Is there any celeb you feel sorry for?

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Watching one of mg favourite films again, (Easy A) and it’s got Amanda Bynes in it.

I still feel so sorry for her. She was so talented and I loved her movies and it’s sad to see how she is now. I genuinely hope she gets all the help she needs

Yeah he went out of his way to shake both their hands and was the only member of his family to do so. It was a nice moment that showed good manners, something I'd imagine were mainly installed by Melania and/or the nanny who brought him up because they're not certainly not something his father is ofay with.

Well they both had the knack for making things disappear...

I have a lot of sympathy for Bob Geldof, also Britney Spears.

I used to feel sorry for Les Dennis. He lives round the corner from me and always looks miserable but 2 of his snappy little dogs tried to bite my beautiful old retriever a few months back and he didn’t even apologise 😡

I haven't even bothered reading this.

Don't quote me and then reply with all this Karen bollocks.

Embarass yourself by all means.
I don't give a shit about what you've written.

I doubt the authorities expect anyone to believe it. They want people to understand that it doesn't matter to them what the truth is. As far is they are concerned she is disposable, not worth making waves about.

This is the case for everyone in accidents though ? They've just got more money & media attention

@qandatime Bob geldof is weird as fuck - got custody of his wife's last child against her grandparents wishes so she could be "raised with her sister's" then it turned out they were living in a basement flat raised cared for by nanny's & at least 1 had a drug problem (even before she overdosed)

His band wasn't even that big outside of his charity concerts he wouldn't be remembered this far along

Princess Diana - how different the monarchy would be had she buckled her seatbelt
Freddie Mercury - if there'd been a cure
Terry Hall - such a beautiful soul - left us with a fabulous music back catalogue

Utterly loved Freddie Mercury!

Had a chuckle when I was in Zanzibar and every tourist shop in Stone Town claimed he's grown up in that house.

Had a bar named after him too. And so he lives on. 😍

I personally thought the MET police tried to make a very big example of her almost like a kind of misogynistic payback. It seemed so to me totally overblown and was really widely publicised by the police although I hadn't followed the case in detail. I did feel sorry for her. No one is perfect and obviously she felt hugely shamed by the experience or she wouldn't have killed herself. I doubt a serial DV perpetrator (which she wasn't, I believe) would have felt that.

Poor, poor Sinead of course. She was my absolute hero growing up. 😥❤️🙏🏻

God yes, it was horribly misogynistic. And CF was working in that reality tv/manufactured drama world which goes absolutely hand-in-glove with the tabloids, so the coverage was extra lurid. And she was not well. She really needed people looking out for her mental health and I don't really think anybody was, not in a practical sense.

I can't believe people are minimising what Caroline Flack did. She beat her sleeping boyfriend over the head with a lamp.
Apparently he was covered in blood and phoned the police saying that she tried to kill him.

It's absolutely right that she was charged and it wasn't 'misogynist payback' - what the fuck?

The blood was from her self-harming after the attack. Iirc she didn't hit him over the head - she hit him though. She was absolutely not in her right mind! The reporting of it and the use of the photo the MET took at the scene were outrageous. Sorry you just believed it.

She admitted to it to the police. She demonstrated how she hit him and according to the trial, he had a significant injury to his head.

I can find nothing from the trial which says that the blood was hers. Can you link that please?

Correction: it was his head but it was a tiny injury (not a lamp). The whole story is so bloody sad. She was mentally ill and he was a horror. Details of the evidence in this article.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/02/15/closure-for-carrie-how-caroline-flacks-mum-is-still-fighting-for-truth-four-years-after-her-death/

That contradicts what was said in court. She allegedly flipped over a table and had to be restrained by police. She told police she 'whacked him round the head' and it was said that he was left with 'significant head injuries.' There would be evidence of the injuries and witnesses.

Well, I don't know what to tell you. This lot do their reporting far, far better than the tabloids do it (they're investigative journalists not shock headline grabbers). Her flipping a table or having to be restrained by police doesn't inform what the actual assault (the 1cm cut) was, anyway, does it? She was obviously not in a fit state.

