Dan Wootton Allegations (split topic)

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Dan Wootton has been trending all afternoon, mainly due to this thread

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Oh the Met did nothing, what a surprise..

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Yesterday's PopBitch Mailout

>> Sunburn <<
Sat on another great scoop

The Sun have been having a hell of a time trying to retrofit a public interest to their Huw Edwards story, pulling up any old incident of workplace misconduct they can find to pin on him now that the police are saying there's no evidence of any crime.

It's a shame they've put themselves in this position because if all they wanted was a story about a news broadcaster who has made life uncomfortable for colleagues by sending them "inappropriate messages", they have a really juicy one much closer to home. It will involve asking some difficult questions, but they have an excellent starting lead.

They should still have all of Dan Wootton's old HR files stashed away somewhere – so maybe they could start there? There's bullying allegations, NDAs - even a few pay-offs they could get the guys in finance to dredge back up. While they're doing that, they could look into why Wootton kept getting promoted while some of those who lodged complaints got sidelined.

Former colleagues seem perfectly willing to chat – but hey. We shouldn't be doing their job for them. Just start pulling at the thread. See what you find...

https://twitter.com/rubytrubes/status/1679240800310382593?t=hzdJXUSIcH4mGXZ9GnkbKA&s=19

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"Wootton" now trending on Twitter. Mic Wright has been inviting people to spill the tea For A Thing and it looks like he's got no shortage of takers:

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1679846099593330688

Prince Harry must be running out of popcorn.

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Another new Dan Wootton accusation

https://twitter.com/KevSutherlandx/status/1679981718260838400?s=20

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Jesus Christ.

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Fucking HELL.

I'm sure GB News will just sweep it under the carpet though.

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Shocked, I tell ya. Shocked by the possibility that Dan Wootton may be a horrible person offscreen too.

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According to the Independent, Caroline Flack's ex-fiance, Andrew Brady, has history with Wootton, and was jailed for 4 months for accusing him of being a sex offender and comparing him to Harvey Weinstein.  No idea who he is, or whether he's a good person or not, but I wonder if he's about to be vindicated?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dan-wootton-caroline-flack-harassment-brady-b2007960.html

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You can get jailed for calling someone a nonce? I thought false (if they are false) claims like that are typically potentially expensive civil issues?

Judge Richardson told Brady his attacks on Mr Wootton, a MailOnline columnist, had "everything to do with your craving for celebrity status and your irritation that the press were not in the least interested in your somewhat uninteresting life."

That's pretty sassy for a judge innit?

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Funny that... The Old Bill choosing not to investigate a very well-connected right wing journalist.

Hold Wootton upside down by his ankles and all sorts of names are likely to come tumbling out of his pockets.

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I'm just picturing that bit in the opening credits of Vic Reeves' Big Night Out!

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GB News CEO has locked down his twitter:

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First question: "Mr Wootton, where did you first meet X?"

Second question: "And who introduced you?"

A month later, Britain either suspends the judiciary or becomes a Republic. Half the Spectator garden party guestlist would be in handcuffs.

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We should ban all immigration from New Zealand as they are clearly all sex pests.

I believe that's how things work.

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Wootton is going to take way too many people down with him.
They're either gonna have to bite the bullet and do a damage limitation job, or just lie their way through it, saying it's a massive 'leftie' conspiracy.
It all depends on whether Murdoch is willing to throw him under the bus or not.

[Kankurette]

I can't wait for the mental gymnastics GB News will do to excuse this.

[oggyraiding]

As a teen my parents would get two Sunday papers - News Of The World, and The Times. I'd read NOTW, during Wootton's tenure as showbiz editor, and it'd be the most hateful bullshit, scurrilous rumours, shaming people's love lives, relationships, financial status. Fairly ghoulish. Not a surprise to learn Wootton is a piece of shit.

[Buelligan]

This isn't about Dan Wootton - it's about the British tabloids and the need to bring them down -

[Dr Rock]

Don't forget The Prophecy - this cunt's going to end up behind bars.

[privatefriend]

Shirley Ghostman should have been the end of his career really.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Genuinely thinking about getting a bottle of champagne in ready for the day this properly blows up on the news.

