Wednesday 11 th March 2015
NEWS OF THE WORLD HACKING!
NOTW phone hacking ruined celebrities relationships.
By Lauren.
News of the World phone hacking in 2006-2011 caused chaos in celebrities’,
murder victims and their families’ lives. Relationships were broken, rumours
were made it was all because they wanted to find out a bit of information no
one knew but was private to the person involved. They did this by using a
caller ID spoof which got them into the person they are callings voicemails,
and was apparently very easy.
EastEnders actor Steve McFadden said that the hacking
had ‘destroyed’ his relationship with now ex-girlfriend
and former co-star Lucy Benjamin, according to BBC
news. The couple had hoped to marry soon but
McFadden suspected Lucy for giving out his private
information.
Another EastEnders star Shane Richie said that he and
co-star Jessie Wallace, who plays Shanes on-screen
wife Kat Moon, suspected each other. Shane said he
became very good friends with Jessie the when he
joined the soap in 2002, and they would leave each
other voicemail messages, which is how the news of
the world got the information on these two in
particular said the BBC. Shane said to the BBC: "After a
while, me and Jessie didn't speak for five years because she didn't trust me
and I didn't trust her because we both thought we were selling each other
down the river with stories, which it turned out of course wasn't true."
The newspaper has now been banned. The News of the World's political
editor, David Wooding, said the news was greeted with great shock. "Some
people are crying, very upset," he told the press outside News
International's offices in Wapping, east London in 2011 said The Guardian.
What happened affected these people’s lives massively and will never be
forgotten.
ALL PICTURES TAKEN FROM BBC NEWS