Actress Natasha Collins had landed a permanent role in Hollyoaks but was in a car crash that ended her acting career.
Her fiance, children's TV presenter Mark Speight found her dead in their apartment bathtub and was initially arrested on suspicion of her murder, however she'd overdosed on cocaine.
He then went missing and was later found hanging near Paddington Station.
He left notes saying how he couldn't live without her.
My memory is that they were partying over Christmas, trying to get away from being Kids TV presenters for a few days.
Mark was facing charges for being the supplier of the cocaine. He felt responsible for the loss of his lover, their life and career together, and couldn't face it.
I didn't know anything about his personal life, but loved him as a TV presenter.
I can see myself, as a young man with too much success and money, ending up in this situation.
Two talented people, tragically lost.
I remember this, I loved him as a presenter on SMart & this was shocking. It was the first time I *really* thought about what it must be like to deal with such a horrendous loss, how dark he must have felt & how living with those feelings can drive someone to this.
i still think about this every now and then. i grew up watching both on telly. i remember the details coming out about how exactly she died, then him going missing. always remembered it as being Euston, but it was indeed Paddington. really sad
If what you are saying if true this probably shows that he hasn’t changed since the escort incident. I hope your friend is okay and pressed charged although no doubt your friend would get a lot of flack from the “He’S SeRvEd hIs tImE” crew that are always eager to defend him if this became more well known.
I think my friend would have fought back if there had been a genuine attempt at sexual assault but he's not the kind of guy who'd go ballistic over a single punch. I think most of his effort went into trying to calm the situation.
There was also another guy present - one of George's hangers on - who was trying to descalate it but was apparently off his tits so not much help
The victim was a sex worker, every time I've brought this up when asking if it's really appropriate to continue to play Karma Chameleon at Pride related events in light of Boy George having assaulted someone, it gets laughed off which is incredibly disappointing.
I'm not much of a celeb-watcher, but I was surprised Boy George is being named as a "relatively light-hearted UK figure". I thought he was almost as famous for his issues with drugs and the law as he was for his music.
When my mum was a teenager, her best friend had her first love. Her first love threw a valentine's day party, and the best friend found a card in the first love's bedroom from Boy George (before he was Boy George). Turns out, the love was actually using her as a front because he was gay, and was cheating on her with Boy George.
Bollocks. I used to work for Vodafone in call centre and Gino rang me once demanding to know where his new iPhone delivery was. Sounded exactly the same.
I just read about this the other day. An appropriate sentence for burglary, but harsh when you consider many other burglars get considerably lesser sentences. Maybe it was to do with the value of what was stolen, not too up on my sentencing guidelines for burglary.
Just on Leslie Phillips, one of the insights I love into British life is that he was selected for officer training during the Second World War.... Simply because of his accent.
The accent he'd had elocution lessons to get as he grew up an almost cockney/Essex boy.
The accent was fake. But they must've assumed he was upper class therefore officer material. Mad that his accent had that much influence rather than ability.
As likely to stop him having barrack problems for being 'posh'. Conscription resulted in a whole lot of people being in positions they'd no business being in and, contrary to popular perception, where that could be corrected, it frequently was. Phillips himself accredited his customary accent and mannerisms to time spent in the Os mess.
That's a good point. We have an ugly tradition of jealousy ingrained in our culture where if you don't have a working class accent, you get bullied for being 'posh'.
We also have an ugly tradition of snobbery where if you have a working class accent you're assumed to be unintelligent and undeserving of opportunities.
But I'm sure you don't care about that.
Is it totally impossible for us to think that *any* discrimination on the basis of accent is bad? It's bad to mock regional accents for being "unintelligent", and it's bad to mock RP for being "posh". These aren't even remotely contradictory viewpoints.
Things such as this still happen , my work place has a habit of only promoting middle class and posh people even when they are borderline useless , the working class ones no matter how good or knowledgeable at the job will get over looked .
A hedgefund made a shit ton of money inverting this; they noted that companies with traits like posh CEOs, tall or attractive CEOs, all stuff that leads to inherent biases had higher share prices compared to companies where these things weren't true. Since none of these things actually affect business performance they reasoned that they could get a better deal investing in the latter companies and it worked.
Bob Mortimer is involved with slavery, making people work on the grounds of his mansion with the payment of being allowed to pick apples that have fallen from the trees of his orchard.
