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Swedish star: 'Tiger tried to recruit me as a lover'

Published: 9 Dec 09 10:36 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Updated: 9 Dec 09 13:49 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23742/20091209/

One of Sweden’s top female celebrities is claiming she was approached by an agent on behalf of Tiger Woods about having a fling with the star golfer.

Carolina Gynning, who famously had sex in front of the cameras on the Big Brother reality television show before transitioning to a career as a TV presenter, was a staple on the London party scene at the time of the incident, which took place six or seven years ago, according to a post on Gynning’s blog.

She explains that she was at a party where she met a “really strange man” who she assumed was gay and who proceeded to ask her out to lunch.

“He wanted to tell me something special,” Gynning wrote in the December 8th blog post.

Gynning nevertheless accepted the invitation to dine at a private table at a “swanky” London eatery where the man launched into what she found to be an unusual line of questioning.

“He wondered if I knew who Tiger Woods was, and obviously I did. He said he was friends with Tiger and that Tiger loved girls like me.”

At the time, Gynning was doing her best to portray herself as a stereotypical buxom Swedish blonde, complete with what she refers to as “gigantic silicon breasts” and “bleach blonde” hair.

“He said that Tiger was LOOKING FOR A GIRLFRIEND and that he wanted to introduce me to him,” Gynning continued in her post.

“I never got back to the guy, obviously, even if Tiger is rich, he’s also ugly as sin and absolutely not my type.”

Gynning, who has since removed her breast implants and auctioned them off for charity, thought the whole exchange was “messed up” and had since forgotten about the incident.

But in the wake of recent revelations about Woods' unspecified infidelities, Gynning now views the meeting in a different light.

“Was that guy a pimp for Tiger?” she asks.

Gynning goes on to express support for Woods’ wife, fellow Swede Elin Nordegren, urging her to take the couple’s two children and move home to Sweden.

Carolina Gynning was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday morning.

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11:25 December 9, 2009 by mdeklyn
I wonder how many more are going to creep out of the woodwork, but if this is before he was married, as most of them seem to be, then so what. It's just a feeding frenzy at the moment and a way to get your name in the news. Leave the poor guy alone, he has enough to deal with at the moment, what with an irate mother-in-law and sister-in- law giving him hell.
11:33 December 9, 2009 by Kaethar
Yet another person looking for their 15 minutes of fame. ;)
11:41 December 9, 2009 by xenyasai
@Kaethar: You beat me to it. :)
11:45 December 9, 2009 by Trowbridge H. Ford
I just don't see how all this can be excused, whether he was married or not, a most famous golfer having guys going pimping for him with hands full of money.

It is disgusting and should be punished most severely, rather than just excused by the typically locker roome boys.
12:13 December 9, 2009 by sweco1
I liked to know who was this man that was looking for women for Tiger?I am assuming this all happen in London

Tiger is a person worth a lot of money and what is the motive of the men looking for women for Tiger.

Tiger is also a person who comes from a unknowing middle America family.

Looks to me they might have been working on Tiger for a while to extract all the money. Normally they extract the money after the person dies like what they did and are doing with Micheal Jacksons estate now.

Paternity matters in money matters!

Its all about the money and money=power.
13:49 December 9, 2009 by eton75
One thing Tiger is not , is ugly as sin ! I guess all black men are ugly to this nonentity !
14:10 December 9, 2009 by Davey-jo
"15 minutes of fame"; ... can Tiger last that long?
14:13 December 9, 2009 by Roy E
That's quite a skank recruiting operation that Woods had going here. It's depressing to see how many skanks stepped forward to take him up on it. It's a bit of an indictment of the entire debased society. At least Gynning had the sense to not wallow into that particular cesspool. Too bad for Elin that she didn't. Consequences, consequences.
14:35 December 9, 2009 by boby
Wow! Now I know what do I need to do to become a 'Top Swedish celebrity'.

Have sex in public and I am in!

A fine example of the moral decay of Sweden and the Swedish people.
14:38 December 9, 2009 by peropaco
Now we'll see all the fittstim creeping out from the abyss.
15:06 December 9, 2009 by grantike
i cannot believe alot of stories about tiger.everyone now calls names and says whatver they like about him.i would blame him for all this no one else.but Carolina Gynning, another fame on the the local news what a great honour,now put ur case to rest and go back to sleep.fame seeking i hope you dnt want to be another heidi always lookig for fame by taking advantage of others.it may happen to anyone he they are not careful
15:10 December 9, 2009 by Osokin
"urging her to take the couple's two children and move home to Sweden."

