Chris Langham planning a comeback

[jenk1]

he is going on shrink rap with pamela connolly here

they all try to comeback, from Gary Glitter, to Michael Barrymore to John Leslie. TBH I think once they fall from grace they've had it.

I saw him in Love Actually on Christmas day and wondered how judicious it was to have shown it.

Fwiw and knowing very little about the case, I saw an interview with the guy a few weeks ago and actually felt very sorry for him. There is nothing someone in his situation can do to make things better, but I thought considering that he didn't make things any worse by his attitude - I felt he was doing the best he could.

Obviously I also feel horribly sorry for the children who were indirectly 'involved', I am not trying to defend him but I do think people can get a bit 'He is the cousin of satan and should be put to death', which I don't really go with.

He fucked up badly, and I had the impression that he knows that.

I found it very hard to watch him in that film, LL - all I kept thinking about was the case.

No I can't remember him in it- whom did he play?

I hope the man lives in peace now but I'd much rather not have him on my TV, there is no worldwide shortgae of talented poeple looking for a TV career, I think this rather makes him a person who should be excluded now.

isn't it Bill Nighy in Love Actually?

Oh I was fairly sure it was him. It is the only film apart from Titanic that I have been allowed to watch in the last few months - because both children were asleep!!

I turned it off before the end so didn't see the credits. He was a politician I think, something like that...?

Oh sorry. Of course. Bloody similar aren't they though?

I am not very with it am I! Thanks Belgo

yes, actually they are similar, not good for Bill Nighy though it is!

I would not feel comfortable watching him in some light hearted comedy.

BUT everyone needs to earn a living and this is his trade.
as far as the law is concerned he commited his crima and has paid his price. he is now a free man and able to continue to trade.

If he were a carpenter or mechanic would you ask him to no longer fix your car?

he has bills the same as the rest of us.

Though as i say, i don't feel i would tune into anything he was part of.

well, he needs to support his family.
interesting point ll about the sportsmen.

No Mamazon, I wouldn't ask a convicted paedophile to fix my car or do anything whatsoever for me - I would rather find somebody else then pay a paeodophile. I'm sure they have got bills to pay but I for one have no sympathy whatsoever for any of them and would avoid every single one of them providing I knew who they were.

but in everyday walks of life you don't know who they are.

if a freed peadophile cannot find work they resort to claiming benefits. either way YOU ARE paying for them. only whilst on benefits they have more spare time to fill.

by removing them from the mainstream of society and making it impossible for them to lead anything approaching to a normal existence, their isolation increases and makes it more not less likely that they will reoffend.
imo.

absolutly harpsi.

but that isn't what it says in the daily mail

I think you meant Billy Bob Thornton - he was the president in Love,Actually

I see what you mean MaryAnn but no, it was the other one, Bill Nighy. Do you remember him in A sense of Guilt, with Rudi Davies? My first teenage encounter with the weird world of Grown ups being 'naughty'!

Asshole. He can get a job in Tescos like normal people. He paid to watch little girls being raped. There's no excuse for that.

As for the reoffending bit, he had everything going for him - a loving family, a high profile successful career and that didn't stop him looking on the internet for images of children being raped so why should it do so now? He showed no remorse and he thinks he's a victim - those are the two things which are likely to make him reoffend, whatever job he's doing.

I remeber a Sense of Guilt - it was vile - hated that girl and not keen on creepy old Trevor Eve ! I do like Bill Nighy though.

i was quite surprised to see the big interview with him today. i expected he'd lie low for a bit.

only read bits mind.

Find it difficult to feel much sympathy for him, tbh. He's still trying to justify himself according to the interview in the Observer today.

I really do think he would be well-advised to try something less high profile. Writing, for instance. Or a completely different job not in TV.