I hear you're a pest now, Noel Clarke?

[lipsink]

His recent video Q&A for Big Finish, where he answers that his main (but not sole) reason for coming back was it was paid work in a pandemic, and he needed to support his family, was refreshingly upfront.

Ah, just watched that. He's a good egg, ain't he? I know people found his attempts at playing 'wacky' fell flat but I just loved his portrayal of the Doctor and the chemistry between Eccles and Piper was an absolute joy. Will have to listen to his Big Finish stuff.

[Ferris]

Well this has absolutely ruined the worst seasons of doctor who for me.

[Jake Thingray]

This is true, but nobody really had him down as a massive child abuser did they? The rumour was that he shagged corpses - all that "has a key for the hospital mortuary" stuff.

Have said this before about Savile, but Lynn Barber's early 90's interview in the Independent on Sunday where she openly asked him about rumours that he was "into little girls" was an eye-opener for many, at the time.

[Ambient Sheep]

Heh, I remember reading that article at the time and thinking "Hah, she's got it wrong, it's corpses he likes, not little girls."

Oh well.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Heh, I remember reading that article at the time and thinking "Hah, she's got it wrong, it's corpses he likes, not little girls."

Oh well.

The average age of his sexual conquests was 42, so he can't be all bad.

[JaDanketies]

Louis Theroux also danced around the topic of whether or not Savile was a pedophile in his When Louis Meets... series.

Louis Theroux : So, why do you say in interviews that you hate children when I've seen you with kids and you clearly enjoy their company and you have a good rapport with them?

Jimmy Savile : Right, obviously I don't hate 'em. That's number one.

Louis Theroux : Yeah. So why would you say that then?

Jimmy Savile : Because we live in a very funny world. And it's easier for me, as a single man, to say "I don't like children" because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Louis Theroux : Are you basically saying that so tabloids don't, you know, pursue this whole 'Is he/isn't he a paedophile?' line, basically?

Jimmy Savile : Yes, yes, yes. Oh, aye. How do they know whether I am or not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not, so I can tell you from experience that the easy way of doing it when they're saying "Oh, you have all them children on Jim'll Fix It", say "Yeah, I hate 'em."

Louis Theroux : Yeah. To me that sounds more, sort of, suspicious in a way though, because it seems so implausible.

Jimmy Savile : Well, that's my policy, that's the way it goes. That's what I do. And it's worked a dream.

Louis Theroux : Has it worked?

Jimmy Savile : A dream.

[jobotic]

Savile implying that raping children would be an act of affection.

He was a bad 'un.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Is this the first we've heard of there being an official complaint about Barrowman's "tomfoolery", and that he was reprimanded by Julie Gardner? He mentions the whole radio controversy as being a wake-up call for him, and that following his apology in 2008, he learned from his 'mistakes' and stopped doing it.

He did it again, on radio, in 2012.

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/star-exposes-himself-on-radio-1-show-6929615.html


Edited to add:

Interesting take on it by The Guardian and most of its readers back in the dark days of 08.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2008/dec/02/bbc-radio-john-barrowman

[Kankurette]

Christ that's a sinister interview.

[JamesTC]

Barrowman GONE _{from some spin off immersive play thing}

[batwings]

The cock's out.

[frajer]

Captain Jack Clarkepest

[Jerzy Bondov]

Barrowman GONE _{from some spin off immersive play thing}

yes because Torchwood fans have never been disappointed before

[JamesTC]

BarrowGONE Mk.2

Big Finish has taken the decision to remove Torchwood: Absent Friends from the monthly range release schedule and has no plans to publish this title at this time

That was a high profile release with David Tennant in. I'm thinking that the decision to remove this from the schedule will have not come directly from Big Finish but from somebody higher up.

[JamesTC]

And this isn't on, is it?

[Alberon]

It all seems mighty hypocritical, not because Barrowman's actions are acceptable, but because just about all of this has been known for years.

He was rumoured to be appearing in the shortened upcoming series of Doctor Who, but that has to be in jeopardy now as well.

[thecuriousorange]

Who else has a known reputation for getting their knob out, but hasn't yet been cancelled?

[mothman]

Gene Simmons

[jobotic]

David Yow

[idunnosomename]

Captain Beefheart's uncle

[Butchers Blind]

Arthur Mullard

[JaDanketies]

Ron Jeremy

Edit- Wow he's facing 330 years in jail at the moment. Still not cancelled tho

[JamesTC]

Kenneth Williams

[Pauline Walnuts]

And this isn't on, is it?

Have we got a sauce (sic) for this?

[JamesTC]

Have we got a sauce (sic) for this?

Radio Times

[neveragain]

According to the Mirror, five more accused sex pests will be unveiled soon. Two comics, two TV personalities and an actor.

[Bronzy]

According to the Mirror, five more accused sex pests will be unveiled soon. Two comics, two TV personalities and an actor.

And a partridge in a pear tree!

[Johnny Yesno]

And a partridge in a pear tree!

One of them had better not be Steve Coogan.

[Natnar]

According to the Mirror, five more accused sex pests will be unveiled soon. Two comics, two TV personalities and an actor.

Del Boy falls through the prison bars?

[jobotic]

According to the Mirror, five more accused sex pests will be unveiled soon. Two comics, two TV personalities and an actor.

Ta-da!