Matthew Steeples quick-fires his views on 10 trending topics of the moment; from Labour’s attack on farming to J. K. Rowling and gender
Billionairess busybody Taylor Swift…
Prized pillock politicians would do well to distance themselves after their Cruel Summer with this blonde bombshell. Hanging off her coattails didn’t turn into a Love Story for either Kamala Harris or Keir Starmer.
Sir Keir Starmer allowing Lord Alli to pay for his wife’s clothing and his own spectacles…
Send her to Primark; send him to Specsavers.
Labour’s filthy attack on British farmers…
Farmers are the guardians of the countryside the British public supposedly treasure. Rachel ‘Thieves’ Reeves is clearly as thick as pig sh*t if she doesn’t realise that; it’s time someone dumped a load of manure on her doorstep.
Kemi Badenoch seizing leadership of the Conservative Party…
Soppy Sunak was sloppy and second rate, but things are going to get really BAD with BadEnough at the helm. One could ask: “Why would anyone want the poisoned chalice anyway?”
The Lib Dems finally doing well electorally…
It’s time for Sir Ed Davey to now stop acting like Coco the Clown; it’s time for his party to up their game and remember the days when they said: “Bollocks to Brexit.”
J. K. Rowling speaking out on gender…
A man is born a man and a woman is born a woman; if you want to identify as something else, so be it, but please don’t ram whatever you want to be on anyone else. If only Rowling could a Harry Potter style wand and wash away wokeness also.
The likes of the porn pest Huw Edwards not being sent to jail whilst those that say something stupid on Twitter are…
Edwards not being thrown in the clink was a travesty; the rat deserves the birch, but sadly sadly he’d likely love that. As for the mouthy morons who rant and rave on social media, it’d be better just use the off button.
Those still whining about the price of Oasis tickets…
Quit your WonderWailing.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s failed appeal and the possibility of a pardon from Donald Trump…
Given the mucky madam’s stinginess and unpaid debts of circa £3 million to lawyers worldwide, what did this filthy fiend expect to happen in court? As regards what’s next, one can only assume that Donald Trump would rather the Bouncing Czech’s daughter’s silence remains permanent.
Ranting raver Angela Rayner…
Perhaps her advisors should tell her to stop dressing and behaving like everyone’s Aunt Sally.
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Matthew Steeples suggests the General Election is going “bonkers in Broadstairs” after the Tories replace “bionic man” Craig Mackinlay with the lover of the disgraced sex fiend Tory Peter Bone as their candidate in East Thanet; elsewhere, petulant ‘popstar’ Holly Valance may throw her hat in for Reform in Basildon and Billericay
After “sepsis survivor” ex-UKIPer turned Tory Craig Mackinlay MP announced he would not be standing in the newly created East Thanet constituency, it looked to be a shoe-in for lobbyist and Labour candidate Polly Billington in the forthcoming General Election 2024.
Rumours subsequently circulated that Reform UK’s Nigel Farage might return to the area to run again after he came second for UKIP in South Thanet in 2005; his candidacy in a seat that includes Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate would certainly have put the cat amongst the pigeons.
Farage’s decision to instead run in Clacton returned a definite lead to Billington, but now the Tories have thrown North Northamptonshire based Helen Harrison into the ring; she is the lover of the disgraced ex-MP sex pest Peter Bone – a menace who was found to have “indecently exposed himself” to a male aide.
Elsewhere in Basildon and Billericay, Donald Trump loving pop singer and ex-‘Neighbours’ actress Holly Vallance is rumoured to be announcing her run for Reform UK in spite of her billionaire hubby Nick Candy being a one-time Tory donor turned Labour supporter.
The General Election of 2024… The ‘Holly and Polly Show’… You just couldn’t make it up!
Update – 6pm BST, 07/06/24 – There’ll be no ‘Holly and Polly Show’ as Holly Valance Candy has decided not to stand in Basildon and Billericay due to it being “very difficult logistics wise” yet there still could be a ‘Polly and Bone’ show on one of Broadstairs’ beaches yet.
‘Bonny Broadstairs by-the-sea’ isn’t somewhere you’d associate with voters venting, but prior to today’s 4pm deadline for submitting a nomination to be a candidate in the 2024 General Election, here is a place that has already seen a fair few political rumblings during this particular campaign.
First, on the very afternoon ‘Fishy-No-Longer-So-Dishy Rishi’ turned into ‘Soppy Sunak’ as he was drenched in a downpour as he announced that the poll would be held on American Independence Day, 4th July, the Member of Parliament for the area, Craig Mackinlay JP, returned to a “hero’s welcome” in the House of Commons.
Mackinlay, a former deputy leader of UKIP and Conservative MP for South Thanet between 2015 and 2024, was unprecedentedly clapped in to the House of Commons that day after surviving a quadruple amputation of both his legs and arms following an infection of sepsis.
Subsequently, given his ill-health, Mackinlay unsurprisingly decided to announce his decision not to stand and in doing so effectively gave theLabour wannabe for his constituency, a lobbyist and senior advisor at Hanover Communications named Polly Billington, a freer-run than even she was already anticipating.
Now listed as a seat in which Labour are on a 92% chance of winning against the Tory’s 8% chance and where the rest of the parties don’t either register according to the Electoral Calculus website, East Thanet Conservative Association decided to pull a very strange move. They opted to chose a North Northamptonshire councillor, Helen Harrison, as their candidate at a “packed meeting” on 2nd June.
Snapped with Mackinlay in a photo shared on Instagram, Harrison termed the Conservative she wished to replace a “brave man” and told local newspaper The Isle of Thanet News:
“Craig and I share many beliefs. We both campaigned to leave the European Union, in fact I founded Grassroots Out, the second largest Leave campaign. And, like Craig, I was part of Leave Means Leave. I am concerned about the rush to achieve net zero at great cost to ordinary people who cannot afford it. I ran the Back Boris Tour in 2019, which was an integral part of a campaign to get Boris as our Prime Minister to deliver Brexit.”
“I am living in the constituency and will be buying a house locally. As your MP, not only will I hold weekly surgeries and be available to all residents, but you will also likely bump into me in the supermarket or high street.”
“My plan will be to set up a listening campaign. I will listen to the people of East Thanet… I will listen, campaign and deliver… I will always remember that I am East Thanet’s representative in Westminster and not Westminster’s representative in East Thanet.”
Harrison – who recently spectacularly failed to get elected in a by-election in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire where Labour wiped the floor with her – failed to elaborate as to whether she’d be bringing her “longtime partner” of “years” Peter Bone with her. Bone, voters will recall, will go down in history as an ex-Conservative MP who “exposed himself to an aide and physically struck him,” according to The Independent.
Deservedly disgraced Eurosceptic hardliner Bone – a maniacal menace formerly prone to quoting his now ex-wife Jeanette at PMQs – a House of Commons report found, had “committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct” against a male member of his staff. The report detailed that aside from grotesque ‘antics’ on other occasions, the then MP for Wellingborough had “dropped his towel and exposed his genitals close to his employee’s face” and went on to expose himself to the complainant in a bedroom they had shared on a work trip in 2013.
Speaking to The Steeple Times earlier today, one Broadstairs local sensibly surmised: “One can only hope Ms. Harrison leaves ‘The Boner’ at home in Northamptonshire. We most definitely don’t need that frothing at the mouth fruitcake ‘frolicking’ in our local hostelries.”
Elsewhere this morning, the Guido Fawkes political blog shared that the former Neighbours actress and Kiss Kiss and Naughty Boy singer Holly Valance “is eyeing a run as a Reform candidate in Basildon and Billericay… The seat that’s seen Tory chair Richard Holden parachuted into.”
Australian-British citizen and wife of Nick Candy – a ‘billionaire’ property developer considered an “Olympic level name dropper” who has flirted with both Boris Johnson’s Tories and Keir Starmer’s Labour – Valance (born Holly Rachel Vukadinović to a Serbian father and a British mother) is already a busy bee on the politics front this month.
Next Friday, after having confirmed herself as a crackpot in claiming the “climate crisis, or lack of, is not a crisis” in February at a “taking back control… freedom” PopCon event with Liz Truss, 12th June, birdbrained Valance is to co-host a ‘Trump 47’ reception and dinner at a venue as yet unknown in London.
‘Mrs Holly Candy,’ as Valance is trumpeted on the official invite, at a gathering where “attendance and contributions [are] strictly limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents only” are several ambassadors as co-hosts including Duke Buchan III, George Glass and Richard Grenell. Guests of honour will include the endangered species slayer Donald Trump Jr. and his harridan half-wit wife Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ex-wife of Democrat ‘Gavinator’ and 40th governor of California, Gavin Newsom.
