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The tide is turning on two-faced tv stars

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Biggestpizzaiveeverseenjesus · 10/05/2023 20:22

So says Rylan Clark

He claims some people in the industry aren’t nice and polite, like they portray themselves to be and behind the scenes they treat people badly…that people are starting to see through it now and all will be revealed…

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the80sweregreat · 30/05/2023 10:05

I used to like Alan Carr and read his first autobiography, which was funny , but that interview in the Guardian on Saturday has put me off him a lot. I admit I liked his chat show with the big drinks globe, but I haven't seen him on tv for a while since and I don't really follow him or anything.
The coriander stunt the journalist witnessed was awful though.
It appears from this interview his another one who isn't that pleasant to be around.

IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook · 30/05/2023 10:48

LadyEloise1 · 23/05/2023 09:35

@Wombastic re his first wife - I thought that also but don't know when that ended and the RL one began. Did they overlap ? For all i know it could have been amicable.

I am the friend of a friend of one of EHs first wife's cousins, so have this on decent authority, but can't vouch that it's the gospel truth. Anyway, my two penneth based on what I've heard said:

EH quietly split with his first wife in the early 90s- 92/93ish- not long after the birth of their third child. He and RL started going out a few years later- maybe 96/97ish- but kept it on the DL out of respect for EHs first wife. My understanding is that his first wife instigated the split simply because they'd grown apart; he was in London all week for GMTV and she and the kids had a separate life back in Belfast that he wasn't a part of. They'd been together since they were at school and she had no interest in leaving NI and starting a new life with the kids out in London once EH got the GMTV gig.

Once they split EH apparently said he would never divorce her if she didn't want to be divorced as she's a NI Catholic (I think he grew up Catholic too) and- at that time at least- there was a different attitude about divorce. EH and RL then went on to have a child of their own in the early noughties and didn't think they'd ever marry, but then Mrs. Holmes I met someone new and asked for a divorce after more than ten years apart from Eamon, after which E&R decided to marry and RL became Mrs. Holmes II.

As I say, might all be bollocks it extremely positive PR amongst the chattering classes of Belfast, but it doesn't sound outlandish to me.

Romeiswheretheheartis · 30/05/2023 11:21

I watched that programme where Alan Carr and Amanda Holden did up a property in Sicily and thought he came over well, funny and self deprecating. But he sounds awful in that Guardian interview, so arrogant, with everyone laughing sycophantically. The coriander incident was shocking.

MayThe4th · 30/05/2023 13:35

Alan Carr did a q&a with the Gurillas at Pryzm nightclub in Kingston recently, He turned up drunk, and walked off after twenty minutes.

the80sweregreat · 30/05/2023 13:39

Such a shame about Alan carr :(
I did love his first autobiography and he seemed to be one of the more normal celebs who didn't take himself too seriously tbh.
Seems they all become high maintenance eventually :(

LadyEloise1 · 30/05/2023 15:27

Thank you @IJustHadToLookHavingReadTheBook.
I do hope that's the true version rather than a "sanitised for good publicity" version.
If he and wife 2 had been cheating it would put a different slant on their public persona.

stayathomer · 30/05/2023 18:10

the80sweregreat
Such a shame about Alan carr :(
I did love his first autobiography and he seemed to be one of the more normal celebs who didn't take himself too seriously tbh.
Seems they all become high maintenance eventually :(
So you like a celebrity, a person on the internet says something about them and you don’t like the celebrity any more?!

the80sweregreat · 30/05/2023 18:51

It was the interview Alan Carr did with the Guardian journalist that made me feel that he isn't that nice. As others have pointed out on here too ( there is a link below to the article online )
I've never met him and was a fan of his chat show and one of his books, but, it appears , he has a dark side. (Only going by what I have read and that one article admittedly tbf. )
However , as someone who keeps on seeing these celebs and hearing about their fall from grace , I'm tempted to not actually 'like ' any of them. It does feel as if tv is littered with many narcissistic personalities and dubious characters of all kinds. It's quite depressing really.

MouseMinge · 30/05/2023 20:27

I found the coriander thing really annoying because I'm one of those people who doesn't eat it because it tastes like soap to me. Other than that I thought he came across as both a bit of a dick at times and really pretty much okay at others. I'm a fan of Interior Design Masters which he presents and find him just about okay. I think he's right in his comments about some national treasures being arseholes but us needing them to be nice and then feeling as though we've been lied to when it turns out that they're not. We forget that the entertainment business is a business and that a lot of people who make it to the top are very probably at least a semi-arsehole and that's how they got to where they are. I think that the biggest take from that interview is that at no point is he pretending that he's some lovely nice chap with not a bad bone in his body. There's no pretence which has a lot to be said for it.

PS, on the other hand, relied on being seen as Mr Nice and the fact that he's the opposite of that is what's destroyed his career. That and underage grooming.

newnamethanks · 30/05/2023 22:15

I don't care whether Alan Carr is nice or not. I do care that he put hands on his staff and stuffed coriander into the mouth of the one who had said s/he was allergic to it. That is an assault in anyone's terms and could have caused serious, even fatal, injury. He is an ignorant, bullying, oaf. Anyone who thinks that's acceptable behaviour and that its OK to do this to someone, is wrong.

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MayThe4th · 30/05/2023 13:35

Alan Carr did a q&a with the Gurillas at Pryzm nightclub in Kingston recently, He turned up drunk, and walked off after twenty minutes.

Weston Favell boy. Should have gone Duston. Less appear drunk, more in your face drunk shouting out for a line.

LadyEloise1 · 31/05/2023 08:20

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nunsflipflop · 02/06/2023 01:11

PS has given an interview to the scum newspaper. I was a bit sick in my mouth

JoanThursday1972 · 02/06/2023 09:57

Why does his wife continue to put up with him I ask myself? I'd be long gone.

the80sweregreat · 02/06/2023 10:03

I can't imagine that him and his wife actually live together any more. They are wealthy enough to have separate homes. I can imagine she is lying low somewhere , I know most people would.

Mrsjayy · 02/06/2023 10:23

In the bit of interview I saw he said his children were supporting him no mention of his wife she has maybe quietly separated from him.

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