Aibu to think he’ll struggle coming back from this (Ant)

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What a stupid boy. Worth 60 million and doesn’t get a taxi. I just don’t know how he’ll come back from this latest fiasco (drink drive car crash hits 3 year old).

They’ll both come back as a double act again. People love them.
I don’t think Dec will struggle havinf a bit of a break with his £65 million.
Do think it’s strange he hasn’t been charged? Presume that means when he blew at the station he was under the limit so they’re waiting for blood/urine or he wasn’t over the limit?

London, money can buy peace of mind I think but when celebs have such huge wealth it doesn't seem to buy them much apart from grief and heartache it seems.
Seen this too many times over the years ( from what I've read and seen) Makes me wonder if it's the pressure, the fame as well? It's tragic as they should have such nice lives and a lot of the time a few don't seem to be able to hold it together for whatever reason. He clearly needs help. Putting others at risk isn't right either of course.

Experience tells me that alcoholics 'top up' repeatedly. As they are under the influence decision making goes awry and they make really bad decisions, taking risks.

Ant seemed unsteady when he got out of the car (news clips); that sort of 'slow motion' movement that people under the influence display thinking none of us will be able to tell they are drunk.

Perhaps this is the case here rather than over the limit from the night before.

They both need to retire and go off to Spain, and count their cash, time for new faces on itv, not the endless stable of them, Pip & Chip, etc, same boring faces.

Okay. Im going to throw a new spanner in the works. Not excusing anything, and im a big Ant and Dec fan, but i feel sad to think that if he hadnt had infertility struggles with his stbxw then maybe his story would have played out really differently.

Have been at a crossroads recently, makes you think.

Ant, get off the tredmill. Life is good. There is no need for such accolades.

I thought the same blue anchor about being unstable.

I’m sorry but he looked completely off his face getting out of the car and not in the shock of being in a car crash sort of way

You're right FerrisWheel and I wonder if the people around him care about what's right for him or do they want to perpetuate the Ant and Dec brand?

Yeah Eliza.

He should do what his Mum tells him. I bet she wishes hed sell up and move to the sticks.

Funny to realise that they arent really stars but tight cogs in poisonous wheels.

It’s just sad having it all play out in front of the press etc- so much heartache.
Drinking and driving should never be condoned though and what happened could have avoided. he seems to be going the same way as Paul Gasgoine/ other celebs who end up on a spiral of self destruction.

I read today on Pinterest something like 'if you can believe in Santa for ten years then surely you can manage to believe in yourself for five minutes.'

Im not so pleased with myself right now. Thrown my pig of a stbxh out. Have 3 small children. Am overweight. Not fit. Out of the loop professionally. Knackered. Etc. Etc. Etc. Quite the opposite of Ant and the demons he feels trapped with.

I guess we are all prisoners inside our own head.

Flying

Yeah. Its sad isnt it.

All the plans we make to change and improve. All the sadness we harbour and stagnate alongside. All the promises that tomorrow will be different because of the next corner we turn, or pay cheque earn. (Scuse the rhyme).

Stars live beside the clouds and the rain and the thunder.

I hope that this near miss is a blessing in disguise.

Pip & Chip

For a minute I thought you were talking about Biff, Chip and shitting Kipper - they give me the full hulk rage!

*Flying

Yeah. Its sad isnt it.

All the plans we make to change and improve. All the sadness we harbour and stagnate alongside. All the promises that tomorrow will be different because of the next corner we turn, or pay cheque earn. (Scuse the rhyme).

Stars live beside the clouds and the rain and the thunder.

I hope that this near miss is a blessing in disguise.*

Seriously? Sorry I'm not belittling your experiences but why are you romanticising a fairly ordinary, squalid tale? Man with too much money and fame takes drugs, divorces wife, end up causing a crash. He's not some tragic Greek hero, he's just a man whose name you know.

Exactly pp.

All these 'young kids' out looking for their magical 15 minutes of fame so their lives will transform and they will become some such Greek heros.

When you are exactly right, he's just someone whose name we know.

Same shit, different day. Probably really expensive toilet paper. Thats the lesson. I think.

Remember ages ago when Rylan was in Big Brother? Well i remember him saying this long exaggerated speech about how everyone in the whole country knew him and his responsibilities... And i remember thinking how he was so wrong because for a start i am the only person in my WHOLE family who watched shit like that on the tele.

If i inadvertently romanticised it i didnt mean too. My intention was to do quite the opposite.

Ferris

It was the stars bit that did it 😂 too much

It's just all the (Not you!) excuses, the sympathy, the angst, the maybe this, maybe that. It's just the same story a lot of people live. There's nothing tragic and brave there. It's just we know who this bloke is. Maybe he'll be a Paul Gascoigne or a George Best, maybe an Amy Winehouse, maybe a Peaches, maybe he'll recover and be a straight, sober old man. Just like loads of people with no fame and no cash, who don't get any sympathy or second chances.

Ha Noeuf!

I do wish him well though. I can only imagine it is an ego thing keeping him and the rest of them in there. I mean the rest of the itv bunch. Is it the money? The adrenaline?

I love Graham Norton. I think he is great. But ive heard him say that he hopes he isnt stuck in years to come listening to the same boring stories feigning interest.

So why is he? Why do they stay?

Remember Angus Deayton and who would ever replace him? A non problem.

Not forgetting Michael Barrymore. Actually what did happen to him? After that awful stuff? Am off to google.

Man with too much money and fame takes drugs, divorces wife, end up causing a crash

Many years ago, at the height of rather futile "Just Say No!" moralising, there was a programme on Radio 1 which played records by dead pop stars for deaths were drug-related. I can't remember whose records were played, but you can get a sample of the people they could choose from here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pop_musicians_who_died_of_drug_overdose

Chrissie Hynde, who knows a thing or two about musicians dying of drug overdoses, pointed out that it was a dreadful idea, because it plays to the endless myth of the tortured artist whose brilliance is "inspired" by drink or drugs . She said that her younger self would have listened to the programme, listened to the record and gone out and got some heroin in the hope of writing songs half as good. Emmylou Harris has said similar things about the mythologising of Gram Parsons,

It's in a sense a helpful corrective to see that most of the time being an entertainer with a monkey on your back doesn't leave you writing "I Don't Want To Talk About It". It leaves you staggering out of a Mini on a Sunday afternoon, with your mum yelling at you.

The video certainly doesn't look good for him. However I read an interview with the family and they have said the little is okay just a bit shaken up. Glad she's okay.

I felt sorry for him after it all last year however now I don't. And I like ant and Dec.

Michael Barrymore never came back from that. Sordid though, rather than squalid.

Agree, mythologising this stuff is daft.

actually, yes I do get why they keep going. What else would you do? It would be 'didn't you used to be...?' And the ego would die a little bit.

I don't want to see him on TV again. Why be so irresponsible and total disregard for safety. Everyone knows the dangers of drink driving. These people could have all died because of what he did. And with his money why not get a taxi or employ a driver. I don't see why the other half of the duo should suffer. he's done nothing.