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Al Porter Scandal

Brego888

Well well well

https://twitter.com/roakleyIRL/status/931647550838460416

National broadsheet reporting it now so surely we are allowed comment.

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Irish Praetorian

Titzon Toast wrote: »

PM sent.

Couldn't trouble ya do to me too could I?

LadyMacBeth_

And then can someone send it to me please?

Rory28

Titzon Toast wrote: »

PM sent.

Can I get in on this?

miece16

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

And then can someone send it to me please?

Ewan Hoosarmi

Did anyone see the video floating around of him exposing himself on stage? He ran naked onto a stage where a band with a female lead singer was playing live. He bent over with his arse towards the audience and then did a star jump, exposing everything. Nice individual.

Edit: remembered where I saw it.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/tv3-pull-blind-date-episode-11546033

miece16

Ewan Hoosarmi wrote: »

Did anyone see the video floating around of him exposing himself on stage? He ran naked onto a stage where a band with a female lead singer was playing live. He bent over with his arse towards the audience and then did a star jump, exposing everything. Nice individual.

it's alright, he's gay sure

xtal191

Titzon Toast wrote: »

PM sent.

Go on send us a pm there please!

pilly

The bull**** in here is unreal. Giving out about the filth on blind date, crying uproar about a sex pest and everyone's just dying to see the texts, it's like being down the local shop and everyone's gossiping. Pathetic really.

At least be honest and admit that the best part of all is the juicy scandal.

Jobs OXO

Rory28 wrote: »

Can I get in on this?

Me too !

Neyite

AustinLostin wrote: »

No in fairness now, Blind Date was pretty bad in terms of the innuendo- definitely one you'd be embarrassed to watch with your granny, and no way would I put that on for kids. Fair enough you saying that you were fine with the show, but I saw plenty of stuff I wouldn't have been comfortable to watch with kids. I'm gay and I think my boyfriend is as well and we watched the first episode because on ex of one of our friends was on - that programme was really bad, and really made me dislike Al Porter before any of this started - nothing to do with his sexuality or the scandal, it was just a very bad crass unfunny show.

I think the confusion is that there are two versions of blind date - Cilla Blacks one from the 80's/90's and Al Porters one. The format is the same but the content has definitely moved on from the CB days.

Back when I was a kid watching it with VERY religious parents, it was clean gags with a bit of innuendo that parents got but that went over the children's heads. It was on earlier - around 7 or 8 or so as far as I can remember, and like Bot42 says, it was aimed at a family audience. There was never any reference to sex or sex acts or genitalia other than like I mentioned before, something so oblique it would go over the children's heads. ie. one you'd watch with your granny.

I've never watched AP's version of it but if he was talking about shagging or mickeys then it's a very different version to the 80's one.

LynnGrace

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

This is being produced and marketed as what the general public want because the media want to push it and can justify it when some people think what he and other vulgar comedians do is funny. The media are a dirty lot by and large and cater for the lowest forms of entertainment. The media of course knew full well what Porter is and still his face was all over the TV and papers and his voice all over radio. Also one wonders where all these relatively small stations can get the money to pay him and others like him their inflated salaries.

Today FM is owned by Communicorp / Denis O'Brien.

MonkieSocks

Too Much Porter will give you the runs

Please click here..........................

Ewan Hoosarmi

MonkieSocks wrote: »

Too Much Porter will give you the runs

Please click here..........................

Don't click there.

pilly

Neyite wrote: »

I think the confusion is that there are two versions of blind date - Cilla Blacks one from the 80's/90's and Al Porters one. The format is the same but the content has definitely moved on from the CB days.

Back when I was a kid watching it with VERY religious parents, it was clean gags with a bit of innuendo that parents got but that went over the children's heads. It was on earlier - around 7 or 8 or so as far as I can remember, and like Bot42 says, it was aimed at a family audience. There was never any reference to sex or sex acts or genitalia other than like I mentioned before, something so oblique it would go over the children's heads. ie. one you'd watch with your granny.

I've never watched AP's version of it but if he was talking about shagging or mickeys then it's a very different version to the 80's one.

You see that's where I'm confused. There's no mention of shagging or mickeys.

At least you admit to not having ever seen it. Some are posting about the "filth" and pretending they've actually seen it.