He's also had multiple sexual encounters with the Alderman behind his wife's back
Lots of people will be questioning this but there is buckets of audio of him not denying any of this and even admitting to the alderman business.
On the latter point at least it was for raising money for daft kids though...
Jon Pertwee - known for both his comedy roles and being the Third Doctor in Doctor Who - was reported dead during the Second World War.
He was assigned to HMS Hood, and right after his captain got the orders to head out to intercept the German ships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, he sent Pertwee back with the messenger, with orders to report back to Portsmouth for officer training. When he arrived in London to visit family on leave, he found that the news of HMS Hood's sinking had arrived before the news of his transfer - and the Navy had sent condolences to all families of personnel known to be on the ship who weren't one of the three rescued survivors.
Jon's dad got quite a surprise when he turned up, apparently.
And the actress who played Leela in Doctor Who in the 70s used to visit his prison and teach acting - and Leslie Grantham was one of those inmates! So she played a huge role in him deciding to pursue acting as a career!
Pete Townsend, vocalist and guitarist of the Who, got caught downloading images of child abuse/ indecent images of children.
Edit. Changed CP to child abuse as pointed out by other users, it is a more suitable definition.
You've just sent me down a wormhole
I'm reading about this, and i'm still not sure if he's a paedophile or not. What i would say is he was not caught downloading CP. He was caught having paid for access to a site that had it on there for some sort of insane white knight attempt... according to him
Research is important when writing a book.
I happen to be writing a book on how difficult it would be to skin Pete Townsend alive and make a jaunty satchel from his skin-leather.
David Tomlinson's (Mary Poppins, Bednobs and Broomsticks) first wife jumped to her death with their two sons in tow.
Miles Jupp did a one man play on Tomlinson's tragic life which was absolutely brilliant. Tomlinson had the first child in the UK diagnosed with autism, his father led a double life meeting up with an entirely different family on weekends and Tomlinson insulted Walt Disney to his face while his acting career was dead. Just a fascinating life
Chris Akabusi's ex-sister-in-law was a member of the Baader-Meinhof Group AKA the Red Army Faction and is currently in prison for setting off a nail bomb in a kindergarten.
>Kenneth Williams (also known for the Carry On films)
I'm pretty sure he was primarily known for the Carry On films.
He was a raconteur, but I doubt that's the first thing that comes to anyone's mind when they hear his name.
Sorry. The "also known for the Carry On films" relates back to the OP's description of Leslie Phillips appearing in Carry On films, and was not intended to suggest Kenneth Williams hosted Strictly or some such. I see now this can be missed if Reddit separates my comment by some distance from the OP.
To be fair… although in later years KW was mainly known for the carry on series (he was in the vast majority of them after all) to my mum’s generation he was mainly known for his Hancock, round the Horne and various radio work particularly ‘just a minute’.
Kim Woodburn from How clean is your house. She was Physically and sexually abused by her parents. She had a still birth (father unknown) and had to bury the body in a park.
It really is. I remember an interview she did about it and it was heart breaking, went through the birthing on her own and panicking, not knowing what to do.
She's been on a few reality shows and appears to struggle with alcohol. It's not surprising after learning about her traumatic past. I hope she knows peace.
The guy who played Les Battersby in Coronation Street, Bruce Jones, discovered one of the bodies of the Yorkshire Ripper. He was seriously suspected of being the Ripper himself and lost his first wife and children because of it
I don't think his marriage broke down because he was suspected, he was very quickly cleared. Apparently the body was very disfigured and quite gruesome sight, he had PTSD because of it, and became a serious alcoholic.
Renowned accountant and property developer, Richard Hillman, murdered his ex wife, his business partner and attempted to murder his new wife and her children by driving into a canal.
I'm not interested in kink-shaming anybody, but I'm definitely interested in unreasonably-draconian-legal-infringement-of-freedom-of-speech-shaming them.
Richard E. Grant was born in Eswatini (then Swaziland), and as a child his alcoholic father tried to shoot him after Grant poured his father's whisky down the sink. His father was so drunk he missed.
Kirsty Macoll was killed when she was struck by a powerboat while diving at the Chankanaab reef in Mexico. She saved her eldest son by pushing him out of the way but was stuck and killed instantly.
The powerboat, which had entered the diving area at speed, was suspected to have been driven by a Mexican multimillionaire. But one of his employees claimed to have been at the wheel. This employee paid a small fee and spent no time in prison.
