Rag Tales Weekly News Round Up
In Ireland we had the Hunky Dory ads which were withdrawn after six weeks of huge coverage in the press about their unsuitability and bad taste. The taste for the owner of Hunky Dory’s however remained sweet as owner Ray Coyle reported a 7% increase in sales of both Tayto and Hunky Dorys with over 400,000now on facebook and moves to expand into China. Will the result for Diesel be the same after London withdrew two poster adverts? See one below.
Facebook is starting to show it’s age with the latest report showing that teenagers are losing interest. What’s news in that you may ask? Teenagers have always been a fickle bunch and perhaps the fact that most of their parents, aunts and uncles and every other relation is now on it means they really want to be as far away as possible.
45% have lost interest
- 16% are leaving because their parents have joined
- 14% think “too many adults/older people” now use the social network
- 13% are concerned about their personal privacy.
Naomi Campbell is in the news again, this timeover the ‘blood diamond’ claim. Below getting tetchy on ABC News
Carole White, Campbell’s agent at the time, says that she witnessed the event. “I was there,” she says, speaking from the London headquarters of Premier Model Management, the company that she founded and that represented Campbell for 17 years. “He did give it to her. It was a small, uncut diamond. I am totally surprised that Naomi hasn’t admitted it.”
But Campbell has consistently refused to volunteer her own testimony to the tribunal, furiously walking out of a recent television interview withABC News when the reporter had the temerity to ask about the allegations. It seemed a strange reaction for a woman who, having turned 40 earlier this year, has tried to distance herself from a youth-obsessed modelling industry and reinvent herself as a charity campaigner.
