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Al Porter Scandal

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  • #572
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    murpho999 wrote: »
    I just can't believe how bad his statement is.

    Comes across as embittered and arrogant and making light of sexual assault allegations.

    I think he's done himself more harm than good with it.

    Does he not have an agent or manager to advise him on this? Although it doesn't look like he'll need one in the future.

    Debi Allen (DAA) is his agent.

    If she put that arrogant, victim blaming, media blaming, public blaming sorry excuse for a statement together she clearly wants rid of him herself


  • #573
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    eviltwin wrote: »
    You can't win here. You make allegations and your told go to the guards, you do that and you are wasting their time. It's this kind of attitude that makes it harder for male victims to come forward because they are judged for not.fighting back.

    It's almost as if the different names on the posts represent individual people with different beliefs and opinions...........

    Maybe all discussions should be in private and then when a consensus is reached a single post can be put in each thread?


  • #574
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Does he not have an agent or manager to advise him on this? Although it doesn't look like he'll need one in the future.

    His statement reads like it was written by legal advisors. It's likely that he just signed off on it.


  • #575
    yabadabado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,643 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    bilbot79 wrote: »
    I think he will get great mileage out of this in the future

    I think its safe to say he wont.He's done .


  • #576
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    Al Groper....eh?.....eh?

    Now that there's a vacancy for a **** comedian, with that kind of material I'm quids in.


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  • #577
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Most importantly, how will we find out how those couples got on on their dates?


  • #578
    Jeju
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭Jeju


    They are stuck with each other now forever, until Al undates them.


  • #579
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.


  • #580
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,413 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    McDonalds? He's exiled from comedy circuits aswell.


  • #581
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    He should phone Roman Polanski about getting the 'free pass'


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  • #582
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    pjohnson wrote: »
    McDonalds? He's exiled from comedy circuits aswell.

    That's kinda my point he'll find it hard to find any kind of employment


  • #583
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    Court would be a good start. And then jail, maybe.


  • #584
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    Jobs.ie



    Sign on.




    It isn't as if he will be any huge loss to the entertainment world


  • #585
    Tayschren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Tayschren


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Sure he was just copying Al Bundy

    oKAAt6I.gif
    Did you know Al has a black belt in bjj?


  • #586
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    To be fair he can go it alone and just do gigs independently until the Liberal Media have airbrushed it over time.


  • #587
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    Indeed, maybe he goes into writing? In a few years a behind the scenes job like that where his face and name is never out there might be possible for him


  • #588
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,413 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Stheno wrote: »
    That's kinda my point he'll find it hard to find any kind of employment

    Its almost a lesson you could say :)


  • #589
    Ewan Hoosarmi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Ewan Hoosarmi


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.
    I didn't like him or his act, but that's an awful bleak future to be facing into. I feel sorry for the lad. Not condoning his actions, they are unforgivable, if true.

    The trouble is: it doesn't matter much whether they're true or not at this stage. The damage is done.


  • #590
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,380 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Ah he'll be back... Well if he has any material that doesn't involve sex


  • #591
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    Stheno wrote: »
    On a personal level you have to wonder where he will go from here.

    He's only 24 years old hard to see him being hired in the media industry in the future.

    He young and I'd imagine reasonably wealthy. Just needs to move to a country where he isn't known.

    Still in a far better position than many.


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  • #592
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Ewan Hoosarmi wrote: »
    I didn't like him or his act, but that's an awful bleak future to be facing into. I feel sorry for the lad. Not condoning his actions, they are unforgivable, if true.

    .

    Oh, ffs.

    There are plenty of jobs out there that don't involve sticking your hands down peoples pants to maintain your "flamboyant and outrageous" persona.


    "awful bleak future"

    Give me a break.


  • #593
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Ewan Hoosarmi wrote: »
    I didn't like him or his act, but that's an awful bleak future to be facing into. I feel sorry for the lad. Not condoning his actions, they are unforgivable, if true.

    The trouble is: it doesn't matter much whether they're true or not at this stage. The damage is done.

    Of his own making.

    And seemingly made over many years and with many innocent victims.


  • #594
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,295 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    I'd say if he actually looked through his material he would have to take a black marker and start crossing out almost all his routine as inappropriate now.

    I'm not a fan of his but any time I saw him it was wall to wall dirty jokes, brazenly sexual themes and over the top innuendo.


  • #595
    Ken Tucky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭Ken Tucky


    OK so I've gone back through a lot of the thread but I still haven't a notion of what AP has done!!
    Excuse my ignorance(or not really giving a f**K) but what the hell happened.
    Was it something he said or did.....allegedly of course


  • #596
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Ken Tucky wrote: »
    OK so I've gone back through a lot of the thread but I still haven't a notion of what AP has done!!
    Excuse my ignorance(or not really giving a f**K) but what the hell happened.
    Was it something he said or did.....allegedly of course

    He allegedly sexually assaulted five men


  • #597
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Ken Tucky wrote: »
    OK so I've gone back through a lot of the thread but I still haven't a notion of what AP has done!!
    Excuse my ignorance(or not really giving a f**K) but what the hell happened.
    Was it something he said or did.....allegedly of course

    Google is your friend!


  • #598
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Ewan Hoosarmi wrote: »
    I didn't like him or his act, but that's an awful bleak future to be facing into. I feel sorry for the lad. Not condoning his actions, they are unforgivable, if true.

    The trouble is: it doesn't matter much whether they're true or not at this stage. The damage is done.

    Yeah here's hoping he had a plan b incase all of his sexual assaults came to light.


  • #599
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Will he change his stage name from Al Porter to Willie Stroker?


  • #600
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,065 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Is he still doing the Panto at the Olympia or are they going to bring in an understudy?


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  • #601
    Bananaleaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Bananaleaf


    Stheno wrote: »
    That's kinda my point he'll find it hard to find any kind of employment

    He will be totally fine - outside of Ireland and over time this will be a non-isue. Canada. Australia. He will go into hiding for a few years, change his act/persona/whatever and most likely move out of Ireland.

    By the time he's working again (be it in public eye or not) there will be many more scandals to have hit the headlines and his will have been forgotten about.


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