Noel Clarke sexual harassment allegations, suspended by BAFTA

[Cwenthryth]

www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/apr/29/actor-noel-clarke-accused-of-groping-harassment-and-bullying-by-20-women

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Especially galling that BAFTA was seemingly made aware of this before giving him his very recent honour. I watched his acceptance speech and found it really moving in terms of celebrating a working class black man’s success in a historically white industry. Turns out he’s an (alleged) sexual abuser. Fucking great.

@Cwenthryth

This is all BAFTA have said so far www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/statement-29-4-2021

“In light of the allegations of serious misconduct regarding Noel Clarke in The Guardian, BAFTA has taken the decision to suspend his membership and the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award immediately and until further notice.”

Seeing as it is clear that BAFTA were aware of these allegations before giving him the award, they really need to be saying more than this and apologising for their actions.

100% BAFTA continued with that award because of the media coverage they'd get as a result. Well they've got more than they expected now...

I'm still reeling from Justin Lee Collins, the cuddliest, most self effacing man to appear on telly. The court found that he had controlled his girlfriend to the point of making her sleep facing him, and she wasn't allowed to look up off the floor in pubs.

Nothing on telly is real, just nothing.

But OK, Adam Hills. If he's vile to women I'll be actually let down.

I'm still reeling from Justin Lee Collins, the cuddliest, most self effacing man to appear on telly
I was NOT surprised about that. I always thought he came across as a twat.

I can't say I'm surprised about Clarke either. I've always found him rather un-self-aware and lacking in humility. (I do know that doesn't automatically make someone a sexual predator and is a bit irrational).

BAFTA's sweeping it under the carpet is shocking. They have to be held to account for that.

At least it ruined Collins career. I think this will end Clarke's too. But there are SO MANY of them out there.

@MrsTerryPratchett I would DIE if anything came out about Patrick Stewart!

It was upsetting when accusations about Geoffrey Rush as he’s one of my favourite actors. He won’t the defamation case, but I don’t know if that proves his innocence. It doesn’t really. But it doesn’t make him guilty either, so hard to know what to believe.

I stopped watching anything with him in it ages ago when the reports came out about him sacking white production crew as he said the jobs should be filled with black people.

Discrimination only works one way eh?

That article... it just keeps going and going! What a shitbag. (I was amazed to find out that he's 45 as well, always thought he was a young 'un).

I am so disappointed. And angry. All these women being treated so appallingly over so many years. Disgusting. So many incredibly brave women have come forward. How many more are today going over incidents in their head? This is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

And disappointed because NC was in the ideal position to raise up others. Everything he has done to support young BAME people in the industry is now completely trashed. We now see that he used his position to satisfy his own agenda. Horrible, horrible man.

His career is over. He has young children who will one day learn all about this. Adam Deacon called it right all those years ago.

@IntermittentParps

I'm still reeling from Justin Lee Collins, the cuddliest, most self effacing man to appear on telly I was NOT surprised about that. I always thought he came across as a twat.

I can't say I'm surprised about Clarke either. I've always found him rather un-self-aware and lacking in humility. (I do know that doesn't automatically make someone a sexual predator and is a bit irrational).

BAFTA's sweeping it under the carpet is shocking. They have to be held to account for that.

I wasn't at all surprised by Justin Lee Collins.

The biggest disappointment for me would be if anything bad came out about Dave Grohl.

I'm still reeling from Justin Lee Collins, the cuddliest, most self effacing man to appear on telly. The court found that he had controlled his girlfriend to the point of making her sleep facing him, and she wasn't allowed to look up off the floor in pubs

He's also the creep who talked at a public awards ceremony about Frances Barbour "giving him the horn"

And what's worse Frances Barbour took it as a compliment.

Justin Lee Collins [the hirsute TV presenter] was given an award.

'I've never met him, but I've seen him on TV. At the end of his speech, he said, "Frances Barber, can I just say you give me the horn."

'I've never been so thrilled in my life. I was reeling with gratitude

'I've had it with men!' Actress Frances Barber on having her heart broken six times www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1236644/Ive-men-Actress-Frances-Barber-having-heart-broken-times.html?ito=native_share_article-top

I've always had what I thought was an irrational dislike of him, despite being a fan of Dr Who and his various films. For me it wasn't a moment of being surprised or disappointed but realising 'that's why!' Perhaps I'll start trusting my gut more one of these days.

I can’t be surprised by it anymore.

20 women speaking out because if one or two had accused him they would have tanked their careers and still been ignored. It takes 20 women to be believed.