Take the loot and run !
15:22 December 9, 2009 by peropaco
Why should she take the two kids? Tiger has equal rights to have those kids; and since they were born in the USA, methinks, the court should not allow them to leave without his consent
15:37 December 9, 2009 by Kevtravels
Does Carolina actually think this will boost her career.

Shame on you TIGER for harming American male/Swedish female relationships for years to come :P
17:10 December 9, 2009 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Give the Brother a break!

This is not supposed to be bawdy,

this question to Mr. Lasse Åberg

( The Accidental Golfer):

But isn't that what Golf is really all about,

holes & birdies on the mind, all day long?

Wormwood!

O me miserum! Poor Tiger Tyger burning bright, in the Middle of the Night

Black and White,

black and night….

All of a sudden all these women coming out of the woodwork.

My worst nightmare for Brother Obama, is that they don't put Beyonce on him and make her his Monica with him on tape singing Bob Marley song in the Office as he gets ready to do business:

"True love that now exists is the love I can't resist

So jam by my side."

I was in Merry England during much of the so called First Black (sexophone) President's Lewinsky ordeal. Sarkozy & the French, Casanova, Berlusconi & the I-talians & of course all the African presidents must have been laughing together most heartily at the absurd idea of their own impeachment for such minor infringements/ infractions in their offices and palaces.

"You shall not commit adultery." (Exodus 20)

Oh how the Sanctimonious Brits, pastors and laity, men and women alike foamed at the mouth with holy indignation about the amoral president of the great American nation as they deep-preached about it, - it and Fidel Castro's Habana cigar doing un-miraculous things so daintily in the orifice of the oval office - not pensive about a tragedy of Greek if not Shakespearean dimensions - not man's fault but Hamlet going back to Adam accusing - the woman You gave me Lord, she gave me the apple …" frailty thy name is woman"

Especially in the Sunday editions of Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph, not to mention the tabloids such as The News of the World and The Sun … endless pages and they never seemed to run out of news & views about that singular incident in the oval office. Worse than the OJ Simpson's trial live and direct blacking out all other headline news, from the headlines.

And one of the papers reported this question and answers about Paula Jones - don't know if it was intended as satire: it is reported that "Slick Willy" was asked

" Why don't you settle her?"

" Because all the others would come out " ( Would come out of the woodwork)

- " All the others!?! How many are they?

" Hundreds!!!!"

That's how it is now. Poor Tiger Woods the champion, they're all coming out of the Woodwork, the true, the false and the ugly, to start lying on an innocent man……

"What the hand dare seize the fire?

………..And what shoulder, & what art.

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

When the stars threw down their spears,

And watered heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee? "

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1R2GGLL_enSE351&=&q=The++Tyger
17:53 December 9, 2009 by spy
Meanwhile back at the funny farm. . .
18:00 December 9, 2009 by calebian22
Good point peropaco.

The US is very proprietary about their citizens. The US does not recognize dual citizenship. Officially, Tiger's kids are not Swedish, they are American. Any, "I'll take my kids home to Sweden" threats from Elin may be a bit hollow.
18:51 December 9, 2009 by spy
So we are expected to beleive that this woman, who had sex live on TV to further her career, would not have slept with one of the most famous sportsman in the world given half a chance... Mmm
20:11 December 9, 2009 by Roger O. Thornhill
22:15 December 9, 2009 by Michael84
now we really don't know if what she says if true or not but if it is , wow. only a Tiger would do what Mr.Wood did
01:26 December 10, 2009 by SamUSA
most swedish women are after money. i lived there for a while and this basically my observation. elin is a fool for thinking she could keep tiger happy...and you are fool for not taking him up on his offer! u coulda been rich too...

as for her moving back to sweden, its a good idea. go back to where you came from.
01:39 December 10, 2009 by Lukestar1991
If anyone should be punished, its the scum who do the real so called 'pimping' and the ones who seek them out, the ones who show no remorse, who have no conscience.
05:57 December 10, 2009 by lingonberrie
The United States, Wood's home, is still engaged in their favorite past-time, that is, war.

