Category: Departed

  • Two Faced Phillip Schofield – Weird Presenter Deservedly Labelled “Chief Narcissist,” A “Liar” And “Hated” By Eamonn Holmes

    Two Faced Phillip Schofield – Weird Presenter Deservedly Labelled “Chief Narcissist,” A “Liar” And “Hated” By Eamonn Holmes

    Two faced Phillip Schofield, once a patron and “famous friend” of the 2 Faced Theatre Company, is quite deservedly labelled a “chief narcissist” who is a “liar” and “hated” by Eamonn Holmes

    The now 63-year-old “silver soufflé” that has now morphed into “salacious sloppy seconds” that is Phillip Schofield once supposedly disgustingly joked about “paying someone a fiver to drink bleach and die” to a “youngster” on Snapchat.

     

    Indicative of someone with a brain clearly stir fried and nothing but the morals of an alley cat, here is a creepy creature who was once somewhat ironically a patron and “famous friend” of a theatre company called 2 Faced who was last night slammed as a “chief narcissist,” a “liar” and “hated” by fellow TV sofa host Eamonn Holmes.

     

    Going further in a GB News feature with Dan Wootton of the warbling wazzock Schofield’s “relationship” with a now 27-year-old one-time actor who is curiously currently being represented by the ritzy law firm Mischon de Reya LLP, Holmes raged:

     

    “It’s a total cover-up, it’s a total cover-up. Those in authority had to know what was going on and they thought they’d dodge a bullet – which they do and they do constantly.”

     

    “With Schofield talking about those who speak out against him – namely me, Amanda Holden, you [Dan Wootton], you’ll be included in the toxicity that goes on… Dr Ranj, of course too. You sit there and suddenly think, no mate, you’ve had it your way for far too long.”

     

    “This nonsense that he wrote today about toxicity, it’s a happy place and whatever… What planet does this man live on? He created an atmosphere where people hated him. People would avoid him in the corridor. He didn’t look at anybody, he didn’t know peoples’ names. Holly doesn’t know peoples’ names either. This is legendary within the production team, that how distant they are and how they just don’t care.”

     

    “Not only should Phillip go, but Holly should follow him out the door. I don’t think you’ll ever see Holly back the couch again.”

     

    “I think now that a few of the Loose Women, if certain executives are moved, maybe they’ll have the courage to tell the truth about what it is, but he was so rude, so dismissive of the Loose Women and you go and you ask and you say: ‘How about Schofield?’ and nobody rates him.”

     

    “He can’t read autocue. His big, wide eyes, shouts when he speaks, like that. He’s rude to everyone around him as has – Nadine Dorries has talked about him as well.”

     

    “My father always says: ‘You can watch a thief, but you can’t watch a liar’ and you don’t know what’s fact and what’s with fiction with him.”

     

    “I think Phillip was absolutely right about toxicity, but, my friend, the toxicity is not with me, Dan Wootton or anybody else, the toxicity is with you and your mates in management and everybody kept you in power and abusive power for so long.”

     

    “If I’m guilty of anything, it’s for speaking up for all those researchers you ignored, all those producers you treated like dirt, all those people who are texting and phoning Dan Wootton and saying: ‘We feel now empowered to come forward, come out and tell the public the truth’ because the truth is the public can’t handle the truth, the public don’t want the truth. They think you’re a little broom cupboard person and they grew up with you and your lovely and adorable and whatever, but you let your fame and your power corrupt you.”

     

    “I didn’t know, but I’ve subsequently found out from a very, very good source, because [Schofield] would arrive much earlier in the morning than I would for the programme, that [the boy] was delivered from Phillip’s London home usually on a Friday morning because Thursday was ‘playtime’ – er, when he and Phillip would hit the town.”

     

    “And then, he obviously stayed overnight and there are records to show that he was brought in the next day separately… in cars paid for by ITV… unless Phillip paid the bills separately, but it would still have to go through the accounts office and they’d have seen that and known.”

     

    “[The boy] was a lovely fella, a really talented fella… He never once talked to us about any relationship, but we knew he was in a bad way. He was in a bad way, fragilely… And, erm, he seemed to go through a lot of money in his life… He needed a lot of money.”

     

    Separately, taking to Twitter prior to the airing of the interview Holmes added:

     

    “Just telling the truth in the face of a coercive controller… A lie unchallenged becomes the truth… Not on my watch it doesn’t Pip. Tonigh is for all my workmates over the years who frightened and ignored by you and your controlling, coercive behaviour. All you who no one listened to. I’m here for you.”

     

    “Schofield has just put out a delusional statement. Like Holly, he puts it on Insta Stories, so if it goes wrong there is no record after 24 hours. I’m reluctant to give the liar any more publicity, but believe me Pip, if you are looking for a fight, you have picked the wrong person!”

     

    In a 2014 showreel, two faced twerp Schofield – whose scumbag ex-policeman brother is now in jail for sexual offences – answered his “lover” asking him about “what we’ll both be doing in three years’ time” with the cryptically creepy comment: “Well, if I’m still getting away with it, I’ll be a happy man.” Most tellingly however, this rotten ratbag neglected to what “it” might actually mean.

     

    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.

     

    A Two Faced Twerp – This morning Matthew Steeples asked: “How will history remember Phillip Schofield?” He added the hashtags: #PhillipSchofield #Schofe #Schofield #DrRanj #EamonnHolmes #Eamonn #RuthLangsford #Ruth #AmandaHolden #DanWootton #DermotOLeary #AlisonHammond #GylesBrandreth #MatthewWright #RichardMadeley #JudyFinnigan #ITV #ThisMorning #television. By 11:30am on Tuesday 30th May 2023, the majority of respondents very clearly favoured the option: “A nasty, bitter bully.”
    Groomed By My Drama Teacher
    Somewhat ironically, two faced Schofield once appeared in a segment titled: “Groomed by my drama teacher.” He has also been known to dress up in a dress; endearing or just plain weird?
    2 Faced Theatre Company
    The now disgraced and loathed by virtually everyone ex-presenter was once a “patron” and “famous friend” of the 2 Faced Theatre Company run by his ‘chum’ Simon Schofield – who happens not to be related to him, but whom he considers his “rock” supposedly. The 2 Faced Theatre Company is now listed as dissolved; curious that, very curious indeed.
    Gordon The Gopher Amanda Holden I'll Take It On The Chin Phillip Schofield
    Two faced Schofield is known for whining and in one tweet – before he threw a hissy fit and quit leaving missives on Twitter – the warbling wazzock moaned about being the “easiest, most fun person to work with” but being subject to “hateful and wildly untrue stores from nameless ‘sources.’” He concluded: “Obviously, I’ll take it on the chin… I just hope you know me better.” Clearly now, most plainly didn’t.
    Phillip Schofield Jimmy Savile
    Two faced Schofield is also doing the rounds on Twitter in a series of memes and caricatures; here, at The Dorchester in London, he’s mocked up as the late paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile.

    Wacky and weird, two faced Phillip Schofield’s worst moments…

    On himself (in spite of being condemned by everyone from Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to Nadine Dorries MP):

    “I am only about 26 in my head.”

     

    “If I was a pig to work with, I wouldn’t get asked back.”

     

    “My dad was the archetypal charming man. If I’ve inherited even a small bit of what he had, that would be enough for me.”

     

    “I’m incredibly sentimental, although I’m not one of those people who doesn’t chuck anything out; I don’t keep used tea bags, just special mementos.”

     

    To his supposedly now suffering one-time ‘friend’ turned ‘runner’ (for a time) on This Morning, [*REDACTED*] (whom he met when the young whippersnapper was allegedly somewhere between 10 and 15 years old) asking him about what they might end up doing in three years:

    “Well, if I’m still getting away with it, I’ll be a happy man.”

     

    On the world in general:

    “We live in a world that has very sharp edges. It can be very bitter.”

     

    On Holly Willoughby (who subsequently has distanced herself from the crying cretin):

    “Holly is my rock.”

     

    On being gay (in spite of hidden such for years):

    “I thought maybe I was bisexual.”

     

    “If you ask anyone who is gay, they know, there is no confusion.”

     

    “You never know what is going on someone’s head when they think they are leading the perfect life.”

     

    As he cut off invited guests on ‘This Morning’ who he believed misgendered LGBTQX+ sorts:

    “We’ll get back to the show and we’ll get back to 2017 and not get back to medieval Britain in just a moment.”

     

    On his now ex-wife’s keenness to be rid of him:

    “My wife Steph never tells me to take on less work; she’s just glad to have me out of the house.”

     

    On birthdays:

    “I hate birthdays.”

     

    On putting wine ahead of family:

    “Wine is the biggest passion of my life without question.”

     

    “I don’t do anything by halves and wine is an expensive passion.”

     

    On preferring to travel alone:

    “In general, I’d say that I need to be with the right people in the right place, although one of the best holidays I ever had was alone.”

     

    On quitting Twitter:

    “I have another secret Twitter account.”

     

    “There’s nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid and who say the most ridiculous things.”

