How can you not love Dame Joan for that.
It was great.
I think his wife knew.
She had a very luxurious lifestyle which was financed by him and his wholesome public image.
So, she was happy to play along - until now, because before, she wasn't looked upon as a fool or a victim.
Now everyone knows, she probably can't keep up a pretence any more.
I mean it's certainly deception to the public, because all his peers knew. It was an open secret in the industry, right. So the lie was just to the public so that he could maintain a certain image. Which fair enough, if you are worried about homophobia, but this man is literally sitting on TV judging other people's private lives and telling women who have the "audacity" to travel in a car with a married man 'my wife would be all over you if that was me'. Knowing what we now know, he deserves an Oscar, truly.
I hope one day the tables turn on these PR companies (and of course the tabloids, who co-conspire with them) who exist to sell us lies and cover ups on behalf of their rich clients. Newspapers are full of PR stories every day - we have not one clue about what is really going on, because all we are fed is a bunch of BS to cover up what the papers really know. (Unless it's a half decent person in the public eye, and then the papers will tear them down and destroy them for daring to breathe.)
We've all seen Starsuckers, right? How Max Clifford used to represent clients such as Simon Cowell, who was paying him £250K a year to cover something up (who knows what?) His job was to protect clients who 'indulged in' extremely dubious behaviour by the sound of it
This is standard across the board, I'm sure people on forums such as this are perfectly aware. It's very cringeworthy when you see people defending their heroes because they believe everything that is being told to them. We are a gullible nation indeed.
Love this post.
Of course this has been going on since the dawn of film and tv.
Old Hollywood under the studio system had whole departments covering up the stuff their contracted stars got up to.
They organised staged "dates" for them. If a star was gay, the studio sent them out on dates with people of the opposite sex and tipped off the Press.
These departments were employed to hide anything which might have made the public turn against their cash cows.
And gay stars were persuaded to marry a person of the opposite sex.
When TV was invented, they just followed suit.
No one cares about a star being Gay.
What they do care about is a star pretending to be something they aren't.
And they care when that person is a Diva who is horrible to people in the workplace because they have the power to get people hired or fired, and behave in a nasty way just because they can.
But just as Phillochio elbowed out Fern because she had started to lose public support, in time, someone will elbow him out too.