What you can tell me is facts backed up by evidence. You can't just make things up in a court of law.

If she was too ill to be responsible for her behaviour, she wouldn't have stood trial. From what I understand, she had BPD and had form for this kind of behaviour. She was described as 'manipulative' and obviously couldn't control her temper.

I'm not going to rake her over the coals, however perpetrators of domestic abuse shouldn't be excused.

If she was too ill to be responsible for her behaviour, she wouldn't have stood trial

I don't think that's true

I feel sorry for those who have jobs that have put them into the public eye yet aren’t “celebrities”, they have to deal with so much when out with their families. Newsreaders, weather presenters, journalists etc.

one person who was really lovely was Alex Jones (One Show) who was really friendly to the mostly older people saying hi when she was out with her family, I would never approach myself!

I saw him in the tour of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons a couple of months ago, he worked so hard all evening like the rest of the brilliant cast. He also does daytime TV, adverts/campaigns, social media and sings at 90s revival shows, etc, all year round. He works for his money and always comes across and a nice (slightly cheesy guy). He parents his eldest two because Katie can't. Hes happily married and has a lovely family he is a young popstar survivor

I think P&J are actually back living with Katie now - they're what, 17 and 18 and I suppose have chosen to move back with her. Unfortunately I don't think the youngest two are with her.

I feel very sorry for any child actor/children of A list celebs.
I remember reading about Carrie Fishers childhood and it was such a mess. Her parents had to get married as a child out of wedlock wasn't something the Studios could accept. Her dad then left after her brother was born for Elizabeth Taylor.
Her mum - Debbie Reynolds - was a fine actress and singer and was quite business savvy but had dreadful taste in men. Carrie's step father bankrupted the family.
Debbie was still doing shows right up until a few months before her death which was days after Carrie's.
Carrie was so talented. An Oscar winning scriptwriter and editor and actress. Her books are hilarious.
She was an alcoholic and drug addict for most of her adult life.
She married a gay man and had a daughter.
She had only just turned 60 when she died of a cardiac arrest.
For someone my age, she will always be Princess Leia.
Obviously, you have also got the victims of the big Studios...Judy, Marilyn, Jayne, Liza...all plied with drugs from a young age. Some of them forced to have abortions.
Hollywood or the music industry hasn't changed, really.
Harvey Weinstein was able to abuse young women in plain sight. I remember hosts of awards shows used to make jokes about him.
Everyone knew. And everyone kept silent.
Currently, I think Ariana Grande looks very unwell.
Justin Beiber also seems to be not doing well.
And, of course, Britney.
I don't really know anything about Harry Styles, but he seems a bit out of it whenever I've seen footage of him.
I'm glad that people like boyzone and Robbie Williams are now openly talking about what happened to them as young men/boys in the industry.
I'm quite old, and I remember Cory Haim and Cory Feldman in films in the 1980s.. CF tried to talk about the abuse they both suffered and he was accused of trying to "damage the industry!"
CH died young due to years of substance abuse.
So sad.

@groovylady

I feel very sorry for any child actor/children of A list celebs.

Yes, especially the ones who think it's "normal" life and just assume they're going to follow in their parent's footsteps to be a successful/famous pop star, actor, sports person, even politician, and then crash and burn when they don't make the grade, as they've nothing to fall back upon as the nepotism aspect will eventually weaken.

I have immense respect for the close family of famous people who actually carve an alternative lifestyle for themselves, i.e. a good job/career, steady relationship, normal family life, etc., outside of the "luvvie" lifestyle. It must be so hard for them to break away from the lifestyle and live a "normal" life, but a lot healthier without all the pressure to succeed.

Obviously even harder if the sleb parent is pushing them into the same kind of lifestyle and they've got to fight against it. Not so bad if the sleb is more open minded and "encourages" their child to explore alternative lifestyles, but some of the time, the parents themselves don't seem to understand what alternatives are out there. Then it needs a very strong minded child/young adult to break away and do their own thing.