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Dan Ewing demands apology after ill-timed gossip article

It's hard to think of a more tragic set of recent circumstances, but an ill-timed article on Home & Away star and his wife has backfired.

2013-10-26_0059It’s hard to think of a more tragic set of recent circumstances, but an ill-timed gossip column article has backfired on the Daily Telegraph.

The article published yesterday targeted Marnie Ewing, wife of Home and Away actor Dan Ewing, over her use of social media, gifted items and a recent trip to the UK.

But it could never have forseen publishing the story just hours after the couple tragically lost the baby 10 weeks into Marnie’s pregnancy. The newspaper is understood to have been advised, but it was after copy had been sent to print.

It didn’t help that the article contained factual errors, claiming Home and Away cast travelling to London had been upgraded to Business Class after Dan Ewing was unhappy, while the rest of the crew sat “at the back of the plane.” TV Tonight has confirmed cast were always booked on Business Class by Seven and crew on Premium Economy. It correctly noted Marnie Ewing’s ticket had been paid for privately.

The timing, on the back of the voracity of the original article, has now resulted in a significant backlash on social media including a letter from Marni Ewing via Instagram (here and here) in which she indicates she travelled to the UK to be with her husband during her pregnancy.

“If I had ever wanted to preserve a day, just for myself and my husband, it was today,” she wrote.

“But you decided to go ahead with it. You thought ‘What the hell? Why should someone who gets free stuff sometimes mourn on a day like this?’ My husband flew me to London, yes. Because we were 10 weeks pregnant with our first child and we feared being apart in case something happened.”

 

 

 

Fans of Ewing have, understandably, also lashed out at the newspaper demanding an apology.

There are no winners here, but given the article also ran online -and remains so- an apology would at least go some small way to allowing a young couple to grieve in peace.