AIBU to think that if Justin Lee Collins goes on Celeb BB

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We should just throw the fucking towel in and say come on everyone violence and abuse to women is fine. We fucking deserve it, pile it on. Because obviously you can do anything to women and just get on with your life afterwards

I'm a tiny bit angry about this and I don't even watch the damn thing, what message is this sending out???????

Link to Daily Mirror warning this has voice recordings of some of the things he said to his girlfriend on it

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The names of the celebrities going into CBB haven't been released yet as far as I know. There's always talk beforehand but no-one knows until the list has been officially released.

Why do you sign your name at the end like that?!

Sadly this is all too common, I think one of the guys in Corrie went to jail for rape, Mike Tyson is still working, R Kelly, Chris Brown.... the list goes on and on.

No, it shows how shit BB is and how desperate they and JLC are. Personally I'm more concerned about the message Rihanna and her abuser/partner are sending out to young girls/women.

It has form in this respect though - we had to sit through michael barrymore's self pity over the Lubbock affair.

It's just pure voyeurism - don't watch it. I don't.

It says a lot about the producer who thought 'hey let's get JLC in, he'll cause a stir'

I don't watch it but he'll be all over the tabloids probably still pleading his innocence no doubt , if he's going in that is.

Domestic violence to women is plain wrong. But so are many other crimes, are we saying nobody who has committed a crime is allowed on television again? Or that domestic violence to women is particularly worse than anything else?

Wow, so being found guilty of harrassment is now considered a career move.

Nice.

What an odd thing to say Wheres. If he had been as abusive as he was to anyone I would say no he shouldn't be allowed on television again.

Yep - banning is absolutely fine with me. Not banning tacitly condones what someone has done.

I've seen it with sports presenters, singers and other celebrities. Being a wife-beater is something thats brushed under the carpet as they're just such decent chaps in all other respects and of course, she must have done something to deserve it....right?

Well no, I don't think a convicted criminal should get to go on a television show.

Stan Collymore's got a nice pundit job. He beat up Ulrika in public.

I agree it says a lot about the producer of this show

but to ban him from ever appearing in tv again i would also have to throw out my John Lennon/Beatles cd's, my Steve McQueen and Roman Planski films amount others

I would rather he was not on tv but I am not a fan anyway but more credible artists abusive behaviour is often over looked

But thus isn't a Polanski film - it's a celeb shit-fest.

Well that's bloody ruined it for me already and I shan't be watching it in Jan. He's a see you next tuesday if ever there was one.

FFS Sleb BB producers, we want washed up old has beens and the deluded ones off of Towie and Chelsea not the fecking likes of Justin Lee Collins.

I know what it is and I think it is wrong he is on there he will either use it to prove how he has seen error of his ways or that he is really a nice guy and it was all blown out of proportion

what I am saying is banning him from working on tv if I agreed with that still listening to John Lennon, watching Chinatown I would be a hypocrite

it's difficult to seperate the two I struggle with it

For me, it's his refusal to believe he did anything wrong, he shouldn't be given a platform to continue to plead his innocence, if indeed he does do that.

He'll go on to try to rebuild his career, fine but seeing as he thinks he's innocent, well it does leave a nasty taste in the mouth seeing as we all heard his rant at his Ex.

abusers do not see they are wrong they will always justify it

Some may do after a lot of work on themselves and wanting to change but this takes a long time

This could be used as lesson on how an abusers mind works either way it goes we will see that he is a nice guy this is what we will see but to use him as an example would be great it is just getting the right platform and getting the message across but what paper/tv show is willing to do this

YANBU. I dont usually know too much about celeb stuff, but did see and hear about him. I thought he was a good behaviour guy. Cant really tell from tv can we.

As for what Wheres said.
When people say "well, what about x", when everyone else is talking about "y", does not make "x" any better. They can both be wrong.

Completely think it's wrong, and agree he is clearly going to use it as a way to make his case, which must be awful for his ex. Just raises the question that if you do something wrong can you never go back to your old job? Tv is really his job, does that make sense? If he worked in a shop, would he not be allowed to do that. Don't really know what the right answer is. People do awful things every day and go back to the same work, but maybe celebrities sign up for harsher punishments in terms of there future earnings being jepodised?
In no way defending him, just makes me wonder

The timing is wrong for one thing. He would have to be very remorseful, and I suspect he isnt. Or if he is, only because it has/will badly affect his career.