Alan Carr - stuffs herb into mouth of team member who says she is allergic to it

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‘I used to say awful things’: Alan Carr on divorce, dating and the skit that haunts him | Alan Carr | The Guardian

Idiot. There is so much to say about this - power, control and a total lack of understanding of allergies.

"We’re in a big echoing loft with wood floors and he’s talking to his team as if they are all on stage and I – sitting in the corner – am the audience. He wants to know why one of them is picking bits out of her salad. He doesn’t accept that she’s allergic to coriander. Whoever heard of being allergic to coriander?"

There are six of us in this photo studio, including Carr’s manager, makeup, wardrobe and a publicist from ITV. He picks up the coriander and stuffs it into the mouth of the woman who said she was allergic. “See!” he declares, triumphant. “You’re not really allergic. If you were, you’d be dead by now.” He cackles. Everyone else cackles. It’s like the canned laughter of witches"

I just don't know what to say about this. Some allergies are less well known but still cause allergic reactions. And should be taken seriously.

Oh no. I like him and this is disappointing to hear

I can’t imagine anyone just stuffing food, and certainly not a food that someone is allergic to, in someone’s mouth. Sounds like assault, I’m wondering if it actually happened!? Or was it part of his act and the victim was also acting?

That would have instantly activated my "punch in the face" reflex, and I'd have been prepared to accept the consequences.

ahem

It doesn't say that though

yeah it does. A few paragraphs down.
I read this is the paper last week and it hugely put me off Carr.

Er yes it does. Read a few paragraphs further on.

Did you read the article?

"There are six of us in this photo studio, including Carr’s manager, makeup, wardrobe and a publicist from ITV. He picks up the coriander and stuffs it into the mouth of the woman who said she was allergic. “See!” he declares, triumphant. “You’re not really allergic. If you were, you’d be dead by now.” He cackles. Everyone else cackles. It’s like the canned laughter of witches"

Doesn't sound like an act.

Just sounds like getting ready for a photoshoot and an interview

It’s here.

That is obnoxious behaviour and, possibly, assault. I am not a violent person but if someone stuffed something into my mouth - particularly after I said I was allergic to it - I would take exception.

And people laughing as well.

I wonder if anyone called him out?

Yes, I read this last week and thought the same.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181617/amp/Fury-Alan-Carr-puts-coriander-mouth-allergic-woman-joke.html

Did you read the article and be cross, or read about it and then be cross? No snide, im always really interested in how much is public outrage driving opinion/publicity.

I have a DS who has allergies (some rarer than the well known ones) so it's made me really cross.

It's hard to get some people to take the lesser well known ones seriously.

I stand corrected

...several times over, apparently!

What a load of drivel. Is this the writing standard The Guardian is happy to publish now?

Dick behaviour. Absolutely. But surely more a dislike as if it was already in the food, and the person was picking it out, without any guarantee they'd get all of it then not an allergy. Couldn't imagine someone with a peanut allergy just picking g them out of their meal.

I am surprised that this got in the Guardian. Did no one think how that might come across?

Didn't he think how it might come across?

Stuffing food into someone's mouth is not on.
Stuffing food into someone's mouth that they have an allergy to? And then an article being written where it gets mentioned.

It's appalling behaviour by a star who I guess just thinks it's funny - I bet he wouldn't have done it to a bloke who could fight back. He just did it to a female member of his team.

It's a weird thing to do isn't it? I can't imagine why it would be amusing.

The Guardian then adds a cherry to the cake by describing the laughter as like witches' cackling. Nice misogynist touch there, Grauniad.

I'm pretty sure the writer knew how it would come across. But I thought when I read it in the paper it was a weird article - it just kind of described what happened but didn't then really follow up on it. Like the writer was going to write one.kind of article but then wrote another one.

Shitty behaviour but the story is very weird. I have DS and various family and friends with food allergies and there is no way they would just pick out their allergen from a plate of food and eat the rest.
But that's just my take on the wider story. Which doesn't detract from the fact that comes out of this as a hideous individual.

Vile behaviour.

It doesn't matter whether she was allergic to the coriander or not. He stuffed food into a woman's mouth. He is awful. All about power and control.

Can't stand the bloke, he is repulsive, but if she really did have an allergy to coriander then she wouldn't have eaten the salad at all surely. It was awful bullying behaviour but it wasn't going to put her life at risk.