War has a celebrity status there, so start to make comments about their wars; you know, those wars that have been going on now for seven, and nine years, actually the first bush I Iraq war was longer ago still, and that one was renewed by bush II, after he left Afghanistan when he stopped looking for the CIAs employee, Osama bin Laden.

bush II had Weapons of Mass Destruction, a.k.a.: OIL, to secure.

Now Obama is back in Afghanistan, whereas the United States "secured" Iraq has again devolved into chaos under bomb attacks, surge or no surge notwithstanding, hunting the new bogey-man, the ubiquitous and so-called Taliban, named as though they were a cohesive standing Army when they are actually a disparate collection of tribes, each with their own agenda.

That is enough, however, to beat the vaunted United States, just as the North Vietnam Army pushed them out and watched them go, whereas they could easily have blown down the landing strip tower where their helicopters were frantically airlifting their last troops out, in "honor'.

Yes, you like to get into the private lives of your celebrities, so do get into your celebrity wars and enlighten everyone as to why you are actually there as opposed to the standard fairy-tale about Iraq , and now the Taliban, having anything to do with your eleven September 2001 attack.

Woods, his wife, his mother, their children, and what the United States thinks about them, is getting very old, very fast.

Get back to your favorite celebrity, war.
06:00 December 10, 2009 by GefleFrequentFlyer
I must confess.

Tiger also had sex with me.

Where can I collect my check?
06:56 December 10, 2009 by canam
ligonberrie go to bed. Save your soap-box speeches for those few friends that actually find you enlightening and your view points refreshing.
07:34 December 10, 2009 by sebwojo
I believe coroline is just desapointed with life .if she could be called for launch and start going out with srangers can she refuse woods.ok if wooods was ugly has she got a hadsome one?plse note there is no man in the world who is ugly.and for women the buetful ones a not yet born
09:44 December 10, 2009 by Bensonradar
Tiger Woods appears in a 3/4 page press advert in the UK's Daily Telegraph today. It's to promote Swiss TagHeuer watches and has a strapline "What are you made of?" If he intended to live a bachelor lifestyle, why did he get married? He has damaged the lives of so many people.
10:06 December 10, 2009 by thelionking
You are all sad.

Why do you think you know so much, on this VERY VERY PRIVATE family - oh yeah Aftonbladet says...so it must be so. Not to mention this 'woman'. She got nailed on Big Brother for a job!! Do you think she has a moral fibre in her, let alone capable of the truth??

All speculation and a determined effort as usual to humble a superstar.Cant beat the man on ANY golf tournament so trip him up with his personal life.

"Let he who has no sin cast the 1st stone." The Bible

Saddens me humanity is so. We build up people precisely so we can shoot them down and stand around 'enjoying' their demise. Shame on you all.

Merry Christmas to the Woods family and God protect you all from the scavengers around you at this time.
11:14 December 10, 2009 by Beynch
Well Gynning, had you allowed yourself to be bedded by Woods, you would have been "slut number 12", according to New York Post's count, (and using NY Post vernacular). Perhaps you a good thing you didn't. It is intersting to note that Woods' product endorsements appear to be waning. Gatorade already yanked their commercials. Nike's, and American Express' commercials appear to have been put "temporarily on hold", as they so diplomatically put it. Well, at least he's not suffering financialy. Yet. It's a shame to see such a star scraping the bottom of the barrel. Elin's mother is over there counting the dough. It will be intersting to see what today's news has in store.
15:08 December 10, 2009 by EP
@Beynch ...

Are you sayng that since Gynning wasn't bedded by Woods, she's not a slut. Clearly she is given her group sex/orgies, big brother live sex, etc.

Not surprised she's pontificating ... she's a hypocrite like a lot of the Swedes ... who regularly crown themselves the conscience of the world ... meanwhile, wonder how her removed implants are doing ;-)
15:55 December 10, 2009 by Beynch
@EP: Well, Gynning has managed to secure herself a full page spread in the New York Post today. And judging from the picture she's a slut. But then again I don't know her. Her cleavage is way too low for decency. Serious chandelier earrings. Boobs that look like they've been "enhanced". And her eye makeup is enough to make a drag queen blush. So you're right EP. She's a slut! That seems to be all Woods is interested in, euphemistically referred to as: cocktail waitresses, models, hostesses, porn stars. One wonders what that does to the reputation of Holmberg's daughter?
16:52 December 10, 2009 by Jan-Bug
First of all;

Since when is Carolina Gynning a "top celebrity"? She's a BIG BROTHER slut and a celeb-wanna-be.

