Famous people with criminal records

[GabbyLoggon]

I sort of find them more believable than goody goodies.

Duncan Ballantine... .and Stephen Fry did time when young...over not too serious things.

Both have recovered and made fortunes.

[southeastastra]

there's criminal records and doing time!

can't say i'm more impressed with people just cause they've been in prison :S

unless you count mick and keef i guess

[GabbyLoggon]

Its about credibility

[DontLetTinselDragOnTheFloor]

You can only be credible if you have been convicted of something??

[AMumInScotland]

Do you extend the same opinion to people you know in real life, or is this just a prejudice against people you've never met who happen to have lived their lives without attracting the attention of the police and courts?

[Saltatrix]

Because no one can just be a good person without being a criminal first right...wait that doesn't seem right...

[southeastastra]

i just read stephen fry nicked a credit card and did time for that - he must have been a bit thick to do that imo

[GabbyLoggon]

I am talking specifically about the famous.

who tend to plug the nice side of their life.

at a personal level I dont search out people with life long criminal records

I dont have convictions but I take a serious interest in the law

[AMumInScotland]

Some of them could actually be nice - such people do exist you know, even when they are famous.

[GabbyLoggon]

AMUM

thats true enough, but at the top, it is competitive, tough cookies survive, you almost need to be one with the tabloids about.

No one calls Sugat sweety pie

[TondelayoSchwarzkopf]

Gary Glitter
Jonathan King
Leslie Grantham
Chris Langham
Phil Spector

Gotta hand it to those loveable rogues.

[SixtyFootDoll]

snort at Tondelayo

[GabbyLoggon]

I was thinking of youthful criminality,rather than the people you are expert on Tonde

No one has mentioned Jeffrey A....

[GabbyLoggon]

GRANTHAM.L is an interesting case. It did not stop him doing well

[TondelayoSchwarzkopf]

My chair is in The Tropes of the Bay City Rollers NOT Gary Glitter Theory as well you know GL.

[HecTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly]

What is your AIBU?

Are you asking if it is unreasonable to be impressed by celebrities with criminal records or to think that they are more credible than those who have led a more lawful life?

Yes. It is. Very. Criminal behaviour is nothing to be impressed with or to admire.

That attitude is everything that is wrong with our society.

[littleomar]

what did leslie g do?

didn't johnny vaughan once spend time at hm pleasure? (drug related)

[slug]

Don't forget Cheryl Cole. Her conviction for assume does not seem to have held her career back.

[slug]

ASSULT, not assume

[sharbie]

lg - murder littleomar - nice.

[mayorquimby]

it might still yet if her American work Visa gets held up

[getabloodygrip]

Was going to add Cheryl, let the Americans scupper her, please, how does everyone call her the people's darling? She is a fright with clever PR, oh and also a pretty unpleasant conviction with suspicious motives behind it.

Numerous footballers, too many to list.. all still get paid squllions !

[ragged]

Doesn't one third(?) of the working population have a criminal record? Which they can never escape now due to CRB check system.

When DS got duffed up at skate park I declined to press charges precisely because I didn't want a 14yo getting tagged for life with an assault record.

[lololizzy]

LG murdered a German taxi driver..as i recall, that's why Eastender was never shown in Germany

[lololizzy]

what did Stephen Fry do?

[Saltatrix]

lololizzy
ran off with a stolen credit card