     

    On the people he’s interviewed:

    “I’m not being arrogant or blasé, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas at Château Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.”

     

    “You can tell when you look at someone and think: ‘He’s on the brink of fainting’ or that certainly something’s not right.”

     

    On offending people:

    “I love the fact we do break taboos.”

     

    Asked why he and Holly Willoughby skipped the 13-hour queue to attend the lying-in-state of the late Queen Elizabeth II:

    “Have you got nothing better to do with your time? … Why should I apologise?”

     

    On ghosts and his past life:

    “[I have] a rule about never borrowing money… [I was] ‘murdered’ in a past life over a debt… I opened the door to silence and felt horror wash over me. Three steps in, and I saw them – two murdered bodies on the floor. knew they were my wife and small child. Horror turned to fury. I knew why they were dead. I owed money to two brothers who worked at the end of the street in a sawmill. The brother [then] found me, dragged me outside, punched me to the ground and, as my head hit the mud, he repeatedly stamped on it until I was dead!”

     

    “Our back garden is allegedly haunted by a ghost called the Grey Lady. When one of my daughters was three, she said she’d been speaking to a lady in the garden and we went running around trying to find this woman. There was no one there.”

     

    On refusing to go near churches:

    “Going into a church reminds of the terrifying vision of [past life] death… [I am] not willing to take the risk again.”

     

    To a flower pot that he felt got in his way on television:

    “Go back to where you were, go back to where you were… Only I can see them.”

     

    To Lady Colin Campbell (whom he was interviewing about her latest book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex):

    “For someone who allegedly moves in aristocratic circles, isn’t it all a bit tawdry and undignified? … Paul Burrell, who’d have thought we’d quote him, said of one of your previous books on the Queen: ‘You can only be a true, reliable witness to history if you are there. Lady Colin Campbell was none of these things.’ … You are a gossip. Well, you’re a gossip, but only when it suits you.”

     

    Whilst interviewing television personality Kim Woodburn (who responded by slamming his rudeness):

    “I know why people reacted in the way that they reacted to you. It’s because of the way you make me feel sitting on that sofa. You are already making me feel controversial. [You are] confrontational… We’re just asking you a question.”

     

    On dealing with problems (in spite of being the creator of many himself):

    “I’m a very good clearer-upper.”

     

    Whilst shockingly sharing a list of ‘names’ of Conservative politicians live on-air with then Prime Minister David Cameron of those he believed might be abusers (he was subsequently forced to apologise and pay £125,000 to Lord McAlpine, an innocent man):

    “I have those names there. Those are the names on a piece of paper. You know the names on that piece of paper. Will you be speaking to those people?”

     

    On the ‘work’ he has done:

    “I’m not a workaholic.”

     

    “I do have a rule about how much I will take on. The last thing you want is to be on TV too much and for people to be sick of you.”

     

    On being on television:

    “I am very conscious of the fact I am in peoples’ living rooms every day and they feel like they know me.”

     

    “I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV… Ghastly.”

     

    “I don’t want people turning on the telly and going: ‘Dear God, not him again.’”

     

    Two faced ‘Schofe’s’ extremely curious history… “What’ll come next for this raging ratbag?” is indeed the question…

    Gordon-The-Gopher-Phillip-Schofield
    Gordon The Gopher (also known as ‘Gordon T. Gopher’) was two faced Phillip Schofield’s puppet ‘friend’ on ‘Children’s BBBC’ (‘CBBC’) between 1985 and 1987. The yellow puppet gopher with red pads – which were said to “represent lobster claws” – is amongst the many that the now former ITV ‘This Morning’ presenter turned upon. Of the puppet, Schofield once told ‘Heat’ magazine: “Gordon the Gopher is in rehab. It’s all gone horribly wrong for him. It’s a shame. I’ve got a restraining order against him and we don’t speak. He’s quite bitter and he has been ever since I got my role in ‘Doctor Dolittle’ in the West End and he didn’t get offered the part. It was the straw that broke the gopher’s back.”
    Phillip-Schofield-Twitter-handle
    Phillip Schofield claims not to check Twitter anymore; he has also said he has a ‘secret account’ so most likely does monitor the many thousands of messages slamming his utterly reprehensible antics.
    Phillip-Schofield-brother-Tim-Schofield
    Phillip Schofield with his now convicted and now jailed criminal 54-year-old paedophile brother Timothy Schofield in happier times. After the verdict earlier in April – in a case where the television presenter’s civilian police officer sibling was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity and three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child – in a statement released by his lawyer, Phillip Schofield remarked: “My overwhelming concern is and has always been for the wellbeing of the victim and his family. I hope that their privacy will now be respected. If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I would have acted immediately to protect the victim and their family. These are despicable crimes and I welcome the guilty verdicts. As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.” Timothy Schofield was also found guilty of three counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child at Exter Crown Court and had told the television presenter that he’d “had time together” (including watching porn and masturbating) with a child whilst the ‘This Morning’ host was doing the washing up in his very own kitchen.
    David-Cameron-Phillip-Shcofield-This-Morning-abuse-1
    On 8th November 2012, Schofield handed the then Prime Minister David Cameron a list of names of alleged sex offenders in the Conservative Party which he had found through research on the Internet. That list was partially visible to ‘This Morning’s’ millions of viewers and as a result one person on it, Lord McAlpine, sued. Subsequently, the broadcaster was quite rightly forced to issue and unreserved apology and a statement that read: “ITV and Phillip Schofield have now reached agreement with Lord McAlpine to settle his libel claim, made in relation to the This Morning programme broadcast… ITV and Phillip Schofield apologise unreservedly to Lord McAlpine, have agreed the terms of a statement to be made in open court, and have agreed to pay him damages of £125,000 and his legal costs.” According to ‘International Business,’ “the ITV settlement [was] reportedly less than McAlpine was seeking. However, the peer’s lawyer, Andrew Reid, said he was ‘pleased’ with ITV’s admission that it was wrong and called the settlement ‘pragmatic.’ … Reid told the BBC: ‘The Schofield stunt added fuel to the fire that was already there and we had to take that into account.”
    Philip-Schofield-not-sorry-GB-News
    Now former ITV1 ‘This Morning’ co-host Phillip Schofield cringed and looked as if he was about to snap when approached outside his West London home by GB News presenter Ben Leo in November 2022 about the ‘Queuegate’ scandal that utterly disgraced him. Here is a mouse-not-a-man who wrongly assumes that he’s some kind of national treasure worthy of not a jot of criticism.
    Phillip-Schofield-Ferne-McCann
    The ‘This Morning’ host is known for being a very angry and bitter man. Like Ferne McCann (pictured right), a fellow presenter on ITV1 with a reputation for being an utter rotter and for having had a child with a monster who threw acid over innocent people in a London nightclub, he is also known for being incapable of owning his own mistakes.
  • Who’ll Replace Weird Warbling Wazzock Phillip Schofield At ‘This Morning’?

    Who’ll Replace Weird Warbling Wazzock Phillip Schofield At ‘This Morning’?

    As Matthew Steeples appears in a second episode of ‘Schofield: Is There More To This Story?’, we ask: “Who’ll replace weird warbling wazzock Phillip Schofield on ITV1’s ‘This Morning’?”

    Last night, on Shaun Attwood’s by the day sky rocketing in viewer numbers YouTube channel, Matthew Steeples returned to chat about the latest developments in the sordid saga of why the “silver soufflé” that is Phillip Schofield has gone from telly-box-treasure to tarnished-turfed-out-trash.

     

    In a week when a February 2020 article from The Steeple Times – titled simply “The Phil & Matt Show” – went viral on our pages and became by far our most read article ever of our thousands of pages of published content since we began in May 2012, it seems that interest in Schofield and his sidekick turned nemesis Holly Willoughby has overtaken that of interest in ‘Wallmart Wallis’ (AKA the former Meghan Markle).

     

    Now, as speculation runs rife about what will come next in this matter, we today highlight who might become the next permanent host (or hosts) on This Morning and also again suggest that ITV would actually do better to put out this somewhat tired show to pasture. They could, instead, dust down their broom cupboard and come up with an entirely new show.

     

    This morning on Boyle Sports, the available betting odds were as follows:

     

    • Alison Hammond – 2/1.
    • Dermot O’Leary – 5/2.
    • Rylan Clark – 11/4.
    • Bradley Walsh – 9/2.
    • Vernon Kay – 5/1.
    • Stacey Solomon – 12/1.
    • Marvin Humes – 14/1.
    • Keith Lemon – 33/1.
    • Thomas Skinner – 33/1.
    • Ant & Dec – 40/1.
    • Alesha Dixon – 50/1.
    • Amanda Holden – 66/1.
    • Piers Morgan – 150/1.
    • Ryan Tubridy – 150/1.

     

    Commenting in response, Steeples observed:

     

    “Whilst I’ve never even heard of Humes, Skinner and Tubridy and Piers Morgan – who’d understandly never ditch the £30 million deal he’s done with Rupert Murdoch at Talk TV and The Sun – has already declared himself out, why aren’t others on this list?”

