter may get a job in a movie (which I doubt) or else the family is tired of people coming up to them/looking suspiciously at them and wanted to announce to the world that their daughter is not Madeline McCann.

The filler about the daily rate/movie is probably just added in to make sure the story got picked up by scandal hungry media.

aidan_walsh · 11-01-2008 07:08PM

Are they sure this isn't another 31 year old Dutch woman?

Tha Gopher · 12-01-2008 06:19PM

"This is an offensive way to make money out of Madeleine’s disappearance. This is deeply offensive to parents Kate and Gerry," said the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell.

Ehhhh....yeah.

Didnt he used to be spokesman for Tony Blair or Prince Charles or something? I wonder if the Madeline charity fund pays his wage or is out of the McCanns substantial doctors wage.

Wonder indeed :rolleyes:

Do all girls who look like Maddy have really crap parents? I sat a table away from a girl who looked like her in McDonalds a few months ago, not long after she disappeared (oh and jesus christ before anyone asks, or an Evening Herald journo reads this and I see a "EXCLUSIVE: MADDY SIGHTED IN DUBLIN RESTAURENT" headline, parents and kid all had Irish accents. I did admittedtly take additional notice given the news at the time but jesus h christ it was not her)

Based on the activities of Maddys parents and the mother of the lookalike, I should have reported her parents to social services as a pre emptive measure.

carbsy · 12-01-2008 06:28PM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Are they sure this isn't another 31 year old Dutch woman?

lol , thought she was 33? Crazy story though!

MagicMarker · 12-01-2008 06:37PM

I'd hire her out, and have a little fun with the McCanns that even Jeremy Beatle couldn't out do.

phasers · 12-01-2008 06:43PM

is it possible to hire this girl for conventions? parties? walking around behind you looking scared?

I hope they draw a line somewhere at what 'modelling' is

Tha Gopher · 12-01-2008 06:56PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I'd hire her out, and have a little fun with the McCanns that even Jeremy Beatle couldn't out do.

:eek::eek::D

In fairness if their holiday behaviour was anything to go by they paid her so little attention that it might just work. I do see rich type parents like the McCanns every day in shop or bank queues letting the kids run wild, in truth alot of run of the mill skangers are better parents.

MagicMarker · 12-01-2008 07:02PM

I was in the mall yesterday waiting to go in for a job interview... There was a woman walking around looking ever so slightly anxious... Next thing I know she's almost sprinting to the exit.

Turns out she had ''lost track'' of her little boy, whom was standing outside, at least I assume he was hers. He was no more than 4 years old... How the **** do you lose a kid?! That's some serious negligence there!

Lockstep · 12-01-2008 09:27PM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Based on the activities of Maddys parents and the mother of the lookalike, I should have reported her parents to social services as a pre emptive measure.

Outta curiosity, what did they do to make them bad parents?

Dudess · 12-01-2008 09:57PM

They left their children sleeping alone and headed out, rather than hiring a babysitter.

Jimbo · 12-01-2008 10:02PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

I was in the mall yesterday waiting to go in for a job interview... There was a woman walking around looking ever so slightly anxious... Next thing I know she's almost sprinting to the exit.

Turns out she had ''lost track'' of her little boy, whom was standing outside, at least I assume he was hers. He was no more than 4 years old... How the **** do you lose a kid?! That's some serious negligence there!

You'd be surprised, kids tend to wander.

BTW, the the hell is a 'mall'?

Rent a maddie? Anyone?

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