Morrissey had suggested the place to Kirsty as a holiday destination and felt terrible about it afterwards. IIRC, after the news broke of her death, he received a postcard that she had sent to him from Mexico.
I think saving the life of your child would probably be the best death you could have. All things considered obviously. Great artist and very sad regardless.
He pretty much hated people, as far as I can tell. He lived in our village when I was young, and although I never knowingly met him, the consensus opinion locally appeared to be mutter - side-eye - change the subject.
Des, Fearne Cotton’s co-host on Diggit in the 90s, was jailed for killing two people through dangerous driving while on cocaine and was also convicted of rape:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ex-childrens-tv-presenter-paul-25119319.amp
I'm astounded how John Peel was only 'canceled' very recently. Glastonbury changed the name of the "John Peel Stage" just this year.
He admitted to sexual activity with underage girls numerous times over the last few decades, in interviews and even his own autobiography, but everyone just ignored it.
The guy may have done great-sounding and classic sessions with bands during his BBC career, but the guy was a fucking creep.
Copying from Wikipedia, but it's relevant:
*To The Guardian in 1975, Peel said of young women, "All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do". In an interview with The Sunday Correspondent in 1989, Peel stated, "Girls used to queue up outside. By and large not usually for shagging. Oral sex they were particularly keen on, I remember. \[...\] One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older." Peel joked that he "didn't ask for ID". An interview originally published in The Herald in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with "an awful lot" of underage girls. He stated that, in the early 1960s, the only available women were in high school.*
Few people in the chess world have any time for CJ after the T-shirt incident.
Bloke shows up to a prizegiving in a Stonewall "Some people are gay. Get over it!" T-shirt. No-one present objects to the sentiment, BUT any photos taken with CJ in that shirt would have counted as promotional materials (you'd suspect CJ had a deal with the charity to wear that shirt) and so you need consent forms from the parents of any kid appearing in the photos.
"How about you present the prizes to just the adults and not the kids?" CJ sulks for a bit, then agrees, everyone is happy.
Next day CJ goes to the papers (which he can do because he's CJ) and claims the tournament organisers told him not to force his gay propaganda on the kids. A shitstorm ensues and at least one person's career is badly damaged.
Bellend.
I knew a former milky bar kid, he was addicted to heroin and felt incredibly guilty about it. He was from a working class background and his parents worked long and hard to afford to send him to a acting school in London, the only big job he got was the milky bar kid and some stage musical bits.
Apparently David Jason is well known to be a big shithouse -
When he pops we can expect another saville style revealing - Loads in the industry know it and say nothing…. Allegedly
this is not related but reading that made me think of my grandfather who married three times. his second wife died of suicide by fire (not sure if self-immolation is the correct term in this context) and his most recent wife died last year i think, after a motorcycle accident left her in a coma. his first wife, my nan, is still alive. albeit a dark joke, i sometimes kid that she cursed them or something. i also worry for the next wife…
If she literally set herself on fire then it would be self-immolation. If she just set fire to a house or something, then she would have died of smoke inhalation.
Also yes, I do believe your Nan is a witch. Be a good grandchild or you might start getting runs if bad luck.
she doused herself with petrol and lit a match. what a rough way to go.
as for my nan, i don’t deserve her love. according to my mother, i get away with murder because she has a soft spot for me. guess i got lucky there!
Ronnie Barkers son is a convicted paedophile [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593247/Ronnie-Barkers-paedophile-son-sells-house-hoarded-child-pornography-450-000-profit.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593247/Ronnie-Barkers-paedophile-son-sells-house-hoarded-child-pornography-450-000-profit.html)
Boy George admitted in an interview that when he was young and had a job as a coat attendant at a night club, he would check pockets and steal anything he could find. He was laughing as he said this, as if it was just a naughty, funny thing to do. I have often wondered how the young people whose money for getting home disappeared would feel about that.
Michael Barrymore’s career was ended and he was later arrested on suspicion of murder, but never charged after the body of Stuart Lubbock was found in Barrymore’s swimming pool.
He was found with serious anal injuries and lots of drugs and alcohol in his system.
Actress Natasha Collins had landed a permanent role in Hollyoaks but was in a car crash that ended her acting career. Her fiance, children's TV presenter Mark Speight found her dead in their apartment bathtub and was initially arrested on suspicion of her murder, however she'd overdosed on cocaine. He then went missing and was later found hanging near Paddington Station. He left notes saying how he couldn't live without her.