     

    “The brilliantly bonkers Gyles Brandreth and the equally brilliantly bonkers Christine Hamilton – who herself once made a brilliantly bonkers speech at my very own 21st birthday party back in 2001 – have both sat on the This Morning sofa on many an occasion and there’s no inclusion of other stalwarts including the delights that are Ferne Britton and Matthew Wright either.”

     

    “If the ‘show must go on’ in its present format, these are the kind of people who’d bring both fun and frolicks to our screens, but they’re also capable of serious debate also. ITV would do well to consider them.”

     

    “In reality, whilst I’d prefer to see This Morning disappear from every morning henceforth, the likelihood of more of the same with the undoubtedly voluptuous and vivacious Holly Willoughby and A. N. Other is not a solution. It’s instead time for ‘Willoughbooby’ – as the booby blonde was amusingly once nicknamed by Keith Lemon – to head off to pastures new and it is time for a clean sweep at ITV1.”

     

    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.

     

    Follow Shaun Attwood on Twitter at @shaunattwood.

     

    Pictured Top – Toxic terror queue jumpers Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby are over as “telly treasures” (top left) but who should replace them? How about one-time regulars on the show such as the ex-MP Gyles Brandreth and British battleaxe Christine Hamilton or what about near frontrunner at the bookies Rylan Clark?

     

    This afternoon on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Who will be next permanent host replacement for Phillip Schofield and who will be there as sidekick on ITV’s ‘This Morning’?” By 12:30pm on Friday 26th May 2023, the majority of respondents favoured the answer: “Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary.”
    Christine Hamilton Gyles Brandreth
    Responding to our poll within seconds, both mentioned options – Gyles Brandreth and Christine Hamilton – liked Matthew Steeples’s suggestion. The latter retweeted the missive with the accompanying caption: “I’m up for that – sounds a blast!!!” We respond: “Bring it on.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whWOAqTTwMw&t=3s
    Part two was filmed earlier this week and delved into who might replace the dual British – New Zealand citizen on the sofa of a programme that airs Monday to Friday every week.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOP8hbZ7q8
    Part one of Shaun Attwood’s interview with Matthew Steeples was filmed prior to Phillip Schofield deciding to step down from his role as co-host of ITV1’s long running morning show.
    Betting odds replacement presenter This Morning
    On Boyle Sports this morning, the current stand-in presenters, Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary were at odds of 2/1 and 5/2 respectively to become the next permanent host. Rylan Clark was at 11/4 and though the remainder of the list was made-up of predictable choices, it is a shame that some ‘wildcard’ options were not included.
    Win A Date With Phillip Schofield
    A truly unappealing date – Doing the rounds on social media this morning was an old advert to “win a ‘date’ with Phillip Schofield” from ‘Smash Hits’ magazine. In it, described was “the dream date of a lifetime” – which more sounded more like something akin to hell – of lunch with the since ditched-by-most ‘entertainer’ at “a swank London restaurant” which the winner would be “whisked off to on a “train (or a plane or a boat or whatever it takes).” The advert continued: “[You’ll dine at] one of the snootiest eating establishments in ‘town’ and there waiting to attend your every whim…”
    Piers Morgan Phillip Schofield
    Of Schofield’s demise, writing in ‘The Sun’ earlier this week, Piers Morgan stated: “Phillip’s not the evil monster he’s being painted as, nor is he the angel his previously halo-clad reputation suggested. I know a lot of people who loathe him for the way he’s treated them, including my good friends Amanda Holden and Eamonn Holmes. But I also know some of his colleagues, current and past, who speak highly of him and feel genuinely sad that his career is going up in smoke like this. One thing’s for sure, what’s happened to him is further evidence that the abyss-like depths of ruthless backstabbing in the world of daytime television makes even the seething cesspit of Westminster politics seem like an oasis of loyalty by comparison. One-minute Schofield was undisputed king of morning TV and fast heading to bona fide national treasure status – the next he’s a dethroned, shamed, vilified, national disgrace and social media laughing stock. And many of those people he mistakenly thought were faithful friends and colleagues have been happily tossing him on the bonfire in a blizzard of lurid leaks, smears, and damaging headlines. It’s been brutal to watch, but again, entirely unsurprising… I don’t know the full story behind Phillip Schofield’s downfall, but where I feel personal empathy with him is over the manner of his sacking… I, too, was deprived of saying goodbye to my GMB audience and that hurt after putting so much effort into gaining their trust. But he can at least console himself with the fact that he got publicly thanked by his employers.”
    Rylan Clark
    Aside from appearing on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Archers’ as a guest earlier this month, Rylan Clark is said to be “taking a break” from his other presenting duties currently. Could this be code for him preparing to take over co-hosting duties on the ‘This Morning’ sofa?
    Neil and Christine Hamilton Gyles Brandreth Matthew Wright
    A dream trio? Could Christine Hamilton (pictured top with ex-MP husband Neil) team up with Gyles Brandreth and Matthew Wright and take the show into a new era? They’d certainly be able to better cross the divide into discussing ‘more serious matters’ in a way that the lightweight Schofield and Willoughby most certainly never did.
  • Rot In Hell Rolf – Rolf Harris Should Only Be Remembered As A Nasty Nonce

    Rot In Hell Rolf – Rolf Harris Should Only Be Remembered As A Nasty Nonce

    As his death is announced, Matthew Steeples joins those hoping that rotten Rolf Harris goes to rot in hell; his innocent victims – as young as just 7 years old – can now have the closure they so deserve

    Having encountered both him and his weirder-than-weird wife on several occasions and having come to know several individuals he so disgustingly abused, it is not hard for me to join those taking – at the very least – relief at the death of the convicted paedophile Rolf Harris.

     

    Nasty nonce Harris – whose other ‘victims’ effectively included individuals I’ve spoken with who bought his ‘art’ thinking it would form part of their pension funds (some of whom subsequently just burnt it) – supposedly died two weeks ago at his riverside home, ‘Highlands’ in Bray, Berkshire. He had ‘suffered’ a long and no doubt painful end, was fed by a tube and ultimately died of neck cancer and “frailty of old age” watched on by his dippy Alzheimer’s disease suffering wife, Alwen Hughes.

     

    Aside from having met Harris and his wife at ritzy London parties and dined at the next table to him on occasions at Noor Jahan restaurant in Bina Gardens, SW5 – he terrified a young Australian girl in my party; she described him as a “creepy old letch” – I began to learn of the antics of this evil monster in the early 2010s and was contacted by victims of his as early as 2011.

     

    Subsequently, I was amongst the first to report on the allegations made against him and, when he was first accused, recall going on BBC radio programmes to discuss the matter. In the early days, there was widespread disbelief that this supposed ‘national treasure’ known for working in amongst other things children’s television could be in the league of Jimmy Savile, but ultimately this vile Australian import was quite rightly convicted of abusing girls as young as just seven years old.

     

    Harris, however, maintained his supporters and many bombarded me regularly. In a tirade of messages on Facebook in February 2016, for example, Ivan Godfrey – a man with a tendency for also sharing posts by the racist group Britain First and one of over 3,600 loopy people to have supported a disgraceful Change.org petition that seeks to free Harris – told me:

     

    “I read your stupid irresponsible comment on Rolf Harris… Harris was sent down with NO EVIDENCE, by a corrupt imbecile of a judge, a corrupt jury and hammered by a vile corrupt government laky [sic] of a prosecutor Wass. You are obviously the sort of creep that has turned a once Great Britain into a cesspit”.

     

    My response was simple: “You have the right not to read our content so please exercise that.”

     

    Prison did not change Harris and in September 2014, this dedicated lover of Indian cuisine – who according to the Mail Online, “enjoyed eating curried lobster and roast quail as part of his pre-prison diet” – complained that he was having to “make do” with the food at HMP Bullingdon. He reportedly lost a stone as he “[did] not like the taste” of what he [was] being fed.”

     

    Just a month prior, in August 2014 Harris seemed to be in better spirits and at the time, The Mirror reported he’d been handing out chocolate bars to fellow inmates and “thus affectionately became known as ‘Willy Wonka.’ The paper also claimed that the 84-year old also gave away sketches to those that queued outside his cell and that he had taken up dominoes.

     

    Several deservedly unsuccessful attempts to overturn his convictions followed and when that didn’t work his daughter Bindi Nicholls – a woman who’d for a time disowned him, but who clearly came back looking to ensure she got a good chunk of the disgraced entertainer’s supposed £11 million fortune – decided she’d write a book about him in October 2018.

     

    At the time, the Daily Star on Sunday revealed that Miss Nicholls “herself stooped to a new low in deciding to write a book about this monster’s life.” In notes for such a tome seen by the paper, Nicholls outlined her ‘plan.’ Comments included:

     

    “Does this mean my father has suddenly found sex at the age of 87? Good for him I say. I hope I’m still thinking of sex at that age! He can barely run or get upstairs so it is great he can get the energy to fantasise at least!”

     

    “How many Page Three models are over the age of 20? How many people have looked at Britney Spears in the video of her dressed in schoolgirl outfits?”