The price for a plate to nosh-it-up alongside Mrs Candy? £78,000 per couple. The price for a ‘photo opportunity’? A bargain basement snip for a snap at just £20,000.
Pictured top (left to right) – Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Holly Valance; ‘bionic man’ Craig Mackinlay in Parliament; Mr Mackinlay with ‘replacement’ candidate Helen Harrison; Peter Bone with Harrison, Bone with his now ex-wife “the much quoted” Jeanette and wearing a stupid hat in the House of Commons; Labour candidate for East Thanet, lobbyist Polly Billington.
Labour candidate for East Thanet Polly Billington (pictured with Labour grandee Emily Thornberry – a woman who doesn’t like being addressed as Lady Nugee) worked for the BBC before becoming a SPAD to Ed Milliband in 2010. She has been a Labour councillor in Hackney and has worked as a senior advisor at the PR lobbying firm Hanover Communications. In March 2024, under the banner of “dark money investigations” by ‘Open Democracy’ examined Ms Billington having worn “two hats” as a “lobbyist and parliamentary candidate” in a broader article about “prospective MPs with lobbying day jobs [who] are introducing their clients to senior Labour figures – and boasting about it.”Self-professed “deliverer of Brexit” and all-round bombastic bore Nigel Farage pictured campaigning in Broadstairs on 9th April 2015. Though it was touted he might return to an area of Kent in which he came second in the 2015 General Election earlier this week, he plumped instead to head off to Clacton and thus took away what could have been the one big threat to Labour’s Polly Billington’s chances of success.A haggard looking Helen Harrison (pictured left) leaving a building named Ashley Court in Westminster with her haggard looking lover Peter Bone after their affair was revealed; Peter Bone MP in the House of Commons in 2017 wearing a brightly coloured woolen hat; he was “ticked off,” according to ‘The Sun,’ but “sparked giggles among his fellow MPs.” At the time, they added: “He was criticised in 2006 for boosting his ratings by saying, very little, very often” as part of a quest to be in the “top ten most active MPs in Parliament.” Amongst his ludicrous behaviour was to “mention his [then] wife in at least 60 debates since 2005,” the paper also reported.The new Conservative candidate for East Thanet, Helen Harrison, will no doubt be out and about pounding the pavements of Broadstairs, Margate and Ramsgate in the coming days and weeks. Whether she will be accompanied by her disgraced sex pest lover – whom she dragged out campaigning with her during the Wellingborough by-election back in January much to the disgust of voters – with her remains to be seen given in March the “qualified physiotherapist” told the ‘Northamptonshire Telegraph’ she was “cross and frustrated” by her “depiction in the media as Bone’s girlfriend.” She later claimed in a “self-penned article” for ‘Conservative Home’ that “she believed she had been the subject of a humiliating sexist campaign designed to discredit her candidacy.” In that feature she whined: “Given the high level of interest in my candidacy, it was unsurprising that the press put considerable effort into trying to unearth information to discredit me. They will have trawled through my social media and looked into my past to find dirt on me. They found none because there is none. That didn’t matter. Being ‘Bone’s girlfriend’ was enough, surely? That description, used repeatedly, was deliberately reductive and degrading. The term ‘girlfriend’ was consciously chosen because it would suggest to readers, listeners, and viewers that my candidacy was illegitimate and that I had been selected simply because of my relationship or to stop him running. Worse, it made me sound inexperienced, and under Bone’s control. With no other information about me being shared, how could any other view be formed? It was also designed to cause outrage… I’m a 51-year-old woman in a committed and settled relationship. Bone and I have been living together for over 5 years. We are partners. I am nobody’s bloody girlfriend!” It must be noted that in the 2024 Wellingborough by-election on 15th February, Helen Harrison saw a -37.6% swing against her. She achieved just 24.6% of the vote and aided a Conservative majority of 18,540 in 2019 be turned into a Labour majority of 6,436; what will Helen Harrison achieve in East Thanet? Something equally laughable?Elsewhere, Holly Valance Candy has become increasingly political in 2024 and even attended Nigel Farage’s “surprise announcement” of his Clacton candidacy on Monday. It helps that this bit-part former soap actress has a billionaire husband (pictured here with her left) in the form of the political party flip-flopper Nick Candy (who has supported the Tories and Labour in recent times) and associations with very, very rich people such as the flame-haired Lady McAlpine (centre); in April 2022, Nick and Holly Candy dined with Mar-a-Lago in Florida with Nigel Farage and Donald Trump (pictured right with a photograph of Trump with the North Korean psychopath dictator Kim Jong Un above them). Mrs Candy has praised President Trump as “fabulous” and has also hailed Lee Anderson as “awesome” and supported the blatantly batshit bonkers idea of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg as a future Prime Minister.‘Mrs Holly Candy’ likes to keep an ‘international perspective’ when it comes to politics and is involved in a London dinner to raise funds for the ‘Trump 47’ campaign with Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle. Curiously though the event is limited to “attendance and contributions” that are “strictly limited to U.S. citiznes and permanent residents ONLY,” Australian-English citizen Holly Valance Candy (whose father is Serbian and whose mother is English) has been allowed to be a “host.” One is left asking: How does that work?The husband of Holly Valance and at-that-time a Tory donor Nick Candy pictured with the failed Tory Mayor of London candidate Shaun Bailey (now Baron Bailey of Paddington) and others at a Christmas party during the now infamous ‘Jingle and Mingle’ lockdown party held during the 2020 lockdown at Conservative Central Office at 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ. Amongst others present was the especially unctuous ‘Red Dress Partygate Pisshead’ Malin Baker Bogue – a “pro-Trump lobbyist” employee of a company named Stonehaven whom once declared: “When I dance, they call me Macarena.”
Candidates confirmed as standing in East Thanet (as of 1pm on Friday 7th June 2024):
Ahead of tonight’s airing of Channel 4’s much-anticipated ‘Spacey Unmasked’, Kevin Spacey’s ‘close chum’ and agent Evan Lowenstein launches bizarre rant at ‘The Steeple Times’s’ Matthew Steeples
Tonight at 9pm, Channel 4 will air the first episode of what is expected be a very punchy two-part exposé about the controversial mate of the in-the-clink mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell and the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the former House of Cards American remake ‘star’ Kevin Spacey.
In the run up to this ‘must-watch,’ in response to a perfectly reasonable tweet, the New Jersey born actor-producer’s self-declared “best friend” and agent since 2016, Evan Lowenstein, yesterday launched a bizarre rant at The Steeple Times.
An ensuing pile-on naturally followed from Spacey ‘groupies’ on the social media platform and it highlighted one thing; Lowenstein, the agent for an individual – who has been described to me by respected actors and producers who’ve worked with Spacey as “arrogant, acerbic and weird” (by the more charitable amongst them) – is clearly not exactly suited to the world of public relations or crisis management.
Marketed by Channel 4 on their website as “a forensic look at Kevin Spacey’s rise and fall from grace amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour,” the show, titled Spacey Unmasked, will include “several men [speaking] about their experiences with the actor.”
Reportedly featuring previously unquoted individuals describing Spacey as “a soulless monster,” “like a shark” and someone who allegedly took the attitude: “I can do this, I can do this to you, I’m Kevin Spacey,” of the documentary The Hollywood Reporter’s Lilly Ford last week shared:
“In between clips of prolific award wins and talk-show wisecracks, Spacey Unmasked features the testimonies of a group of men — identified by their first names only — that span five decades, ranging from a teenage Spacey at high school to the height of his House of Cards fame, as well as his time at the Old Vic.”
“In Spacey Unmasked, one actor, Scott, tells viewers: ‘If you don’t pay the toll in sexual favors [sic], you’ll have a decent career, but you won’t see your name in lights.’”
“Spacey’s brother, Randy, is also interviewed. He says in the doc that he was sexually abused by their father, who held ‘Nazi meetings’ at their family home as a teenager. His brother Kevin was not abused to his knowledge – though that doesn’t mean there wasn’t ‘psychological trauma,’ Randy adds.”
“The allegations in Spacey Unmasked also include that the star pushed his groin into the face of an Old Vic worker while serving as the venue’s director and that he masturbated in front of an aspiring actor as they watched Saving Private Ryan in a public theatre [sic], before trying to move the victim’s hand to join in.”
Last Thursday, objecting to the show’s airing, Spacey took to Twitter himself and raged: “I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings. There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4.”
