CAPTAIN Tom’s daughter has been accused by pals of being cash-obsessed and demanding to know who would play her in a film, following a shameless TV interview.
Hannah Ingram-Moore appeared on Good Morning Britain last week to defend herself against claims she and her partner had mismanaged funds from her dad’s charity.
Getty Images – GettyHannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin after his death[/caption]
The SunThe pair were accused of misleading the public about proceeds from Captain Tom’s autobiography Tomorrow will be a Good Day[/caption]
PAHannah and Colin were previously ordered to demolish an unauthorised spa that had been built under Captain Tom’s name[/caption]
World War Two veteran Captain Tom inspired the nation by raising £38.9million for the NHS during the pandemic lockdown in 2020.
After his death in 2021, the Charity Commission found Hannah guilty of personally benefiting from her father’s foundation – alongside husband Colin Ingram-Moore.
Now, a former pal has said the pair were always obsessed with money and fame.
They told the Mail: “They were always coming up with some way to make cash. It was definitely all about how they could use this to set themselves up.
“That was their mindset. They were financially obsessed. They talked about a Captain Tom movie and who would play them.
“They really thought they were the pride of Britain.”
As part of its investigation into the pair, the watchdog found they had misled the public into thinking that proceeds from Captain Tom’s autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day would be paid into the charity.
In the disastrous TV appearance last week, GMB host Rob Rinder grilled Hannah on the £1.5 million book deal – saying it was “never said” that sales from the three books would go to the charity.
She replied: “He [Captain Tom] signed that contract with Penguin Random House and I signed to say where the money was going on his behalf.
“He was alive and he decided. It never said anywhere that sales would go to the charity, not us.
“We agreed it would go to support the launch of the charity and money from the book revenue did support the charity.”
The interview followed another TV appearance on the BBC – in which she offered a half-hearted apology but insisted she had done nothing wrong.
She said: “I’m sorry they [the public] feel misled. I genuinely am.
“But there was never any attempt to mislead and if there was any misleading it wasn’t our doing.”
She added that there was “nothing dishonest about what happened”.
In the same interview, Hannah admitted the family had taken £80,000 from the book sales – but claimed most of this was taken up by legal costs.
She added: “When I look back at the last five years, we know that we own the truth and what I can’t do is sit here and persuade everyone to believe our reality.”
Critics have suggested the real reason for Hannah’s recent stint of PR is in fact her wish to plug her new book.
The 54-year-old published the 141-page work, Grief: Public Face, Private Loss, earlier this month – priced at £8.99.
In it, Hannah claims her public downfall was the result of lies spread in the wake of her dad’s death.
She writes: “There was a palpable sense of the truth being manipulated for the benefit of others.
“This manipulation profoundly affected my family’s grief and my own.
“Amid this turmoil, at my core, I remained simply a daughter grieving the loss of her father.”
In another section, she recalls of Tom’s passing: “The world was preparing to mourn Captain Sir Tom, a figure of hope and resilience, but I was losing my father.
“My grief was private, personal, and raw, yet it was on the verge of becoming public.
“Soon our intimate sorrow would intersect with a collective loss that would be shared by millions.”
How Captain Sir Tom Moore rose to fame & his daughter’s controversies
March 2020 – D-Day veteran Captain Tom Moore walks 100 laps around his Bedfordshire garden before his 100th birthday, raising £30million for the NHS during the first lockdown.
April 2020 – Captain Tom reaches No. 1 in the charts with his cover of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. He receives 100,000 cards for his 100th birthday, which is marked with a Battle of Britain flypast. A train is named after him.
July 2020 – Captain Tom is knighted by the Queen in a special private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
September 2020 – Hannah Ingram-Moore launches the Captain Tom Foundation to combat loneliness.
December 2020 – Drones swarm into the shape of Captain Tom’s face at the New Year’s Eve firework display in London.
February 2021 – Captain Sir Tom Moore dies after catching covid-19.
February 2022 – The Charity Commission launches a probe into the Captain Tom foundation after it paid £50,000 to companies run by Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin.
July 2023 – The foundation stops accepting donations. Planning chiefs order Hannah to tear down an unauthorised spa at her Bedfordshire home. The building had been approved to be used “in connection with the Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives”. But a larger building with a spa pool was built instead and was denied retrospective planning permission. Hannah appeals.
September 2023 – accounts reveal Hannah received more than £70,000 to head the foundation.
October 2023 – Hannah loses her appeal and is ordered to demolish the spa and restore the garden to its original condition.
January 2024 – Demolition work begins.
November 2024 – Probe finds family “repeatedly benefitted” from “mismanaged” foundation.
January 2025 – Her business Club Nook collapses with just £149 in assets compared to £336,300 a year prior. The foundation’s website also disappears.
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