Mother and Daughter Lie to Win Hannah Montana Tix
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tara_hearts
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That is really appalling. What a giant douche. & You know they are going to sue. I'm sure the self rightous b*tch thinks she "deserves" the money from having the tickets ripped away from her and her lying protege. Ugh.
lsperry
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These are exactly my thoughts. Everyone is looking for photo-ops and praises in showing their support for the war in Iraq that they will do anything to grab ratings and sales. How easy would it have been to check w/the DOD to confirm the soldier's death? They were so quick to jump on the bandwagon that in their greediness they got duped. IMO, they're just as greedy as the mother.....
Yep, I feel the mother can win a lawsuit....I would be surprised if she hasn't been contacted by a ton of lawyers willing to take her case and create a sob story for the mother to gain sympathy from the public....
Dirt bags....
Originally Posted by Shimmer
Perhaps if companies weren't looking for the most pathetic sob story they can find, stuff like this wouldn't happen. ABC and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and its ilk searching for families who've gone through terrible ordeals not because they truly want to help but because it makes ratings have fed this kind of monster. :/ |
These are exactly my thoughts. Everyone is looking for photo-ops and praises in showing their support for the war in Iraq that they will do anything to grab ratings and sales. How easy would it have been to check w/the DOD to confirm the soldier's death? They were so quick to jump on the bandwagon that in their greediness they got duped. IMO, they're just as greedy as the mother.....
Yep, I feel the mother can win a lawsuit....I would be surprised if she hasn't been contacted by a ton of lawyers willing to take her case and create a sob story for the mother to gain sympathy from the public....
Dirt bags....
Leopardskinny
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Ugh that just makes me so angry. I come from a family where most members have been in the Army or Navy. I intend to join the RAF later this year- maybe next, and this is just insulting to everyone who has actually served in the forces and has risked their lives fighting.
I also can't beleive what that child is going to turn into.. I mean it has been said already but encouraging your child to lie? Wow.
I also agree with the posters that commented on what she said- I mean, she almost is like "Um.. yeah I told my kid to lie.. but thats how it goes I guess!" ARGHHH!
Yeah, I hope the mum gets the tickets ripped up in front of her face. Lying biatch!
I also can't beleive what that child is going to turn into.. I mean it has been said already but encouraging your child to lie? Wow.
I also agree with the posters that commented on what she said- I mean, she almost is like "Um.. yeah I told my kid to lie.. but thats how it goes I guess!" ARGHHH!
Yeah, I hope the mum gets the tickets ripped up in front of her face. Lying biatch!
Shimmer
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She's...six.
She doesn't know any better, especially with an example like that.
| Originally Posted by HOTasFCUK
I read on dlisted.com that they got the tickets taken away from them! I don't understand why they would even contemplate letting her keep it. That girl is just as bad as her mother and i'm glad that someone else who is truly deserving of those tickets will get it! |
She's...six.
She doesn't know any better, especially with an example like that.
kristakamikaze
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this made me SO mad!!!!!!!!!!!
*Stargazer*
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My guess is she wrote what her mother told her to write.
| Originally Posted by Shimmer
She's...six. She doesn't know any better, especially with an example like that. |
My guess is she wrote what her mother told her to write.
pahblov
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However, to further support Shimmer's point that the contest rules were somewhat ambiguous (although I in no way support the mother's actions), the "creative non-fiction" genre has been growing quickly in literary circles, and mostly comes out of essays with fictional details, or auto-biographical stories presented in a formal essay-like setting. So there is certainly some leeway here.
| Originally Posted by redambition
i think the biggest giveaway is that the competition is for an essay - not a story. essays (in my experience, anyway) are non-fiction works. they are a piece of work where the author analyses and gives their view on a certain subject. |
However, to further support Shimmer's point that the contest rules were somewhat ambiguous (although I in no way support the mother's actions), the "creative non-fiction" genre has been growing quickly in literary circles, and mostly comes out of essays with fictional details, or auto-biographical stories presented in a formal essay-like setting. So there is certainly some leeway here.
HOTasFCUK
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You really think a six year old wouldn't stop and think about it and tell her mommy....ummm daddy didn't die! But i guess the mother just made her go along with it.
Thats so bull that the mother says its an "essay" and i'm sure a six year old really knows how to write one! That mother wanted her daughter to win so bad and they just created a mess out of it! The sad thing is i'm sure there must be a little girl out there who's father died because of the war. How greedy and twisted can you be to go to these lengths? The one that really loses is the child because of her stupid mother. Its sad that a mother would use her child's innocence and exploit that for her benefit. Yeah she may have wanted to make her kids dream come true but what a horrible example she set! I hope they do a story on the runner-up, the one who really deserves to go to that concert!
Thats so bull that the mother says its an "essay" and i'm sure a six year old really knows how to write one! That mother wanted her daughter to win so bad and they just created a mess out of it! The sad thing is i'm sure there must be a little girl out there who's father died because of the war. How greedy and twisted can you be to go to these lengths? The one that really loses is the child because of her stupid mother. Its sad that a mother would use her child's innocence and exploit that for her benefit. Yeah she may have wanted to make her kids dream come true but what a horrible example she set! I hope they do a story on the runner-up, the one who really deserves to go to that concert!
j_absinthe
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I hate to bring image into this, but as we are makeup enthusiasts, her eyebrows alone make her out to be somewhat dishonest...
BeautyPsycho
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I think she used the same pencil for her eyebrows and lipliner... 
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MAC_Whore
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You know, to be completely honest, I really dont care what the rules were. I just know that the mother knew exactly what she was doing. She was trying to pull a scam. Period. Watching her read the undoubtedly lawyer-prepared statement pretty much makes me want to hurl.
