OT, but probably of interest
Jun. 20th, 2006 11:16 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
Craig Charles: crack addict?
Bloody Hell, I opened up the paper today and was confronted with a full page spread on how Craig Charles was caught doing crack cocaine and reading porno mags while being driven around.
The original article is here: Though it's from the Mirror, a red top shock-tabloid with intent to find the most slanderous gossip about soap stars possible.
The exclusive snaps show Charles on a four-hour bender in the back of a car travelling from London to Manchester after he completed his stint as host of a funk show for the BBC digital radio channel Six Music.
Evening Standard (where I found it) says this:
The grainy images show the Liverpool-born actor making a makeshift crack pipe from empty beer cans. He becomes gradually more wild-eyed and dishevelled and eventually slumps down across the car seats.
And the BBC site says:
And the BBC said Charles would not host his radio show on 6 Music while managers talk to him about the claims.
I'm not quite sure what to make of it. the poor guy, he's screwed himself over royally.
xposted to my journal
Bloody Hell, I opened up the paper today and was confronted with a full page spread on how Craig Charles was caught doing crack cocaine and reading porno mags while being driven around.
The original article is here: Though it's from the Mirror, a red top shock-tabloid with intent to find the most slanderous gossip about soap stars possible.
The exclusive snaps show Charles on a four-hour bender in the back of a car travelling from London to Manchester after he completed his stint as host of a funk show for the BBC digital radio channel Six Music.
Evening Standard (where I found it) says this:
The grainy images show the Liverpool-born actor making a makeshift crack pipe from empty beer cans. He becomes gradually more wild-eyed and dishevelled and eventually slumps down across the car seats.
And the BBC site says:
And the BBC said Charles would not host his radio show on 6 Music while managers talk to him about the claims.
I'm not quite sure what to make of it. the poor guy, he's screwed himself over royally.
xposted to my journal
no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-20 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 02:41 am (UTC)*gives up trying to be optimistic & just hopes Craig doesn't fuck up royally*
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 08:01 am (UTC)Something in the BBC article made me curious and I just have to ask if anyone knows more about this: someone I know once told me that one of the RD actors had been accused of raping a woman, and that this was ridiculous because the actor in question was gay and he was therefore cleared (not that rape has anything to do with sex). The article says this was Craig? Wouldn't that have been all over the tabloids?
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 09:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 09:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 09:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 05:20 pm (UTC)I have pretty strong (unrelated to each other) feelings on sexual identity and sex crimes, though. ;)
(FWIW, I'm in the camp that sees sexuality as a continuum with a fair bit of flexibility, which is why I write slash.)
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 05:51 pm (UTC)But I was not really arguing that it was a way to avoid a rape charge, only that the person relating it to me obviously thought that it was a wrongful accusation from a women who did not know the actor in question was gay. And the last seems rather unbelievable now that I know who it was (despite earlier discussions on the list, this is about the real life person).
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:18 am (UTC)Craig, a friend, John Peploe, and a third man, Roger (who was never traced) were accused of taking cocaine, indecent assault and the rape of Craig's ex-girlfriend (Esther Harman) at her Clapham flat in July 1994. Craig denied the charges, saying he had visited her, but on the spur of the moment after celebrating his fiancee's birthday, to get a bacon butty. He spent 3 months in Wandsworth Jail, where he suffered abuse from the other inmates. He was denied bail until he was attacked (but not injured) by an inmate using a homemade knife. He stayed with Liverpulian relatives until the time of the trial as part of the bail conditions. Snippets from tabloids say he was greeted by his girlfriend and taken off in a chaffeur driven limo. The two week trial was held on Feb 1995. They were cleared as no forensic evidence had been submitted for the rape, though he admitted to taking the cocaine she offered him. The jury took only 90 minutes to find him not guilty.
This website has newspaper articles about the trial itself, including one Craig wrote himself in the Guardian (5th down):
http://www.eskimo.com/~onan/tardis/SotRT_News_012.html
Here's the others I looked at.
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5849/rd/craigc.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3055859.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/08/99/edinburgh_festival_99/411618.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/british-comedy/general-faq/part3/
http://www.eskimo.com/~onan/tardis/SotRT_News_004.html
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 05:17 pm (UTC)No reason why it should. This is about the fandom, we can not expect everyone involved in it to be perfect, especially since nobody is perfect. (and who has not made a mistake in their life?)
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:21 am (UTC)Anyway, we should get back to our regular program. Sorry for derailing things further from topic.
Interesting thing I didn't know though, was that the rape case is part of the reason for the long delay in producing series VII. Question is what this event now may mean for the plans(?) of a movie.
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 12:18 pm (UTC)This though... Who knows? I just really REALLY hope he accepts the help he has been offered (just read that he apparently was offered re-hab by the Corrie producers) and that he gets better. This is no way to live.
no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 03:54 pm (UTC)I would also think in this case it would not as much be the morals as much the producers wanting to risk a drug addict as the movie lead. In showbiz things usually comes back to money...
no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 12:30 pm (UTC)