but is it widely known that Gerry McCanns first phone call before calling the police that night was to… none other than Gordon Brown? Apparently they were “acquaintances”
Thank you for sticking up for me. That’s all I was trying to say but it seemed to be interpreted I was some kind of pervert who thought underage sex was acceptable of course it isn’t either then or now! Where I grew up there were quite a few girls getting pregnant underage and they were neither shunned or the fathers prosecuted ( who were most likely over 16). But maybe it varies in different regions no one batted an eyelid much where I grew up it was commonplace.
I thought he was hilarious because I was a kid at the time he was all over TV but when I look back on it older and wiser it does leave me baffled. All very dated end-of-pier stuff and too much of a mean streak as well even for the time.
I've always felt sorry for the twins who have had to grow-up with this shit shower hanging over them whilst having little or no recollection of their actual sister.
He uses an oversized hairband and ties it behind his back, just like a ponytail. that's why all the of photos are either head on or from the side.
Being an annoying twat?
As someone who lost a relative through suicide I spent years thinking he was selfish and as you say a dick move. It was only when I suffered severe depression and suicidal thoughts myself I realised I was wrong, all you think is how much better everyone else would be without you, in your head it feels like selflessness rather than selfishness.
Yes! I’m 45 soon and this is so true - we all thought Mandy Smith was cool cos she had an older boyfriend. My sister who is a couple of years older than me had a friend who was 13 and going out with a 30 year old - didn’t seem odd at all. My friend was 12 and having sex with a 19 year old - again, we just thought ‘wow that’s cool and grown up’ - not WTF is going on?! Her mum used to let him stay over & everything
and I lived somewhere quite middle class and ‘nice’, not some shithole. ‘Twas indeed different times in the late 80s/early 90s even!
Well that was utterly vicious and obviously premeditated and you were lucky to escape with your life really. Did they ever bring any of them to justice?
Absolutely. Why should they not be able to do something they wanted to do because some sleazy old guy with deformed genitals threatened to ruin you if you didnt sleep with him, and everyone in the industry basically said that that was how you got roles? Everyone was complicit- the publicists, the agents, the gossip sites etc. Maybe they did it because they thought that was the price you had to pay, but it shouldn't have been the price they had to pay to do a job they had worked hard and trained for. The fault lies entirely with the men who made these women ( and men, in some cases) sleep with them for roles, not the victims.
That's a terrible ordeal. I'm sorry you had to go through that. However, most rapes are not like that. They ae perpetrated by people you know. In the HW case, a lot of the actresses were sent up for 'interviews in hotel suites, which is quite common, as that's where crew are put up on film shoots and were greeted by him naked. They were then told by publicists just to get on with it. When faced with being alone with a half naked, very large man who has the power to destroy your life. There is also the situation where maybe when you are very young, you go along with something then you don't see that it was wrong until afterwards, or what an abuse of power it was. Its the same where you get older teachers or others in a position of power apparently 'consesnually' sleeping with much younger people they have influence over. The young person may have technically 'consented' but is it true consent or is it an abuse of power?
