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Well I haven't been on here for a while but I had to pop on to say my piece.

I, along with PeteM were vilified by a few posters on here for saying Russell Brand was serial rapist amd sexual abuser. I always recall one person who said I was lying about something I personally witnessed with my own two eyes because it wasn't in Russell Brands character.

To refresh people's memories or for any one who I never interacted with on here, I know Russell Brand personally. I've known him since I was 18 years old and I'm in my late 40s now. I haven't spent any time with him willingly in maybe 10 years. I saw him sexually assault my friend and I know women who has been violent towards and women he raped. I mentioned before that he as good as groomed Peaches Geldof and that's why Bob Geldof openly hated him.

I stopped Posting here because I knew this documentary was being made and I was getting wound up by the people defending him.

The reason his career failed in Hollywood is because of his sexually predatory behaviour. I'm sure people will now believe me when I say that because before I was challenged on it. He set up "Trews" off the back of that and his sacking from the BBC to start solidifying a fanbase of anti-mainstream medium people who would see him as a truth teller. A protector against the lies the media told people. He's been sewing these seeds for years to protect himself, ramping it up around the me too movement, and he couldn't believe his luck when COVID happened and anti media rhetoric exploded. He also hasn't been on Panel shows because the likes of Jimmy Carr have been refusing to work with him for a few years now after women in the industry appealed to them.

Over the last few months I've fallen out with a friend who I have defended here. Someone is well placed to speak out against Brand. We fell out because he refused to acknowledge the damage Brand did to people we know, some of whom are no longer herr to say their piece. It also came to light that this person has his own skeletons that I was somehow unaware of. Not on the predatory scale of Brand and not rape, but still disgusting and upsetting. It's clear that there are men, famous men who worked with and been photographed with brand a lot in the late 2000s and early 2010s who aren't rapists but refused to take part in the documentary because they have a dodgy past and Brand knows too much.

This is the tip of the iceberg - the tip of the iceberg of the number of women who could come and speak out about the awful things Brand has to done to them, and the iceberg of comedians from that era who have groomed, abused and raped women who they worked or who were fans of their work. The tip! More is coming

My dad is a huge fan of Anthony Hopkins (AH) so you can imagine his delight when he was presented with the opportunity to meet him.

AH was filming Shadowlands in Oxford and my mum and dad replied to an advert for extras and were delighted to be accepted. My dad in particular was very excited at the possibility of seeing AH in he flesh.

On the day my parents were extras they were filming a garden party scene and my parents were asked to be in the background of a scene where AH was talking with the actress Debra Winger (DW). Whilst waiting around for the cameras etc to be set up AH approached my parents and said hello. He asked their names and then proceeded to chat with them for a few minutes until filming started.

When the director Richard Attenborough declared the break for lunch AH turned to my mum held out his arm and said 'shall we go for lunch?' He then turned to Debra Winger and asked her to take my dad's arm and join them for lunch.

So my parents got to spend an hour eating lunching and chatting with AH and DW. After lunch AH instructed a crew member to take a photo of my dad and him together and send it on. That photo still hangs in my parents house 27 years later.

That's a real movie star.

Big Red Dog said:

And the weather today brought to you by Becky Mountain I’m sorry Mantin. Good grief who did Becky eat ?

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You seem nice. Heaven forbid that a woman should put weight on.

A couple of years ago I was visiting my daughter who lives in New York. We were out shopping and it was pouring with rain so we decided to go to a nearby hotel restaurant for an early lunch.
As we approached the hotel a large man was hurrying out with his head down talking on his phone. He banged into my daughter and knocked her backwards onto a small potted bush that was by the entrance.

He immediately stuck his phone into his coat pocket and grabbed my daughter by the elbows and yanked her back to her feet. By this time I had already admonished him with “Christ, watch where you’re going” when I looked up into the face of Mr Hugh Jackman.
He was so apologetic and insisted on escorting us into the hotel lobby where he sat my daughter down on a chair.
He then asked if he could get his driver to drop us somewhere and we explained that we were actually just coming to this hotel for lunch.

After hearing this he walked away and spoke to the concierge, who had been hovering close by since we came in.
He then came back over to us apologised again and said “Have a nice lunch ladies” and strode out of the door.
He is even more gorgeous in real life and very tall and broad with a definite twinkle in the eye.
The concierge came to escort us to the dining room and explained that the bill for our lunch had already been settled by Mr Jackman.

What a legend and a true old school gentleman.

So. The hospital I work at often has famous people visiting the patients. Most I can't even be bothered to talk about as they are just there for the photo opp/I'm too busy working around them to really 'meet' then.
However, many years ago Johnny depps daughter was treated at the hospital for sepsis. She obviously made a full recovery, and Johnny went on to do the pirates films.... Every film he shot in London, he would rock up on the ward without any press or whatever, and ask if he could meet the kids (we are a children's hosp.) he would then go and get in FULL pirates of the Caribbean costume and meet the families and children as captain Jack sparrow. I think most assumed it was a brilliant impersonator tbh, and he never corrected them, just made sure they smiled. He was an angel, and although he's had many issues since, I will always remember him making a difference to some very grateful families.

Saw this on Twitter what a lovely story

I never reported my rape.
I stayed in a relationship with my rapist.
Rape is about power and it’s never simple. Please try and keep judgment out of your comments when you’re discussing the victims - chances are they won’t read it, but someone in a similar situation might.
Love to anyone who needs it.

