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Ariana Grande groped at funeral

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Arcadia · 01/09/2018 08:36

Aretha Franklin funeral bishop accused of 'groping' Ariana Grande apologises - Sky Newsapple.news/AOQmxnEikRYi9TpSgePf17A

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MsBeee · 06/09/2018 20:18

Eeeeeeeeewwwww. Jesus who of us hasn't had this shit.

supersop60 · 06/09/2018 19:39

So - is he going to get struck off? Or has his apology absolved him?

NothingOnTellyAgain · 02/09/2018 20:35

I know it's appalling.

fleuriepeninsula · 02/09/2018 17:33

Louis CK is vile but his skit “You always know a tit” is absolutely fucking true.

I can’t believe that Ariana is getting the heat rather than this disgusting lechy preacher. A man of God, my arse.

WhatTheWatersShowedMe · 02/09/2018 17:05

So at the funeral of the legendary female singer of RESPECT a young woman is sexually assaulted in front of an international audience by the priest? We truly are in the hell dimension.

powershowerforanhour · 02/09/2018 13:48

Gross. I hate hate hate the accidentally-on-purpose tit grope disguised as a hug. Almost always inflicted on girls and young women by older men, in social situations where they can't make a fuss even when they wish they could snarl, "Get your filthy hands off me our I'll break your fucking fingers, creep". Yes Ariana we've all been there and we know why you didn't say anything.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 02/09/2018 11:42

We've all had times when we go to hug someone or shake hands and accidentally touch the wrong bit. You apologise and pull your hand away.
You certainly don't start moving your fingers up and down the area

Mrbatmun · 02/09/2018 11:32

This has made me so cross. A woman can't even avoid being groped when she is on international television at the funeral of a huge superstar with literally millions of people watching.

But apparently women have nothing to fear from letting men into their changing rooms and toilets?

Juells · 02/09/2018 11:26

From the video it looks like she's trying to force his hand away by pushing down with her elbow, but he's not budging. Pressing so hard that it must have hurt. What a wanker.

IDontEatFriedTurtle · 02/09/2018 11:15

So, after making a joke about her Latino name, he apologises for touching her breast with "maybe I crossed the border"

Black American preachers aren't known for their racist leanings. It's a common phrase but if he were stupid enough to be making a joke I doubt highly it would be about Trump's wall and would be most likely about the Taco Bell tagline "make a run for the border". I don't think he would be stupid enough to do that when he is clearly trying to back peddle desperately and keep his job though.

he is a vile man who sexually assaulted a woman on TV and that's enough without people trying to read things into that aren't there.

MrsTerryPratchett · 02/09/2018 00:04

In the situation he knew she couldn’t react as she was in front of so many people.

And he was at a funeral talking about his child. She felt she had to behave appropriately and he just didn't. Utter shit.

annandale · 01/09/2018 23:58

He hugs all the artists? How many of them hug him?

'We are all about love' - oh fuck off you assaulter.

ErrolTheDragon · 01/09/2018 23:52

Wolf in sheeps clothing.

Nowadays we're realising it's not uncommon for a dog collar to be clothing a wolf.

StorminaTCut · 01/09/2018 23:08

Wolf in sheeps clothing.

Arcadia · 01/09/2018 21:27

Just watched the video, made me feel sick. The word 'grope' is somehow so minimising. When you 'grope' in the dark, you are feeling around not knowing what you are looking for. It makes is sound accidental, almost.

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RowenaDedalus · 01/09/2018 21:24

That video is so much worse than the photos. That horrid, horrid man.
Poor Ariana.

IamReginaFalange · 01/09/2018 21:19

Haworthia - yes and I think she’s probably thinking ‘shit I am on tv with (however many 10000’s people watching) what shall I do?’

IamReginaFalange · 01/09/2018 21:17

I just realised my earlier post meant I blame the women - I don’t of course!
I meant the society wants us to be polite and shut up and not make a fuss.

Haworthia · 01/09/2018 21:17

Eurgh, my skin in crawling watching that. I’m really glad this is blowing up. Some of the Twitter responses are depressing though - why didn’t she move away, slap his hand, say something? The usual victim blaming crap.

Whereas any woman knows she was thinking: “does he know he’s doing that, shit, maybe he doesn’t, maybe his hand will move away in a second, god I hope it does...”

StealthPolarBear · 01/09/2018 21:16

Bar :(

barnacharmer · 01/09/2018 21:15

As for what she was wearing, after telling my mom about an incident like this, 'Yes, but you are a very sexual person.' I was on my way home from work in a school in school appropriate clothing

IamReginaFalange · 01/09/2018 21:14

I am fed up with women being worried about not being polite to say anything when something like this happens.
In the situation he knew she couldn’t react as she was in front of so many people.
Vile pig Angry

barnacharmer · 01/09/2018 21:12

Ugh, so many time their hand has been too high or too low but they always do it in a whoops, I didn't realise way. Seeing it done so publicly just makes me think all the times it's happened and I was too young/ not confident enough to tell them to fuck off. How can you be confident enough to sexually assaulted women with so many witnesses/ the whole fucking thing on camera???

StealthPolarBear · 01/09/2018 21:07

Especially if their trousers were tight. They're asking for it.

StealthPolarBear · 01/09/2018 21:07

Presumably he accidently squeezes the mens groins? It's so easily done and no harm meant.
No? What a shock.

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