David Walliams #2

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oragisax

oragisax

I've just come here to post that I saw on Reddit that he tried to castrate himself in hospital thinking it was probarly alot of rit but now seeing the post saying he's commited... maybe theres something that has happened.
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SaLou

There's a tweet from someone who "heard it through the grapevine". That's all I can find.
 
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Shawads

Shawads

Lolly505 said:
It can depend very much on the individual production companies. An HR department isn't actually a legal requirement for a workplace.

Ironically as much as people want to decry them, a big organisation like the BBC probably will have an HR department BUT a lot of production staff won't be necessarily employed by them directly. Instead they'll be likely contracted with a production company (usually for the length of a specific project or a set period) so that's their employer. Just because a show is broadcast on the BBC/ITV/C4 ≠ being a BBC/ITV/C4 produced show either.

And the TV/entertainment industry can have so many moving parts within one production - subcontractors, freelancers, joint productions - that it's really not like any other workplace.

And that's the point. While there's unions like BECTU or Equity, there's no real oversight for the workplace culture. Ofcom regulates what gets broadcast, but not how it was made.

'Management' at the production company I worked for were effectively Project Managers who also handled the employees, with no HR/management training. Hence my issue where you had one boss was really invested in the mentoring and development aspect of being a manager, while the other one was a very hands off, 'learn by doing' person, meaning the exact same job role was totally different based on who you reported to.
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Thank you, that’s really interesting
 
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Shawads

Shawads

TrashleenMoron said:
It was basically hyperbole - most tv companies will have HR, but when it comes to complaints against their "biggest stars", they may as well not be there.
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So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees 🤯😭
 
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Shawads

Shawads

Glortard said:
It is but as a father I would never let my daughter go to the US at 15 to follow a singer before starting work in a newspaper at 16 as she did.
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I left home at 16, because home was unsafe in 1000 ways, but I had no idea how dangerous it is to be 16 and without supportive parents or guidance, every predatory mf sniffed me out, and not just the types you would think either.
I was hugely naive and vulnerable 😭
 
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HotesTilaire

HotesTilaire

Shawads said:
So just like hr in a lot of big companies then, and smaller ones tbh, I’ve only recently realised that hr is effectively more for the employers than employees 🤯😭
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That’s literally what it is, I don’t know why people don’t realise this. Workers have trade unions.
 
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VeniVidiVicki

VeniVidiVicki

ChastityDingle said:
Oh yes, it was ever thus, in my opinion and in my experience.
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Yes I wish someone had told me this earlier in my career. And if you’re in a service industry (ie you don’t make something to sell, you’re selling your time, skills, experience), never forgot that you are the product. And product lines can be dropped if they’re no longer profitable or align with the brand strategy. Except for the entertainment industry where the talent is protected, everyone is expendable/replaceable.

Capitalism doesn’t reward loyalty.
 
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wtafisthis1980

wtafisthis1980

Professor Yaffle said:
Huw Edwards had a fair amount of people he worked with who either knew or speculated about his behaviour. Whether HR knew or not, or whether they cast a blind eye to their overpaid employee. Edwards has even refused to give back the £200k pay he received during which he was suspended until his resignation.

Still don't understand the balance of justice, when Brand has got 9 years for his crimes, justified, but Huw Edwards walked free with a suspended sentence, for possessing pictures of child abuse of children aged as young as 7. He is an enabler of the people who abuse children and that is a crime that is so heinous it is beyond belief how he walked free. Every picture he possesses of those children, there is a child whose life has been ruined .... but he walks free. 😡

Where is there justice? For the children.
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Did he plead guilty? Would that give him a lesser punishment?
 
Rockin' Robin

Rockin' Robin

@Tabitha D, thank you for posting the article about Johnny Vegas. I won't recopy it iinto this post, because it is quite a distressing read. Entertainment, whether it be film or television or on stage, should be enjoyable and fun to watch, not something to be repulsed by.

I've read some pretty appalling content over the last few weeks, this is one of the most vile things I've read. I sincerely hope that times really are changing, and these people are held accountable
 
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mushroomprincess22

Kind of nervous to go to sleep… I dread to think what breaking news I’ll wake up to - be it Walliams or another male celebrity 🙈
 
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Faerie Knight

Faerie Knight

Threatening to commit suicide is one of the oldest manipulation tactics there is. He hoped that would keep the gagging order in place and it didn't work. Few people who actually threaten suicide go through with it, time will tell if there's any truth to that reddit post...
 
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