Robert Webb - Strictly

[GrimDamnFanjo]

Really looking forward to Robert Webb on Strictly.
Unfortunately TRAs are already frothing and apparently writing to the bbc,

He's got my vote 🕺💃

Ooo. V. excited about this. Went off Strictly in the past couple of years, but Webb would definitely tempt me back. And his general decency as a man is a bonus.

[quote cariadlet]@McPancreas which podcast was that? [/quote]
With some Jesse Thorn, who I don't know.

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3878178-Robert-Webb-in-the-Times

Owen Jones took the opportunity to have a pop at him.

This is the only time I've been tempted to watch 'Strictly'.

@SprayedWithDettol

I’ve haven’t ever watched strictly, but I think based on this - he is a dead very to win.

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That's proper Morecambe and Wise level comedy for me. Thank you for reminding me of it, I'm having a really bad time of it at the moment and that has given me such a laugh.

Thanks for the Comic Relief video, which made me laugh a lot. I will watch Strictly this year for Robert after several years’ break.

[quote Fleek]He is a wonderful dancer, I really look forward to seeing him compete. Underneath the (very successful) attempt to be funny in this clip is huge natural ability

[/quote] Wow. He is good. He'll definitely be worth a watch.

I can't stand SCD but I'll vote for him every week if it's going to piss off the TRAs. Many times.

He dated a good friend of mine many years ago. Really nice chap. I might just have to watch Strictly this time round, despite not usually being a fan.

Gosh I had no idea he’d been so ill. That’s rather sad. Glad he seems to be on the up now. He seems like a decent fella.

Thanks @NecessaryScene

Who cares what they think?

You can hear it here, the inquisition starts about 9 minutes from the end.

maximumfun.org/episodes/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/david-mitchell-and-robert-webb/

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Let's see which celebs support him, presumably so they can go after them as well.

Insane

Interesting watching how the trans mob winds themselves up as they decide who to go for next.

More sunlight!

@McPancreas Thanks for the link.

Wow, he is a really good dancer! I'm excited to watch this now and I hope it makes all the TRAs very unhappy when he wins the nation's hearts by being a lovely and talented dancer.

My general assumption is that celebrities who are "very quiet" on the issue are those who are what we now call 'GC' but used to simply call realists, but don't want to deal with a pile-on, death and rape threats if female, or who have friends with trans-identified children or very TRA children themselves who they don't want to alienate or upset, and are hoping this all blows over. The blue tickers who have bought into the ideology are not exactly backward in coming forward about it.

Oh I love him... so happy he's on. I've read through the so called "controversy" and it's just absurd, not least when it's someone who's done so much for non conforming boys/ men. Hopefully some more sunlight to show up the ridiculousness.

Really looking forward to seeing him on Strictly -- partly because of his stunningly ace (and disturbingly sexy) Comic Relief dance routine, and partly becaue he does seem to be a solid and decent man with plenty of wise words to speak.

It's funny that in Peep Show he was the massively immature and shallow character alongside David Mitchell's more grown-up and intelligent character. In real life he seemed to leap much more readily into the wisdom of middle age than Panel Show Dave (although Panel Show Dave is lovely in his way too).

Aren't we all surprised that bully boy Jones had a pop at him. Does that twerp have any ability to reflect on how he comes across?

Love him. And he can dance!

And who can forget his role, totally naked, with Olivia Coleman in "Confetti"

Godawful film and both he and Olivia Colman were treated abysmally by the director Debbie Isitt. Both were told that they would be pixelated in the nude scenes, and the first time they found out they weren't, was at a screening on the film.

Olivia speaks about it here:

The one thing she can't bring herself to see the positive in is a film she made a few years ago called Confetti. Just saying the word makes her blush. It's a silly little Britflick in which she and Robert Webb play a couple planning their naturist wedding. As soon as she tries to talk about it, she starts stammering. "It's a fucking turkey. I… I… I... it was the worst experience of my life. You're better off spending an hour picking your toenails. I now never trust anybody. I love people, I believe in the goodness of people, but ever since that, there's a bit of me that died, a bit of trust that…"

Why? How? Where was the betrayal? "The betrayal was how much was going to be seen and what was going to be pixelated." So she and Ed never get drunk and say, "Let's watch Confetti, for a laugh"? "No, no, it's not funny to me at all. I didn't sleep for a year." Because of the nudity? "Yeah. It was horrible. My husband loves me, and I'm embarrassed showing him my body. I would not willingly show anybody my muff unless I'm married to them and I love them, and they love me."

Was she naive to make it? "I was naive, yeah, definitely. We both were." Could she have sued? "It was too late, and actually we did start. But it was so upsetting and Rob said, 'I can't do it, I just want to pretend it's not happened.' I was furious with him at the time, but he was so right in terms of letting it go."
"It's funny that you're so worried about that bit of nudity," I say, "but so relaxed about Tyrannosaur, which would haunt me for years."

"No, that's completely different. Paddy has complete integrity and is a good, good person. He cannot lie. And I now know there are some people who are just bad."

Robert Webb spoke about it here (45.21 minutes in)

Me too - I loved his memoir too. I would love to see him win.

@PronounssheRa

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Let's see which celebs support him, presumably so they can go after them as well.

Insane

It's amazing how they bully people into silence and then interpret silence as support. I don't know if it's a conscious strategy of manufactured consent, or just self-delusion.

I even saw TRAs trying to spin the nine-second silence when the Olympic weightlifting medalists were asked about L. Hubbard, into some kind of support for Hubbard's participation.