He then laughably accused the award-winning channel of giving him too short a window to respond to the statements made in the programme and ranted: “I have repeated requested that Channel 4 afford me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters. Channel 4 has refused on the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a ‘fair opportunity’ for me to refute any allegations made against me.”
Spacey then bizarrely gave an ‘interview’ via Twitter to the disgraced and quite rightly fired GB News presenter Dan Wootton – someone best known for the poison he’d penned about Susan Boyle and Johnny Depp. In it he came across as “irrational” and “deranged” according to those that have watched it (I am blocked by Wootton on Twitter so have not seen it myself).
In response, Channel 4 quite rightly remarked: “Kevin Spacey has been given sufficient opportunity to respond,” whilst in turn I added on Twitter:
“I stand with Dorothy Byrne FRTS [the hugely respected BAFTA and Emmy award winning executive producer of Spacey Unmasked and the former head of news and current affairs at Channel 4 for 15 years] and Channel 4 and those speaking out. 7 days is more than enough time to respond. Knowing what I know about Kevin Spacey, I must say I only found him arrogant, acerbic and weird.”
Whilst I did not anticipate any kind of reply from anyone close to the actor, the first came from Spacey’s very own agent – though I at first did not have a clue who he even was – and someone he most recently declared his “best friend,” Evan Lowenstein. It read:
“Are we now at the point of Dorothy asking all her friends to help support? I do appreciate you admitting that you ‘ONLY found him to be arrogant, acerbic and weird.’ FWIW, based on your post, I find you to be desperate and ignorant. And maybe even a good friend.”
I answered: “I don’t know Dorothy [Byrne], but I do know a respected actor/producer who was treated appallingly by Spacey during his tenure at The Old Vic. I witnessed one episode and as for Spacey’s friendship with paedos Ghislaine Maxwell & Jeffrey Epstein, that is a very clear mark of the ‘man.’”
“I’ve no idea who you are & that you call me ‘desperate’ is odd. ‘Desperate’ for what? Supporting perfectly reasonably 7-day journalistic requests is clearly something you want silenced. I can only assume you are a friend of Kevin Spacey. Were you a friend of Maxwell/Epstein too?”
After a further Lowenstein reply in which he said he’d “try to be more careful” (and my having discovered who he actually is), my final missive read: “You might also wish to pass on the need for being ‘more careful’ to your client Kevin Spacey and his weird choice of associate, the scumbag Dan Wootton. He is a vile specimen who was abusive about the divine Susan Boyle. Terming a true lady ‘volatile’ was beyond twisted and sick.”
Going further, however, in the hours running up to the airing of the programme on Monday the clearly dimwitted dunce Lowenstein, a fine example of someone when in a hole incapable of stopping digging, decided to return to the fray to further insult me. The bombastic bore, without citing any kind of evidence, predictably tittle-tattled:
“Steeples gets no views on his posts. He’s only engaging to help his view count. He’s a great example of Dunning-Kruger effect. The less you know about something the more confident you are about it. Also see: ignorance. I suggest we ignore.”
Asked for comment on Sunday of “talent manager with no other client” Lowenstein’s remarks, a veteran, respected senior Daily Mail journalist told The Steeple Times: “I don’t know him, but he sounds pretty odious though.”
A photographer, who snapped Spacey in “times happier,” of the actor added: “Too many in the high echelons of film fall for these members of what some call ‘The Club’ and ignore what it suits them to ignore. Nobody in the movie world wants to turn off the cash cow after all – even if they know that seriously sordid things are going on. Spacey’s friendships with Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein speak volumes.”
Elsewhere, in January 2019, the DailyMail.com’s Jose Lambiet shared that the “former boy-bander’s” now ex-wife, Kassini Lowenstein, “submitted a petition to modify her divorce settlement” after claiming she “asked the former husband not to allow [their] minor children to interact with Spacey.”
Supposedly worried that her former husband “had been attached at Spacey’s hip since he took over the thespian’s career in 2016,” Kassini Lowenstein also alleged that their children were “consistently let down when he fails to spend any time with them.”
Kevin Spacey always seems to have Evan Lowenstein very close to him. According to Hannah Gillott for ‘The Jewish Chronicle’ in July 2023: “Many believe that the manager and friend of the actor was the one ‘calling the shots’ in the trial, and the brain behind the operation to rehabilitate the disgraced star.” She added of the “one-hit wonder” who shared a “brief flirtation with fame in 200” with his brother Jaron with a single titled ‘Crazy for this Girl’: “[He] got the job with Spacey after the actor fired his previous manager in 2016, just before allegations against him surfaced in 2017. He got the job – according to a former associate – because he’s ‘good looking and charismatic.’ Lowenstein then reportedly removed all of Spacey’s team, and became a friend and confidant to the actor, and the two were seen together in 2016 at events from the Emmys to a Djokovic match at the US Open… Spacey called him his ‘best friend’ and ‘the brother [he] never had.’”The tweet by Matthew Steeples that so clearly triggered Spacey’s Orthodox Jewish agent and ‘close chum.’Evan Lowenstein’s response clearly indicates that he’s not exactly in the league of ‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson when it comes to dealing with communications or crisis management. His irrational response and accusations that Matthew Steeples was a “friend… maybe even a good friend” of the producer of ‘Spacey Unmasked’ (completely untrue) are simply proof he’s actually just a crackpot and a bit of cack-handed ignoramus. He might do better to return to the world of “boy-banding” (or go hang out with the equally PR inept wench formerly known as Meghan Markle).On Monday 6th May 2024, in the hours just before Channel 4’s first airing of ‘Spacey Unmasked,’ rabid ranter Evan Lowenstein returned to Twitter to have another pop at Matthew Steeples and in doing so encouraged the deranged supporters of #SpaceyRighttoRepy to pester him further and attack press freedom. Without citing any evidence, the desperado PR prattler stated: “Steeples gets no views on his posts. He’s only engaging to help his view count. He’s a great example of Dunning-Kruger effect. The less you know about something the more confident you are about it. Also see: ignorance. I suggest we ignore.” My response: “You really aren’t very good at crisis management. That you refuse to explain your client’s relationship with the paedos Ghislaine Maxwell & Jeffrey Epstein is what truly sickens people like me. I know 3 of Maxwell’s 5 victims. They deserve sympathy; not your whining ‘chum’ client… And as for “ignoring” me, if I’m so ‘irrelevant’ and ‘get no views,’ why did you bother pestering me in the first place? You really ought to think before you write Barry Baloney ‘chum.’”
Loathed and detested by many Kevin Spacey’s curious connections…
From Presidents… With alleged, erm, guilty of, erm, many things President Bill Clinton and with the temper tantrum prone model Naomi Campbell and the temper tantrum prone crooner Sir Elton John.To Princes… With alleged sex pest Prince Andrew.To Prime Ministers… With alleged war criminal Sir Tony Blair.To paedophiles… With convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.
Matthew Steeples joins Peter Bleksley, Martin Brunt and Shabnam Chaudri to discuss the Madeleine McCann case and the latest trial of Christian Brueckner on unrelated charges on TalkTV
Premiered last night on YouTube, Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times appeared on a 22:34-minute TalkTV programme, Crime Suspect, hosted by the crusading ex-detective Peter Bleksley.
Whilst convicted paedophile Brueckner – referenced in Germany just as ‘Christian B’ – is on trial for alleged sex crimes unrelated to his alleged involvement in the missing Madeleine McCann saga, interest in his connections to the unsolved for 17 years case was the focus of the episode.
During a frank discussion, Brunt referenced how he will be in attendance for proceedings whilst Chaudri examined the issue of evidence in historic cases. Steeples, questioned by Bleksley, talked of his having met Gerry and Kate McCann via his involvement in the deservedly long ago shuttered Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT) charity and on behalf of other missing children asked: “Why don’t the cases of other missing people get nearly as much attention and nearly as much money and resources thrown at them?”
Editor’s note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples and watch his current nightly show on YouTube at 8.30pm daily.
Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner (pictured being taken into court this morning) is currently serving a 7-year sentence for raping an American pensioner in the Algarve. If he is cleared at his 40-day trial, which has begun today at the Braunschweig Regional Court, he could be freed in September next year. His present trial is for carrying out five offences in the Algarve between 2000 and 2017.The court setting for Brueckner’s trial. He stands accused of raping an Irish tour rep who was attacked in her apartment in Praia da Rocha in 2004 and also of raping a teenage girl in his Praia da Luz home and raping an elderly lady in her holiday apartment. He also faces a charge for allegedly exposing himself to a German girl on a beach in Salema in 2007 and an allegation of indecent exposure in front of an 11-year-old girl in Sao Bartolomeu de Mssines in 2017.
Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers… £14 million wasted on Operation Grange… Why continue? Why waste more? Why not help others?
Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:
Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?
Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?
Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?
Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?
Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?
Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?
Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?
Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?
Why did Mr and Mrs McCann go jogging and play tennis in the days after their daughter’s disappearance?
Was it acceptable for Mr and Mrs McCann’s mortgage to be paid by the fund established to search for their missing daughter?
Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?
Why, given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date, has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the very, very substantial rewards on offer?
Matthew Steeples asks: “Is it acceptable for mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell to profit from her crimes in penning a memoir?”
Given her deviant daddy ‘Cap’n Bob’ was the head honcho of Pergamon Press as well as being the pugnacious proprietor of the Mirror Group, convicted criminal sex abuser Ghislaine Maxwell has long had connection with world of publishing.
Now, with news that in spite of being banged up in a Florida clink for her heinous and morally repugnant acts against young ladies, is to pen a memoir, three questions emerge. Those questions:
Is it acceptable for this wicked woman to be profiting from her crimes in royalties received for such a book whilst deservedly rotting in a jail cell?
Which publisher would have the gall to give this truly beyond arrogant airtime and encourage this wicked wench to pile more misery on her victims?
Why does United States law allow criminals to profit from crimes whilst incarcerated and why will it allow this enabler of Jeffrey Epstein and others like her to profit also from associated documentaries, podcasts and films?
Speaking to Newsweek earlier this week, Kate Mangells, a partner at the Kinsella, Holley, Iser, Kump, Steinsapir Attorneys firm in Los Angeles observed that attempts to stop people profiting from their crimes have not been successful. She remarked: “There have been legislative attempts to restrict this ability, but they have largely been ruled unconstitutional.”
The criminal defence lawyer and partner in the firm added:
“In the 1970s, following the Son of Sam killings in New York City, the New York legislature passed a law known as the Son of Sam Law to restrict a convicted criminal’s ability to profit off of selling their story. But this law, and similar laws in other states, has been found to be in violation of free speech rights under the First Amendment.”
“There are some state laws setting forth rules related to notifying victims about potential compensation, but they do not entirely restrict a convicted person from profiting. So, Maxwell can legally benefit financially from telling or selling her story.”
Clearly still delusional and deranged to her core (just like her late pension pot plundering papa), here is evidence of only one thing; the continuing arrogance of the rotten-to-her-core reprobate Ghislaine Maxwell. Shame on her, but shame also on a system that allows such.
Pictured top – Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein kept a “rule book” for staff at the thankfully now wrecking ball visited Palm Beach mansion they often shared. It featured instructions such as “see nothing, hear nothing” and yet now this mucky madam thinks it appropriate to write a tell-all memoir; that would have totally unacceptable in 2004 and it is most definitely unacceptable in 2024.
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Matthew Steeples remarks on the conviction of Bernie Ecclestone; a diminutive dwarf who’ll go down in history as a convicted criminal fraudster
Of the cretinous coffin dodger Bernard Charles Ecclestone he’d made a documentary about, writer and producer Manish Pandey once remarked: “He’s 5-foot, 3 inches tall, working class, [had] no formal education after the age of 15, with one working eye… There’s nothing ostensibly going for him.”
Now, going further, three words can be added to the resume of this appalling apologist for maniacs including Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin and bestie of the ratbag royal Prince Andrew. Those three words? “Convicted criminal fraudster.”
Whilst Wikipedia have yet to update the introductory paragraphs of their entry of a man who should be spending the remainder of his rotten life in the clink, what has been set is actually a terrible precedent. Here is an example of something akin to what was once said of Donald Trump; if you owe the bank a dollar, the bank closes you down, but if you owe the bank a billion, you own the bank.
Instead of truly punishing this bombastic billionaire as would have occurred to ordinary people caught committing tax fraud, the payment of a substantial sum to HMRC now allows 92-year-old Ecclestone to buy his way out of time in a prison cell. He instead joins a club of rich people who basically think they’re above the law, but forever more any media mention of him should begin with the words “convicted criminal fraudster Bernie Ecclestone.”
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Bernie Ecclestone, described as “Napoleon-size,” by ‘The Daily Mail’s’ Guy Adams “must now begin life as a convicted criminal by handing over £652,634,836 to HMRC, in addition to paying prosecution costs of £74,000 and settling his own legal bills, which are likely to run to six figures.” Adams added: “By suddenly pleading guilty to a fraud that involved lying to tax authorities about the existence of a Singapore-based trust worth £400 million, the 92-year-old has in fact engineered a significant coup. For one thing, he’s avoided having to spend the remainder of his life behind bars, instead being given a suspended sentence of 17 months. For another, Ecclestone has side-stepped a lengthy and no doubt stressful trial that would have exposed the inner workings of his family’s byzantine financial empire to scrutiny.” The 92-year-old is pictured here arriving at court on 19th April 2023; the bungling buffoon and apologist for the evil tyrant President Vladimir Putin looked in worse condition than even at his last appearance back in January 2023.92-year-old Bernie Ecclestone’s third wife and latest ‘baby mama’ 46-year-old Fabiana Flosi-Ecclestone accompanied him that day; the current Mrs Ecclestone and her hubby curiously chose the frankly ghastly name ‘Ace’ for their child (born in July 2020) – perhaps a reference to the former F1 head honcho’s view of his chances in court cases and at taking on the law.In February 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s chum (and his wife Sarah, Duchess of York’s financial sponsor) Prince Andrew having Bernie Ecclestone over to Royal Lodge, Windsor to celebrate his birthday. Whether this man “with qualities that would make Leona Helmsley look generous” brought Sloppy Giuseppes from Pizza Express (Woking branch) for the bash remains still unknown and whether he has entertained the Duke of York on his yacht ‘Petara’ is unknown.At the 31st birthday party hosted for Naomi Campbell by her then lover Flavio Briatore on 19th May 2001 in St Tropez, France, Bernie Ecclestone (pictured top right) got to hang out on a gin palace with not only the since convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell but also the woman Prince Andrew paid £12 million to in spite of having never met – Virginia Roberts (now known as Virginia Giuffre). The now former F1 boss and convcicted fraudster featured in the infamous address book credited to Epstein but most likely was actually a contact of the mucky madam Maxwell primarily.The convicted criminal fraudster 91-year-old father of four and son of a Suffolk fisherman has previously been quite rightly deservedly slammed for his support for the world’s worst living leader, President Vladimir Putin. Calling such a tyrant “a good guy” and someone he’d “take a bullet for” about sums this nasty little piece of toerag up for what he is – an utter braindead berk.
BOG OFF BERNIE! BERNIE ECCLESTONE’S WORST MOMENTS
A poisonous penny-pinching dwarf and well-known as a “coffin dodger,” convicted criminal fraudster Bernie Ecclestone – a bestie of the man who paid £12 million to a woman he claims never to have met Prince Andrew – couldn’t give a damn about anything other than money. He’ll mouth off in support of anyone who might help him get just a little bit more, but really should just be told to bog off!
On President Vladimir Putin:
“[He] should be running Europe… He should be in Brussels running Europe… We should get rid of Brussels and he should just be in charge.”
“Honestly, I think the guy who be running Europe, impressed me more than anything, is Mr Putin because he’s a guy that says he’s going to do something and does it… [He’s] a first-class person.”
“He does what he says he’s gonna do, he gets the job done. I mean people don’t understand exactly what he wants to do… He wants to put Russia back to what it was.”
“I was with [Putin] after the [2014 Sochi Winter] Olympics on the top of the bloody mountain… We had a meeting, just the two of us, and we came out and we were walking along and people were coming up to him asking for an autograph… That’s what people think of him.”
“If someone had a machine gun and was prepared to shoot Putin, I would stand in front of him because he’s a good guy. He’s never done anything that isn’t doing good things for people.”
On President Putin’s intolerance to gay people in Russia:
“When I was at school, if you did something wrong, the teacher used to say: ‘Go and get the punishment book and the cane. Go to your headmistress and get a few whacks or something.’ That’s what he does.”
Asked on another occasion on Good Morning Britain about Putin after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
“I’d still take a bullet for him… Everyone makes mistakes from time to time.”
On President Donald Trump:
“I think he’d be fantastic [as President of the United States of America]. I’m sure he’s much more flexible than most of them. If he’s made a mistake, he’s more likely to say: ‘It was a good idea at the time.’”
