Polycule falls apart

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I expect people remember that Heather Herbert (charged in relation to social media comments he made after Ann Widdecombe's death) is in a polycule with Sophie Molly (aka Sparkles, aka Euan Weddell) and someone called Poppybear.

Molly, I believe, is a witness for Jolyon Maugham in Sarah Phillimore's libel case against Maugham.

Poppybear has been posting some very indiscreet posts on BlueSky about both Molly and Herbert, and it looks, tragically, as if the polycule has fallen apart.

According to Poppybear, Herbert's comments about Widdecombe "painted a bullseye on all of us", and led to the police coming in and "invading" all their devices (whatever that means).

Also according to Poppybear, living with Sophie Molly is "like being permanently slapped around the face by pathological laziness unless it's something that grooms her ego."

Oh dear.

https://x.com/DogLoverOfPI/status/2082944747862188490

In a separate development, apparently Herbert has had his toxic kidney removed by the NHS so the money donated to the fundraiser is going to be used for something else:

https://x.com/WillyWoofter/status/2082494111555190875

to the estate of right-wing perv Max Mosley

I mean, Mosley had some interesting proclivities, but 'right wing' shouldn't be used as a slur - I know the original story featured accusations that his tastes were nazi-based but that wasn't actually true. He did get tarred by his parents' brush, unfairly so IMO.

Please don't besmirch my beloved Friends. Could Pot Noodle, Sparkles and Kidney Boy BE any less like Chandler?!

It's more like Richie and Eddie in Bottom, I think the other thread on Herbert established. Or the flat in Withnail and I

No Angel Delight for Poppy this birthday

https://nitter.net/stueymaco/status/2091427405034410439#m

He knew that his father Oswald’s money (which he, Max, inherited) had originated with actual Nazis. It’s a deeply upsetting story and probably derailing to this thread. Suffice to say, I’m not a Mosley fan.

No but any of them could be Chandlers dad, right?

Charles Bing aka Helena Handbasket - who was played by Kathleen Turner, so a woman playing a man pretending to be a woman.

Make it make sense.

That was seen as progressive then, as was Julie Hesmondhalgh as Hayley in Coronation Street and Felicity Huffman in Transamerica. It was a suspension of disbelief thing at the time. these casting decisions are seen as horrific now obvs bc TWAW but w are not tw

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/04/celebrity-traitors-julie-hesmondhalgh-hayley-cropper-trans/

Interesting that Julie Hesmondhalgh, as a woman playing a TW, didn’t get the pile on that Eddie Redmayne got as a man playing a TW.

It was early in the 90s and before self id was as much of a thing.

I think this thread is useful when considering the Hayley Cropper character in the light of trans activism:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4678987-julie-hesmondhalgh-who-played-hayley-cropper-on-coronation-street-wouldnt-take-the-role-today-as-shes-cis-gender

It sounds like Brian Molko doused in itching powder then put through an industrial mincer

His voice has definitely deteriorated from before. I'm assuming hormones are involved. He sounds like one of the turns the late Steve Wright used to have on his show who'd sing stuff in a faint warbling west country accent

I don't think Hackett is a qualified electrician ⚡🔌😱

Nor am I, but even I can tell something has short circuited upstairs with him.

Wonder when Herbert’s new court date will be. Timing of that surgery was awfully convenient