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Clayton and Rose Ellen Bennett tracked down to Gateshead pub

Sep 11 2011 by Joanne Butcher, Sunday Sun

WE’VE tracked down notorious wedding snappers Clayton and Rose Ellen Bennett . . . in a Gateshead pub.

The photographers ruined the wedding days of dozens of couples by delivering shoddy work – or not delivering at all.

And they thought they’d managed to disappear off the radar when they stopped answering their calls.

But now, the Sunday Sun can reveal Rose Ellen has set herself up as a pub landlady.

So readers wanting to know where their precious snaps are can now write to ask the Bennetts themselves.

Rose Ellen has taken over the Blue Bell at Felling, in Gateshead, where we found her pulling pints for regulars.

But when we confronted her in the bar, asking if she would like to apologise to the people they let down, she told us Clayton “was upstairs” and refused to comment.

And while we were at the pub, Sunday Sun reader Joanna Ashcroft was on the phone to Clayton, who claimed his wife was ill in hospital.

We received complaint after complaint about Clayton, 50, from newlyweds.

Bride after bride told us how they had booked Clayton for their wedding pictures and videos, only to be left devastated by the final result.

We heard how his work was wonky, badly framed, missed key parts of the service, or was never delivered at all. Some couples even took him to court – and won.

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