Thanks for the new thread Halo!

Mild but nice tea re Kelvin Fletcher, off of Emmerdale and Strictly.

He played Andy in Emmerdale, and he LEFT the show - the character went on the run I think

Anyway someone I know developed dementia, having been a huge Emmerdale and Andy fan, and became obsessed with worry about what had happened to Andy, asking family members repeatedly "Where's Andy, where's Andy?". They'd reassure her that he was fine, that he'd gone to Spain (randomly chosen nice place). The reassurances weren't working and the lady was increasingly distressed.

Family managed to get in touch with Kelvin, and he was kind enough to record a little video for her "Hi, [name], I hear you've been worried about me. Well, don't worry, here I am in Spain, having a lovely time".

It was such a nice thing to do, I will always think well of him for that.

This is lovely

Once saw David Schwimner running out of a Blackpool off-licence with a load of stolen alcohol

Carry on gossiping, Tattlers x

Okay, so I'm still on thread 3 catching up but I wanted to share my Amy Winehouse story.

She was the sweetest, tiniest thing ever, 5ft maybe? I approached her alone when I was out with some mates. I ripped a page out of my notebook and wrote her a little note saying I didn't want to disturb her but I thought she was amazing and I loved Back to Black. I walked over, gave her the note folded up and smiled and then walked away. I had my back to her but my mate said "oh jesus she's reading it. Can you just behave yourself?" Then she went to the bar for paper and wrote me a note back and dropped it in front of me and sat back down.

We swapped a couple more notes and then sat at the bar together and bought each other a couple of drinks and drank them. We had a lovely chat and she was very tolerant of the fact that I couldn't stop hugging her. I'm a dick, I know, but she was just so impossibly lovely. I gave her a book that I'd just finished reading. She was over the moon with it. It was a biography of Tennessee William. I took my leave after a reasonable time.

I've read stories that imply she was rude and horrid but I have to say, she was beautifully mannered, very intelligent, sensitive and had an absolute star-quality.

A lovely memory. A really nice girl. My mum was looking through my stuff in my old bedroom and she found the notes, not so long ago, she was like aw, what a fun, friendly girl.

A nice bit of gossip as I know we all love George Michael on this thread. Approximately 10 years ago my friend got really lost driving in London at night, proper panicking and in tears. She pulled up to a house that had electric gates to try find her bearings and the man himself pulled up in his Range Rover asked what was wrong and helped her by driving in front of her to get the right way home. She knew it was George but never said to him.

Not gossip, more a horrifying realisation I made while watching Andrew Scott in Vanya on the big screen: he looks like a mix of Ant and Dec. I can't unsee it and any knee trembles he gave me have disappeared.

I just had to share, and perhaps spread the misery, but mainly in the hope you'll pull be back to the right side.

What I don’t get is, if you have £35k of disposable income, why would would want to give it to some kid for nudes when there’s so many porn options online. Go on onlyfans and subscribe to someone, it’s like a fiver a month. Plenty of teens on there! Save £34,995!

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ls240898 said:

Thought it was appropriate timing to drop in here and say a friend used to audit an ITV production company and Dermot O Leary is bisexual

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Blimey that's a very thorough audit.

Serene Serena said:

Fair play to the posters who fancy him but without his money, he's just an ordinary, beardy, beer bellied bloke isn't he? He looks like a stereotypical dad.

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Who do you think I actually have sex with? My husband meets that description but doesn't have the money nor does he know a team of tradesmen who can sort out my bloody kitchen, i've had no floorboard for 3 months. I pray for Nick Knowles on a daily basis. He'd sort my kitchen out, chase me up the stairs, do what needs to be done and I'd spend the rest of the day gazing lovingly at ny quarts worktop

EMERGENCY PALATE CLEANSER!!!!!

kendallroysdownfall said:

Don't shoot me down! Is this what the person deemed a troll last night was trying to say in cack handed way?

We need to teach our children what acceptable boundaries are, especially when it comes to the cult of celebrity.

Look at the girl R Kelly picked up outside the courtroom of his trial because she idolised him and believed him innocent. When being famous is more of a dream to young people these days than being a nurse or a train driver, our children need to understand they don't need to effectively prostitute themselves to these people for validation.

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I feel like I can give a fairly balanced view of this due to my experiences- teen mum with an older partner (who left me for a 15 year old when I was 18) and then someone who was shagging and partying like mad, and then became a sex worker. I'm now in my 30s and my child is late teens.
Back in the 2000s, there was this huge push to ladette culture. Being loud and 'game' was seen as cool- I thought I was making my own choices and 'using' men for things like cigs, drinks and being taken places in cars. I was 14-16.
The media (run by white straight men) convinced women that to be cool you had to put up with 'the banter' and if you didn't you were a prude and obviously not as liberated as everyone else.
I remember reading Gillian Flynn's 'cool girl' monologue in Gone Girl in my mid 20s and having this crushing realisation that I'd been tricked by men into being what they wanted. Not what I wanted. I was SO sure I was that girl. Nope. Once again, they manipulated us.
I speak to my friends about this now- we're all mid 30s early 40s and they feel exactly the same way and all have these horrific stories about guys in bands, comedians and Z List weirdos. I never knew how bad it was until we all started confiding in each other.