     

    “Well I can tell you dad is no sexual predator, he is no murderer or kiddy fiddler!”

     

    “Dad is from the age of Benny Hill, Carry On films. He is Australian – which was pretty male chauvinist in those days – that is the era he is from, so sometimes he says non-PC jokes.”

     

    “He loves a flirt, which he does very openly, much to my embarrassment, but I have met many a man from my dad’s generation like that.”

     

    “It’s harmless and you know it doesn’t lead anywhere. Dad loves to give compliments to women so they feel good, for no other reason!”

     

    In his latter years – aside from bizarrely turning up at school to wave at children and wandering around Maidenhead in soiled clothing – the “health [of Rolf Harris supposedly] took a turn for the worse after the sudden death of his beloved poodle.” He is now thanfully brown bread and, given he was cremated, there’ll thankfully be no grave for his remaining ghoulish ‘fans’ to worship him at. This morning, my thoughts are with the victims of this repugnant rotter; may they now finally have closure and may rotten-to-his-core Rolf Harris rot in hell.

     

    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.

     

    Yesterday on Twitter as news of his death was announced, Matthew Steeples issued a poll asking: “Will you mourn death of evil paedophile Rolf Harris? Equally, do you think his daughter Bindi Nicholls will come out of woodwork to claim his £££?” Still live by 10:45am on Wednesday 24th May 2024, the very, very clear majority of respondents (83.1%) not so unsurprisingly favoured the answer: “No; let him burn in hell.”

    Reactions to the announcement of the death of Rolf Harris…

    Gutter Girls… The worst verse penned by Rolf Harris (30th May 1930 – 10th May 2023)

    Harris, it must be remembered, was a monster who showed no remorse for what he did to his victims – whom called out his actions as having “destroyed their childhood innocence” and left them feeling “grubby, dirty and disgusting.” In 2015, this awful Australian penned a sordid ‘song’ in which he described them as “slimy little woodworms.” Sickly titled Gutter Girls – which in itself was illustrative of the true character of this evil rat – it went as follows:

     

    Climb up out of the woodwork babe

    From forty years ago,

    The climate’s great in Britain now

    For making loads of dough

    You’ve festered down there long enough,

    Time’s right to grab your chance

    Clap eyes on a rich celebrity

    And make the bastard dance

     

    Chorus

    Make him squirm, slimy little woodworm

    Make him squirm, squirm, squirm

    Sink your claws right in to the hilt, don’t let him go

     

    (Group) NO! NO!

     

    Make him burn, burn, burn

    Slimy little woodworm, make him burn

    Get your fifty-years-old hooks into his dough

     

    (Group) GO BABY GO

     

    That old bandwagon you crawled out of

    (rotten to the core)

    Conceals a host of foul accusers,

    Twenty maybe more

    My guess is they’ll slide after you

    All following your stench,

    Perhaps you believe you’re pretty still

    Some perfumed sultry wench

     

    Chorus

    “Make him squirm”,

    I can hear you singing

    “Make him squirm, squirm, squirm:

    Just imagine all of the money waiting there

     

    (Group) OH YEAH!

    Make him burn, burn, burn

    Come and join the feeding frenzy girls,

    Don’t miss out, come on and join me for your share

     

    (Group) PUT IT THERE!

     

    Rolf-Harris-house-Highlands-Bray-SL6
    Rotten Rolf’s riverfront lair – Highlands, Fishery Road, Bray, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1UP is supposedly worth circa £5 million and has been owned by the Harris family for six decades; in August 2017 the ‘Daily Mail’ reported that neighbours were “selling up their homes disgust after [the paedophile Rolf Harris] returned from prison.”
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    Rotten Rolf’s dirty dinners – Prior to his conviction Harris and his weird looking wife used to enjoy consuming curries at Malik’s Tandorri House in Cookham. Whether he returned after leaving preison with “dear friend” Amanda Plattell, for example, is unknown, but if he had, he’d likely have found his local Member of Parliament Theresa – now Lady – May at an adjoining table.
    Rolf Harris Boris Johnson Queen Elizabeth II
    Rotten Rolf’s circle of influence – This evil man got to hang out with everyone from the late Queen Elizabeth II to Boris Johnson; just like his chum Sir Jimmy Savile here was a deviant who realised that infiltrating the circles of the great and the good was key to getting away with his evil antics.
    Rolf-Harris-Cliff-Richard
    In February 2020, Twitter users reacted angrily to a forcible deportation flight bound for Jamaica by arguing that it was wrong that the convicted paedophile Rolf Harris was not put on such a flight back to Australia after his release from prison in May 2017. Sadly, such an idea never came to fruition, but here we picture the monster with his equally off-the-scale weird chum Sir Cliff Richard.
    Rolf Harris boat to prison July 2014
    On the day he was sent down on 4th July 2014, Rolf Harris tried unsuccessfully to evade photographers by leaving his home by boat. To the very end, this ratbag thought everything “just a bit of a laugh.”
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    A binbagged berk – Rolf Harris pictured arriving at his Berkshire home with a binbag full of his possesions on 19th May 2017 after leaving Her Majesty’s Prison Stafford earlier that morning.
    Bindi Nicholls Rolf Harris
    In May 2015, joining cranks demanding the release of her father on a Change,org petition, Rolf Harris’ daughter Bindi Nicholls remarked: “Rolf Harris is my father, I have known him all my life, he is a kind sweet, honest man on stage and off. He has worked tirelessly all his life to bring joy, laughter, inspiration and happiness to all he meets. He is a workaholic, work is his priority and he lives to entertain. I have never witnessed him being interested on [SIC] children in that way, EVER. In public he is more interested in getting groups of people singing or telling jokes than sculking [sic] off with one person, he is just nothing like the man the press have been portraying him to be. All of his dear friends are shocked and desperately upset that he has been tarred by the propaganda out there. He has been swept up in a witch hunt because of his high profile and celebrity! A total travesty at his age”.
    Rolf-Harris-family
    In what was a very clear attempt to justify the actions of her monster father, Rolf Harris’ deranged daughter Bindi Nicholls was highlighted as writing a book supposedly titled BinVincible in October 2016. An excerpt leaked to The Sun, this crazy woman was said to complain about her father’s paintings being removed from galleries and remarked: “I watched a programme about Picasso’s wives and how he fell in love with this girl who became his muse and secret lover at the age of about 14 to 15. They waited until she was 16 and then got married and were married for years. Do we now take all of his paintings from the galleries and burn them and denounce him as an artist and forget he ever painted? Because Picasso was a paedophile.” Going further, of one of Harris’ victims, Miss Nicholls specifically commented: “She loved drinking, she was a great drinker, which she inherited from her drinking family. Yes, my father should have been stronger, should have had better boundaries. He should have said no. He was married and he was the older wiser of the two, this was my best friend so that was also a no-go area, but he didn’t say no, they both loved the danger and the secrecy, and don’t forget this flirtation went on for twenty odd years, but they only had actual sex twice.”
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    Rolf Harris was quite deservedly described as a “Jekyll and Hyde character” at his trial in 2014. Here, he is pictured with his wife Alwen Hughes, daughter Bindi Nicholls and another relative; the fact that he needed so much security was indicative of how utterly detested he had finally and most deservedly become.
    Rolf Harris Sir Jimmy Savile
    As with many of their type, paedophile Rolf Harris was friendly with fellow monsters including Sir Jimmy Savile. Here they are seen “sharing a joke” and “grinning creepily at each other” as the Australian ‘artist’ painted the abuser of even corpses and here they are also appearing on a television programme with an innocent little girl.
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    Harris also had the support of some truly strange sorts – amongst them a twisted Twitter user going by the name of Lizzie Cornish (who raged on her now suspended Twitter handle: “ROLF HARRIS IS INNOCENT! I’m a woman pissed off by Lying Women”) and the convicted criminal ‘pop paedophile’ Jonathan King. Another, Kris Finch from Liverpool, remarked in 2015: “I have spent the past 50 years collecting Rolf Harris memorabilia, that collection was my pension and unless Rolfy is pardoned it’s worthless.”
    Andrew-Rosindell
    In July 2014, Conservative MP for Romford Andrew Rosindell was rightly condemned for having a photograph for having posted a picture of himself “grinning” with Rolf Harris on his Facebook page a month after the later convicted paedophile was first questioned by police in November 2012. The right-wing ranting Tory responded by whining: “I will try and take it down. I don’t know how to take it down to be honest.” He later bleated: “People better not be photographed with anyone in case they become future criminals.”
    Soiled clothing Rolf Harris
    In September 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on the filthy paedo pest pounding the pavements of Maidenhead in soiled clothing after previously being snapped in February 2019 waving at children in a playground whilst “hobbling along on a walking stick.” Clearly, this provided illustration that the ‘Two Little Boys’ singer had well and truly let himself go and was well into a stage of mental illness.
    Oldfield-School-playground-pest
    That the convicted child abuser paedophile Rolf Harris “[hated] the noise” of children seemed most perplexing given his February 2019 visit to the Oldfield Primary School in Maidenhead, Berkshire to “wave” at children. One can only surmise that this noxious nonce did protest too much; he was subsequently given a warning about his frankly weird and creepy behaviour but should really have been recalled to jail many observed.
    Books
    Bizarrely there are still people out there who seek to defend and justify the twisted antics of the now late criminal sex offender. Amongst them are individuals going by the names of William B. Merritt and Mark Walker. The book by the former of the two, a private investigator, came out remarkably in May 2022 in paperback format and shockingly attempted to claim the Australian abuser innocent and his very much-deserved convictions “sinister.” Sickeningly Merritt went as far to allege: “Harris had no chance. Rolf was an entertainer he was a kind, artistic man who had spent most of his relying on others to manage and organise his working life. He had no experience in the rough and tumble world.”
  • The Monsters – Epstein-Maxwell Saga Further Unravels…

    The Monsters – Epstein-Maxwell Saga Further Unravels…

    As the Epstein-Maxwell saga continues to unravel, Matthew Steeples looks at the forthcoming fallout for ‘The Monsters’ linked including Prince Andrew, Steve Bannon, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Jes Staley

    The rotten rabbit hole that is the Epstein-Maxwell saga seems to never end. Barely a day goes by without new developments or old ones being revisited and in the last week, the prospects of further fallout for linked parties has only grown.