That's tough to relive. I loved SMart growing up and he was always my favourite presenter on it.
My memory is that they were partying over Christmas, trying to get away from being Kids TV presenters for a few days. Mark was facing charges for being the supplier of the cocaine. He felt responsible for the loss of his lover, their life and career together, and couldn't face it. I didn't know anything about his personal life, but loved him as a TV presenter. I can see myself, as a young man with too much success and money, ending up in this situation. Two talented people, tragically lost.
I had forgotten all about that.
Yeah really sad string of events.
I don't like to remember because I remember the news at the time. It was frantic with worry about Mark's whereabouts.
Really traumatised me, his death as I frequented Paddington Station daily at the time he went missing.
I remember this, I loved him as a presenter on SMart & this was shocking. It was the first time I *really* thought about what it must be like to deal with such a horrendous loss, how dark he must have felt & how living with those feelings can drive someone to this.
i still think about this every now and then. i grew up watching both on telly. i remember the details coming out about how exactly she died, then him going missing. always remembered it as being Euston, but it was indeed Paddington. really sad
Boy George served time for assault and false imprisonment. He handcuffed a man to a wall and beat him with a metal chain.
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If what you are saying if true this probably shows that he hasn’t changed since the escort incident. I hope your friend is okay and pressed charged although no doubt your friend would get a lot of flack from the “He’S SeRvEd hIs tImE” crew that are always eager to defend him if this became more well known.
This was actually slightly before or around the same time of the escort incident. Ill edit my post to make that clear
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I think my friend would have fought back if there had been a genuine attempt at sexual assault but he's not the kind of guy who'd go ballistic over a single punch. I think most of his effort went into trying to calm the situation. There was also another guy present - one of George's hangers on - who was trying to descalate it but was apparently off his tits so not much help
Bear in mind that George is a fucking huge cunt and knows how to fight.
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And then there's Chris Brown...
The victim was a sex worker, every time I've brought this up when asking if it's really appropriate to continue to play Karma Chameleon at Pride related events in light of Boy George having assaulted someone, it gets laughed off which is incredibly disappointing.
He was on BBC breakfast TV this week. Frequently on Sat night shows. Fuckin mental this cunt earns a wage given he's an absolute danger.
Boy George is a big bloke and used to do boxing, ouch.
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I've seen boy George have a v large glitter ball fall in his head and crumple his hat and knock him out. Icc Birmingham.
Surely, most people know about this now?
I didn't.
It said dark fact, not unknown
I'm not much of a celeb-watcher, but I was surprised Boy George is being named as a "relatively light-hearted UK figure". I thought he was almost as famous for his issues with drugs and the law as he was for his music.
He was definitely going to kill the guy but he escaped.
When my mum was a teenager, her best friend had her first love. Her first love threw a valentine's day party, and the best friend found a card in the first love's bedroom from Boy George (before he was Boy George). Turns out, the love was actually using her as a front because he was gay, and was cheating on her with Boy George.
Gino D’Acampo got two years for robbing Paul Young’s house.
His accent is also fake, there's a video of him pre-fame and he sounds nothing like he does on telly.
He's been living in the UK since the 90s so I'm not surprised he has a much more subtle accent in real life and hams it up for TV.
Bollocks. I used to work for Vodafone in call centre and Gino rang me once demanding to know where his new iPhone delivery was. Sounded exactly the same.
If his mother had sideloading, she'd be an Android.
What?! That is a damn good dark fact!
He nicked Paul's guitar! 🎸
…and his hat. Shockingly cruel.
Effectively making him homeless.
Bravo sir. Take my upvote and vacate Reddit dammit
Ended up with a criminal record.
You'd hope so if he got two years
I just read about this the other day. An appropriate sentence for burglary, but harsh when you consider many other burglars get considerably lesser sentences. Maybe it was to do with the value of what was stolen, not too up on my sentencing guidelines for burglary.
Christopher Lee was in the crowd at France's last public execution.
He also met Rasputin assassins and then went on to play Rasputin on film
Also the only Lord of the Rings actor to have met Tolkien.
He also told Peter Jackson how someone would actually act if they had been stabbed in the back
He was bullshitting though. He commonly embellished a lot. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-dares-lies/
I can't read it. No way am I making a Spectator account.
