Last Night’s TV – The Bigamist Bride: My Five Husbands

Why, oh why, was this despicable women given airtime that I presume Channel 4 paid her for to boot? Emily Horne, convicted bigamist and duplicitous, deceitful liar, used this show to put across “her side” of what amounted to an Alice in Wonderland meets Brothers Grimm fairytale of deceit and compulsive lying.
But unlike any fairytale, this story involved real people being really conned, repeatedly. And really hurt in the process.
Having watched Horne lie and lie her way through this documentary – and also it seems her entire life, according to the evidence of those who know her best – I felt that what Emily needs is not a camera in her face, it’s a cell. A secure one at that. Read more & comment »
