Link to her full statement

Shiteing through the eye of a needle! Take all the time you need to 'clear' your name Rebekah 

Just watched one of her fellow Journo's talking about her on this morning gushing and saying how great she was as a journalist and how honest etc.. she was so great she apparently hadn't a clue what was going on under her on a Paper she was supposed to be editor of.. She should have been sacked for being a cack Boss if that was the case

Sorry but and 

She was 'anging by a fred.

Not surprised really seeing as its come out about the hacking of the victims of  9/11.

The Americans will not take kindly to the hacking. 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/n...not-the-republicans/

Are the Met still recruiting? 

Although we KNOW she will be OK... Murdoch will see to that!

I know!  Can't believe how much these twats back each other up.  They are all worse than any effing criminals!

If the stupid bitch had done this 9 days ago she would have saved over 200 people's jobs.

But at least the Sun on Sunday will be able to launch now (hopefully reinstating those who were made redundant), and if Murdoch manages to sell the UK press division of News Corp like he wants to then it'll make the whole fire fizzle out a bit. Not. But he can dream

Good riddance. 

I am not immature, but...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm finding some of the recent descriptions of her hilarious. For years, everyone in the business who doesn't work for her, or does but is able to speak in private, has described her as a poor journalist and businesswoman. However they would also agree that her one great ability was networking. That was her real value to Murdoch: her ability to smooze with Prime Ministers and the like.
No one's in the public eye's going to go anywhere near her now (or at least they won't be seen anywhere near her), so her usefulness (at least in the short term) is rather limited...

I forgot until someone reminded me that she was married to Ross Kemp and gave him a slap or two.

She makes me sick. She is a hard faced surly harridan. If she cared one jot about all the people that have been hurt, then she would have resigned long ago.

As for Murdoch meeting Millie's family....! If I were the family I'd be telling him where to go.

And Cameron having dinner with her? All right I can accept that it wasn't with her exactly, it was her husband, but he should have known that while the government was considering the BskyB takeover, getting that close to anyone who had something to do with it, was not a good move.

She was arrested but released without charge. The amusing thing was that she was running a campaign against domestic violence in the Sun at the time...

Details are still fairly sketchy, but it doesn't sound like her marriage to Kemp was all that easy-going. It's certainly interesting that she never took the name "Kemp", but has taken the name "Brooks" from her second marriage.  

Still: at least Ross got to do a number of TV shows for Sky...

Totally agree!  And I don't even know what a harridan is! 
 

A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.

Perhaps a modification of French haridelle (“old horse, nag”).

I must remember that one

Oh, I have finally found out what *I* am!   

She'll get a nice big 'go away and disassociate yourself from me and my corporation' cheque from Murdoch so she'll live quite comfortably. I still think she's got shit loads on the Murdochs and they've paid her off to try and repair some of the damage. Seems by her departure and Murdoch's apology today (and blanket media apology tomorrow), he's trying to shift all the blame on to her without actually saying so.

I just don't see why he is so deluded that he thinks this will all quieten down if he's being seen to do 'the right thing'. He might be able to buy Judges and Lawyers to sway things in his favour but his brands are useless without the support (revenue) of the public. Twunt.

I'm sure Rupert already has another NI job lined up for her in the near future.

I think that will depend on how the story develops.

Karma_ makes a good point about the impression that Murdoch's trying to shift the blame onto her. If (and it's still only an "if") the claims about hacking 9/11 victims proves true, there will be a sh!t storm that will put all previous aspects of this scandal into the shade, and guess who was editor of the NOTW in 2001...

I hope to God this doesn't die down and we can cleanse the scummy press forever!

Is she the one that is married too Ross Kemp?

Thats what i thought, are they not married anymore then?

Nooooo! And I got the ravin ump when he married her cos he's lush and she's a horrible witch! (I used to work for News Int and everyone knew what a cow she was but was so far up Murdoch's backside she glittered like flies on shit). Her and Kemp divorced ages ago :BIG GRIN:

Nah: they divorced in (I think) 2007. Mind you, it was kept very quiet. I mean, the divorce of a Soap star and a Fleet Street editor: you'd think the gossip columns of the other papers would be all over it, woudn't you?

She married the author Charlie Brooks in 2009.

BIG GRIN TOO 

Thank you for the info 

My dad is wetting himself at the descriptions too. He's heard first hand testimony about the shambles of an editorial team herself and Coulson (dep. ed. at the NOTW when she was editor) were in the 2000s. It was the sub-editors and art department that brought out that paper week in week out in spite of the incompetence of their bosses.

She gave 'ard man Kemp a left hook at the Ivy Restaurant in front of baffled theatre goers. And yes, she did hush it up, for the most part. She valued her privacy 

Yeah, this was alluded to further up. She couldn't keep the assault thing entirely quiet, but there was remarkably little coverage about it considering:

(a) They'd been dining with David Blunkett when the argument started;

(b) She was arrested (though not charged); and

(c) The Sun was running a campaign against domestic violence at the time!

I know  Bet that spooked Blunkett's doggie. I once tripped over him, but that's another story