Reverend
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Yeah, but could Oscar Wilde do the 3-2-1 flourish right without appearing to swear at you? No, that's why Ted Rogers will always be of a higher cultural significance.....
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I’ve done some finance work for private schools over the past decade. Many of them are in dire straights. Lots of parents default on fees making just token payments when pressed, promising to pay up “when my business gets back on its feet”. For the schools they have two choices: Chuck the kids out, lowering their numbers, which are already at all time lows, and have prospective new parents wondering why the school has so few pupils, or keep on hoping at least some of the parents will one day pay up. Wouldn’t be surprised if these two have massive school fee debts outstanding. And of course because falling numbers make the industry competitive, there’s often another school that will take the kids with an initial payment and then they too will be chasing money owed within six months
The school they are leaving won’t/can’t tell their competitors they are owed thousands, the new school thinks they are doing a great job recruiting new pupils. Lots of private schools have closed or are closing for this exact reason.
eyeballs
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It was only 6 months ago, but I’ve got to add 2020 has been 47 years long already.
Lalalalaaaaaa85
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The thought of holding a wee in from from Turkey to Hong Kong is actually stressing me out
FunkyMonkey
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or increasing children’s social skills and confidence while introducing them to the creative arts?
Gym&Tonic
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This is my opinion as well.
One of my cousins got so angry with me on FB when I posted about how revolted I was by the Neverland by documentary and said how he was no different to Savile. She’s effectively brainwashed her five year old son to become a fan and he often dresses up as. MJ and does routines which she films and shares. Makes me feel VERY uncomfortable and I feel like calling her out, but what’s the point really? They just don’t want to hear the truth.
He lived near me when he was living with Anna Friel. He looks like he needs a good wash and nearly always had the same outfit on. I don't think the bloke gives two shits about anything! I saw him walking back to her house one afternoon and the dirtbag launched two empty beer cans over his shoulder on to the pavement then he stuffed an empty crisp packet down behind one of those electricity boxes (house was literally no more than 10 meters away). We were driving along one night when he just walked straight out in front of our car, making us slam on the brakes. My husband beeped at them (she was with him) and she scuttled across the road looking mortified while he just stared at us and carried on swaggering across at snail's pace like some wannabe rockstar. Everyone round there has parking permits but he just used to abandon his car at the local pub opposite the Long Walk. You have to pay to park there if you're not a customer but he never did. My brother rang me one day and said "just seen Rhys Ifans in town again, he didn't seem to notice that his thong was sticking out above his skinny jeans".
SilentSue
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The American tendency to give twins rhyming names is the height of fucking stupidity.Sisters Jerry and Terry
Very traditional
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The thing is I can totally believe nothing happened to McAuley Culkin, he was a celebrity in his own right with his own manager and team to look out for him whereas all the other children were from families desperate for fame and money and attention which I’m sure would make their children much more vulnerable. If McAuley had been abused and spoken out it would have been questioned, not brushed under the carpet so it would have been far more risky for MJ than the other kids he spent time with.
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Gym&Tonic
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There are all sorts of sinister rumours about Cindy Crawford and her husband. They were alleged to have been involved in some kind of pedophile/grooming ring and Hayden Panettiere was rumoured to have been one of their victims. There used to be a huge thread on LipstickAlley about it, they were also blackmailed by an ex nanny who claimed to have a photo of Kaia bound and gagged and tied to a chair. She’d have only been about ten at the time.
Affiliatemebaby
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I think Michael Jackson was a child abuser. I have all the evidence I need. It cost him millions of dollars to keep things on the road. That’s a lot of money for a harmless liking for a grown man to have sleepovers with young boys and relive his lost childhood.
FunkyMonkey
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Handerton are you spilling the hottest tea yet here??!!!
FreeSquirrels
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There was no need for Kaia Gerber to start working at 12 or 14 or even 18. Cindy got into Northwestern to do chemical engineering which is a really tough course having finished top of her school year. She then chose as an adult to drop out & become a model. V different to being sent out to model mid-teens.
Meringue22
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Billy always looks like she needs a washAre the DM trying to imply something ?
Raucous Lily James enjoys VERY boozy picnic with showbiz pals
The 31-year-old enjoyed a very boozy picnic with a host of her celebrity friends on Saturday but was she feeling a little congested?www.dailymail.co.uk
lamaitresse
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You sound like my ex-friend (we didn't fall out over the MJ subject, fwiw).
Why would a grown man want unsupervised sleepovers with young boys? Why would he throw money at their parents? If he truly loved these children and had no sinister motives he could easily have kept it to day trips to Disney or shopping expeditions or whatever he fancied and kept the boundaries safe and respectful, as an ADULT. He had POWER and INFLUENCE, don't forget, people are blinded by that - children are not streetwise about adults and are trusting and go along with their decisions - not to mention he had buckets of cash at the height of his fame, and his status meant he could get VIP treatment.
It must have felt very exciting and flattering to be MJ's "best friend", stepping into his world, with all the thrills and once-in-a-lifetime experiences it brought. A child wouldn't know how to process all that, never mind the physical and emotional lines being crossed by someone they trusted.
Surely a parent would find it a bit weird that they were getting a fancy car, a new house, bills paid, trips abroad, just because MJ took a liking to their little boy? And then slowly becoming isolated from their child? As I often say to people, a true friend wants nothing but your time - if you have to "buy" their interest, something is wrong.
I made the comparison before - Liberace too would acquire a new favourite pretty young thing* (who he lavished in gifts at first) then grow bored when they (probably) got too demanding, too old or the thrill of the chase wore off (I've read Scott Thorson's biography as well as watched Behind The Candleabra). Usually they'd get paid off and served a gagging order - in Thorson's case he was pretty much forcably thrown out due to his drug addiction. Not all famous gay men are like this, and those men were of age, but that was a similar-ish pattern.
MJ's ex-assistant said that was true enough, that young boys would play off against each other to be the favourite or make up stories to get people fired just for a laugh (and I'm sure adults trying to be a famous person's number one do the same, in more devious ways). But just as that doesn't prove abuse, how can you prove they were NOT abused?
It's very common in a celeb's inner circle for people to battle over being top dog, playing power games. This proves zero.
MJ's public image was just that - an illusion, like other famous people. The gentle, little boy act disappeared when he was off-duty. There are recordings of him using his much-deeper everyday voice, not the squeaky, child-like one. It was an act to appear harmless and non-threatening to get what he wanted and shape the persona he wished others to see. He could be very manipulative and callous when he wanted.
Why you don't find this all very unusual is beyond me.
*Weirdly, MJ wrote a song called "PYT" - Pretty Young Thing! And probably the campest song ever, "Muscles" by Diana Ross.
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Jessfletcher666
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I also believe Oscar Pistorious’ version of events - ive never been called for jury duty yet though.
Ambrosie
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It initially made me think of the twins in The Simpsons, Sherri and Terri
My mum has twin cousins called Elaine and Lorraine!
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CCnow
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Phew. Thank goodness. It was bad enough with Rolf but Ted would have tipped me over the edge
NikkiDeeW
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Slender I think the description was. A long slender dick...I remember a post on tattle somewhere about jack Whitehall who doesn’t have a biggun , apparently it’s like a slim pencil !