     

    Aside from Prince Andrew whingeing and whining via third parties that he has been left “bewildered” and “in despair” after King Charles III cut him off from access to the £650 million ($782 million, €735 million or درهم2.9 billion) estate left by Queen Elizabeth II, the non-sweating ‘bestie’ of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is allegedly also ludicrously proposing a new television interview “telling his side” of the story. An unnamed source last week went as far as to claim now “feels there is little else to lose” and that “nothing is off the table… Andrew has been made to give up his job and now potentially his home.”

     

    Turning to Maxwell and her appeal prospects, on Thursday The Guardian’s New York based ‘reporter of courts’ Victoria Bekiempis analysed the mucky madam’s prospects. Bekiempis argued Maxwell “faces [a] hard road in bid to overturn sex-trafficking conviction” with the help of her new lawyer, a representative also of Harvey Weinstein named Arthur L. Aidala.

     

    Going further, Bekiempis added:

     

    “[Aidala has] said Maxwell was a ‘proxy’ for Epstein who was prosecuted ‘to satisfy public outrage over an unpopular non-prosecution agreement and the death of the person responsible for the crimes’ … [His] comments might have been aimed more at generating sympathetic media coverage than being a predictor of the appeal’s likely success. Maxwell cannot mount an appeal based on her own claims that she was a hapless surrogate for Epstein, or too tired at trial.”

     

    “Her legal team will have to argue instead that there were legal errors in proceedings against her that necessitate a verdict reversal, and that is where her bid to have her conviction overturned will succeed or – according to many legal experts – more likely fail.”

     

    “‘The likelihood of the second circuit reversing her trial verdict is close to zero,’ said Ron Kuby, a longtime criminal defense attorney with a focus on civil rights. ‘The second circuit tends to uphold almost all criminal convictions as a general matter.’”

     

    “In the rare cases the second circuit does reverse a trial court outcome, leading to a new trial, it is typically because prosecutors have over-stretched a legal theory – or because the US supreme court has made a decision that affects proceedings in lower courts, Kuby said.”

     

    “‘But Maxwell’s trial was none of that – the Maxwell trial was all very well-plowed legal territory,’ Kuby said. The proceedings against Maxwell – which stemmed from serving as Epstein’s procurer of victims – were not complicated by racketeering counts, nor convoluted bribery charges.”

     

    “‘It’s like very, very, very fancy trappings, but fundamentally, it’s the prosecution of a pimp, which is not that complicated,” Kuby said.”

     

    “Rachel Fiset, co-founder of Los Angeles firm Zweiback, Fiset & Zalduendo, said she thought a successful appeal was ‘unlikely.’”

     

    “While Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, will probably fail in her appeal, there is still a reason for her to try.”

     

    “‘She’s looking at a very long sentence, and they are looking at ways to have it overturned, and there are not any options beyond an appeal,’ Fiset said. ‘She doesn’t have very much to lose other than the cost of the appeal.’”

     

    “‘It’s not uncommon for people with a lot of means to appeal their conviction in the hopes that it’s overturned. Maxwell has remained very steadfast that she has not committed these crimes and that it’s not her fault, so the appeal is not surprising.’”

     

    Elsewhere, interest in Epstein and Maxwell’s involvement with Donald Trump was revived yesterday in Business Insider. In an article titled: “Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump ‘when he realised Trump was a crook,’ according to his brother,” writer Jacob Shamsian quoted the croaked paedophile’s sibling Mark Epstein.

     

    Referencing a still to be released video interview between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s disgraced White House advisor Steve Bannon, Shamsian shared:

     

    “Mark Epstein told Insider he viewed a clip of the interview, conducted by Trump’s former White House advisor Steve Bannon, after his brother forwarded it to him in the spring of 2019.”

     

    “At the time, Bannon was conducting filmed interviews with the now-dead pedophile financier. Bannon sent Jeffrey Epstein a Dropbox link to a clip, which he forwarded to his brother. The link is no longer active, according to Mark.”

     

    “‘Jeffrey showed me the link to one of these interviews,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realised Trump was a crook.’”

     

    “Insider has not been able to independently view the video. Bannon could not be reached for comment.”

     

    “For the documentary project, Bannon recorded more than 16 hours of footage, Mark Epstein said. In November of 2018, the Miami Herald ran a series detailing how Jeffrey Epstein secured a secret, lenient plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida in 2007, even after law enforcement concluded at the time that he had sexually abused more than 30 girls.”

     

    “‘Steve Bannon was working with Jeffrey to try to help Jeffrey rehabilitate his reputation,’ Mark Epstein told Insider.”

     

    “Bannon and Epstein had become close in 2017, after Bannon left the White House, according to the journalist Michael Wolff. Bannon lived lavishly off Epstein’s vast wealth, using his Paris apartment and butler in 2018.”

     

    “Bannon released a trailer in 2021 for his apparent documentary about Epstein, titled The Monsters [subtitled: ‘Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’]. The entire documentary has not yet been released.”

     

    “Both Bannon and Trump now have their own legal issues. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has pending criminal charges against Bannon, alleging he participated in a scam nonprofit organization that raised funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Trump pardoned Bannon on federal charges for the same scheme before he left office. Bannon’s lawyers in the federal case are suing him for allegedly not paying his bills. Bannon was also found guilty last year of contempt of Congress for defying a House January 6 committee hearing subpoena.”

     

    “Trump, for his part, is facing a potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney’s office for a hush-money scheme ahead of the 2016 election, a rape case headed to trial in April, and a litany of other legal woes.”

     

    Turning to the Department of Justice investigation into Epstein’s death, in a separate and rather lengthy article for Business Insider last Thursday, Shamsian observed:


    “Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a federal jail was seen as a shocking Justice Department failure. Over three years later, the DOJ inspector general hasn’t released the results of its investigation. Epstein’s accusers – and his brother – still want answers.”

     

    “The officials said Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. Pressed for more detail, they just repeated themselves.”

     

    “‘They didn’t give me any information other than ‘After a thorough investigation, we determined it was a suicide,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘It was like I was talking to a f**king robot.’”

     

    “The meeting [on 28th October 2019, two months after his brother’s death] was the only time Mark got any answers from the DOJ about his brother’s death. Three years later, he still doesn’t know exactly how Epstein died and why it’s taken the government that long to share its answer to that question.”

     

    “Mark Epstein told Insider that even though he’s Jeffrey’s next of kin, he hasn’t been able to obtain certain medical records, including the care reports filled out by EMTs who evaluated his brother’s corpse.”

     

    “‘For many people, the death was suspicious, to say the least,’ said Gloria Allred, an attorney who represents 20 of Epstein’s victims. ‘Others have their own conclusions about what happened to Mr Epstein. But the speculation needs to be replaced by facts and evidence.’”

     

    “Mark Epstein remains puzzled by the holdup. He’s convinced his brother didn’t kill himself and stands by the conclusions of Baden, who personally observed the four-hour autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein’s body.”

     

    “‘We all took it by surprise,’ Mark Epstein told Insider. ‘Nobody thought he was gonna kill himself. Nobody.’”

     

    “After losing all [his lavish life on his arrest in 2019], it was possible he found the prospect of life behind bars unappealing, Mark Epstein said. ‘When I first heard that my brother was dead, and found dead from suicide, I just figured, ‘OK, he decided to take himself out,’ he told Insider.”

     

    “An Insider poll taken later that fall found nearly half of Americans believed Epstein was murdered.”

     

    “When Mark Epstein saw Barr dismiss the possibility of a murder based on his review of security footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell tier, he wasn’t remotely satisfied.

     

    “What I thought was, this is either a cover-up, or he’s the dumbest f**k on the planet,’ Mark Epstein said.”

     

    “To Mark, [Attroney General Bill] Barr’s version of events suggests he came to the conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and then backfilled evidence from there.”

