Obama's funeral selfie won't be shared, as Danish PM says it didn't turn out to be a good picture

 

Mine, all mine! Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt says she won't be sharing the picture she took of Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama.

She's keeping it to her selfie!
The infamous selfie of President Obama from Nelson Mandela's memorial service is not going to be shared, the Danish prime minister who snapped the shot says, since it’s not a very good picture.

The little lady who started selfie-gate, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, dashed the hopes of those wanting a peek at the pic when she revealed to the Danish press that the image won't be seeing the light of day.
The blond beauty says she has no regrets instigating the photograph with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service Tuesday.

President Obama posed for a selfie with UK PM David Cameron and Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. The photo of the incident went viral — garnering considerable attention.

The Dane sat between the American and British leaders at the affair and held out her phone to capture the moment, while Cameron and Obama leaned in and flashed cheesy grins.

Insisting the mood at the Tuesday service was “festive,” the Scandinavian leader doesn’t think it was inappropriate to seize the moment for a selfie, according to Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet.

Brushing aside the controversy, she hinted that she finds all the press about the incident “funny.”

Really? The impromptu pic went viral with commentators the world over questioning the propriety of behavior at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

Previously she was relatively unknown to the world, but she’s been plunged into the spotlight and her image was plastered across front pages across the globe — given her high-profile posing partners at the South African event.

The 46-year-old didn’t give her opinion on the reaction from President Obama’s wife, Michelle, who appeared annoyed at the display, according to photographs of the dignitaries seated in the stands at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg.
Obama has not yet commented on the infamous picture, but the White House did say at a Wednesday press briefing it was "a shame” that “a couple of other things” distracted attention from the celebration of the legacy of the anti-apartheid leader.

Thorning-Schmidt says she doesn't regret taking the selfie, saying the mood at the affair honoring Mandela was 'festive.'

Cameron did confront the issue during a House of Commons debate Wednesday, joking that the selfie was a tribute to Mandela’s role in bringing people together.
Thorning-Schmidt is married to Stephen Kinnock, whose father Neil Kinnock is the former leader of Cameron's political opponents in the Labour Party. Cameron is the head of the Conservative Party.
Then later Wednesday, Sun photographer Arthur Edwards joked with the PM, instructing him that  "this is not a selfie" as he snapped Cameron with a large group of Sun Military Award honorees at a Downing Street reception.
"You'll be out of a job if we all do selfies," Cameron, 47, retorted.