[Dr Rock]

The BBC aren't allowed to cover it until The Sun does, them's the rules.

[JamesTC]

Has Dan Wootton covered these allegations yet? These seem like they'd be the type of thing he'd be interested in reporting.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Genuinely thinking about getting a bottle of champagne in ready for the day this properly blows up on the news.

Same here and I haven't had booze in fully five years.

[Blue Jam]

Is there going to be a domino effect here with all the nasty right-wing journos having the skeletons yanked out of their closets?

#JeSuisHuw

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I mean, if you'd done a horrific bad thing like what he's been accused of you would wind your neck in a bit and keep a low profile.

You wouldn't be fronting a fucking news channel making wild accusations about other folk when you've got that skeleton in your closet.

It's all accusations at this point obviously.

[Barry Admin]

Ahhh nice one thanks.

I split off the other thread, but it was a shit job as I'm exhausted and couldn't face reading three pages of stuff lol.  So I've remerged the split thread with its original one.

[touchingcloth]

No idea who the guy is, but was intrigued by and visited the site in the screenshot, and



Lol. Imagine your site being so dogshit that someone else has made a tool to undogshittify it.

[machotrouts]

That's pretty sassy for a judge innit?

All judges talk like that. Most annoying people on the planet. Fake job for failed comedians

[Better Midlands]

GB News presenter Bev Turner:




https://www.politicalite.com/media/exclusive-rent-boy-who-made-allegations-against-dan-wootton-was-jailed-in-90k-blackmail-plot/

The article linked appears to be about the crime the accuser already referenced in their original statement

[MoreauVasz]

Lad admitted as much but he was done for extortion not slander.

If you rape a 15 year-old and the 15 year-old goes 'give me £10k or I'll go to the papers' they can be done for trying to extort money. That doesn't mean that the rape didn't happen in the first place.

[TrenterPercenter]

https://www.politicalite.com/media/exclusive-rent-boy-who-made-allegations-against-dan-wootton-was-jailed-in-90k-blackmail-plot/

The article linked appears to be about the crime the accuser already referenced in their original statement

That article is atrocious - "rent boy", "grassed on his own mother"

Lad admitted as much but he was done for extortion not slander.

If you rape a 15 year-old and the 15 year-old goes 'give me £10k or I'll go to the papers' they can be done for trying to extort money. That doesn't mean that the rape didn't happen in the first place.

I think you need to read the article - parts of it would be easy to substantiate i.e. dealing with police, other alias etc...

[jobotic]

It's legal to rape criminals now?

Oh fair play then Dan, you carry on.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I thought it was Beverley Turner's husband that had a brain injury

[Kankurette]

GB News presenter Bev Turner:


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Oh, she's an antivaxxer. Of course.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

All judges talk like that. Most annoying people on the planet. Fake job for failed comedians

I really like sarcasm and deprecation delivered in that deadpan and formal manner.

[Blue Jam]

That's pretty sassy for a judge innit?

Pffffft, you think that's sassy?

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/09/judge-who-swore-at-abusive-defendant-cleared-of-misconduct

[Better Midlands]

GB News comedian/presenter Leo Kearse weighs in and links to the same article as Bev Turner.

[BlodwynPig]

Fuck off this earth you daft prick

[TrenterPercenter]

GB News obviously isn't hateful

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Everything I don't like is Orwellian

[Better Midlands]

Laurence Fox

[dontpaintyourteeth]

All following the same script.

[Kankurette]

People accuse the GB News presenters of being tinfoil hat-wearing far right conspiracy theorists because they kind of are. Fucking hell, it's so bloody typical that my team's manager ended up in hospital with COVID complications and yet Fox is an antivaxxer scumbag and never once gets ill.

As for getting angry about grooming gangs when you've got a literal rapist on your show...that's some impressive cognitive dissonance. Rape is bad when Pakistani taxi drivers do it but fine when conservative journalists do it. The fact they're all defending him and acting like it's a leftie conspiracy is so predictable. And the 'curdling of democracy' is being done by the very government these people support.