Jonathan Ross

Fucking spot on!

There are more safeguarding policies and signposting with grass roots football teams than there are in the ‘entertainment’ industry

Let us not forget the evident joy on Ross's face when he banished Lucy Beamount in that show - was that because he knew she was anti his mate, Brand?

Okay, okay - but it does make you wonder what the celebs talked about over orange juice and croissants at the breakfast table; they all seem to exist in the same circles.

Are you so rude and nasty in real life?? Perhaps I totally misread the situation but there is no need for such a nasty over the top response. Sad really that how you spend your life.

JR is clearly a verÿ bright man. That was obvious from Traitors. The idea he disnt know anything about anything is ridiculous. You dont survive as long as him in showbusibess unless you are wily and vlever and good at self protection.

Lucy Beaumont is absolutely right to be raising this.

Every studio, every tv company, every production company, every programme/series/film should have a safeguarding policy and procedure and trained designated safeguarding leads that collate and pass on all concerns to local authorities if children/teens/vulnerable adults are involved.

I'm amazed they don't - everywhere else that works with children, teens and vulnerable adults has a set of safeguarding protocols.

Yes, she did really well. And it just highlights the complete lack of safeguarding that there wasn't even a clear way of raising her concerns. So much of what has gone on would have been avoided by having basic safeguards in place. Why on earth are young people going into people's dressing rooms? Our local amateur theatre company has very clear guidelines about who is allowed in what dressing room ie no children / young people in men's or women's and vice versa. That's just really basic. Similarly interactions with fans; celebs just shouldn't be following up with them, everything should go through their fan club, if support is to be offered eg work experience, then it's something their PA or someone in an official capacity should be sorting. All 'talent' should have this explained to them, it wouldn't be difficult to put them all through regular online training like the rest of us have to do. And as for model agencies passing on contact details, again, half this stuff completely avoidable. Of course Walliams is responsible for his behaviour but the complete lack of thought or direction around any of this is what made it so difficult to act and made young women think it was normal. Why on earth were the book publishers quietly preventing young women being alone with him instead of bringing in a clear code of conduct which he had to sign and then as soon as he broke it he could be dropped?

I know the answer is money but that's just not good enough. Proper safeguarding is what is needed. It's not perfect and these dodgy blokes will always keep trying to find a way but absolute clarity on what is unacceptable, how to prevent it, how to report it and what will happen when standards are broken is what would make the biggest difference.

That’s great! And neither have I!
What industry are you in?

His interview with Nicole Kidman was also vile.

Agree. If there were more people like Lucy these men wouldn't get near a TV programme

I’m old enough to remember this and her age raised eyebrows even at that time.

Again you are totally misreading the situation - possibly deliberately! Aisling Bea was being primed by JR's question to deliver a pre- prepared bit of comedy ( apparently actually part of her stage act apparently). The still talking line was said to Joe Marler not JR. Do you have these comprehension difficulties in real life?

Lucy Beaumont’s interview was amazing. She needs everybody’s support on social media to make sure she is not cancelled by those in the industry for being a ‘trouble maker’. She said clearly that she didn’t know whether allegations were true or not, and she hadn’t personally seen anything, but she knew she had a duty to report only there was no where for her to report properly and she went to the Guardian. What a woman! Wonder what her ex husband thought of this?

I seem to have successfully worked for many years without anyone reporting me for anything...

I’m not the first to mention it on here, but will re-iterate that he actually ‘joked’ about Walliams’ proclivity for underage girls when hosting the 2004 British Comedy Awards -

”The comedy awards is 15 years old – 15 years old! And like most 15-year-olds, it's drunk, it's unpredictable, and it's probably going home with David Walliams."

I really don’t think he’d have made such a comment had it not been an ‘in’ joke in their circles, based known behaviour.

No. It’s absolutely not. It is my and many others experience in the work place.
what IS spiteful is the little darlings reporting their colleagues for anything and everything. This then forces Companies to investigate and the victim is suspended. They are ruining lives.
it is an inability to manage their working lives and manage themselves as an adult.

Chris Evans / Billie Piper

I stayed on a caravan park years ago and the 7pm entertainment was the Chuckle Brothers. The place was full of children. Their act was disgusting and over the line and I walked out with my children. The rest of the audience were laughing whilst having their own children sitting on their laps. Not saying The Chuckle Brothers ever did anything

I nearly walked out of a DB comedy show once. The only reason I didn't was because I was right in the middle of a row. But I wasn't the only woman sat there in stony silence.

Agree. Sachsgate was awful and showed exactly who he was.

And he cannot claim he didn't know DW had a thing for preying on teenage girls when we can all see he is in a photo with DW who literally had his arm round one of the girls in question

It wasnt that common and it did raise a few eyebrows at the time, she was known as a 'wild child'.The press had a bit of a field day with it. But then, she was legal and they are still together now.
What people are forgetting is JRs disgusting comments he left on Andrew Sachs answer phone alongside Brand about his granddaughter, he was just as bad, if not worse than RB in that incident, which makes him a bit of a ringleader in my opinion.

So if a script writer,likely less close go DW knew,then it was fairly well known in their circles? Doesn't help JR much

I wonder if posters whose main argument is “back in a day/back in my days X was normal” would ever understand how weird they sound

So they really can't win. If they stand up for themselves they're "babies" but if they don't, they're to blame for being abused/bullied.

I am older. There is a certain kind of older person who thinks rape and sexual harassment isn't real. It's just women and sometimes men not standing up for themselves