England players’ girlfriends and wives are under attack after it was alleged that a few of them will receive an estimated £9,000 in clothes, holidays, and jewelry just for attending a Pretoria celebrity cocktail party Friday.
Optiphi, a South African cosmetics firm, stated that four of England’s WAGs including Chantelle Tagoe, Lisa Carrick, and Ellie Darby will attend the promotion, which will feature Eric Way (Sex and the City dress designer) and will receive a very handsome goody bag.
Details about the party were discovered just a few days after Tagoe paid a visit to an orphanage located outside of Cape Town.
Both Tagoe and Darby have also appeared in a BBC3 documentary in which they visited some of the poorest neighborhoods in South Africa to care for children that were afflicted with HIV. An anti-poverty charity in South Africa has labeled the large promotional bags as ‘disgusting.’
Campaigns director for War on Want, Ruth Tanner, stated that it is disgusting that the WAGs will take these outrageous gifts as millions of people in South Africa face deadly poverty and that the firm should not give these luxury gifts to the WAGs.
Tanner added that she hoped the WAGS will decline the handouts when the money could have better uses.
A spokeswoman for Optiphi stated that four WAGs are expected to be in attendance Friday and that the aim of the firm is show South African hospitality towards England which is the aim of the goody bags.