Ross & Brand

[Teagan]

I have to agree, Aladdin. As much as I did not approve of the incident, there are FAR more important issues that should be making the headlines.

[SuzyCreamcheese]

i think if the daily mail were so concerned about Manuels sensibilities, they wouldnt have printed out her myspace semi-pornagraphic pictures alongside the story.

I also think someone who really gives a toss about not offending their family wouldnt plaster those pictures on the internet in the first place.

I think what Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand did was bad, but i think the reaction has been well over the top.

[Teagan]

Originally Posted by SuzyCreamcheese

i think if the daily mail were so concerned about Manuels sensibilities, they wouldnt have printed out her myspace semi-pornagraphic pictures alongside the story.

I think the Sun did that, didn't they?

[SuzyCreamcheese]

did they do it too?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...andfather.html

[Jim V]

BBC has suspended them - here's a statement from Mark Thompson (The BBC Director)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7697354.stm

[I'm With Stupid]

Jesus Christ, how pathetic. Can all of us who pay their wages now complain that we're not getting the programmes we've paid for?

[ShyBoy]

Originally Posted by I'm With Stupid

Jesus Christ, how pathetic. Can all of us who pay their wages now complain that we're not getting the programmes we've paid for?

I've just done exactly that

[Aladdin]

[StupidGirl]

^^ Got to agree.
Especially can't believe that Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been getting involved...haven't they got more important issues to be dealing with at the moment?!

[Naturegoddess]

Originally Posted by StupidGirl

^^ Got to agree.
Especially can't believe that Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been getting involved...haven't they got more important issues to be dealing with at the moment?!

No.

[Bri-namite]

I love the way the grand daughter sold her "story" to The Sun (effectively saying she did shag Russell Brand) yet still tried to take the moral high ground.

Her and others keep going on about him being 78 years old and elderly, as if it was a) deliberate cruelty and bullying against an old person, and b) as if he wouldn't have given as good as he'd gotten if he had picked up the phone.

It's not some random bloke they picked from a care home, there was a reason he was supposed to be on the Russell Brand show and it wasn't exactly to debate cheaper energy bills for the elderley was it?

I hold the daughter in contempt, she's actually as bad as JR and RB because she's milking what happened to her pops for all it's worth. She wants to be seen as the one who got those two sacked.

Some folk must have far too much time on their hands to complain about a radio show they never heard. If they get sacked then you're aswell closing the BBC channels at 9 every night and filling the schedules with George Fornby on his ukelele or something.

Saying that, Brand is a loser so I'd have put in 1,000 complaints just to get him off the payroll.

I think I've just disagreed with myself. Ah well.

[Aladdin]

Originally Posted by Bri-namite

I love the way the grand daughter sold her "story" to The Sun (effectively saying she did shag Russell Brand) yet still tried to take the moral high ground.

Her and others keep going on about him being 78 years old and elderly, as if it was a) deliberate cruelty and bullying against an old person, and b) as if he wouldn't have given as good as he'd gotten if he had picked up the phone.

It's not some random bloke they picked from a care home, there was a reason he was supposed to be on the Russell Brand show and it wasn't exactly to debate cheaper energy bills for the elderley was it?

I hold the daughter in contempt, she's actually as bad as JR and RB because she's milking what happened to her pops for all it's worth. She wants to be seen as the one who got those two sacked.

Some folk must have far too much time on their hands to complain about a radio show they never heard. If they get sacked then you're aswell closing the BBC channels at 9 every night and filling the schedules with George Fornby on his ukelele or something.

Saying that, Brand is a loser so I'd have put in 1,000 complaints just to get him off the payroll.

I think I've just disagreed with myself. Ah well.

The double standards of the press are quite shocking aren't there. As someone was saying on another message forum, Jeremy Clarkson has managed to insult entire races and nations on BBC programmes (which any sane person would agree is more 'serious' than playing a tasteless and cruel prank on 1 man), but you won't hear a murmur of protest from the BlackMail or the S*n. What with Clarkson being 'one of them' and whatnot...

[I'm With Stupid]

Russell Brand has quit the BBC. I can't blame him really. I would've done the same after the pathetic pandering to the reactionary press by the BBC. Ah well, the BBC's loss will be some else's gain.

[SuzyCreamcheese]

probably go back to channel 4

[Flashman's Ghost]

Personally i hope any decent chap seeing Brand would punch him in in the face. Boasting about your conquests, when they haven't agreed you can is so low it is beneath contempt.