Jimmy Saville is still alive...

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.

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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?

brian blessed, bill oddie, anthea turner

could be worth a cheeky treble

calling it now: all three

also have my suspicions about that bloke with the computer on that show

Oddie definitely looks like a mf with some dark secrets

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.

As i said upthread, wonder which of today's celebrities will be getting arrested 30 years from now

I don't think it necessarily projects that way, even taking into account intimidation and fear of not being believed, people are probably more likely to go to the police now than in the 70s and 80s. Even if they aren't, it's unlikely to take 30 years.

i thought all these old scrotes would get away with it, due to it being so long after the fact and the grim stats about sex crime convictions. kinda shocking, but good, that stuart hall has fallen - means it all can't be spun into a 'this whole post-savile investigation was a waste of time/witchhunt'

I can't imagine the horror that some of these victims have endured and survived. The double whammy of your rapist/abuser on the television in your living room after already infiltrating your life. A lot of my family suffered in state care in Dublin in the 50's. It's all the same I suppose, 50's catholic priests/70's television presenters. Just another case of state collusion with various sick fucks.

so very sick of this sudden 'hall wishes to apologise to his victims' crap. where were your apologies 40 years ago?

Hey man it's been 20 years give the guy a break, he just wants to regain some honour

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-5-live-instruct-sex

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/how-i-exposed-stuart-halls-sex-abuse-yasmin-alibhaibrown-on-the-letter-that-kickstarted-the-investigation-8601517.html

I'm pretty sure when I read that article yesterday there was a reference to an MP who is now a peer who was allegedly his accomplice. Presumably that's now been removed for legal reasons.

So Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is good for something after all then

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

― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:26 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the chuckle brothers are on this one

Tarby arrested...

oh sigh

lol ignoramus from the usa here but is this all tangentially related to jimmy saville in some way that i don't understand, some revelations tied to what they discovered w/r/t him?

What they uncovered seems to be at minimum a culture of looking the other way at the national broadcaster, and at worse a sustained culture of grooming within said broadcaster.

Tarby was at a different network though, so it looks like the inquiry has moved onto a stage where they are more looking at whether tv celebrities during the 70s as a whole were exploiting their fame to rape kids and taking overlooked victims' claims seriously, finally, nearly 40 years on.

xp Many of them are light entertainment TV figures from the 70s/80s.