"The life was I guess little bit odd," admits Ryan Tubridy's guest Seymour Platt, who spoke to him about growing up with his mother, the late Christine Keeler.  He described his mum as "wicked funny" and "very, very devoted", with a great affinity for the Irish.  This affinity has clearly been passed down to her son, who moved here 12 years ago after falling in love with an Irish girl.  They live in Longford with their 9-year-old daughter, Daisy.  He reflects on a not-so-average childhood

"I remember when I was very, very young, my mother was very well-off.  She had a nice flat in Chelsea, but she lost all of that money…  Then we were very, very poor, but even being very poor, you'd always be meeting very interesting people who'd be coming around and saying hi…  She was very, very feisty.  I always have a memory of her standing up against bullies…  It was a little bit different because every now and then you'd have people coming around to interview her."

Ryan comments that she was on the receiving end of a considerable amount of bullying herself.

"She was, Ryan… to an extent she probably still is a little bit.  I read some article that called her a prostitute or a good time girl or a call girl and this is all language of the 1960's.  We're now in the 21st century.  We wouldn't refer to women who are just having a good time because they're young – we wouldn't use that sort of language today yet we're still using that language when we refer to Christine."

Seymour says the British press in particular loves to put labels on Christine to fit the narrative they have constructed for her but hopes for better for his mother's memory, and for his daughter, as society progresses.

"I have a little daughter who's growing up in a world that I hope doesn't continue to treat women the way that they have been treated for the last 50 years, the last millennium, and the language that we use about women must be much more respectful.  We would never speak about men the way we speak about women and certainly, Christine was blamed and was victimised basically for the urges of men."

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