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.

xposted to my journal

Comments

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

I know... I was really angry this morning, an emotion quite alien to me. I don't quite know why. Now I'm just worried for him. :/

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Ja, we've been talking this over in a friend's journal. There is little to say beyond the inadequate Not Good. On so many levels.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I think part of it is that there is some tabloid yellow journalism going on, and he's going to get dragged through some mud (I mean, is porn illegal now? hello, *raises hand* guilty). But crack ain't hard candy, and if that's the case, there's some business going on that has to be dealt with.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. (How many times have I said that today? Heh.)