     

    “Barr seemed to consider only the possibility that a murderer would have been someone who snuck into the jail. Mark told Insider he was gobsmacked that Barr didn’t seem to consider the possibility that someone else in Jeffrey Epstein’s block of cells killed him.”

     

    “Mark Epstein told Insider that he spoke to his brother about once a month in the years before his death. The two caught up over the phone while Jeffrey Epstein was in Paris, the night before he flew to New Jersey and was arrested after his private jet landed.”

     

    “Jeffrey Epstein had reasons to stay alive, Mark said. He didn’t leave a suicide note – or at least none that has been reported – and reportedly deposited money into other inmates’ commissary accounts in return for protection. People who spoke with him in the weeks leading up to his death believed he was optimistic about getting the charges dismissed.”

     

    “Mark Epstein told Insider he built his wealth independently from his brother, founding a silk-screening business before pivoting to real estate with Ossa Properties, which at one point reportedly owned hundreds of apartments in New York City.

     

    “At least one of Mark Epstein’s Upper East Side buildings, however, includes multiple links to his brother. Mark has said he purchased it from the business magnate Leslie Wexner, his brother’s longtime patron. Jeffrey Epstein owned about a dozen apartments in the building, which he used to house at least one of his sex-trafficking victims as well as his private pilots while they were staying in New York, according to testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial. Right before Epstein died, his lawyers were preparing to appeal a judge’s decision to deny him bail. They had prepared a bond package valued at $100 million.”

     

    “Mark Epstein agreed to guarantee the whole thing, he told Insider, meaning he’d lose that amount of money if his brother tried to flee authorities.”

     

    “‘If you get bail, you’re gonna be home for a year – under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet, armed guards, video cameras, whatever the conditions were – but he’ll be in his house,’ Mark Epstein said. ‘So why kill yourself then?’”

     

    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.

     

    Pictured Top – Steve Bannon’s likely shelved film ‘The Monsters: Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ would (or will) undoubtedly feature not only the croaked paedophile, but also his lover and co-collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell, his “heartfelt” friend and banker Jes Staley and the ‘bestie’ that came to “end their friendship in December 2010,” Prince Andrew.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Who is going to “suffer” most next in fallout from Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking saga given Jes Staley court case, Trump & Clinton revelations & Prince Andrew’s latest tantrums?” He added the hashtags: #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #JesStaley #PrinceAndrew #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #SteveBannon and of the four options listed, by 11:30am on Sunday 12th March, the clear majority of respondents favoured the option that it’ll be worst for the “other famous faces linked” than anyone else.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UD3Nzp-FI
    The trailer for the as-of-yet still unreleased Steve Bannon film ‘The Monsters –Epstein’s Life Among The Global Elite’ lasts 2:02-minutes. Of the 16 hours of footage, many are still asking: “Where exactly is the film?” in which Bannon allegedly accused Jeffrey Epstein of being a spy even.
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    Jeffrey Epstein looked at ease whilst being interviewed for a programme subsequently titled ‘The Monsters’ by Steve Bannon. Only a trailer for it has been released thus far (in 2021) and in it in October 2021, the ‘New York Post’ reported that late pedophile stunningly claimed “that he was a “’irm believer and supporter’ of the anti-sexual harassment Time’s Up movement.” Calling him out as a “pervert,” the paper added that he observed: “I made my living from old thinking. But the future is for the way women think. I’ve always believed that women will be, in fact, be able to take over.”
    Steve Bannon
    That Steve Bannon supposedly spent around 16 hours recording convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as part of an attempt to allegedly help “rehabilitate” him at his Lenox Hill ‘Paedo Palace’ – sold subsequently for £36 million in March 2021 – sometime in 2018 speaks volumes as the lack of quality of his moral compass.
    Victory Films
    Steve Bannon released his trailer for ‘The Monsters’ under the banner of Victory Films. In August 2020, ‘The Wrap’ shared details of “all 19 movies and shows [that he] wrote, directed or produced.” Amongst them were ‘The Indian Runner’ (1991) with Sean Penn, ‘Seinfeld’ (1992), ‘Titus’ with Anthony Hopkins (1999), ‘Reagan: In the Face of Evil’ (2004), ‘Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration’ (2006), ‘Tradition Never Graduates: A Season Inside Notre Dame Football’ (2007), ‘The Chaos Experiment’ with Val Kilmer (2009), ‘Generation Zero’ (2010), ‘Battle for America’ (2010), ‘Fire from the Heartland’ (2010), ‘Sarah Palin: The Undefeated’ (2010), ‘The Hope & the Change’ (2012), ‘District of Corruption’ (2012), ‘Occupy Unmasked’ (2012), ‘Sweetwater’ with January Jones and Ed Harris (2013), ‘Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power’ (2014), ‘Clinton Cash’ (2016), ‘Torchbearer’ (2016) and ‘Trump @ War’ (2018). Other companies and organisations the Norfolk, Virginia born naval officer and investment banker turned media tycoon and political strategist wannabe has been involved in have numbered Bannon & Co. (sold to Société Générale in 1998), ‘Breitbart News,’ IGE, the Government Accountability Institute, The Movement and Cambridge Analytica.
    Ghislaine Maxwell Betty Maxwell
    The noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell (pictured with her avaricious late mother Betty in 1991) appears incapable of accepting her sentence. Set to attempt to pile yet more misery on her multiple victims, this convicted sex trafficker should be made aware that in 2015 court administration data “indicated that less than 9% of federal appeals in reversals of lower courts,” according to ‘The Guardian’s’ Victoria Bekiempis.
    Donald and Melania Trump Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell
    Meanwhile Jeffrey Epstein’s very, very rich brother Mark has again been spreading his thoughts about the demise of the Ponzi scheming paedophile. Mark Epstein is clearly very motivated and in suggesting his late brother believed Donald Trump (pictured with his wife Melania Knauss and Ghislaine Maxwell also) to be a “crook,” he is clearly trying to change the narrative in his own favour.
    Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein Bill Clinton
    President Bill Clinton (pictured at the White House with the co-conspirator sex traffickers Epstein and Maxwell on 29th September 1993) faces further woes from the fallout also. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full-blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party. Equally, Epstein and Clinton travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.
    Jes Staley
    One of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest pals, ‘Snow White’ communicator James Edward Staley (AKA ‘Jes Staley’), faces his own woes with a summons on a third-party complaint from JPMorganChase Bank, N.A. and ‘Jane Doe 1’ in regard to his “activities” with and on behalf of his deceased chum. The late CEO of J. P. Morgan and Barclays – who resides at 930 Park Avenue, Unit GN/6S, New York, NY 10028 with his wife Debbie – is set to go down in history as a total disgrace.
    Emily Maitlis Prince Andrew BBC interview
    Meanwhile, the Pizza Express loving mate of the facing-a-trial-for-a-£400-million fraud Bernie Ecclestone that is the Duke of York must be called out as utterly nuts if he decides to give another interview. His last, with Emily Maitlis for the BBC, was an utter car crash of total epic proportions. No doubt encouraged by his money grabbing live-in ex-wife, ‘Feckless Fergie’ (AKA ‘Sarah, Duchess of York), and his dimwitted daughters, here is a needy and greedy berk who King Charles III should most definitely just “cancel.”
  • The Mystery of Thomas H. Lee – Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theories Continue

    The Mystery of Thomas H. Lee – Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theories Continue

    Matthew Steeples examines whether the recent suicide by gunshot of “the envy of Wall Street” billionaire Thomas H. Lee was in any way linked to a clear association with Bill Clinton and a possible one with Jeffrey Epstein

    Thomas H. Lee did not appear in the 95-page infamous ‘Little Black Book’ associated with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. Now, however, after his apparent ‘suicide’ this billionaire financier has not only described as “considerate, generous and unpretentious” and a “constant presence” in her life by Hillary Clinton, but also as having “links” to Jeffrey Epstein.

     

    Sparking rumours of yet another example of the ‘Clinton Body Count’ – the much disputed conspiracy theory that as many as fifty people with close links to the Clintons have died in nefarious circumstances – Stephen M. Lepore for the DailyMail.com shared a photograph of Lee at a New York shindig with another billionaire named Robert Kraft and a couple named Glenn and Eva Dubin. Swedish Ms Andersson-Dubin dated Jeffrey Epstein prior to his 2008 conviction and continued to “socialise with [him] after his time in jail,” Bloomberg reported in 2019.

     

    The 78-year-old Harvard graduate and founder of Lee Equity Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners was best known himself for having bought the soft drinks brand Snapple Beverages in 1992 for £112 million ($135 million, €127 million or درهم496 million) and sold it for a 334% profit to Quaker Oats for £1.4 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.6 billion or درهم6.2 billion) in 1994.

     

    Known also for being an “avid art collector,” father of five Lee also served as a trustee of Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Brandeis University, Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Harvard University, the Intrepid Museum Foundation, NYU Medical Center, and Rockefeller University.