If she really was a top celebrity, would she then except a dining invitation with a, I quote; "A really strange man"? Come on!

I guess she got her 15 min fix with this one.
22:13 December 10, 2009 by spy
thelionking

The fact is that he makes millions out of his celebrity status as well as his golf - he is a brand - and as such he is fair game. And your point about this being a 'private family affair' is comical because it is actually a string of very public affairs outside of the family.
12:48 December 11, 2009 by jeffreyn
Carolina Gynning = definition of attention-whore. Tiger Woods has no idea who she is.

Tiger Woods became famous because he's the best golfer who ever lived. Carolina Gynning became famous because she plowed on a trashy tv show, and auctioned off her breast implants. What a classy woman.
13:16 December 11, 2009 by Beynch
@Cornelius Hemelberg @lingonberrie; You need to learn how to say things in seven lines or less. This is not a forum for epic dissertations. I can't read all your gobble-di-gook. Promise. OK? Your message will be getting a lot more attention then.
15:11 December 11, 2009 by johnnytango
Beynch-

Regarding Cornelius Hamelburg...he has been commenting on different issues through the times and he is always difficult to understand. In this case he is quoting Blake regarding a story about a famous athlete who plays golf and is apparently talented in bedding low class wenches as well. He is a narcissist who clearly loves to hear himself talk…or a rather untalented writer who loves to see his words in print. My wish for him is that he and Nemesis (another narcissist) meet and get married to make each other miserable for the rest of their lives.

As for Lingonberrie…he is the only commenter to put things in their proper perspective here. This story only serves to cover up the only news presently that is of any significance to the world at large but is largely ignored by the mainstream media…that would be the news of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
16:13 December 11, 2009 by livinginsweden
Tiger wanted to have sex with me too... together with my sister and her husband .... but he insisted without Gyn ....
17:27 December 11, 2009 by lingonberrie
Beynch,

Your three separate comments of trash gossip equals mine in words typed, so verbosity as a forte is nothing new to you.

The plethora of ineffective intellect that rambles on in these posts matches the views of the abysmally incompetent university professors preaching their gospels, and are equally as useful.

Canam

I spend time in bed sleeping whereas you are sleeping when you post; and I have no friends on these blogs and I would not

want any. I am very particular about friends, most of whom who are also former military and marine veterans and commandos who speak and write from experience about which those who post here are clueless.

My views on these blogs are directed at those who have rings in their noses, and those fish who can be hauled in without a line, also known as suckers.
21:19 December 11, 2009 by iswede
Some of the commenters above are COMPLETELY UNinformed.

The USA DOES absolutely recognize dual citizenship.

Here is the US state depts web page:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html

Actually it's Sweden that only recently recognized dual citizenship. There was a little controversy with a Rangers Hockey player (Ulf Samuelsson) who got kicked off the Olympic Swedish team at Nagano after the Checkoslovakian team did some research into Swedish law. That issue spurred the change in Swedish law.
22:07 December 11, 2009 by anasofie
I'm laughing hysterically at all this. Tiger Woods screwed up ( literally ) and now he's gonna pay. He may be a great golfer, but he's a pretty stupid cheater. I say Elin should grab as much money as she can, and leave him. Oh, and next time, maybe you should marry a Swede.
07:36 December 12, 2009 by johnnytango
Why are you laughing hysterically? Should one mans misery amuse another? He is a man afterall...not something better than you or I. He is no worse than you or I for that matter. Let this be yet another lesson for those who put mere mortals on a pedestal.

This story is only to titillate small dirty minds…your and mine. This sort of behavior goes on all the time. The temptations that this man has to resist are much bigger than most have to deal with and that certainly does not excuse his behavior. You reap what you sow in the end. He is not immune from the same game that all mortals play…life, is the only game where the object of the game is to learn the rules. It is more difficult for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than… A real nonstory! Get it? Carolyn who? Who cares?

Lingonberrie is right. The rest are missing the point. The real story took place Wednesday in Oslo. The President of the USA has declared that War is Peace. But wait a minute…Orwell said that!
11:42 December 12, 2009 by mieoux
eton75 - tiger is actually quite ugly.
12:32 December 12, 2009 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Beynch,

Tiger or Tyger rose or prose - you choose.