“He has done a lot of good things for the world.”
On Adolf Hitler:
“Apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done… He wasn’t a dictator.”
On democracy:
“I am not a supporter of democracy. You need a dictator. As a dictator, you say: ‘This what I am going to do.’ In a democracy, it gets watered down.”
On Jewish people:
“They have a lot of influence everywhere.”
On black people:
“In a lot of cases, black people are more racist than what white people are.”
Of democracy in the United Kingdom:
“If you have a look at a democracy it hasn’t done a lot of good for many countries – including this one.”
Of his crackpot suggestion that the now late Max Mosley, son of the late Fascist Oswald Mosley, might have been Prime Minister of Great Britain:
“[He would have done] a super job… I don’t think his background would [have been] a problem.”
On Brexit:
“I’m 100% an outer.”
On his wealth:
“I’ve got enough I can do with my money.”
On following the rules:
“I never stopped breaking the rules.”
Asked if immigrants had made a contribution to the UK:
“They have not.”
On who is worth speaking to:
“Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to… I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who has a lot of cash.”
On journalists:
“I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.”
Asked if he’d consider publishing an autobiography:
“The morning after I die. And the first 12 copies will go to the Inland Revenue.”
Asked about whether he’d be talking about his criminal conviction and suspended sentence of 17 months:
“No. Bloody lawyers.”
On social media:
“I think the change that is currently taking place is very short-lived, as these social media people are starting to think it is not as good as they thought.”
On waiters and prostitutes:
“Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.”
On women:
“You know, I’ve got one of those wonderful ideas… Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.”
“What I would really like to see happen is to find the right girl, perhaps a black girl with super looks, preferably Jewish or Muslim, who speaks Spanish.”
To Richard Madeley about his decision to refuse to change his latest child’s nappies:
“That’s what wives are for.”
On women participating in Formula 1:
“I don’t know whether a woman would physically be able to drive an F1 car quickly, and they wouldn’t be taken seriously.”
On Lewis Hamilton:
“I don’t find him particularly engaging… He’s not particularly you would say black.”
On the corrupt criminal and disgraced banker Gerhard Gribkowsky:
“Dear old Gribkowsky… I don’t blame him because I would have probably done the same if I could have done it. He found the weak spot, found some leverage and used it. You can’t blame somebody for doing that.”
On the individuals who kidnapped his mother-in-law:
“If I get upset, how could it help?”
On his business career and his family’s Bambino Holdings offshore trust:
“I’ve got the highest position there is. So high that when I look down, I can’t see anything.”
“Maybe the most serious thing I regret was giving my shares to my ex [Slavica Radić], because when she them all in a trust for her and the kids, I lost control.”
Matthew Steeples highlights the stories he’s been following during the ‘silly season’ summer of 2023 – amongst them matters Ghislaine Maxwell and Rudy Giuliani and podcasts about ‘true crime’ as a genre
After a hiatus for the summer “silly season,”The Steeple Times is back and in the period of absence I share that I’ve begun a nightly YouTube channel. It has already attracted over 173,000 views, over 30,000 hours of watch time and over 3,700 subscribers in less than 15 days and I thank the wonderful people of The Magnet, Broadstairs for receiving the delightful packages sent to me of gin, books and even colourful socks that have come in from places as far flung as the Isle of Man and Australia. All have been greatly appreciated and the spirit in which they were sent is most humbling.
In the month, I’ve met viewers who’ve not only come from London and Essex, but also as far away as Zimbabwe and I also wish to thank friends who’ve joined in with the show for their generosity and participation with everything from quizzes to story ideas.
I begin today with a round-up of stories of the moment that I’ve missed covering and my thoughts about them.
‘Mucky Madam’ Maxwell conveniently turns to Judaism
Of his definitely dodgy and devilishly degenerate sprog Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell once opined: “I have a beautiful daughter and she’s just like me.” I have repeatedly suggested that the adjective “beautiful” ought to have been replaced with the noun “deviant.”
Last month came further proof of my reasoning for such with news that the in-the-clink sidekick of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has rather conveniently started “identifying” as Jewish. Now, as a result, this wicked woman is able to take advantage of special treatment for Jewish prisoners while incarcerated in federal prison.
Grubby groper Maxwell – who disgracefully still refuses to accept her guilt and who has still to cough up the names of the powerful people she trafficked her victims to – Diaz reports gets “access to a Rabbi and is excused work for 25 hours from sundown on Fridays to observe the Sabbath. She can also take a break from prison chores on Jewish holidays… [and] is also eligible for the associated wine or grape juice and breaking of bread.”
What will the croaked pension pot plunderer’s party loving pimp of a daughter want next? Krug on tap and caviar also?
Not so sexy chat with ex-Mayor of New York – Where’s E.T. when you need him? £45,000 “phone home” bill for Rudy Giuliani
A once revered Mayor of York now turned an “unhinged” Donald Trump co-conspirator, Rudy Giuliani has been forced to place his ritzy Lenox Hill, New York co-op on the market for £5.1 million ($6.5 million) through “broker to the fallen stars” Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty.
According to The Guardian’s Martin Pengelley, Giuliani – who once dressed as a woman and had Trump nuzzling his ‘breasts’ – is supposedly selling his “place he went for respite” apartment, 10W at 45 East 66th Street, “amid a cash crunch due to ongoing legal problems.” Situated in a 33 unit, 10-storey Gothic style “monumentally exuberant edifice” constructed in 1908, the “stately” 3-bedroom complete with a “cheerful eat-in-kitchen” was recently raided by the FBI and also includes a library where Giuliani “gobsmacked” his now ex-third wife, Judith, by filming a pro-Trump podcast.
A lawyer for disgraced Giuliani – who “stood for a police mugshot at a bug-ridden jail in Atlanta” last week – shared: “[He’s] close to broke… There’s a lot of bills he’s not paying. From a £45,000 [$57,000] phone bill to significantly more.” Frankly, one has to ask: “Does Giuliani have an addiction to sex chatlines?”
Podcast of the moment – Crime World’s Nicola Tallant on ‘true crime’ as a genre; “why are we all so obsessed with true crime as entertainment?”
I’m sure it has been said of this crusading columnist before, but I do think the Sunday World’s Nicola Tallant to be a truly talented and a truly tenacious journalist. I met her at the gathering of amateur sleuths that was CrimeCon in London in the summer of 2022 and subsequently recorded an episode with her about Ghislaine Maxwell also.
Exploring the non-fiction literary, podcast and film genre made globally popular most recently by Netflix’s Making a Murderer, the pair asked probing questions such as: “What is true crime?” and “How has it become entertainment?” They focused on the obsession of ‘fans’ – whom they highlighted as mostly being female – with “stories with X-Factor” rather than journalistic credibility” and pointed out that the topics covered are “sensationalist” rather than “really important.”
Tallant observed that she’d prefer to see the true crime ‘community’ explore stories about young men joining gangs and being shot dead over a drug debt than the regurgitation of stories. I completely agree and think that the focus on the likes of Jeffrey Dahma and the Kray twins in ways that don’t even include deep delving should now reach the end of the road.
As regional media declines due to a lack of funding – with Radio 4 just yesterday pointing out that there are now just five companies controlling the majority of local newspapers in the UK – the gritty, real stories of everyday abuse and everyday crime is being ignored. It is being ignored at the peril of us all and it is now time, as Tallant concludes, that true crime coverage reverts to being a little more thoughtful.
Radio show of the moment – How to Build Impossible Things by Mark Ellison
Aside from gossiping about his work for his teenage hero” David Bowie –someone he referenced as being terrified of being shot a manner akin to John Lennon – Ellison references incidents that include algae eating snails ending up boiled to stench inducing escargot in a penthouse pond he worked upon.
Cheekily humorous, this self-professed “serial dropout’s” enthusiasm for “puzzles in the building world” that he could tackle concludes: “What matters is the doing.” He is an inspiration and his “workshop of wonders” is most definitely one worth exploring.
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Premiering tonight at 9pm tonight, Matthew Steeples will launch his ‘Uncensored’ chitter-chatter show on YouTube
Tonight at 9pm, Matthew Steeples will go live on YouTube to launch a new channel where he will discuss topics uncensored.
Steeples, who has enjoyed many discussions on channels such as that of Shaun Attwood and thanks such people for their kind introduction into the world of online chitter-chatter, will now be talking about cancel culture, wokery and Ghislaine Maxwell with freedom. He will, in addition, use the words “golly gosh” and “wally” without censorship and if YouTube decide to cancel him, so be it.
