ext_90518 ([identity profile] squiggle-bat.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] reddwarfslash2006-06-20 11:16 pm

OT, but probably of interest

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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[identity profile] nessaancalime.livejournal.com 2006-06-21 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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...