OHMYGOSSIP — Nicola Thorp has hit out at Catherine Tyldesley video response to cakegate.
Catherine, 39, has claimed she had “no idea” that party planners asked Three Little Birds bakery owner Rebecca Severs for a huge order for her 40th birthday party in Manchester in exchange for publicity with OK! Magazine.
Speaking in a video posted to Instagram on Wednesday (02.08.23), she said: “Cakegate?! What? So, I had no idea those emails were being sent. I’m not working with the lovely OK! Magazine on anything that I am aware of. NVRLND are an amazing company, they’ve supplied with me performers in the past.
“They’re insane and they’ve been completely misrepresented in this matter. Utterly bizarre, I don’t really know what to say. I mean, I hope the cake lady got the exposure she was craving, whilst I’ve got journalists knocking on my front door whilst my kids are playing in the front room. Dead nice, that, babes, thanks for coming!”
However, Nicola, 34, – who along with Catherine has starred on ‘Coronation Street’ – insisted it was up to Catherine to make sure that everyone who worked for her was being paid.
Speaking on TalkTV, she said: “I feel sorry first and foremost for the cake woman. She’s brilliant.
“What she said is so clever. She was like, ‘I can’t pay my staff with heart emojis on Instagram’. She’s absolutely right. She runs a business.
“Why on earth should it be expected? Because this PR company are making money somehow. So they are getting money, they are just choosing not to pass it on to her.
“But it’s also not Cath’s fault, Catherine, because she wasn’t aware of it and I believe that because this is just the way these PR companies work.
“I agree, that video was not well-advised at all. She shouldn’t have been shooting down another woman. I believe strongly in this.
“What Cath went on to say in that video, was you know, ‘I use this company all the time and they have provided performers for me’ etc, etc.
“Well, it’s your duty as the person who is having the party done for you, to know that everybody who turns up is being paid.
“That’s a moral duty and also from a PR perspective, you would want to make sure that this kind of thing wasn’t happening.’
“I don’t mind it if you are approaching a big hotel chain and you’re saying, ‘Have you got a free night for my client?’, but it’s an individual’s business.”

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