[Keith]

I suspect it probably didn't help Phil & Holly that only a day or two earlier David Beckham had been seen waiting in the public queue, which gained quite a lot of media attention.

Chances are the filming probably was a flimsy pretext for being able to use a media pass to skip the public queue. However, it wouldn't surprise me if some of those writing tabloid articles criticising them did exactly the same thing themselves. There were probably also several other high profile 'celebrities' that were able to skip the queue, but managed to avoid the negative public reaction (so far).