THE MOTHER OF THE CHURCH PRONOUNCES

It's been a little while since we heard from Charlotte Church's mother, but she's broken her silence to whine about the paparazzi and how they keep Charlotte's profile buoyant despite her not actually having done anything noteworthy for years ("makes Charlotte's life miserable.")

Mrs Church branded the paparazzi "absolute scumbags" who harassed her daughter "morning, noon and night".

According to IOL.com quoting 5 Live she said: "I've been with Charlotte when we've been pushed, stamped on, anything to get that photo. I have no respect for them whatsoever, I don't see it as a job."

And of course she's right to have no respect for them. What sort of person chooses a career where their income is purely dependent upon leeching off the profile and success of a young woman?

To try and help take the pressure and press focus off Charlotte, old mother Church decided to give Five Live a bunch of gossip about who her daughter has been shagging:

"She wouldn't listen, I knew it was going to happen. She knew it was going to happen with Steven, I think, but not so much with Kyle."

The press are even more keen, Mrs Church said, since Charlotte and Gavin got together.

"When they are together it's an absolute nightmare."

Yes, that should stop the press hanging out outside her front door, Mrs. C.

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