     

    In a statement currently opening the homepage of their website, Lee Equity Partners shared:

     

    “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder and Chairman, Thomas H. Lee. He was a great partner and wonderful friend whose vision will continue to influence us for many years to come.”

     

    “Tom’s determination, commitment and strategic vision will continue to inspire all of us at Lee Equity Partners. He was a leader, a friend, a partner, and our mentor. We know he will be proud as the firm continues on, with strength. We will work every day to meet the high standards he has set for us and the entire industry. On behalf of our employees, management teams and investment partners, we mourn his loss and extend our deepest sympathies to his family.”

     

    Clearly illustrating that something might be amiss in the financial community, a member of the Wall Street Oasis forum last week remarked of Lee’s death:

     

    “Self-inflicted gunshot wound. Wonder if he knows something about the future…”

     

    Another added: “Perhaps another private equity guy with Epstein connections about to get exposed.”

     

    Going further on Monday, Fortune shared an article with the headline: “Thomas H. Lee’s sudden death shocks partners at his $3 billion private investment firm – with a $1 billion fundraise in the balance.”

     

    For the publication, Dawn Lim and Amanda Gordon added:

     

    “Since then, Lee Equity’s executives have been forced to confront a difficult moment. In at least one conversation, they discussed the importance of reassuring clients that there’s no connection between his death and Lee Equity’s financial health or fund performance.”

     

    “Lee’s death has ushered in a new level of public attention for a shop that manages £2.5 billion ($3 billion, €2.8 billion or درهم11 billion) and doesn’t have a formal media-relations team. It also comes at a critical juncture for the 40-person firm, which is raising a £833 million ($X billion, €942 million or درهم3/7 billion) fund just as investors have become increasingly reluctant to part with their cash amid volatile markets. The firm has raised the vast majority of that fund, other people said.”

     

    “The suicide also presents a test for key partners Mark Gormley, Benjamin Hochberg, Yoo Jin Kim and Joseph Rotberg. They’re among eight executives who climbed the ranks to take bigger leadership roles and steered the firm into financial services and health care.”

     

    “Some investors have taken comfort in the fact that succession is largely complete, people said. They pushed for the firm to spread its wealth more evenly among partners and had sway in the years after the financial crisis, when buyout firms struggled to raise new money. Lee’s cut of the profits was less than 10% for the firm’s last fund.”

     

    “In recent days, several institutions extended condolences and provided expressions of support to the firm. Investors such as Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. committed money to the new fund. The firm’s backers have said they hope Lee’s death doesn’t rattle new investors.”

     

    Returning to the story of the mystery surrounding the supposed ‘suicide’ also by gun shot of Bill Clinton aide turned Jeffrey Epstein associate and wannabe “international deal-maker” Mark Middleton, speaking exclusively to The Steeple Times this morning, Shaun Attwood provided comment to follow up by our two articles this week by Kirby Sommers and Matthew Steeples. The author of Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton? shared:

     

    “Yet another ‘suicide’ in a long line of suicides #ClintonBodyCount. No surprises here when it comes to the Machiavellian behaviour of the Clinton crime family who’ve left a trail of corpses behind them from Arkansas when Bill was governor to the White House. It is a trail that continues to this day with Jeffrey Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel.”

     

    Separately, in developing news about the possible move of the “simple shooting party” bestie of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that is Prince Andrew to Frogmore Cottage and possibly taking over Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle’s home, Matthew Steeples and Shaun Attwood will be live at 7pm GMT on YouTube tonight to discuss this in the fourth episode of Meghan Markle Expose. Follow the link below to tune in.

     

    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.

     

    Follow Shaun Attwood on Twitter at @shaunattwood and purchase his book ‘Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton?’ by clicking here.

     

    Pictured Top – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton enjoying a jolly on the golf course with Thomas H. Lee and enjoying a bit of a bash at the White House with the sex trafficking fiends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Was the suicide of billionaire friend of Bill Clinton and financier Thomas H. Lee in any way connected to matters about financiers linked to Jeffrey Epstein?” He accompanied the feature with the hashtags #ThomasHLee #ThomasLee #BillClinton #HillaryClinton #ClintonBodyCount #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #EvaAnderson. As of 11:30am on Friday 3rd March, 50% of respondents favoured the option: “YES; Eva Andersson etc.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5RMKkC3pkE&list=PLPT_cCpNMvT50d_7cJ55ciKoZEY8q_YPt&index=7
    To watch ‘Meghan Markle Expose – Part 4’ click this YouTube link. The 1 hour 15 minute episode first airs at 7pm GMT on Friday 3rd March 2023. Issues covered primarily focus on the ‘FORGXIT’ saga of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from Frogmore Cottage, but there is also discussion of Prince Andrew and his grifting wife, Sarah, Duchess of York – a woman who has still never confirmed if she repaid the loans she so disgracefully took from the since croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
    Thomas H. Lee
    Mr Lee’s body was found in a bathroom at his office at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York at around 11am on 23rd February. The 78-year-old was pronounced dead shortly after. A “family friend and spokesperson” named Michael Sitrick later shared: “While the world knew him as one of the pioneers in the private equity business and a successful businessman, we knew him as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, sibling, friend and philanthropist who always put others’ needs before his own.” Just prior to the time of his passing, ‘Forbes’ estimated his worth at £1.7 billion ($2 billion, €1.9 billion or درهم7.3 billion).
    Bob Kraft Thomas Lee Glenn and Eva Dubin
    The now deceased billionaire (second left) partying with the billionaire businessman CEO of the Kraft Group Bob Kraft, the billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his “allegedly racy” wife Dr Eva Andersson-Dubin. Back in April 2022, ‘The Steeple Times’ featured the story of neighbours of the “decidedly dubious Dubins” slashing the price of their Upper East Side apartment from £25.1 million to £21.2 million. Of this news, a New York realtor told us: “1040 Fifth Avenue certainly has a perky past, but whilst Jackie Kennedy and Generoso Pope Jr. were unlikely bedfellows when they both lived there at the same time, the stench of the Epstein-Maxwell connections of Glenn, Eva and Celina Dubin is actually very off-putting to buyers. Who on earth would want to live next to them? It’s no wonder no one is biting-at-the-bit to snap up the apartment currently on offer and I can only suggest the sellers perhaps put off marketing until these two social misfits move off elsewhere.”
    Celina Dubin Lolita Express private jet
    In February 2021, ‘The Steeple Times’ shared an exclusive story courtesy of information supplied by the crusading author of ‘Ghislaine Maxwell: An Unauthorized Biography’ Kirby Sommers concerning Glenn and Eva Dubin. In it, we featured pictures of the vile paedophile Jeffrey Epstein with one of the couple’s daughters on his lap on his notorious sex trafficking private jet. We titled the article: ‘PLANE PERVERTED.’
    Hamptons House
    The house Mr Lee – who went by the self-assigned nickname ‘Tomcat’ as he believed he had “nine different lives” – shared with his second wife Ann Tenenbaum in East Hampton, New York. Of it, the ‘New York Post’ observed: “‘He was regarded as having one of the most admired houses in the Hamptons – Bill and Hillary Clinton were frequent guests, they would regularly stay there,’ the source told ‘The Post.’ The Clintons famously holed up at Lee’s East Hampton pad after the bruising 2008 Democratic primary. ‘He was a regular at Maidstone golf club,’ also, the source noted.”
    Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton New York funeral Thomas H. Lee
    Both Hillary Clinton and her husband attended the New York funeral service for Brooklyn born Thomas Haskell Lee (27th March 1944 – 23rd February 2023) on Monday 1st March 2023 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Remarking, Hillary Clinton commented: “Tom was a constant presence. “We’ve shared births and weddings and anniversaries, state dinners at the White House, lively parties from New York City to Martha’s Vineyard to the Hamptons during good times and tough ones. We’re here expressing our gratitude for years as friends, as colleagues and certainly as family members for his long, successful life.” Mr Lee leaves five children – Jesse, Zach, Nathan, Robbie and Rosalie as well as Ann Tenenbaum, the second wife he married in 1996.
    Bill-Clinton-Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell
    Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein and President Bill Clinton at the White House on 29th September 1993. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full-blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party Equally, Epstein and Clinton travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.
  • The Mystery Of Mark Middleton – Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theories Continue

    The Mystery Of Mark Middleton – Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theories Continue

    The “mysterious” death of Clinton-Epstein associate Mark Middleton may have been ruled suicide, but rumours that he was murdered are clearly not going away

    “I’m not saying the Clintons kill people, I’m saying a lot of people around the Clintons turn up dead” remarked early Bill Clinton associate turned critic Larry Nichols after five people associated with them died in bizarre circumstances between 22nd June and 2nd August 2016.

     

    Now, in spite of Zachary Stieber of The Epoch Times last week revealing that the death of the Bill Clinton aide Mark Middleton has now been officially ruled a suicide, suggestions that he was instead murdered are now again being recirculated by some with grave suspicions about this odd case.

