OT, but probably of interest

[squiggle-bat.livejournal.com]

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.

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Comments

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Ok, I checked myself. Apparently the usual, no evidence except woman's story and the jury didn't believe her. I also read somewhere that she later admitted telling a lie, but that was only one source.
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.

[squiggle-bat.livejournal.com]

Heh, as if there needs to be more reasons for a delay.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

I think it was delayed because he was in prison, and so actually unable to act, rather than it being a moral issue or whatever. Of course, he was proved innocent, so it SHOULDN'T be a moral issue. But you know how the media business can be.

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.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Yes, I also understood it was because he was simply not available, and that the producers believed in him. But I guess they could not take a chance starting anything as long as he was out on bail either. Even if they did not beleive the claim, he could get convicted.
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...