Even his one role I’ve seen him in, Dr who wasn’t impressed just a an idiot trying to impress, but back to reality how many more are there hidden getting away with this behaviour.

Jaime Winstone posted something on her Instagram which suggests she was a target of similar treatment from him : (

I've just read the Guardian article and want to say thanks to them for publishing it. And even more thanks to the women who spoke to them.

Let's get this thread back onto active.

@Nightbear

I can’t be surprised by it anymore.

20 women speaking out because if one or two had accused him they would have tanked their careers and still been ignored. It takes 20 women to be believed.

This ^.

It's shameful that it takes so many women for it to be taken seriously. And you are still having people say but where is the proof?

What do people really think of women when they can claim that twenty of them would lie about sexual assault?

What on earth do they think the reason would be?

There's a lot of blind support for him on twitter, people who are refusing to believe these women would come forward - but just who would risk giving their name for a fake allegation? Be massively helpful if others like Jamie W come forward now too.

Oh and my no not ever don't you dare is also Saint Dave of Grohl!

thanks guy, that's really appreciated. I tell people often what he did during a writers room, and what he did to the female actress, but its always shrugged off as just one of those things. He has power, he represents a voice.

The thing is, he hides behind this shield of being the face of inclusivity. Whilst not realising that he's the worst advert for it, he undermines it in fact. You can't bang the drum for inclusivity - which we all must - and then be a misoginist prick.

Fun story though - he told us all that he had just taken his wife and three boys to disney and flown them all first class.

A few weeks later but complete coincidence, i was getting my nails done by a virgin air hostess who supped her income by doing freelance manicures. Anyway, we were chatting about the show i was on and she laughed and said she'd just flown back with Noel Clarke. He's sat in first class, his wife and three kids flew coach. Says it all.

I have just finished reading the Guardian article. I am really shocked to be honest, although I know I shouldn't be. The women who have spoken out are brilliant, he could have gone on and on doing this if they hadn't.

Nice tweet from Michaela Coel showing her support.

twitter.com/MichaelaCoel

Yes, he's yet another example of someone talking the loudest about inclusivity and diversity while using his influence to abuse and humiliate women. It's got to the point where I am automatically suspicious of those men who are so keen to talk about their own virtue.

And for all his TWAW guff, I bet he wouldn't be sending dick pics to one.

It's a rough read but that article is a fantastic piece by the guardian.

Shows the value of sitting on a story until you can put together each part of it, the rebuttals and then the counter rebuttals.
It absolutely spells out each abusive incident, his attempts to justify it dismiss them at the time and his attempts to now question the credibility of them in such a haphazard manner.

I appreciate that this isn't always possible and I'm not saying papers shouldn't print stories where it's one woman's accusation etc but they obviously knew they had the overwhelming evidence and were in a position to put together an incredibly damning piece where not only do the women's accounts damn him, his own official responses are transparent and not credible.

Everything that he knows could possibly be documented like the snapchat stuff becomes "it's unlikely he'd have done that" type replies, where when it's clear it's one word against the other he's all off a sudden adamant that they're completely fabricated.

Another man hiding in plain site.

Another powerful institution enabling him.

The women coming forward are brave. I hope that they are all ok.

I hadn’t heard of him until I heard his interview on Saturday with Claudia Winkleman on radio 2 and I did think a few things he said were really odd. He said something like he has to check his personality, but can’t be responsible for other people’s weak personalities (ie who don’t agree with him). He also used a quote from The joker in Batman to describe himself ‘I just do things’ which I noticed and thought why would someone align themselves with the bad guy and draw attention to being impulsive - so yes to those saying about hiding in plain sight! I wonder if Claudia knew as some of her comments and questions were quite interesting.

He's always been sleazy. I met him years ago when I was trying to be an actor and he was perving about Freema Agyman, and I made a joke and he turned it into this whole thing about watching us have sex. Ick ick ick.

Going back to Adam Deacon, he has bipolar disorder and experienced cannabis-induced psychosis and was Sectioned. He was harassing Noel over Twitter and sending a large number of abusive tweets based on what he claimed (which now sounds very plausible) was Noel bullying him and sabotaging his career. But it was a third party who made what was perceived as a death threat to Noel's children (tweeted a photo of the children alongside a gun image).

Incidentally, David Tennant and Colin Firth are two actors I've worked with who no one has a bad word to say about. I know a couple of producers who had to field semi diva-ish requests from DT's wife but he himself has a rep for being genuinely lovely. I've heard stories about Patrick Stewart being a bit up himself but certainly nothing abusive.