I got the impression from that article it wasn't an established soap star but a tv star who appeared in one. Suggesting a short stint or perhaps even a cameo.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
i can think of one huge star from the mid 70s saville/glitter who went on to appear in eastenders
singer he was
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
mid 70s saville/glitter *era*
we talking green cross code here?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
marc bolan it is
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
if this spreads from the BBC to pop/rock stars of the 70s for underage sex there's gonna be noone left with a reputation.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
All the soaps have had famous 70s tv stars or pop stars in them. Almost all of them will be libelled until the truth comes out.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.80stees.com/images/products/X-Files_Truth_Is_Out_There_Black_T-link.jpg
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
i can't figure this one out, are you talking about the darth vader guy?
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
cos i must have missed his big hits in the 70s
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
I would say he's talking about The Man With The Glove.
― ~ (Matt #2), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
and wig and a tv star wife
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
and not darth vader
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
All the soaps have had famous 70s tv stars or pop stars in them
Read that as 'soap stars have had' and was all, "Well, yes."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
oh right! was thinking of someone else, didn't know that glove guy had been in soaps until now, eeek
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I actually used to live 5 doors along in the same street as Mr Glove and his Glamorous Soap Star Wife, and I never saw any noncing going on. I did see some pretty shocking syrup action going on, mind.
― ~ (Matt #2), Friday, 12 October 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMYK9hqG9jo
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's not Dav1d £ssEx ffs. they would not describe him as a soap star. plus it would really taint my regular listenings to "rock on", so, NO.
― jed_, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
actually they don't describe him as a soap star so it's possible. but i hope it's not him.
― jed_, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
you should try listening to "i'm the leader of the gang (i am)"
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
There's another glove, and twitter searches are a bit creepy:
***** ******** came to my kids school for the gold awards, disappointed he wasn't wearing his leather glove!
― stet, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Now they're saying Jeremy Beadle may have had a small hand in it.
― ~ (Matt #2), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp Ha! That's the glove i assumed people were talking about. Not that there have ever been rumours about him, iirc.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Reid's dead, right? We can libel him if we want.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Have I Got News For You; very interesting tonight.
― piscesx, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
come on, timmy mallet, no trial needed, if savile is the entertainment paed jesus then mallet is saint peter.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
was praying the other night that Noel Edmonds gets outed
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Jesus,
Please please please please fix it for me for Noel Edmonds to be outed as a nonce.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
(ftr I think it's incredibly unlikely - out of all the DJs on that 1977 Radio Times cover, Edmonds is the least nonce-like. A huge womanising creep, yes, but not a pedo.)
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adamson who played Len Fairclough on coronation street? It's the right era and I don't know if there were any other UK soaps at that time.
― jed_, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"LEN STOLE MY SUNSHINE" = a headline that can be used if this story gets another airing
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
back then there was Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
If it was Peter Adamson they would just publish his name since he was dead
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
They might want more than one source for the stories, though, even with a dead star like Adamson or TV-comedian-turned-soap-actor-and-close-friend-of-Freddie-Starr Mike Read.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
Reid. Not Mike Read, obviously.
More Sadowitz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktIcElNDtM&feature=watch_response
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
And HIGNFY, back on form I thought last night. Needs to be like that more often.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
back then there was Crossroads andEmmerdale Farm
Doesn't need to be back anywhere, this new story isn't about Savile back then, it's about the BBC covering up for one of their stars, so unlikely to be anyone from an itv soap.
I find this guess-who's-a-nonce game a bit distasteful though.
― ailsa, Saturday, 13 October 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
Peter "Is it true if you take your finger out I'll sink" Adamson was a convicted nonce tbf
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
also it's fair game speculating about people as long as they're cunts anyway
He won his court case did he not?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
Good friend of mine, in 2003, wrote a 4 page cartoon story for UNICEF on child abuse, for use in schools.
Guess what he called it.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, never went to court apparently. forgot. didn't work much after that tbf.
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
The four page comic story, illustrated by John McCrea, is about sexual abuse within the family, which is still where abuse is most prevalent.
this can't be stressed enough tbh while we're all having a laugh and the press are playing "boo the pantomime villains" as per
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
Watched that ITV doc last night. There's a section where a local newspaper journalist goes to interview him at his home. A young girl arrives, Savile takes her into the bedroom for 10m, comes out, has a wash.
The hack says: "I left then, even though I hadn't even got a story."
Uh, I can sense the inkling of a story there, mate.
― stet, Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
over 75,000 people have now come forward? incredible.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Savile gets the defender he deserves:http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12973/
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
I like how Spiked's layout makes it look like BO'N has changed his byline photo to one of Savile, like a forum avatar. unless that is what he's done?
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
we are all Jimmy Savile to an extent
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
my extent stops short of fondling comatose children tbf but the point stands
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link