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Pictured top – Matthew Steeples ‘bowled over’ in Hyde Park in a photograph by snapper-to-the-stars John Stoddart (left) and with Suzie Cooke of the late, great La Brasserie restaurant and the legendary actor Steven Berkoff (top right) and with the brilliantly bonkers Navjot Dhanoa and ‘Sodem Stop Brexit Man’ Steve Bray (bottom right).
Matthew Steeples at the House of Lords. Pedestrians are something that frankly he’s not that interested in.With the late, great Arthur Woodham – owner of Arthur’s Café in Kingsland Road, Dalston, London. Arthur loved Smirnoff vodka and consumed such with Matthew Steeples and other friends at La Brasserie in Brompton Cross, SW3. He was a legend and is very much missed.With the legendary stalwarts of The Magnet – landlords Nichola Munn and her partner Will, Karen, Samantha Hawkins and barflies Jenny Faulkner, Kate Taylor, Max O’Connell, June Hutchins and Mario Garcia.With the PR to the stars Liz Brewer – whose clients have variously numbered Dame Shirley Bassey and Ivana Trump – and the late, great Peter Godwin, owner of the best and very much missed La Brasserie.With the crusading ex-Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder – a tireless campaigner against the nonsensical disgrace that is Brexit and a lady whose political skills are clearly not being followed by those currently in the government of the bag of bilge run by Rishi Sunak and his henchman ‘30p Lee’ Lee Anderson MP.With Barbara Minto, a legendary lady who transformed the way people write business documents. Barbara Minto will go down in history as one of the most skilled wordsmiths on the planet and her Minto Pyramid Principle is something that everyone should adhere to.With actress and film producer Alexa Jago – a lady whose talents including having played Ted Bundy’s wife and having produced the award winning film ‘Kajaji.’With the delightful Amelia Wright – wife of television star Matthew Wright – and Rebecca Crawford.With Barbara Minto and Felicity Kendal CBE at Daphne’s – the best restaurant to dine at the bar and to consume ice cream with whisky.With a legendary friend from Sainsbury’s Belgravia, Idi (nicknamed ‘Idi Amin’ for good reason). With the best retailer in London, Jane Morris. Percy Bass, her store, is the most wonderful emporium of weird and wacky delights. Do shop there.With the lovely equestrian Jenny Taylor (formerly known as Jenny, Viscountess Chelsea).With ‘EastEnders’ star turned fireman turned barman and all-round-legend Tony Discipline (whom I nickname ‘Tony NO-Discipline’).With the very most wonderful writer and exposer of Meghan Markle that is my dear friend Alexis Parr.With my dear friend Claire Rubinstein – a truly superb ex-BBC PR lady whose brain and brilliance is second to none.Performing ‘Supermarket Sweep’ (allegedly).“I will not be cancelled” – In the mouth of a crocodile at a party in Notting Hill, London.
After ratbag Michael Barrymore’s cringeworthily car-crash interview on ‘This Morning’ with dozy Josie Gibson, complaints are unsurprisingly made to Ofcom and in a Change.org petition; it is time for this outdated show simply to be cancelled
In the wake of disgraced entertainer Michael Barrymore’s cringeworthily car-crash-like ‘interview’ with bleached blonde bimbo Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle on This Morning last Thursday, complaints have been made to Ofcom and a Change.org petition has been established calling on ITV plc to scrap this frankly reprehensibly mismanaged show.
The 9:49-minute feature, which aired at a time when the majority of the viewing public would have been parents with young children and elderly folk, was frankly quite rightly described as nothing but a “car-crash” of epic proportions and it was an ‘interview’ that should actually have never been aired.
Our questions to This Morning’s head honcho Martin Frizell – whose presenter wife Fiona Phillips has been a “very good friend” of Michael Barrymore for at least 30 years – are:
Why did you so irresponsibly place Michael Barrymore on air when he was clearly not in a fit state to be interviewed in the wake of the outrage over the way in which Kerry Katona was allowed on air in 2008 whilst suffering mental health issues?
Why was Barrymore allowed to be placed before a viewing public looking so dishevelled and as if he’d slept on a park bench?
Why did cackling hyena-like Josie Gibson and her drippy sidekick Craig Doyle not intervene when Barrymore slurred his words, failed to realise who he was talking to, etc.?
Why, when Gok Wan intervened clearly realising the car crash disaster going on, was the segment not stopped?
Why did Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle not ask any questions about what occurred when Stuart Lubbock was raped and murdered at the then home of Michael Barrymore on 31st March 2001?
Why was Craig Doyle also allowed on air when he had earlier admitted to being in a hungover state after a night out on a bender with a rugby team given he said he’d had to spend significant time in make-up?
What is the current state of relations between your wife, Fiona Phillips, and her friend of 30 years plus and Michael Barrymore and why is Barrymore given the opportunity to appear on your programme so frequently in such a nepotistic fashion?
Why, Mr Frizell, didn’t you as chief-of-the-municipality, not intervene yourself?
Responding on Instagram to Matthew Steeples’s discussions with Shaun Attwood on his channel during their growing in popularity ‘Royals & Rotters’ segment over the weekend, a lady named Dianne Rocks remarked:
“I firmly believe Barrymore is finished. There’s definitely no place for him anyone’s life, never mind on their 60-inch television… I’ve had the luxury of working in fine dining and luxury hospitality for 35 years and I’ve had the misfortune of being in the same hotel as Barrymore. He’s definitely up there with the ‘rotters’… and let’s just say, he’s a difficult guest.”
Given this disgraceful episode has come so soon in the wake of the Phillip Schofield and #queugate scandals, it is now time only for one thing. That thing? It is time for ITV to cancel the outdated programme completely irrelevant to the modern generation that is This Morning for once and for all.
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Michael Barrymore’s appearance on ‘This Morning’ last week with the soppy sap Josie Gibson and her hungover sidekick Craig Doyle has understandably caused outrage. Frankly, Gibson can only be described as unfit to conduct interviews with a bus ticket even.Barrymore – born Michael Parker – appeared previously on ‘This Morning’ with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on 6th January 2020. He also played his ‘Strike It Lucky’ game with them remotely on the 6th May that year. It does seem that this disgraced ‘entertainer’ has been given rather a lot of airtime courtesy of the show’s head honcho Martin Frizell as a result of the 30-year-friendship Barrymore has had with Frizell’s wife, Fiona Phillips.On 5th August, Matthew Steeples issued a Change.org petition concerning the latest scandal to hit ‘This Morning.’ The petition is titled: “Make ITV scrap ‘This Morning’ after disgraceful car crash interview with Michael Barrymore.”Earlier last week, Steeples complained to Ofcom about the matter. Many others have been in contact to state that they have also submitted formal complaints.Barrymore was interviewed by his friend of “over” 30 years Fiona Phillips whilst living with his then boyfriend Shaun Davis in September 2002. During the interview, the disgraced ‘entertainer’ cried crocodile tears and claimed he could not swim and could not float. Of his since deceased former wife, Cheryl, the ratbag observed: “I cannot swim. I cannot float. I don’t know why Cheryl’s doing this. We haven’t spoken in five years since the divorce. It ended nastily unfortunately. It’s sad she’s had to lie, and I don’t know why she’s lying. I know what the implication is: why didn’t I jump in and get Stuart out?” He pathetically added: “You can call me a lousy entertainer, but you can’t call me a killer. I don’t care if you call me that. It doesn’t matter. It’s anybody’s choice and when my time’s due, when I meet Stuart again, he knows. He knows nothing was done to him. Not at my house. And I know… I don’t know how Stuart got into the pool, but I am not responsible for Stuart getting into the pool and I’m not responsible for his death… When Stuart Lubbock arrived at the A&E department from the house and they moved him on to the table to work on him there were absolutely no injuries whatsoever to his body. Absolutely none. He did not receive any injuries at my house. At all. They did not happen at my house, and it is not for me to speculate.” Ms Phillips just happens to be the wife of Martin Frizzell, the head honcho at ITV1’s ‘This Morning.’ Funny that, funny indeed.Stuart Lubbock, victim of rape and murder at the then home of Michael Barrymore, on his wedding day to Sue Homan.Responding to Barrymore appearing on ‘This Morning,’ Sue Homan shared: “Wouldn’t it lovely if today was the day that Michael Barrymore going on ITV #ThisMorning to put out an appeal to help find who killed Stuart. Will never happen, will it. I wonder why…. On a positive note, I hope him gaining exposure will help someone else speak up.” Responding to a moron named Maria Davis crackpotedly claiming: “We want Michael Barrymore back on our TV screens. He’ll brighten up our Saturday night viewing,” the former wife of Stuart Lubbock, the victim of rape and murder on 31st March 2001 at the then home of Michael Barrymore, added: “24 hours in police custody would do nicely.”The scene of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock on 31st March 2001: Michael Barrymore’s then home, 4 Beaumont Park Drive, Roydon, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5HB. The property was most recently sold for £1.33 million in 2017 whilst Barrymore had paid £392,500 for it in 1998 and was forced to sell it for £802,000 in 2005 to cover costs related to his bankruptcy. Items that were seen initially beside the pool at the house when police arrived later went missing including a pool thermometer and a door handle.The eight people who survived a night at Michael Barrymore’s bungalow.The fateful night that led to the tragic death of Stuart Lubbock began at the Millennium nightclub in Essex (left); Stuart Lubbock’s grave (right). The grave is captioned: “Rest in peace and dignity Stuart. Missed by everyone who knew and loved you. 1.10.1969 – 31.3.2001.”Estate agent, drag queen and coach driver Jonathan Kenney was Michael Barrymore’s then lover at the time of the murder of Stuart Lubbock. Kenney was later arrested on suspicion of murder but never charged. He is known for having a “record of violence” and claimed to have been the first to have discovered the bod, is now aged circa 52. In 2021, ‘The Sun’ reported he is now “in a long-term relationship with someone else.”Michael Barrymore with his then wife Cheryl. She subsequently divorced him and wrote a book, ‘Catch A Falling Star,’ about the horrors she experienced living with her abusive, drug addict husband.Barrymore is known for blocking anyone who dares say a word he doesn’t agree with (left); he got on his knees and worshipped the vilest paedophile ever known to mankind, Sir Jimmy Savile, whilst in the ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ house in January 2006. Others present included Jodie Marsh – who branded him a “narcissistic bully” and claimed she was “terrified of him.” In a “savage dig,” Marsh ironically observed: “He’s got a major issue with vegetarians. He keeps going on and on about it. I’ve got an issue with people dying in swimming pools but I don’t keep on about it.” She added: “Had I known that I would be doing CBB with Barrymore I wouldn’t have done it but my agent at the time was useless and I found out after I got inside the house that I was there with someone I viewed as scum. If I’d have walked out my charity wouldn’t have been paid. It was vile.”During his time in the ‘Celebrity Big Brother House,’ Barrymore understandably caused outrage by dressing up as Hitler. It simply illustrated the true colours of this unfunny cretin.At parties, this weirder-than-weird wazzock is known for misbehaving. In these shots, a clearly off-his-skull Barrymore is pictured groping and grabbing Dame Joan Collins, an unknown boy and the convicted criminal racist Marie-Claire, Baroness von Alvensleben.On TikTok, this mentally unhinged man shares videos of himself leaping around in supermarkets like a total twerp. In other shots, such as these, he is seen leaping at refuse bins, laid out as if dead on the floor and crashed out on park benches. Here is someone not to be laughed alongside; here is someone who needs to simply be sent to the mental asylum.
The full text of our Change.org petition
“ITV1’s ‘This Morning’ aired an ‘interview’ (if the car crash of epic proportions presented could be called such) with the disgraced ‘entertainer’ Michael Barrymore – an oddity who has previously appeared on a television show dressed up as Hitler and in an episode where he worshiped at the feet of the now late paedophile Jimmy Savile – on Thursday 3rd August 2023 at 12 noon GMT.”
“Conducted by a toady bleach blonde named Josie Gibson and her sidekick a one-time rugby commentator called Craig Doyle (who announced earlier in the show that he’d had to be caked in makeup as he’d been out on a booze-a-thon the night before with a rugby club and had a bit of a hangover), the 9:49-minute interview (available to view on YouTube) was beyond shocking.”
“Barrymore – whose then bungalow home in Roydon, Essex was the scene of the brutal rape-murder of father-of-two Stuart Lubbock on 31st March 2001 during a drug fuelled party attended by a total of nine – appeared looking disheveled in a stained jumper. He slurred his words, did not seem to know quite who he was talking to and what he was talking about and came across as heavily medicated or having been out on a bender in the hours prior.”
“At one point, another presenter, Gok Wan, attempted to intervene to move on to a different segment, but a cackling like a hyena Gibson and the drippy Doyle continued. Here, one can surmise, was a nothing but a repeat of ‘This Morning’s’ condemned as ‘irresponsible’ 22nd October 2008 Kerry Katona interview in which the since disgraced presenter Phillip Schofield made a fool and mocked a lady suffering with very visible mental health issues.”
“Gibson and Doyle and the production team of ‘This Morning’ – headed by Martin Frizell, a man called out for mocking the Schofield scandal by comparing it to his dislike for aubergies – ought to have known that Barrymore was unfit to be placed on air when he arrived at their studio. They ought to have intervened and never even placed him in the green room; they should never, ever have allowed him on air.”
“Aside from inflicting the substantial familial viewing audience (including children and elderly folk) with this scary spectacle of mentality, Gibson and Doyle also failed to use this ‘interview’ for public good. They did not ask one single question about what Barrymore knows – and he has stated he has knowledge he hasn’t previously shared in the past – of what occured the night Stuart Lubbock was raped and murdered at his then home. They did not ask him why he fled the scene of the rape and murder before the police arrived even. Instead, this useless pair of toerags banged on about how much their families loved Barrymore and encouraged him to spout frankly nonsensical drivel.”
“In the wake of Martin Frizell – a man whose presenter wife Fiona Phillips has most curiously been a longstanding close friend of Michael Barrymore – and his team being dragged before Dame Caroline Dinenage’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee for a grilling over the channel’s handling of matters sexual concerning Phillip Schofield, how on earth was this allowed to happen?”
“Formal complaints have been made to Ofcom concerning Gibson, Doyle, Barrymore, Frizell and ‘This Morning’ by a number of individuals, but it is now time that ITV acted and cancelled this toxic show for once and for all. ‘This Morning’ has had its day and it is now time that this ghastly show was replaced with something actually relevant to a contemporary viewing audience.”
The full text of Matthew Steeples’s complaint to Ofcom
“Yesterday, ITV1’s bosses failed to intervene when ‘This Morning’s’ dimwitted dunce-like ‘presenters’ Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle were ‘interviewing’ (if their actions could be deemed such given Gibson especially spent much of the 10-minute slot cackling like a hyena) the disgraced ‘entertainer’ Michael Barrymore.”
“Mr Barrymore was completely disheveled in his appearance and was wearing a stained jumper. He may have been on a bender and had clearly not been through the make-up department (earlier Doyle had banged on about how he’d needed so much makeup himself as he’d been on a boozy night with a rugby team the night prior).”
“He slurred his words and made utterly no sense in his answers to anything asked; as such, the slot should have been stopped.”
“In a situation similar to a previous ‘interview’ with a medicated and most definitely out-of-control Kerry Katona, here was an ‘interview’ subject who should not have been allowed on air in the first place as he was not in a fit state.”
“In addition, Gibson and Doyle found themselves interupted by another presenter, Gok Wan. Mr Wan, realising the car crash being presented to the viewing public, attempted to intervene to move the show on, but Gibson and Doyle shockingly failed to act.”
“The section of the show was utterly irresponsibly mismanaged and frankly producer Martin Frizell should be dragged before Dame Caroline Dinenage to explain yet another failure in the wake of the scandal relating to the equally disgraced Phillip Schofield. Have the ‘This Morning’ team not learned any lessons from that national scandal?”
“Going further, I would add – as someone who knows relations of Stuart Lubbock, the victim of a brutal rape-murder at the then home of Michael Barrymore in 2001 – I would also like to condemn Gibson, Doyle and Frizell’s team for not asking any questions to him about that. Asking about that might have made the choice to interview this cowardly individual on air actually relevant Instead, this pair of clowns simply ‘bigged-up’ this strange man and frankly presented to the public not just a comedy of errors, but also television trash that should never, ever have been aired.”
Justice for Stuart Lubbock – The people who need to man-up and tell the truth about what happened at Michael Barrymore’s home on 31st March 2001…
Michael Parker (AKA Michael Barrymore) – Allegedly loudly said: “I need a f**k” in a taxi as he left the Millennium Nightclub to return to his home, the scene of the death of Stuart Lubbock. Barrymore later lied to a coroner’s court about facilitating drug taking at his house on the night in question also.
