Jimmy Saville is still alive...

I have always heard he was a BNP voter and a uber-racist on the quiet, so nice guy image already a bit suspect. Always preferred Tony Hart fwiw.

Back in the day his nightclub act was a bit racist. A few jokes about Jews and black men etc. More or less typical of a lot of comics at the time perhaps. There's some of that on his "Jake The Peg Live In Vancouver Town" album. Kinda ruins it these days.

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Can you tell what it is yet? That's right, it's a pedo.

Tony Hart was all about encouragement, fun and enthusiasm and he had morph! Rolf was more your bog standard pervy art school tutor with a thing for girls rather than women.

yeah i'm kind of amazed by people saying that they were surprised and that he seemed like a good guy. i always found him creepy as a child and hated his stupid breathing-singing schtick and his terrible paintings. a horrible childhood TV presence.

Breaking news - Max Clifford charged with 11 counts of indecent assault.

I find this news even more horrible as he's made a career from manipulating influencing and creating positive PR for questionable celebrity behaviour. I wonder what kind of nastiness he's covered up over the years?

Also: wonder what his daughter, who is disabled and who was always flagged up by daddy to show how human he was whenever he did self-publicity, thinks of him right now.

I wonder what kind of nastiness he's covered up over the years?

All of it.

Eugh, the grim dark parts of life are really um, grim and dark.

The beast hiding behind a disabled child. I am a sucker for that one and remember thinking 'well it's a shitty business, but he has been through the wringer with his kid'. When you have been through shit yourself you assume other people in the same situation are good people. Just shows what a hideous, exploitative type of cunt he is.xxp

William Roache arrested as well now, according to reports.

“Everything that happens to us has been a result of what we have been in previous lives or whatever,” he said.

And when asked if he was saying victims were to blame, he added: “No, not quite ... and yet I am.”

Thanks for clearing that up, Bill.

Roache rumbled

... excellent, no-one will use that as a headline tho, more's the pity

So, has he been arrested for sins from a previous life?

Just wondering which of our current crop of celebs will be arrested for similar offences... 30 years from now

Not thaat nice Russell Brand though, ooh no.

Russell Brand was abused as a child.

The Times claims Barlow "has played Ken Barlow in the TV soap since its very first episode in 1060" so maybe he's not kidding about the past lives.

Barlow has played Barlow?

Tonight on Corrie - Ken Barlow takes a mysterious holiday to visit Kevin Webster who is also on a mysterious holiday

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Don't forget Andrew Lancel/Frank Foster, who has achieved the rare double of being an on-screen rapist while being accused of child sex offences in real life.

(Also, the first celebrity paedo scandal I can remember was Peter Adamson/Len Fairclough from Corrie.)

Andrew Lancel's out of Corrie anyway, but aye, if they've ditched Michael Le Vell, Roache has to go as well.

Adamson was found not guilty, something we could maybe presume about some others here until there's been an actual trial.

Not sure about anyone else, but I'm just speculating on the application and continuity of Corrie's possible policy, which was to put Michael Le Vell on gardening leave (all scenes cut from when he was charged, and he's just been "written out" indefinitely this week) until after his trial and assuming they'll have to do the same for Roache.

(skimming upthread, yes, there seems to be a assumption about Clifford more so than anyone else)

Yes, people using his disabled daughter as a stick to hit him with kind of lacks class y'know? Especially when accusing him of using her to humanise himself. I think he's a manipulative prick who's cashed in on other people's misery for decades and if the allegations are true he should get what's coming but it's too easy to presume the guilt of celebs just because we don't like them.

for real

wasn't Tory cunt Roache v. outspoken about this awful celebrity witch-hunt a couple of months ago?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2299286/Bill-Roache-warns-celebrity-paedophile-witch-hunt--discusses-child-sex-abuse-cases-again.html

ah, there we go

He did some Glenn-Hoddlesque interview a few weeks ago about victims having been punished for previous lives, also saying, iirc, that you shouldn't always blame men who slept with underage girls because temptation etc.

xpost

He's had a string of crazy wackjob interviews. Talking to his dog, blaming people for past lives etc, saying he has slept with thousands of women. It's like he's been building up to this.

Coronation Street star William Roache to be charged with rape

xpost ha yeah he's gone a bit ott on disproving that 1991 'boring' claim

Jesus Christ Stuart Hall

I guess that admitting it is the right thing to do in regard to his victims so it's good that he's done that at least, but yes, fucking hell.

Seriously, fucking hell.

More likely he admitted it because he knew the case against him was strong, rather than because it's "the right thing to do", whatever that means in these circumstances.

Dunno (obv), but this seems like a quick and easy for all concerned.

well, not if they put this sick fuck in jail for the rest of his natural

This might be seen as a 'not much, moving on' by the public at large, particularly as the William Roache case is breaking bigger.

well, not if they put this sick fuck in jail for the rest of his natural

Doubt it, with regard to what's been confessed to so far.

More likely he admitted it because he knew the case against him was strong

Yeah, I am leaning towards that interpretation after reading about this thing a bit more. What is all this horseshit about him now wanting to 'regain his honour and reputation'? How deluded are these people?

Does anybody remember this..

Paul D-notalot used to have this 'joke' when if he got a young woman out of the audience to 'help'..

He'd point at his cheek and say 'kiss?', and when they did, he'd turn his head at the very last send and cop it on the lips.

How we all laffed....

The defence seemed to be comprised entirely of "ah you can't charge him for these things that happened like half a century ago just cos times have changed now! Back then it was fine and the families didn't mind save for keeping their kids away from him in the future, so what's the big deal? It was just a series of one-off things that happened 14 times spanning 20 years. To clarify, each time something happened it was definitely a one-off."

I know this is hardly the most important aspect of all this shit which is coming out, but at this rate it'll be nigh on impossible to have any kind of jolly nostalgic 'weren't the 70s great?' programme as just about everything from that era is becoming tainted.

otm, we're currently watching a celebrity edition of pointless and i can't help wondering which contestants will end up in custody

who is there to choose from?