Eamonn Holmes is a bit of a know isnt he

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Asking a rape victim why she didnt take a taxi.

Knob!

Way to go on the victim blaming by that husband.

Because being pissed in a cab is so much worse than being not pissed threatening someone with sexual violence. [hhmm]

I saw EH interviewing a woman recently. She has suffered permanent brain damage following a medical problem, which has left her speaking with an odd, slightly foreign-sounding, accent and other issues similar to those experienced by stroke patients.

He was asking her if she could 'put on' an English accent if she tried and if she had any insights to offer English people abroad who don't speak the local language. WTF? this woman is suffering from brain damage and she and her partner deserved sympathy and respect for dealing with the problems they are experiencing - not Mr dickhead Holmes' thoughts on funny foreigners.

They had a horrible relationship Woooooooooppity - I don't know if they're still together but I hope not. Mind you, I think sadly his attitude is probably not that unusual. My DP doesn't tell me off, but if I'm going out without him at night (shock horror!) he often gives me a firm 'now you be careful' accompanied by a stern look. I often ask him just how I'm supposed to 'be careful' - apart from not jumping into unfamiliar cars and not wandering off with strange men In my DP's case, I know he's just being 'protective' but it still makes me feel like a child. I don't issue him with stern warnings when he's out without me and that's not because I don't care about him!

piprabbit, that is so clueless and insensitive and idiotic, it's almost funny. That is surely just off the scale of asshole behaviour!

Holmes had a great opportunity to affirm how clever and brave she was during what was a horrendous ordeal. She had the presence of mind to plant DNA evidence - I really don't think I would have thought of that, and I'm well over twice her age. He could have sympathised, but also talked about how her actions brought the rapist to justice and so protected other women.

But no, he chose to belittle her and imply she was guilty of contributory negligence. That is NOT the same as a kindly dad giving protective advice to a daughter. He inflicted psychic violence on a rape survivor. I'm sure he is justifying it to himself as well-meaning advice, but he (and people like him) need to be pulled up on this.

And now I hear about the retard and gay parent stuff - well, twat doesn't begin to describe it, does it?

Almost funny - but not quite Josie.

BTW - I do give my DH stern warnings when he goes out on his own for a bevvy with his mates. He is probably statistically more likely to be attacked in some way than a woman and I feel better if he catches a cab from the station. He persists in doing things his own way - but it doesn't stop me telling him to take care .

YANBU completely agree with the OP and most of the posts on here. He's just unbelievable.

Did anyone watch the interview? I did, and I'm not really sure how to put this into words, but I have to say, it almost had a light-hearted feel about it. I was watching it whilst ironing and stopped to concentrate because I was caught by the slightly strange tone taken, given the seriousness of the subject matter.
The girl was lovely, and they did that zooming right in on her face thing, to see if she looked upset/started to cry, but she didn't go into matters too deeply at all, gave skant detail about what happened, even when pressed, and spoke very normally, almost in a chatty way, about the ordeal.

I think Eamonn picked up on this and was trying to put the girl at ease. It seemed to me she was trying to put this behind her and had shut it off a little in her mind - the focus of the interview was really what she did to catch the perpetrator (left DNA evidence in form of her hair/spit after seeing it on CSI - clevel girl). I do honestly think it was just Eamonn's way of putting her at ease, whilst offering what he thought was well-meaning advice.

I'm no supporter of him, the man's clearly a buffoon, but having seen the interview in its entirety, some of the headlines taken out of context do make it look like he was beng flippant - at the time it didn't come across that way.