Here it's called freedom of speech, and you could take a shot at ignoring your little self and the one who calls himself or herself Johnny Tango. Who be yu? When I'm thru with yu Tango ( she?) you'll be weak on the seat.

When he/she replies to this - assuming it's not a she and that he has such testicular fortitude in his lion loins - I can you know - and I'll do something not so quite poetic with that name of his such that he will remember it in rhyme and never forget it for the rest of time even if he's a little slow in the head and explicably that's why he always finds it "difficult to understand". Just as I said , he won't forget the print in a hurry , I promise -

"there 's nothing that I cannot do

I could talk to God for you" Johnny and

You don't have to understand this script.

Remember what Johnnie Cochran said: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"

Yer ugly big white baboon
08:46 December 13, 2009 by johnnytango
Nemesis...

My apologies...nobody deserves to be behind closed doors for any amount of time with the above. Cancel that matrimony made in hell.

Then he said...I rest my case.
17:50 December 13, 2009 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Correct: Mrs. Nemesis does not deserve to be confined in heat or hell for the rest of her life, behind a veil.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1R2GGLL_enSE351&=&q=Johnny+be+good
18:00 December 13, 2009 by Beynch
@cornelius hamelberg; The only thing that became clear with your last comment is that, whereas I had origininally assumed you were a "he", I now know you are a "she". I will ensure that henceforth I adjust my commentary accordingly.
18:42 December 13, 2009 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Beynch,

I cannot say that I am disappointed in you.

Whatever got you to think such an awful thing?

Do you want to supersede the world record holder for being suspicious? You have.

According to "Private Eye" ( you know that real English rag mag ) the former world record holder who you now replace, "became suspicious when he noticed her male genetalia ( her Johnny) and moustache"

My dear fellow, " Cornelius " means horn - as in horny - and if you want to really be holy you could think horn, as in sounding the SHOFAR, the Ram's horn through which we blow sounds of LIBERATION - including liberation from erroneous impressions.

What happened in the above which you misconstrued, is that Mr. Nemesis said, " Talaq !Talaq! Talaq ! " but not on three occasions, which in Islamics would make the talaqs a legally binding divorcement , even in the Hell-Fire….

So, dear Beynch, kindly, henceforth and forever disabuse yourself of the idea that I Cornelius is a SHE because Cornelius is a real HE - for all purposes, now and for all eternity…

And now you may say "Amen"
11:05 December 15, 2009 by mieoux
Lingonberrie - this is specifically addressed to you lingonberrie -

Vietnam was a very long time ago, in fact most of us were not even born yet. As long as I've been alive, America has been kicking ass! I America will continue to kick ass. While European pansies succumb to Islamization and Islamist terrorism, whoever attacks America knows that America will attack back. It's not a country of weeping willow wimps like the rest of you who will go like lambs to the Islamist terrorist slaughterhouse. You pacifist Europeans will continue along the wimpy ways that allowed Hitler to take over half your continent in the first place - your next Holocaust will come from Islamist terrorists. Notice there has not been a terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 instead they have moved the attack in Europe and Asia, your pacifist ways have not pacified them. Oh and you should consider buying some drones from the US those robots are great for taking down targets without sacrificing your troops.

You know what else lingonberrie - your opinion does not matter one iota as won't change US foreign policy - focus on the word "unilateral" and what makes that word matter is that the US has the wherewithal to act unilaterally, so really what you think is nothing. I am not American but I like the way America is dealing with it's enemies today because today it's enemies happen to also be my enemies on a personal and national level- Islamist terrorists who have blown up two of my cities - one my home city in my home country and the other they blew up the World Trade Towers when I was living and working in New York City, and you know what unlike you I am not a naive pacifist and I don't believe it taking this kind of thing lying down. I hope America destroys Al-Queda and Al-Shabaab completely. Go USA!!! Shoot them down with the drones!! Bring on the war against terrorism. You think if you are nice to terrorists they'll be nice back to you - no, the US already tried that it didn't work, Europeans already tried that it didn't work, Israel tried it to it didn't work, and India, Kenya and Tanzania were innocent bystanders and suddenly whammo! The US is in a justified war which I hope it wins.
18:10 December 15, 2009 by Danish Omer Zuberi
Paris Hilton Quotes

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

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13:56 December 16, 2009 by Kneppern
Can't see why there should be any reason to recruit a women as a mistress who already has acted like one in public...
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.

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