AIBU to find the comedian Katherine Ryan's turn to the right surprising?

I can well believe that. No, I just wondered if she’d changed the spelling for showbiz reasons!

I may well have spelled it incorrectly, it’s of little relevance to me - sorry if it annoys Katherine!
I probably do have a book’s worth of juicy gossip, but enjoyable as my time in comedy was, it was in the end just a job. My point is really that one should never be surprised in a negative way at whatever many show-biz types come out with. When you’re dealing with people regularly on a professional basis, you soon get a feel for who is a genuine human being and who is simply egotistical and/ or only in it for the money. There are some lovely performers in the industry, but there are plenty of C U Next Tuesdays too - it’s not always easy to tell from their TV personas.

That’s not true, here is what the the BBC reports:

“GMP said it had spoken to officers at all 45 polling stations, none of whom received any reports, other than from Democracy Volunteers.
Out of the 45 polling stations, 41 said they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with official advice.
Of the CCTV reviewed, police said there was no evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote.

Volunteers were unable to provide descriptions of those allegedly involved, or timings - and no details were documented by observers.
"We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election - 26 February - who have shared with us their eyewitness account," police said "This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters.

"The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations.
"The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote."

"The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry," police added.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxeqpzz2no?app-referrer=deep-link

I've spent time living in Canada. There is quite a conservative culture away from the cities. Her husband fits the mould - I bet he likes hunting, guns etc. He seems like a nice enough guy, but is a grifter and quite right wing.

At her core she is a small town girl who got by on big boobs and a job at Hooters. She got lucky somehow in the UK, but ultimately I bet she's also quite conservative/MAGA deep down.

Your childhood forms who you are. And she grew up in a small town Ontario. It's basically the rural midwest.

is Catherine her name, not Katherine?

Please tell more about her early days on the circuit! And any other comedy gold

No supporting evidence was found because polling offices obviously don't have cctv in the booths which makes election fraud extremely difficult to process by the police. I don't believe the independent officials and polling staff who reported family voting occurred are liars. But now we have the misinformation that it was just the far right being bad losers because shits and giggles for the team matter more than ethics and integrity. The family voting may have been for Reform for all anyone knows, it doesn't matter who it was for anyway. How we've fallen!

True. I wasn't comparing him to Kate Bush. Your post just got me musing on the ability to seperate the artist from their work. I'm also a Bowie fan. And i think Rock and Roll part 2 is a banger. So I'm rather good at it.

Morrisey has expressed support for Tommy Robinson though, as well as other stuff. I think it went far beyond liking Theresa May.

We've all got our different lines in the sand, I imagine and he's crossed an awful lot of them, sadly, for a lot of people.

I'm a huge Smiths fan. I love their work. But I loathe the very bones of Morrisey these days, and i do care. Thank goodness for the ever lovely Johnny Marr.

I don't care if Kate Bush liked Theresa May and voted Tory, she's a genius who has influenced my life. I am a dyed in the wool Socialist who has Tory friends, though

If she started coming out with insane conspiracy theories around spaceflight (based on her husband's views) I'd think less of her, but she hasn't.

Katherine Ryan is an unfunny prick.

Having known Catherine when she was establishing herself in her comedy career in the UK, I’m not surprised in the slightest. Back then it was certainly all about Catherine and as her career blossomed it was quite apparent that behind her strong woman message and ascerbic wit, she hadn’t changed.
Don’t ever be surprised to find that favourite TV personality’s persona is all for show - it is quite literally Show Business for many!

That bloke was her high school sweetheart…who suddenly became re-interested when she got famous.

I’m not saying the two things are connected, but if I was her, I’d wonder.

It was investigated and no evidence was found, despite questioning officials at all the polling stations in question. Reform absolutely asserted it was a fix because they couldn’t accept losing fair and square.

The 'right' didn't claim it was a fix, official independent election observers in Gorton and Denton reported numerous instances of family voting but nothing was done about it because there was no cctv to identify alleged offenders and so on.

But neither of those are examples of well known people being criticised for their perceived voting intention.

Also, as someone from an area with a very large Muslim population 'family voting' as its euphemistically called has been an issue for decades. I can remember the Guardian writing about it in the 90s back when they did good investigative journalism cared about women's rights.

Nah that’s not true. See the recent vote where the Greens one and the Right was claiming it was a fix and there was cheating.

Same when Londoners voted Sadique Khan again.

I don't really think anyone who has read her book would be surprised at her views. She's from a very conservative part of Canada, worked at Hooters, etc.

I made this point earlier - do as I say not do as I do.

I was a fan for years, I saw her live , just when things were starting to turn, I loved the show but there were a few bits that didn’t sit right with me, didn’t feel as feminist as I’d thought she was and her tweakments were ott to me.
now she’s like a completely different person altogether.
im no longer a fan.

'Someone said she kept her ‘integrity’ over Russell Brand.'

She kept her money. She said why should she end being 'unable to feed my children'. I found that a bit distasteful as at worst she may have found herself slightly less rich.

She rinsed him a bit on the telly but did fuck all really.

I picked up on the Jimmy Carr thing too. Someone said she kept her ‘integrity’ over Russell Brand, but she doesn’t stand up to Jimmy over his rape jokes.

She’s playing the cool gf to the gallery.

Yeah she's a dickhead. When Trump said, 'Quiet piggy' to a female journalist, KR said, 'Well to be fair to him we don't know how fat she is'.

Yes yes, everything is material and we must know how to take a joke bla bla etc etc.

For me that was a horrifying moment in history (along with all of the others). She's quick and intelligent and could have said a hundred other things but no, it had to be that. At one time it would have surprised me but not now.

It smacks of performing to the misogynist men in her professional circles. Look at me Jimmy Carr I'm a good girl I won't support other women or care about the situation of women in fact I will actively do them harm please like me.

That and the wilfully brainless way she talks about her time at Hooters and how her manager would let her leave early if she sucked him off but that was fine and in no way exploitative or abusive.

It's an extremely transparent performance.

I think she can do/say what she wants to. If she isn't hurting anyone. If that's what people don't want, they won't pay to see her. She can be left wing, right wing, whatever....Live and let live...

Who gives a shit? She’s hardly influencing people.