Today show video of story and mother's statement
Oh, and PS - She should have put the money she spent on postage stamps towards buying a #266 brush, a MAC Brow Shader duo and a Spice lip liner.
Today show video of story and mother's statement
Oh, and PS - She should have put the money she spent on postage stamps towards buying a #266 brush, a MAC Brow Shader duo and a Spice lip liner.
*Stargazer*
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Mom sorry for Hannah Montana™ essay hoax - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com
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This is one of those unapologetic apologies. The part where she says, "I told her we wrote an essay and THEY said it was a lie" says it all to me. I'd like to beat this woman. She should be ashamed of herself.
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| Mother apologizes for "Hannah Montana" hoax Woman who helped daughter pen phony essay says she meant no harm By Mike Celizic TODAYShow.com contributor updated 1 hour, 58 minutes ago The Texas mother who helped her daughter win a "Hannah Montana" essay contest by making up a story about the girl's father being a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq says she made a terrible mistake and hopes she can be forgiven. "I meant no disrespect. I just made a bad decision which I sincerely regret," Priscilla Ceballos told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer in a prepared statement she read from Friday. "I apologize to my daughter for getting her mixed up in his mess. I wanted to help my daughter realize her dream of seeing Hannah Montana. Instead, I brought so much negative attention to my family. Please accept my heartfelt apology, and please, do not punish my child for my mistake." The 25-year-old Ceballos, who has two other children, said that the negative publicity and public scorn heaped on her since her ruse was exposed three days after Christmas has forced her out of her home and destroyed her life. "I've had to move out of my home," she told Lauer. "I've received a lot of bad - a lot of harassment all over the Internet. I've been forced to close down my MySpace page. I have not been able to eat or sleep well. I have been very depressed." "She's been constantly harassed," her attorney, Frank Perez, added. "There's been all types of shows and panels saying she's not a good mother, when, in fact, she is. Priscilla made a mistake. Priscilla wanted her daughter, Alexis, to see Hannah Montana and didn't have the means to do that. She used poor judgment in what she did." At the center of the controversy is the essay Ceballos helped her 6-year-old daughter write last year to win a princess makeover and a trip to Albany, N.Y., to see a Jan. 9 Hannah Montana concert. The contest was sponsored by Club Libby Lu, a national chain that sells princess makeovers and pink and purple clothing to "tween" girls. The winning entry, submitted in the name of Ceballos' daughter, read in part: "My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy." Ceballos identified the allegedly dead soldier to contest organizers as Jonathan Menjivar, who is alive and well and has never been in the military. More than 1,000 girls entered the "Hannah Montana Rock Your Holidays Essay Contest." Hannah Montana is the fictional teenage singing star of the hit show by the same name on the Disney Channel. Montana is played by Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus. Ceballos' daughter had already received her makeover and was at a Dec. 28 party thrown in her honor at a local Libby Lu salon when it all unraveled with stunning swiftness. The media had been invited to the party, and when the girl was asked about her soldier father, her mother interrupted, saying the girl didn't want to talk about that. When reporters attempted to check on the story, they discovered that no soldier named Jonathan Menjivar had died in Iraq or was even enlisted in the armed forces. Confronted with that information, Ceballos said she thought the task was to write a compelling Christmas story. "We wrote whatever we could to win," she said at the time. The news that the essay was not true was relayed to Libby Lu CEO Mary Drolet, who later that day issued a statement that read: "We regret that the original intent of the contest, which was to make a little girl's holiday extra special, has not been realized in the way we anticipated." The tickets and another makeover were awarded to another contest entrant, whose name was not released. Ceballos told Lauer that the tickets weren't taken away from her. Rather, she said, when the deception was revealed she refused to accept them. In the statement she read on TODAY, she also said, "I sincerely apologize to those people who feel misled because of my bad judgment. I helped my daughter write an essay that was not true. It was not my intention to mislead. I just wanted to help my daughter write a compelling story. There is no more compelling story than the struggle and sacrifices of our military and their families. I apologize to our military and their families." Asked how she explained the events to her daughter, she said, "I told my daughter the truth. I told her we wrote an essay and they said it was a lie. And I refused to accept the tickets. I told her there will be another time." |
This is one of those unapologetic apologies. The part where she says, "I told her we wrote an essay and THEY said it was a lie" says it all to me. I'd like to beat this woman. She should be ashamed of herself.
lsperry
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The public punish her child??!! No woman! YOU punished your child. Children can understand anything you tell them. How so easy it would have been to tell her child they couldn’t afford to see Hannah Montana……Could have been a good lead-in to teaching her child how to be financially responsible and the importance of getting an education so that when she has HER children she can provide the necessities and some of the luxuries! How pathetically pitiful this is…
And I had no idea the child had received the makeover. This story just keeps getting worse for the child.
To be thrown out of your apartment because of your Mom is the pits!!
The mother only seems to be sorry her deception and lies were found out; not that she wrote lies to win a prize!
| Instead, I brought so much negative attention to my family. Please accept my heartfelt apology, and please, do not punish my child for my mistake." |
The public punish her child??!! No woman! YOU punished your child. Children can understand anything you tell them. How so easy it would have been to tell her child they couldn’t afford to see Hannah Montana……Could have been a good lead-in to teaching her child how to be financially responsible and the importance of getting an education so that when she has HER children she can provide the necessities and some of the luxuries! How pathetically pitiful this is…
And I had no idea the child had received the makeover. This story just keeps getting worse for the child.
To be thrown out of your apartment because of your Mom is the pits!!
The mother only seems to be sorry her deception and lies were found out; not that she wrote lies to win a prize!
Beauty Mark
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She refused to accept the tickets? What? She would've totally taken them had she not gotten caught.
"No comment" would've been far more tasteful.
"No comment" would've been far more tasteful.
