Captain Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore was asked if she had no shame by Rob Rinder in her first TV interview since the Charity Commission said she had mismanaged her father’s foundation. Hosts Rob and Kate Garraway interviewed Hannah on Good Morning Britain on Friday (March 7) in what was her first live TV interview since the Charity Commission’s report, where they quizzed her on what her father would have thought of all that had happened since his death. Captain Tom came to the nation’s attention when he raised money for the NHS by walking laps in his garden. He raised nearly £40 million and was knighted for his incredible fundraising, but Hannah was found to have benefitted personally from his charity in her position as director of the Captain Tom Foundation alongside now former trustee Colin Ingram-Moore. The Charity Commission found that the pair had a “pattern of behaviour” which personally benefitted them repeatedly. The commission found the family refused to donate any of the £1.47 million raised from three Captain Sir Tom books, despite their assurances that part of that total would be passed on to the charity.
Captain Tom Moore’s daughter appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday
Speaking on Good Morning Britain today as she introduced her new book on grief, she said: “My mother died a very long slow death from dementia, which is why my father moved in with us in the first place. I think we probably buried the loss of her because my father moved in. It was truly magical. “Of course, then he died in a very public way and the world was grieving for him and not just us … I realised that so many people weren’t able to discuss loss … As the headlines swirled, and we lost control of any sense of the truth, I was looking out and seeing the lie being much more interesting than the truth behind it so I had to bury my own grief.” Rob then quizzed her about Captain Tom’s three books and said she had signed the contract on his behalf. “He 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,” she said. “He lived with us. We didn’t think of him diminished man. He was paid that money, he decided where it went. Not a penny was received by him and us when those books went on sale. Charity money didn’t pay for the building or the hot tub.”
Hannah and her father Captain Tom Moore
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Asked if she had any shame, Hannah replied: “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.” When Kate asked what the truth was, Hannah then replied: “If you look back to that dark time of Covid, we as a family were in the same position as everybody else,” before then adding that people had forgotten about what her father had done. Kate then told her: “That has been forgotten, I think people feel, because you’ve done something to damage the legacy. Nobody forgets his spirit.” In a separate interview, Hannah had apologised for setting up the charity with her father’s name and described it as her “deepest regret”. She said: “It didn’t need to be set up as a charity, we could have continued that legacy without it, because what it’s done is all but completely derailed our lives. It was set up with my father’s name and that is our deepest regret. “There is nothing dishonest about what happened. The book said it would support the launch [of the foundation] and it did. There was never a specific amount of money required. I’m sorry [the public] feel misled, I genuinely am, but there was never any intent to mislead. If there was any misleading it wasn’t our doing.”
Rob Rinder quizzed Hannah in a tense interview
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The Mirror recently revealed that Hannah had put her house up for sale again. The Grade II-listed Old Rectory is on the market for £2million and is described as a “magnificent seven-bedroom property”. In the main hallway, a bust recreating the moment Captain Moore finished his multi-million pound fundraising walk is still on display. Hannah and her husband Colin were told to tear down the spa complex, costing them a cool £200,000, after the family lost an appeal. Central Bedfordshire Council told them to demolish the building as the planning inspector said it was “at odds” with their home. In 2023, Hannah admitted that £800,000 worth of profits from Captain Tom’s three books had been paid into Club Nook, her company. In a previous interview, she had claimed that her father wanted his family to keep the profits from his three books – Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day. She had insisted that readers were never told the money would go to charity but in the prologue of the third book, an autobiography, it was seemingly suggested that Captain Moore thought his books were a way for him to raise more funds. The extract read: “Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.” Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 6am
