How rude was Cliff Richard to Alison Hammond?! 😲

[Almost40andprobablynotfabulous]

Hi,

Had TM on in the background earlier and I was absolutely shocked at how casually rude Cliff Richard was to Alison Hammond. Not directly to her, but MASSIVELY inconsiderate and offensive nevertheless.

He was talking about the reason he missed his chance to meet Elvis and he explained that Elvis was overweight at the time and he knew he'd put up a picture on his wall of him and Elvis, but didn't want to if he "overweight and didn't look good" 🤨🙄 He went on to say something else not looking good if you were carrying extra weight and you could see how upset Alison was. She came back with something and tried to be humorous about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't want to call him out on it there and then. And obviously it won't have just been Alison who would have been offended by his clumsy, tone deaf comments.

Did anyone see it? So bad 🫤

What does that have to do with it? They were successful here, too.
That's how Cliff was able to copy them.

Flappers were 1920s so I don't get what you mean. They weren't teenagers

There were younger Flappers (as in women who followed that style of dress/'subculture, rather than just working women of a particular age.)

I meant that already, prior to 1950, not every generation was the same as the one before.

is he supposed to call the tv station ahead of his appearance to find out who is on and whether there are stuff he can’t discuss for fear of offence?

He could always just not body-shame anyone. Easily done.

Anything that might lead to Her Royal Gobness having less screen time can't be all bad.

He was among the first British stars??? Comprende?

Bobby socksers (or were they soxers?) in the late 40s and the 50s. I think they were mainly.Frank Sinatra fans

I agree with this - it had nothing to do with Alison and everything to do with meeting his idol and not wanting to be disappointed. She had no reason to be offended at all (if she was - I didn't see it to know).

What on earth are you talking about? You have zero idea what the raid was based on, same as the rest of us. You don’t know if those accusations are baseless any more than anyone else. That information was never released to the public. And he was never ‘found innocent’. He was never found anything because there was no criminal trial. Surely you understand this?

Also, how rude she was when Ant and Dec pranked her.

I think we all saw the real Alison then when she wasn't aware she was being filmed. She was horrid to the people she thought were working in the hotel.

@Treesinmygarden

I don't think Cliff Richard is any 'creepier' than any other singer of his vintage.

I agree. He's "of his time" which is why he's not particularly PC.

As for all the "he's a wrong'un" comments, I'd love to hear/see some real evidence. I judge people by who their friends are. Olivia Newton John was a well known close friend of Cliff for 50 years and no one has ever said a bad word about her - had there been even the faintest whiff of scandal about Cliff, she'd have had nothing to do with him, as she didn't have anything to do with several other "stars" who were well known to be genuinely wrong'uns.

It's too vague. You need to have actual evidence to make an insinuation like this. If you have valid reasons to believe something, report it. Don't start defaming someone online because they give you some particular impression.

But you're insinuations have absolutely no basis to them. Anyone can be investigated for anything. That doesn't make it true.

He just seems humourless and starchy to me

Elvis must have been shitting it when Tommy Steele released Little white bull, British pop was shit until 63 onwards.

To be fair to him he was in his late 20s when homosexual acts in private were decriminalised and there was still a hell of a lot of prejudice in the 70s and then in the 80s gay men were getting all the blame for AIDS. It is so much easier now.

@Northernsouloldies 😂😂

Again, so what?
His type of music was already popular and familiar before he made it. It wasn't new, even to Brits.
Verstehst?

He wouldn't have got compo from the police and bbc if there'd been any real evidence/reason for the raid!

Don't disagree

My insinuations? I haven’t made any insinuations. My post was my first post on the thread. And while I take your point that a ‘feeling’ isn’t enough to suggest that someone has committed a crime, whatever those allegations were, they were clearly sufficient to convince a Judge to issue a warrant. So sit down with your ‘baseless accusations’ and claims that he was ‘found innocent’ because you’re no better informed than anyone else. And not finding evidence to support a prosecution doesn’t make an allegation false either. None of us know for certain.

Not in some worlds

Football?

Whatever

As a British pop star he was HUGE

I don't know these sort of messages are still standing.

True but they aren't risking arrest so it was different back then. When I was working for the police I did lots of court files relating to gay men and cottaging. I can remember people like solicitors and head masters whose lives were ruined because they couldn't risk being openly gay and then got arrested when engaging in anonymous sex as the only choice they felt they had.

There was also some racism towards him, again more of an issue in the 60s than it is now.