Injunction against ITN by a well known individual?

[TheRealSmurfette]

Who is it?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/16/well-known-individual-tries-to-secure-permanent-injunction-against-guardian-and-itn

No ! 😢

Eh?

Are you sure?

Most seem to think it was a Laydee...

Not David Jason surely?

I'm old enough to remember Ernest Saunders, Guinness scandal (financial misdeeds) Sentenced to 5 years, served 10 months and was released because he had Alzheimers Disease.

Not long afterwards he 'recovered' and is still around best part of 40 years later. Remarkable and I would imagine, unique.

We need to be very careful about the rich having recourse to different treatment and protections than the poor have.

Witch hunts were carried out against women who had done nothing wrong.

Whoever it is, I wonder how bothered he was about the damage caused to the mental health of his (alleged) victims?

But it wasn't the plagiarism that made headline news.

It's not Barbara Streisand is it 😎

Don't you mean 'Laydee'?!

I think its a clue/hint , I dont think anyone would actually type that meaning what you think it does!

Exactly.

If it's who everyone thinks it is, they have threatened to self harm if they don't get this injunction but they also refuse any MH support.

You can't have it both ways, especially when facing criminal proceedings.

Yes, Cliff was found innocent; but at least it would be a comfort to him, if he wasn't innocent, that he has loads of money in the Kitty and so could easily afford his own super-injunction if he had ever been in a position to need one.

Didn't this fail spectacularly with a previous SI - whereby the man concerned took the trouble (and cost) to apply for one, but it was only in force in England & Wales... so one of the Scottish papers (and their website, of course) openly published all of the sordid details of what he'd been up to?

What about the ones who do?

It's an interesting one legally. Being at risk of suicide does not stop you facing the law. But this case is not about that, but about a paper publishing allegations. I will be interested to read the judgement.

Because the majority of newspapers are saying 'Well-known man'...

As much as I don’t agree in the right to life justification, I do think this thread is an example of why it should potentially be withheld, as these are allegations. But people are posting like he’s a convincted criminal

at the moment he’s not ever been convicted of a crime, and as much as I don’t agree the right to life justification I also don’t agree someone should be treated like a convicted criminal simply due to allegations.

I've heard a few people who have met him at conventions in the last few years say he's "gone a bit pervy, in his old age."

For whatever that's worth, so it wouldn't suprise me.

Although judging from the posts here I think that's not the person the guardian mean.

Yes, a man who was very well-known for playing a laaaay-deeeee.

If he's so concerned, maybe he could just not harm himself.

Now, are you sure?

Who was that ?
can you say ?

One of two Laay-deees...

In long frocks, riding bicycles along the sea front and one of which had a beard...

I wonder what Matt Lucas is doing since he left Bake-Off..?

Ryan Giggs.