     

    59-year-old father of two Middleton – who was responsible for admitting Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on seven of the seventeen occasions the since croaked paedophile visited between 1993 and 1995 – is described on Wikipedia as having been an “Arkansas business leader, mutual friend of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein, and former finance director for Clinton’s presidential campaign and later special assistant to Clinton.” He was found dead on 7th May 2022 at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, an hour west of Little Rock.

     

    Before he died, Middleton, who was also assistant to Clinton chief of staff Thomas F. ‘Mack’ McLarty, is said to have texted his wife, Rhea. His messages supposedly told her that he had found “the perfect place for a nap in the sun.” He added: “You are a great mom and wide babe… Please be happy today and get some sun. It will make you feel better. I love you.”

     

    Of how he was found, HITC later reported:

     

    “He had a gunshot wound to the chest and an extension cord wrapped around his neck. The cord was tied to the limb of a tree directly above his body.”

     

    “Upon searching Middleton’s vehicle, officials found three boxes of buckshot and a gun case, but no weapon.”

     

    Going further and adding immediate mystery that aroused suspicion, the Daily Mail emphasised the “no sign of a weapon” story whilst Clinton.news argued the death to be “baffling.”

     

    Middleton – who is known to have flown on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet on several occasions – left the White House in February 1995 and most recently worked for his family business in Little Rock. Of him, the DailyMail.com’s Daniel Bates alleged: “[He] was accused of setting himself up as an international deal-maker, exactly the kind of person that would appeal to Epstein… Middleton’s life in recent years was a world away from the power he enjoyed in the 1990s.”

     

    Adding fuel to the fire of conspiracy last week, Bates added that the death scene was “grisly” and the method of death “mysterious.” He argued:

     

    “The sheriff’s report into Mark Middleton’s mysterious death raises more questions than answers as it rules he died by suicide – despite no sign of the weapon that killed him.”

     

    “Release of the report was held up after members of his family petitioned a judge. They were worried that pictures from the gory scene would be made public. The judge eventually ruled that details could be released but photographs could not.”

     

    Middleton’s bizarre end continues to be discussed online. On the Wikipedia page devoted to the “Clinton body count conspiracy theory,” is a statement that reads: “The coroner’s report ruled the death a suicide even though he was tied to a tree and no weapon was found near the body.”

     

    Countering this point, The Poynter Institute’s Politifact – which is funded by amongst others the billionaire Charles Koch and which was created by the Tampa Bay Times newspaper in 2007 – last week observed: “The family was ‘shocked’ by conspiracy theories that emerged Middleton’s death… We rate claims that a Clinton aide was murdered False.”

     

    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.

     

    Pictured Top (left to right) – A painting of Bill Clinton in a dress and high heels that was commissioned by Jeffrey Epstein and hung in his New York ‘paedo palace’; the late Clinton-Epstein associate Mark Middleton and President Bill Clinton posing with Ghislaine Maxwell as they boarded Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet on one of multiple times they flew together.

     

    The 17 occasions Jeffrey Epstein visited the Clinton White House

    Between February 1993 and January 1995, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House an astounding seventeen times for “undisclosed reasons.” On three of those occasions, he visited twice on the same date and on seven of these occasions, the person to have admitted him was Mark Middleton.

     

    The dates concerned were:

     

    • 25th February 1993.
    • 29th September 1993 – Epstein attended a White House party along with Ghislaine Maxwell.
    • 17th December 1993.
    • 21st December 1993.
    • 24th March 1994.
    • 20th April 1994.
    • 21st April 1994 – Epstein appeared on the White House log at 5pm and again at 7pm.
    • 25th April 1994.
    • 13th May 1994 – Epstein appeared on the White House log at 12 noon and again at 4pm.
    • 7th June 1994.
    • 28th June 1994 – Epstein appeared on the White House log at 2.30pm and again at 6.30pm.
    • 27th October 1994.
    • 28th January 1995.

     

    Bill Clinton Jeffrey Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell
    Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein and President Bill Clinton at the White House on 29th September 1993. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party.
    Jeffrey Epstein Bill Clinton
    Since croaked paedophile and Ponzi schemer Jeffrey Epstein with President Clinton. The pair travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.
    Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump
    Jeffrey Epstein (with Ghislaine Maxwell behind him) didn’t just associate with Democrats like Bill Clinton. Republican President Donald Trump fell for his charms also and once even had a party with him where the only guests were them and 28 girls. Apologists for Trump make hay out of their claim that Trump distanced himself subsequently yet rumours abound that his current wife, Melania, was potentially trafficked on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet. It is also alleged that the then Melania Knauss met Jeffrey Epstein prior to her meeting Donald Trump. Could the Ponzi schemer be the one who introduced the Slovenian ‘export’ to her subsequent American husband?
    Hillary Clinton Harvey Weinstein
    Hillary Clinton also had a penchant for hanging around with the associates of Epstein and Maxwell. She is pictured here at her party with her hands all over the grubby groper Harvey Weinstein – another creep subsequently jailed for sexual abuse and another creep who also partied with Prince Andrew at Windsor with Epstein and Maxwell.
    Mark Middleton suicide Kirby Sommers
    Crusading author Kirby Sommers commented on the revelations about Mark Middleton on Twitter last week. She remarked that “questions remain unanswered” and suggested he “will not go silently into the night.” Follow Kirby Sommers on Twitter at @LandlordLinks and purchase her book ‘Ghislaine Maxwell: An Unauthorized Biography’ by clicking here.
    Mark Middleton Suicide No Sign Of Gun
    Twitter has abounded with theories about the death of Mark Middleton in the wake of his death being deemed a suicide. Most commenting do not believe the coroner’s verdict.
    Mark Middleton New York Post
    The “no gun at the scene” theory is the key point to the continuation of the rumours about this matter.
  • Suggestions Please – Best & Worst of 2022; Heroes & Villians

    Suggestions Please – Best & Worst of 2022; Heroes & Villians

    ‘The Steeple Times’ requests submissions of the best and worst people of 2022 along with suggestions of those who’ll be missed and who won’t

    It’s nearly that time of year when The Steeple Times shares its annual lists of the best and worst people of the year past and its lists of those who’ve passed who’ll be missed and those that won’t.

     

    Our categories, as ever, are as follow:

     

    • The Best of 2022 – Heroes of The Year (25 names max).
    • The Worst People of 2022 – Vilains of The Year (25 names max).
    • The Ones Who’ll Be Missed 2022 (25 names max).
    • The Ones Who Won’t Be Missed 2022 (25 names max).
    • Amazing Animals Who’ve Sadly Left Us in 2022 (10 names max).

     

    Whilst we’ll naturally be highlighting the obvious such as eternally wonderful “more is more and less is a bore” centenarian Iris Apfel and the constant year-on-year awfulness of ‘Ginge and Cringe’ and ‘Randy Andy’ in our overview sections, we’d more so appreciate your submissions of lesser known heroes and villains of 2022 especially.

     

    We don’t doubt we’ll get missives about Matt Hancock, Boris Johnson, Anthea Turner, Dame Mary Berry, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Richard Branson, Dame Patricia Routledge, Donald Trump, Richard Madeley and Owen Jones from both their fans and detractors, but community heroes and those who’ve brought a little joy to the world in 2022 would be even more welcomed.

     

    Please send your nominations to [email protected] by 10am on Friday 30th December 2022. The completed rankings – with upto 25 in each category – will be published on Sunday 1st January 2023 and we look forward to your suggestions of those you have loved and loathed in equal measure in a tempestuous year marked by the cost-of-living crisis and the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

     

    Larysa Switlyk Lorraine Kelly
    In 2019, our winners were TV host Lorraine Kelly and sick Instagram ‘influencer’ Larysa Switylk. The former excelled after having a pop at Carrie Johnson during a live segment and became a “gritty heroine of our times.” The latter was exposed for having shoved sex toys up the bums of sheep she shot and for continuing to massacre endangered animals alongside the Trump children.
    Priti Patel Bob Grace
    In 2020, our winners were humble groom Bob Grace and “ultimate neighbour hell” Home Secretary Priti Patel. The former led out his first winner after 38 years of racing at Royal Ascot and of him one Twitter user concluded: “Bob is wonderful, be like Bob.” The latter angled for a return to the death penalty in the UK and kept on “minglin’” and “movin’” and generally misusing the English language. Sadly, she’s gotten even more God damned awful in the years since.
    Richard Ratcliffe Ghislaine Maxwell
    In 2021, our winners were Richard Ratcliffe and Ghislaine Maxwell. The former worked tirelessly towards getting his wife returned from Iran and even conducted a 21-day hunger strike at Westminster. The latter thankfully got sent down, but remains a convicted sex offender who seemingly sex trafficked to no one actually convicted of receiving her victims. We also made Marcus Rashford our ‘Hero of the Decade’ for his work raising funds to provide 21 million meals for those in need and joined those glad about the deaths of Bernie Madoff, Phil Spector and the late paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile’s equally repugnant chauffeur Raymond Teret.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    The passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the saddest moments of 2022 for many in the UK. Who else will make it to that list and who’ll join the list that won’t be missed will be revealed on 1st January 2023 in ‘The Steeple Times.’