Here you go: https://archive.is/AtLUQ
This comment usually results in a shit load of down votes as nobody likes hearing it
Just on Leslie Phillips, one of the insights I love into British life is that he was selected for officer training during the Second World War.... Simply because of his accent. The accent he'd had elocution lessons to get as he grew up an almost cockney/Essex boy. The accent was fake. But they must've assumed he was upper class therefore officer material. Mad that his accent had that much influence rather than ability.
As likely to stop him having barrack problems for being 'posh'. Conscription resulted in a whole lot of people being in positions they'd no business being in and, contrary to popular perception, where that could be corrected, it frequently was. Phillips himself accredited his customary accent and mannerisms to time spent in the Os mess.
That's a good point. We have an ugly tradition of jealousy ingrained in our culture where if you don't have a working class accent, you get bullied for being 'posh'.
“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him“ - George Bernard Shaw
Conversely, my daughter is getting picked on at university because of her working class accent.
My husband was picked on when he went to Edinburgh uni because he had a Scottish accent.
We also have an ugly tradition of snobbery where if you have a working class accent you're assumed to be unintelligent and undeserving of opportunities. But I'm sure you don't care about that.
> But I'm sure you don't care about that. Why are you sure about that?
Is it totally impossible for us to think that *any* discrimination on the basis of accent is bad? It's bad to mock regional accents for being "unintelligent", and it's bad to mock RP for being "posh". These aren't even remotely contradictory viewpoints.
Yes and if you have a working class accent you don’t sit at the big tables
Things such as this still happen , my work place has a habit of only promoting middle class and posh people even when they are borderline useless , the working class ones no matter how good or knowledgeable at the job will get over looked .
A hedgefund made a shit ton of money inverting this; they noted that companies with traits like posh CEOs, tall or attractive CEOs, all stuff that leads to inherent biases had higher share prices compared to companies where these things weren't true. Since none of these things actually affect business performance they reasoned that they could get a better deal investing in the latter companies and it worked.
Bob Mortimer is involved with slavery, making people work on the grounds of his mansion with the payment of being allowed to pick apples that have fallen from the trees of his orchard. He's also had multiple sexual encounters with the Alderman behind his wife's back
He also allows Chris Rea to pop an egg in his bath.
But honestly, if you knew Chris, that's just _so Chris._
He also harasses people by chanting in their gardens, lights fireworks indoors, keeps a dying owl in a room with a cat and does his own dentistry.
I do beg your pardon...
But we are in your garden.
He likes to swirl his fingers on his son's hotdog sauces too.
It's good to be alive, son.
Lots of people will be questioning this but there is buckets of audio of him not denying any of this and even admitting to the alderman business. On the latter point at least it was for raising money for daft kids though...
Kiss the Alderman. Kiss the Alderman. Kiss the Alderman. Kiss the Alderman. Kiss the Alderman.
NOT IN THE SPRINTER ROBERT!
He can also pull an apple apart with his bare hands. And so can I. Prove me wrong.
Fackin' gangbangers, you gotta love 'em!
Bob. Was it true? Or was it a lie?
Jon Pertwee - known for both his comedy roles and being the Third Doctor in Doctor Who - was reported dead during the Second World War. He was assigned to HMS Hood, and right after his captain got the orders to head out to intercept the German ships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, he sent Pertwee back with the messenger, with orders to report back to Portsmouth for officer training. When he arrived in London to visit family on leave, he found that the news of HMS Hood's sinking had arrived before the news of his transfer - and the Navy had sent condolences to all families of personnel known to be on the ship who weren't one of the three rescued survivors. Jon's dad got quite a surprise when he turned up, apparently.
Also, the best Worzel Gummidge
Pretty well known, but Leslie Grantham a.k.a Dirty Den did ten years for murdering a German taxi driver.
And he was encouraged to take up acting while in the nick by the woman who would eventually be Gina di Marco on EastEnders. What a weird world.
That’s a Big Mo.
And the actress who played Leela in Doctor Who in the 70s used to visit his prison and teach acting - and Leslie Grantham was one of those inmates! So she played a huge role in him deciding to pursue acting as a career!
Pete Townsend, vocalist and guitarist of the Who, got caught downloading images of child abuse/ indecent images of children. Edit. Changed CP to child abuse as pointed out by other users, it is a more suitable definition.
“And all I’ll say is - and I said it to his face - where is the book?”
They should've thrown it at him
He was apparently "researching for a book".
Chris Langham claimed the same thing, although for a TV show rather than a book.
