Denise Welch has taken to Twitter to share her frustration about the latest update on missing person Nicola Bulley, with the Loose Women star branding them an "absolute disgrace".
Lancashire Police said earlier this week that Nicola had been considered a high-risk missing person from the start of the investigation, as they publicly revealed the mum-of-two had "significant issues" with alcohol. The missing mum was last spotted walking her dog on January 27 after dropping off her children at school in St Michaels on Wyre in Lancashire.
Nicola's phone was later found on a bench overlooking the river that ran through her daily dog walk, and her beloved pet Willow was wandering around the area. After the police released their most recent update regarding Nicola's alleged alcohol issues and struggles with menopause, Denise was one of many famous faces who wondered if it is necessary for the public to know this information.
This Morning star Emma Kenny shared an article regarding the press conference from Lancashire Police with her Twitter fans and wrote: "To say this is HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE is a major understatement!!! Nicola Bulley DID NOT NEED THIS PUTTING INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!! This is a distraction from mistakes made END OF #nicolabulley."
In complete agreement with the TV star, Denise quote-tweeted Emma's message and added: "It’s an absolute disgrace!!!"
Fern Britton also took to Twitter to discuss her feelings on the issue, writing: "I am uncomfortable with the latest news suggesting that Nicola Bulley has an issue with alcohol and menopause. The undertone is that she maybe ‘a bit unstable’ or perhaps even ‘not in her right mind.’ Too easy to write a woman off like this. What lies behind it?"
This comes after the media personality made a controversial comment surrounding the missing mum and the global fascination with true crime. "This is the problem, we’ve created globally all of these armchair detectives," she told the rest of the Loose Women panel last week. "And I am partly responsible because I’ve made no bones of the fact that in my mind I’m the 'Crime Minister'."
She added: "You know I’m obsessed with true life crime. When I was young and you had the news at 6pm and a couple of newspapers, all of these things went on and you didn’t know very much about it.
"But now we see it played out in real life and Lincoln and I are responsible for it because we know now, well we think we know, a lot about forensics.
"I was guilty of it the other day, screaming at the television: ‘Why are people walking along that area? That should still be a crime scene. That should still be evidence.’
"Then I thought 'hang on a minute, there’s obviously a reason why they haven’t kept that.' But you think that you know because you watch so many crime shows."
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