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Michael Barrymore

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ChairsAndStairs · 06/02/2020 21:29

I’ve always wondered why his career was so badly damaged by what happened at his house.

It was awful that a man died, but he was never found guilty and it was never proved that he was in any way involved - as far as I remember.

He was so popular before and had a really strong career. AIBU to wonder why people turned against him so quickly?

I don’t mean this to be a goady thread, just generally wondering why he was the ‘only’ fall guy for what happened.

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KatherineJaneway · 15/02/2020 13:26

@Lalala205 Unless they were all in on it, which I find hard to believe but stranger things have happened.

Someone mentioned how awful they found Barrymore in the documentary, what about the News of the World journalist!

tigger1001 · 15/02/2020 16:08

@KatherineJaneway the news of the world journalist was just scum. Just an absolute vile example of a human being.

Hairydilemma · 15/02/2020 16:20

He was horrible wasn’t he? Like he’d had his morals surgically removed.

NemophilistRebel · 15/02/2020 20:23

The police made silly mistakes - was one of them paid off?
The first pathologist was apparently a specialist in drowning and said clear case of drowning when two other specialists and clear evidence says otherwise - was he paid off?

Is this why MB sued Essex police for £2m to recoup some of the gag money he’d been spraying around the place

Ginger1982 · 15/02/2020 23:14

Watched this tonight. He 100% knows what happened. If he didn't do it then he should be man enough to say who did and the fact that he hasn't makes me believe he was involved in some way, probably with the other 2 men that were arrested.

Big kudos to Terry Lubbock for his dignity. If that was DS, I would have made it my life's work to ensure Barrymore's life was an utter misery. Everywhere he went, everywhere, I would be there.

KatherineJaneway · 16/02/2020 08:02

Barrymore has never managed to get back to anything like his previous career which I think is a punishment of sorts. His series of theatre shows flopped, Celebrity Big Brother did bring him back to public attention but no major jobs came from it and he was arrested the next year so would have likely lost that job anyway. Supposedly he was due to be on Dancing on Ice but this documentary scuppered that.

Not the truth about what happened or a jail sentence but at least he isn't on our screens like nothing ever happened.

Eesha · 16/02/2020 08:09

They all seem to have stuck to the same script. I believe he paid all the people off. If he didn't do it, he would have been the first to throw the others to the dogs.

Babybel90 · 16/02/2020 08:24

I too thought that if the Lubbock family had been a little less rough around the edges then it would have been reported differently and perhaps investigated a little more thoroughly, I really hope they get some justice soon.

It seems strange to me that he would pick out a straight man in a club to take back to his house, I mean I can see why Stuart went, just to say he’d been to a celebrities house but why would Barrymore want him there in the first place?

I’m very surprised that no other men have come forward to say they’d been invited back previously as I doubt it was a one off.

category12 · 16/02/2020 08:33

Stuart was quite good-looking. He probably thought he had a good chance that he might be a bit star-struck, and drugs and booze might bend those boundaries.

Ginger1982 · 16/02/2020 09:01

As the scummy reporter said, it probably would have been different if Stuart had been a girl raped and murdered.

As for the others, if he did pay them off, I don't know how they live with themselves. Surely no amount of money would be worth it.

MzHz · 16/02/2020 09:05

Which is why the reward needs to be a whole lot bigger. Someone knows.

Nowayorhighway · 16/02/2020 09:19

The NOTW guy was bloody horrible, a sociopath I reckon. He just seemed to be completely robotic and uncaring.

billysboy · 16/02/2020 09:35

there are people that know more than they are saying for what reason I dont know
The thermometer disappearance has never been explained and the horrific injuries that Stuart Lubbock sustained have never been clarified

Barrymore is just one of these odious individuals that just craves attention all of the time

He needs to come clean and help in any way he can whilst also keeping out of the limelight

SimonJT · 16/02/2020 09:37

See if the police knew I was perverting the course of justice I (like all of us on here) would end up in prison!

KatherineJaneway · 16/02/2020 10:40

See if the police knew I was perverting the course of justice I (like all of us on here) would end up in prison!

You wouldn't if they can't prove it. Each person in that house says they don't know what has happened and there is no physicval evidence to prove them wrong. We know a pool thermometer is missing but who took it and when cannot be proved. Therefore I suspect the Police have theories but can do nothing about it formally. Also I doubt the Police work when the case started was thorough so opportunities were clearly missed.

SouthWestmom · 16/02/2020 10:44

I don't think the police were paid off - all the mistakes were made before the anal injuries were found. By then other people had come and taken evidence, Barrymore had fled the scene, and it was thought to be a drowning.

As for his career - he came second in CBB (wtf? Who was voting?) then broke his wrist as DoI was about to air, is exchanging pleasantries with his partner on Twitter, has appeared on piers Morgan where he was allowed to twat around and the audience all cheered him on, and Philip Schofield was apparently offering him the suggestion of work on This Morning. He hasn't recovered but he's not exactly a pariah

category12 · 16/02/2020 10:49

Yep, I'm glad about the documentary so it puts TV companies off "rehabilitating" him entirely. Wasn't it interesting that part of the reason is the amount of swimming pools in ad breaks?

i don't understand why we always have to have these people back - isn't there enough new talent that they could take a chance on getting traction with the public rather than bringing back the disgraced?

SouthWestmom · 16/02/2020 18:57

I don't know , they seem to like familiar faces. Maybe it's cheaper to have a few people on contract to do loads of stuff.

Ginger1982 · 16/02/2020 19:17

"As for his career - he came second in CBB (wtf? Who was voting?)"

I remember watching it. The clash between him and George Galloway was great.

SouthWestmom · 16/02/2020 20:08

Yes but clearly the public are forgiving, he almost won the thing.

MarthasGinYard · 16/02/2020 20:10

I remember it well Sad

buttonmoonb4tea · 16/02/2020 20:14

Everyone I've spoken to have said they've gone off of MB after the documentary and the consensus is, he knows a lot more than he lets on.

But yes shocking that he nearly won CBB but I think at the time the public were under the impression that it was a party at his huge mansion with much more than 8 guests and just weren't aware how absolutely gruesome SL death was.

Remember it was the year after CBB that he was arrested so the public really didn't know the details especially given the coroners open verdict

category12 · 16/02/2020 20:14

Well, as this thread shows, people forget or just think Stuart drowned - a lot of posters have said they didn't know the details. So I don't think it's not a case of the public being forgiving.

category12 · 16/02/2020 20:19

I don't think it's a case of the public... argh. Extra not I didn't intend. ^

Picoloangel · 16/02/2020 20:36

Place marking - I always thought he was involved and the documentary pretty much proves that. When was the other documentary about this aired?

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