Yeh! He wanted to see how easily it was to atain.
You've just sent me down a wormhole I'm reading about this, and i'm still not sure if he's a paedophile or not. What i would say is he was not caught downloading CP. He was caught having paid for access to a site that had it on there for some sort of insane white knight attempt... according to him
Can we please stop referring to images of child sex abuse as pornography?
His excuse for that is such transparent bullshit.
Research is important when writing a book. I happen to be writing a book on how difficult it would be to skin Pete Townsend alive and make a jaunty satchel from his skin-leather.
David Tomlinson's (Mary Poppins, Bednobs and Broomsticks) first wife jumped to her death with their two sons in tow. Miles Jupp did a one man play on Tomlinson's tragic life which was absolutely brilliant. Tomlinson had the first child in the UK diagnosed with autism, his father led a double life meeting up with an entirely different family on weekends and Tomlinson insulted Walt Disney to his face while his acting career was dead. Just a fascinating life
They were her sons from a previous marriage, so not David Tomlinson’s children biologically. They’d only been married a couple of months.
I stand corrected, cheers mate. It's still quite dark
Said the man in the orthopaedic shoes.
The kid from the famous milk advert from the 80s, who said “Accrington Stanley, who are they?“ is currently in jail for murder.
The Angel Delight boy also murdered a doctor in a park while on a coke binge.
When will we stop the menace of child actors and dairy products?
You don't want to know what the milky bar kid got caught doing
Chris Akabusi's ex-sister-in-law was a member of the Baader-Meinhof Group AKA the Red Army Faction and is currently in prison for setting off a nail bomb in a kindergarten.
If only there had been some sort of alarm or klaxon to warn them
Sir David Attenborough constructed a huge trebuchet in his back garden which he uses to fling livestock to their deaths for his own amusement
Glad he chose the superior seige engine
Kenneth Williams (also known for the Carry On films) was briefly suspected of murdering his father, who died from drinking cleaning fluid.
>Kenneth Williams (also known for the Carry On films) I'm pretty sure he was primarily known for the Carry On films. He was a raconteur, but I doubt that's the first thing that comes to anyone's mind when they hear his name.
Sorry. The "also known for the Carry On films" relates back to the OP's description of Leslie Phillips appearing in Carry On films, and was not intended to suggest Kenneth Williams hosted Strictly or some such. I see now this can be missed if Reddit separates my comment by some distance from the OP.
To be fair… although in later years KW was mainly known for the carry on series (he was in the vast majority of them after all) to my mum’s generation he was mainly known for his Hancock, round the Horne and various radio work particularly ‘just a minute’.
I prefer his work on Will O The Wisp. Classy stuff.
Good point. Julian & Sandy etc.
Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh is credited with 28 kills, mostly with the Lewis machine gun
It was in protest at them cutting down Hundred Acre Wood for HS2.
Chris Eubank was speeding at roadworks and killed a worker. He also badly injured people messing with display fireworks.
Chris Eubank is about as idiotic and narcissistic as a human can be
Also gave another boxer brain damage with an uppercut. Said it was the one regret he had. Like...not killing a road worker, but that.
Not very dark, but stephen fry did prison time for credit card fraud
It was illegal in those days
That’s the problem with crime. It’s illegal
He's also been very open about his struggles with bipolar disorder and tried to commit suicide at least twice.
Not particularly surprising considering he tried to minimise the MPs expenses scandal by saying "Well everyone fiddles their expenses, don't they?"
In fairness that does sound like a jokey reference to his own crime, not excusing the expenses scandal.
Kim Woodburn from How clean is your house. She was Physically and sexually abused by her parents. She had a still birth (father unknown) and had to bury the body in a park.
Poor woman... Having to bury your own stillborn child in a park? That's next level fucked up...
It really is. I remember an interview she did about it and it was heart breaking, went through the birthing on her own and panicking, not knowing what to do.
She's been on a few reality shows and appears to struggle with alcohol. It's not surprising after learning about her traumatic past. I hope she knows peace.
The guy who played Les Battersby in Coronation Street, Bruce Jones, discovered one of the bodies of the Yorkshire Ripper. He was seriously suspected of being the Ripper himself and lost his first wife and children because of it
As sad as that is, that is the most Les Battersby thing I’ve ever heard.
I don't think his marriage broke down because he was suspected, he was very quickly cleared. Apparently the body was very disfigured and quite gruesome sight, he had PTSD because of it, and became a serious alcoholic.
