Archive for October 30th, 2008
They say that we should all take responsibility for our actions. Keeping them secret is bad for the soul, and the ‘wrong thing to do’.
Sometimes you have to be a big man and own up to previous indiscretions.
Which is why I am amazed at the furore surrounding Russell Brands brave admission to Andrew Sachs that he had sex with his grand-daughter. That takes balls. Even more so to do it on national radio.
Admittedly, he needed the moral support of a good friend and fellow broadcaster to do the actual confessing itself, but that should not detract from the effort on his part.
Would the 20,000 or so people who have complained to the BBC rather he had lied? The BBC has already been in trouble over misleading it’s viewers and listeners, so the public should make up its mind. You can not have it both ways.
These 20,000 truth-haters have now ensured that both Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand will find themselves on the Sachs Offenders register, whose only previous occupant was a moustache wearing Torquay hotelier. It is a shame.
I understand that Ross took his suspension after his refusal to read the following statement:
“I say sorry, unreservedly, and regret my rude, randy and rotten remarks. I did not intend the worry or embarrassment derived from my remarks.”
UPDATE: I have just learned that Georgina Baillie, Andrew Sachs’ grand-daughter, about whom this whole sorry affair began, has decided to take action. So ashamed is she by the embarrassment caused to her grand-father, and so offended by the publicity granted to her by a brief dalliance with Russell Brand, she is taking the only action she can, and is removing herself from the public eye whilst hoping this whole sorry affair will die down, sooner rather than later. And she has found just the person to help her in this quest. Max Clifford.