Barrymore claimed to have been first to have discovered the body of Stuart Lubbock at 5.45am, called his manager Mike Brown before the ambulance arrived and then left the premises. He admits that was “wrong” and also bizarrely told Piers Morgan that in spite of “knowing others were hiding secrets about what happened to Mr. Lubbock” that “I am not going to say their names. I just hope they are brave enough to come forward one day.”
Mike Brown – Agent of Michael Barrymore. Called to the property before emergency services arrived.
Kelly Campbell – Had met Michael Barrymore for the first time on the night of the incident. Claimed not to have been aware of what happened.
James Futters (sometimes spelt ‘Futers’) – A paper boy turned chef. Described as “a local from the village” and a “friend and neighbour of Barrymore.” Claimed to have been the first to discover the body with Simon Shaw and stated: “[It was not] Michael Barrymore and not Jonathan Kenney [who found him].” Later, of him the Evening Standard reported: “Barrymore offered James Futters a white powder on his finger saying: ‘Do you want to try this?’ Mr Futters told the inquest that he leaned forward and licked the powder.”
Claire Jones – Then aged 17. Had met Michael Barrymore for the first time on the night of the incident. Claimed not to have been aware of what happened but told the police that she “saw Barrymore rummaging through drawers and changing his clothes before police arrived. When he left the house, he had a ‘bundle of material’ under his arm,” according to the Evening Standard. “She added: ‘Jonathan (Kenney) was rushing through the bungalow before the ambulance and police arrived. I got the impression he was hiding something.’”
Jonathan Kenney – Estate agent, drag queen and Michael Barrymore’s then lover; later arrested on suspicion of murder but never charged; known for having a “record of violence.” Claimed to have been the first to have discovered the body and is now aged 50.
Justin Merritt – A dustman from Essex. Later arrested on suspicion of murder but never charged. Later paid £30,000 by the News of the World for an interview in which he stated Barrymore had “rubbed cocaine on Stuart Lubbock’s lips shortly before he died.”
Kylie Merritt – Sister of Justin Merritt. She also alleged Barrymore “rubbed cocaine on Stuart Lubbock’s lips shortly before he died” (curiously in the wake of her brother selling his account of the night).
Simon Shaw – Described as “a local from the village.” Michael Barrymore supposedly “ran off” to Mr. Shaw’s house to “buy himself thinking time [for two hours] before he was questioned by the police [at 7.49am].”
In addition, others, who’ve never been identified could also have possibly been present. If they were, they should come forward or be named by those listed above.
As self-professed “homophobic arsehole” Jim Davidson again trends on Twitter, isn’t it time that this pugnacious pillock and apologist for the monster-paedophile Gary Glitter just finally be put out to pasture?
In March, we featured a story about the bigoted ‘comedian’ Jim Davidson after he described Gary Lineker as “smug” and “smugger.”
At the time, chatting with the since accused of all sorts of abuses-of-his position former The Sun and Daily Mail columnist Dan Wootton, Davidson raged of the BBC: “You know, it is a joke and we have to pay for it whether we like it or not. You know, let’s scrap it and watch GB News all day long.”
Trending again this morning on Twitter after yet another split screen with the nasty-piece-of-work Wootton, alleged wife beater Davidson – a menace-not-a-man whom made ‘pleasant’ remarks about the sickening monster-paedophile Gary Glitter in June 2021 – this time has been banging on about how he has “had enough of this woke and cancel culture.”
Contradicting himself, this braindead bozo then announced he wanted Costa Coffee cancelled and claimed they were facing a “Bud Light moment” for placing a trans supporting mural on their vans. Though Davidson is known not exactly for logic in his thought processes, wouldn’t it now be time that this pugnacious pensioner to simply be put out to pasture?
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Is it right to excuse Jim Davidson for saying “I spoke to Paul Gadd [the evil paedophile Gary Glitter] when I visited The Verne [prison] 2 years ago. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life” in June 2021? #JimDavidson#GaryGlitter#paedophile#disgrace#evil#vile
This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Is it right to excuse Jim Davidson for saying ‘I spoke to Paul Gadd [the evil paedophile Gary Glitter] when I visited The Verne [prison] 2 years ago. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life’ in June 2021?” By 11:30am on Thursday 3rd August 2023, the very clear majority of respondents unsurprisingly favoured the answer: “No; a disgraceful remark.”Jim Davidson is reliably predictable in how he advertises himself and his ‘shows’ online on mediums such as Twitter; misogynistic and moronic.Please, someone, anyone, just put him out to pasture – In June 2023, Davidson further illustrated his bigotry in remarking on Facebook: “I have just walked two miles through Southampton to get a train. I saw three white people. Two of those was [sic] an overweight hobby Bobby copper and a female version arresting two 11-year-old kids with pushbikes. It was as if I was in a foreign country. But I would say that, I am a racist obviously… Country is f*cked. Roll on death… Innit.”GB News is about the only channel that will now accept the weird warblings of the two utter berks Jim Davidson and Dan Wootton (AKA ‘Martin Branning’).Twitter users have previously rightly mocked the frankly anything but entertaining ‘entertainer’ Davidson over his decision to visit a disgraced ‘singer’ who abused children as young as 10 years old in prison. What on earth was it about the paedophile-nonce-monster Gary Glitter that attracted Jim Davidson to visit him in prison? An answer is required. The public should be told.
Deserved “Public Hate Figure” Jim Davidson OBE’s Worst Moments…
On Gary Glitter:
“I spoke to Paul Gadd [Gary Glitter] when I visited The Verne [prison] two years ago. He’s remorseful and he looked ready to start a new life.”
On Great Yarmouth:
“Full of fat children of all colours.”
On the equally pompous self-promoter Stephen Fry:
“I really want Stephen Fry to like me.”
On London and the UK:
“I am never coming to London again… I may as well go to Dubai and be an ethnic minority there than wait five years till I become one here.”
On the UK in general:
“I have just walked two miles through Southampton to get a train. I saw three white people. Two of those was [sic] an overweight hobby Bobby copper and a female version arresting two 11-year-old kids with pushbikes. It was as if I was in a foreign country. But I would say that, I am a racist obviously… Country is f*cked. Roll on death… Innit.”
On former UKIP leader Nigel Farage:
“The Jim Davidson of the political world.”
Of his five marriages to date:
“I would have been happily married forever if I hadn’t been famous.”
On beating up one of his four ex-wives:
“We’re like a couple of boxers. On the first occasion, I poked her in the eye by accident. I actually went for the mouth… The second time I gave her a shiner. I threw a bunch of keys which whacked her in the eye. Just for a giggle she kept blackening it up to make it look worse.”
“I took the wife out last night; one punch!”
“I’m still friends with wives one, two and four but wife number three was the one who accused me of being a wife beater.”
On cutting his son by his second wife, Cameron, out of his life:
“I was going through so much hurt after the split I actually chose not to see him, to punish Julie [Gullick]. ‘Bugger it,’ I thought. ‘Get rid of me and you lose your son’s father.’ This is something I do. I always cut off my nose to spite my face. ‘I haven’t got a child now.’ I thought: ‘I’ll see him later.’”
Of his current wife Michelle Cotton:
“She is a very nice person. She’s impatient, she’s fiery like me. She’s a bear-poker and her mum says: ‘Well you need that.’”
“I hope I’m with Michelle for the rest of my life, there’s no one better I’d want to spend the rest of my life with. Liz Hurley, perhaps?”
On supposedly giving up on making jokes about black people:
“I can’t do impressions of Frank Bruno or Ian Wright? That’s racist, is it? But I can do Sven-Göran Eriksson?”
“I’m not going to get on my knee, and I’m not going to go ever black person I see, ‘hail you.’ I’m not going to apologise for the past; the past was the past.”
On Black Lives Matter protestors:
“Pondlife… F**king stupid.”
Of his thoughts about his chum Boris Johnson:
“Don’t listen with mother.”
On Piers Morgan (after he was paid to appear on his Life Stories programme):
“You don’t deserve to listen to anyone’s life story because you don’t f**king listen.”
On the BBC and the NHS:
“I was a smell under peoples’ noses… I’m totally erased; I am the statue that’s thrown into Bristol Docks… They gave me a million quid to go away.”
“I hate the BBC with a passion. It’s a toss-up between them and the NHS who I hate the most.”
Proving himself the ultimate ‘Brain of Britain’:
“People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.”
After being declared bankrupt:
“My problem is money.”
On wasting his ‘fortune’:
“It’s how much money I’ve spent over the years. Getting on to £50 million, £60 million must have passed through my hands.”
On himself:
“I could cure Aids and give £1 billion to womens’ groups and people would still think I was a racist, sexist twat”.