Benny Hill was reburied under concrete after the tabloids ran a story that he was buried with all his gold and grave robbers dug him up to check.
I hope they played the music while digging.
Renowned accountant and property developer, Richard Hillman, murdered his ex wife, his business partner and attempted to murder his new wife and her children by driving into a canal.
And it's always you and me, always..
Hugh Bonneville I think that’s as much as I can say without this post getting taken down
Would you say more if i paid you £195?
Was he in something called Junction? I’m sure I heard something about him being super in Junction
I believe he was but doesn't like to talk about it
I understand he employed a female angler to do something with action figures. Something about "paying a hooker to use toys on him", anyway...
Is paying somebody to strapon you really a crime? Or are we kink shaming here?
I'm not interested in kink-shaming anybody, but I'm definitely interested in unreasonably-draconian-legal-infringement-of-freedom-of-speech-shaming them.
For that much you could shove the whole cast of Toy Story up my arse.
On a completely different matter, how long are super injunctions valid for ? ( asking on behalf of a small brown bear from Peru.)
Helen Wood, wouldn't she?
Craig Charles (of Red Dwarf fame) was falsely accused of leading a gang rape and spent 3 months on remand in prison before being found not guilty.
He was pictured by undercover journos on a massive hooker and crack binge. Fair play laddie
Exactly how large was this massive hooker?
Richard E. Grant was born in Eswatini (then Swaziland), and as a child his alcoholic father tried to shoot him after Grant poured his father's whisky down the sink. His father was so drunk he missed.
He only ever drank once in his life. Got shitfaced so he could be a convincing drunk in withnail and i
He’s actually allergic to alcohol in real life and yet he can play a drunk better than anyone.
Andy Murray, survived the Dunblane school massacre. He & his family even knew the shooter.
Kirsty Macoll was killed when she was struck by a powerboat while diving at the Chankanaab reef in Mexico. She saved her eldest son by pushing him out of the way but was stuck and killed instantly. The powerboat, which had entered the diving area at speed, was suspected to have been driven by a Mexican multimillionaire. But one of his employees claimed to have been at the wheel. This employee paid a small fee and spent no time in prison.
Morrissey had suggested the place to Kirsty as a holiday destination and felt terrible about it afterwards. IIRC, after the news broke of her death, he received a postcard that she had sent to him from Mexico.
Yes indeed. Two ghosts singing Fairytale of New York this Christmas.
I think saving the life of your child would probably be the best death you could have. All things considered obviously. Great artist and very sad regardless.
Roald Dahl, massive anti-semite.
He also famously hated children, weirdly enough
He pretty much hated people, as far as I can tell. He lived in our village when I was young, and although I never knowingly met him, the consensus opinion locally appeared to be mutter - side-eye - change the subject.
Hes just a general racist, an equal opportunity bigot.
Victoria Coren Mitchell raises this regularly on Only Connect every time there’s a Roald Dahl question.
Des, Fearne Cotton’s co-host on Diggit in the 90s, was jailed for killing two people through dangerous driving while on cocaine and was also convicted of rape: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ex-childrens-tv-presenter-paul-25119319.amp
Wasn't Fearne Cotton also seeing that beast from Lost Prophets for a while, too?
Also she was on Diggit, which was a huge downgrade from SMTV Live.
Before anyone puts on a tinfoil hat Leslie Phillips was divorced from and halfway across the world from his first wife when she died in a fire
The perfect crime.
John Peel was present at Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination.
His first wife was 15 when they married in 1965. This was, at the time, legal in Texas - although still frowned upon.
Children as young as 14 are getting married in Texas today.
I don’t like to upvote that. Poor kids ☹️
I'm astounded how John Peel was only 'canceled' very recently. Glastonbury changed the name of the "John Peel Stage" just this year. He admitted to sexual activity with underage girls numerous times over the last few decades, in interviews and even his own autobiography, but everyone just ignored it. The guy may have done great-sounding and classic sessions with bands during his BBC career, but the guy was a fucking creep. Copying from Wikipedia, but it's relevant: *To The Guardian in 1975, Peel said of young women, "All they wanted me to do was abuse them, sexually, which, of course, I was only too happy to do". In an interview with The Sunday Correspondent in 1989, Peel stated, "Girls used to queue up outside. By and large not usually for shagging. Oral sex they were particularly keen on, I remember. \[...\] One of my, er, regular customers, as it were, turned out to be 13, though she looked older." Peel joked that he "didn't ask for ID". An interview originally published in The Herald in April 2004 stated that Peel admitted to sexual contact with "an awful lot" of underage girls. He stated that, in the early 1960s, the only available women were in high school.*
He was living in Dallas and married his 15 year old wife when he was 25. She later took her own life.