Jerichoholic

Al's Blind Date is offensive to me by how bad it was, it was possibly the worst programme I have ever seen.

Hande hoche!

The Irish Times really should have pulled their article on him from their It's Christmas magazine. Doesn't read particularly well.

sightband

pilly wrote: »

You see that's where I'm confused. There's no mention of shagging or mickeys.

At least you admit to not having ever seen it. Some are posting about the "filth" and pretending they've actually seen it.

I dont watch a huge amount of tv and I'd never heard of Al Porter until all this news over the last week, I looked up blind date on sky go tonight to see who he was and what all this sh*te was about and I see two minutes of an intro and he comes out with some muck anecdote about his aul one shopping where the punchline is "if yer not careful ye could end up with an unexpected item in yer baggage area" and he sticks his hole out. cue *rapturous applause and canned laughter*

jaysus wept, if he's not limited to just a one man show of incredibly thick, crass muck then I was very unlucky to see that much because it was brutal.

liam7831

Hande hoche! wrote:

The Irish Times really should have pulled their article on him from their It's Christmas magazine. Doesn't read particularly well.

You read it so I suppose that justifies printing it

Neyite

pilly wrote: »

You see that's where I'm confused. There's no mention of shagging or mickeys.

At least you admit to not having ever seen it. Some are posting about the "filth" and pretending they've actually seen it.

Somebody upthread mentioned it, so I was responding to that. But even sticking out his arse and saying "unexpected item in the baggage area" as another poster describes it, would have been much more coarse than the CB days.

[Deleted User]

The one positive from all this is that we can say ta ra ta ra to that awful blind date remake.

Noveight

cisk wrote: »

The one positive from all this is that we can say ta ra ta ra to that awful blind date remake.

One less irritating face for the Late Late Valentines special in February too.

stephen812

Just stumbled across this, makes for interesting viewing:

"I feel like I should hold something...... if only somebody had something mic shaped"

https://youtu.be/qTaJ-62HARs

El Weirdo

Jobs OXO wrote: »

#metoo

FTFY

jack hackett

I wonder has this affected Al Porter at all? what would he be doing right now? probably in bed having a good long think about what he did, or maybe he just doesnt give a hoot?

Adamocovic

Some quotes from a previous interview Al Porter made before allegations have come out.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

“I don’t care how provocatively a woman dresses, or how late at night she arranged to have a business meeting with you. Or whether it was in your hotel room or not. If you’re grabbing her and she doesn’t want it, you’re in the wrong.”

“It is my experience that if you are in a gay bar, if I had a euro for every time I was grabbed or pulled or somebody laid a kiss on me and I wasn’t expecting it at all,"

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/trial-by-media-isnt-a-good-thing-al-porter-condemned-groping-in-interview-prior-to-allegations-36347401.html

He does also criticise the trial by media aspect.

pawdee

Never heard of him until last week. He sounds like an annoying w****r.

jack hackett

Adamocovic wrote: »

Some quotes from a previous interview Al Porter made before allegations have come out.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/trial-by-media-isnt-a-good-thing-al-porter-condemned-groping-in-interview-prior-to-allegations-36347401.html

He does also criticise the trial by media aspect.

why is he talking about women when hes into men? diversion tactics?

Bacchus

jack hackett wrote: »

why is he talking about women when hes into men? diversion tactics?

Well... as is said right at the very start bit of the post you quoted, these quotes from Al Porter were from before the allegations broke. Putting 2 + 2 together given the number of high profile allegations from women against men in Hollywood over the last few weeks, I'd hazard a guess he is making reference to that.

Nerdlingr

"It is my experience that if you are in a gay bar, if I had a euro for every time I was grabbed or pulled or somebody laid a kiss on me and I wasn’t expecting it at all,"

The Independent left out the line after it...."That kinda thing happens, for right or wrong." .... no...no it doesnt happen for right Al.
That type of behavior is wrong, full stop. No wonder he thought he could go around grabbing fellas in toilets and write it off as 'flamboyant behaviour'.

Laois_Man

stephen812 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/qTaJ-62HARs

Watched the first one and a half minutes of that and had to turn it off.....mortified!

And people in the audience are actually laughing!