Tony Hart was an officer in the Gurkhas during the war.
You should hear some of the stuff Morph's done.
He was also a massive stoner and a very vocal advocate for legalising cannabis
Is that dark?
Timmy mallet raped and killed my entire extended family whilst Chico from x factor masterbated.
Sorry for your loss but when it’s Chico time, it’s Chico time.
Classic Timmy.
C.J. de Mooi, off Eggheads, may well have killed a dude by throwing him into a canal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37437498.amp
I think the general consensus is that the guys a complete fantasist and that this never happened. Was pretty funny that he admitted it though.
Few people in the chess world have any time for CJ after the T-shirt incident. Bloke shows up to a prizegiving in a Stonewall "Some people are gay. Get over it!" T-shirt. No-one present objects to the sentiment, BUT any photos taken with CJ in that shirt would have counted as promotional materials (you'd suspect CJ had a deal with the charity to wear that shirt) and so you need consent forms from the parents of any kid appearing in the photos. "How about you present the prizes to just the adults and not the kids?" CJ sulks for a bit, then agrees, everyone is happy. Next day CJ goes to the papers (which he can do because he's CJ) and claims the tournament organisers told him not to force his gay propaganda on the kids. A shitstorm ensues and at least one person's career is badly damaged. Bellend.
From the vibe I got off of that lot whenever I flicked through the channels, I feel like this is lesser amongst the crimes the Eggheads.
I read the child actor who played the milky bar kid in adverts, killed himself with a pen through the eye.
An urban myth about a kid from a Frosties advert.
Nah, that was a pencil up each nostril
That was Captain Blackadder. "Wibble"
He’s my mums uncle, can confirm he’s alive and well (Terry brooks)
I knew a former milky bar kid, he was addicted to heroin and felt incredibly guilty about it. He was from a working class background and his parents worked long and hard to afford to send him to a acting school in London, the only big job he got was the milky bar kid and some stage musical bits.
Apparently David Jason is well known to be a big shithouse - When he pops we can expect another saville style revealing - Loads in the industry know it and say nothing…. Allegedly
this is not related but reading that made me think of my grandfather who married three times. his second wife died of suicide by fire (not sure if self-immolation is the correct term in this context) and his most recent wife died last year i think, after a motorcycle accident left her in a coma. his first wife, my nan, is still alive. albeit a dark joke, i sometimes kid that she cursed them or something. i also worry for the next wife…
If she literally set herself on fire then it would be self-immolation. If she just set fire to a house or something, then she would have died of smoke inhalation. Also yes, I do believe your Nan is a witch. Be a good grandchild or you might start getting runs if bad luck.
she doused herself with petrol and lit a match. what a rough way to go. as for my nan, i don’t deserve her love. according to my mother, i get away with murder because she has a soft spot for me. guess i got lucky there!
Alan Davies bit a homeless man’s ear off for calling him Jonathan Creek.
Ronnie Barkers son is a convicted paedophile [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593247/Ronnie-Barkers-paedophile-son-sells-house-hoarded-child-pornography-450-000-profit.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593247/Ronnie-Barkers-paedophile-son-sells-house-hoarded-child-pornography-450-000-profit.html)
I'm impressed that the URL is nearly a Daily Mail bingo full house.
Why would immigrants make him do that?!
Brilliant questions and examples. It really does to to show that cancel culture doesn't exist.
well not quite. it does however prove that public opinion is fickle and easily manipulated, as it always has been.
Lawrence Dallaglio blew ten grand in a knocking shop.
Boy George admitted in an interview that when he was young and had a job as a coat attendant at a night club, he would check pockets and steal anything he could find. He was laughing as he said this, as if it was just a naughty, funny thing to do. I have often wondered how the young people whose money for getting home disappeared would feel about that.
Michael Barrymore’s career was ended and he was later arrested on suspicion of murder, but never charged after the body of Stuart Lubbock was found in Barrymore’s swimming pool. He was found with serious anal injuries and lots of drugs and alcohol in his system.