Kelly brook, domestic violence and media silence

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:13PM #1

This one has come up as an aside to a couple of other threads running in after hours at the moment, but I figure it should have a standalone rather than getting into all the whataboutery stuff and deflecting from the far more serious issue!

Kelly Brook, tabloid tottie and now admitted violent cow who likes to hit her boyfriends, classy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGK15vnD8YQ

Interestingly the silence from mainstream commentators and also companies like Skechers who Kelly endorses has been pretty deafening. At best the story gets a few lines half way through the newspaper. Compare this to the (correct IMHO) opprobrium applied to Ray Rice when he displayed his inner scumbag for all to see and beat his (now) wife.

So AHrs, would you continue to support or follow celebrities who engage in this sort of behaviour? Would you view Kelly differently to a man who did this, because she, in her own view is too little to cause them physical harm? Would you continue to buy products endorsed by celebrities who engage in such behaviour?

My own view is that they should be shunned by the media and any right minded company and that consumers should make it clear they won't buy products where a share of the profits goes to scum like this. Bit idealistic perhaps and I know that many other celebs have murky pasts and presents, but I'm just uncomfortable with the idea of well all have a giggle with Kelly and move on....

(Guess I'll have to find a deodorant other than Lynx...)

jaykay74 · 10-09-2014 12:15PM

tritium wrote: »

(Guess I'll have to find a deodorant other than Lynx...)

There are better reasons not to use Lynx

Larbre34 · 10-09-2014 12:15PM

Can't watch vid, who did she admit to belting?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 10-09-2014 12:16PM

I'm so annoyed that she finds it so funny. Like she's literally the only one that's amused by it, holly and that other fella look kind of disgusted. Nasty woman

Mr.McLovin · 10-09-2014 12:18PM

She can beat the shíte out of me anyday of the week once I get some make up sex later

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:19PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

Can't watch vid, who did she admit to belting?

Two of her exes, Jason Statham and Danny Cipriani

Lapin · 10-09-2014 12:19PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

holly and that other fella look kind of disgusted. Nasty woman

That other fella has a name. Its Richard Judy.

Umaro · 10-09-2014 12:19PM

Punching your partner in the face should never be described as "firey passion"

Love the way it ends with "I'm going to pick more wisely in the future what kind of men I be with-" some classic victim blaming!

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:19PM

Mr.McLovin wrote: »

She can beat the shíte out of me anyday of the week once I get some make up sex later

And the award for least classy and most moronic post can be given out even at this early stage.....

humanji · 10-09-2014 12:20PM

Why would you expect the media to mention it? They make lots of money from her advertisements and photo shoots. They're hardly going to get rid of a cash cow.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 10-09-2014 12:20PM

And then turns around and blames them saying she will have to find nicer guys to date

gerrybbadd · 10-09-2014 12:21PM

She has really shown that she hasn't 2 brain cells to rub together. Advocating violence, even though she's smaller than the 2 lads she whacked, is still not on. This dope is in the public eye, and may have young people looking up to her.

Pity she didn't engage the brain first.

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:21PM

humanji wrote: »

Why would you expect the media to mention it? They make lots of money from her advertisements and photo shoots. They're hardly going to get rid of a cash cow.

Maybe because they would if she was a cash cow with a penis

(Cash bull?)

Birneybau · 10-09-2014 12:22PM

jaykay74 wrote: »

There are better reasons not to use Lynx

Yeah, if you're not a teenage boy. Or, you don't like smelling of cat p!ss.

jimgoose · 10-09-2014 12:24PM

TV Celebrity Bimbette Acts Like Selfish Spoilt Brat, Makes Prick Of Self. President Informed At Home In Small Hours. More Later!!

padd b1975 · 10-09-2014 12:25PM

humanji wrote: »

Why would you expect the media to mention it? They make lots of money from her advertisements and photo shoots. They're hardly going to get rid of a cash cow.

Schofield or his co-anchor really should have called her on this at the time instead of sitting there smirking.

harney · 10-09-2014 12:26PM

tritium wrote: »

And the award for least classy and most moronic post can be given out even at this early stage.....

I think you may have won that one calling her a cow in the op.

Stay classy.

Gatling · 10-09-2014 12:27PM

Looks
Boobs
Likes getting rough.
She's almost a poor man's Angelina Jolie

Sign me up.

Barely There · 10-09-2014 12:27PM

She seems to be a classic mixture of 2 parts Psycho to 1 parts Dumb.

She has pretty bad PR advisors if they let her come out with basically boasting about the unjustified punching of people in the face.

Lapin · 10-09-2014 12:28PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

And then turns around and blames them saying she will have to find nicer guys to date

I watched three times and still can't find the bit where she turns around.

Czarcasm · 10-09-2014 12:28PM

tritium wrote: »

Interestingly the silence from mainstream commentators and also companies like Skechers who Kelly endorses has been pretty deafening. At best the story gets a few lines half way through the newspaper. Compare this to the (correct IMHO) opprobrium applied to Ray Rice when he displayed his inner scumbag for all to see and beat his (now) wife.

The thing is, nobody really gives a shít what Kelly Brooks thinks, and the media know this. It's her image that sells, not her opinions.

Compare that to a sports celebrity who's worth millions, and you'll see very quickly why brands will drop him like a hot snot.

Gannicus · 10-09-2014 12:29PM

I would let Kelly Brook beat the ever-loving tar out of me if I was banging her.

No but seriously even looking at that video Phil and Holly even had a bit of a chuckle at the issue. It speaks volumes that when someone like Kelly Brook openly admits to punching (not even slapping) her partner and nobody in the media or sponsors care that physical abuse by women to men is still to this day not being taken even remotely seriously. If the roles where reversed then the man would be the biggest animal on the planet and he's be made a pariah by friends sponsors etc.

Is it any reason that men are still living in the shadows when it comes to reporting spousal abuse?

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:31PM

harney wrote: »

I think you may have won that one calling her a cow in the op.

Stay classy.

Ooh we have a fan

Go on so kelly tell us how great Kelly really is

humanji · 10-09-2014 12:32PM

tritium wrote: »

Maybe because they would if she was a cash cow with a penis

(Cash bull?)

They wouldn't, though. It's happened many times before with guys getting away with it and no media outlet giving two f*cks. The media only makes a fuss when the act is part of the celebrities media persona. Otherwise they're not going to try and change the status quo.

Links234 · 10-09-2014 12:33PM

Hmm, thread about how domestic violence against men doesn't get taken seriously, filled with comments from lads saying "I'd let her slap me around, hur hur hur!"

tritium · 10-09-2014 12:34PM

Czarcasm wrote: »

The thing is, nobody really gives a shít what Kelly Brooks thinks, and the media know this. It's her image that sells, not her opinions.

Compare that to a sports celebrity who's worth millions, and you'll see very quickly why brands will drop him like a hot snot.

That doesn't really make any sense C? Kelly, image sells, no one cares when she tarnishes that image. Sport star (male) wins big sports games, gets dropped like abbot snot if he tarnishes his image

To take a comparable analogy, if Joey Essex slapped a woman would people just laugh it off?

I think there may be something else going on there, possibly involving the gender thing....

charlietheminxx · 10-09-2014 12:35PM

Domestic abuse is disgusting, what a horrible woman to sit there giggling about it. I'm sure she'd be the first to cry to the media if a boyfriend punched her in the face, so why is it ok for her to do it?

humanji · 10-09-2014 12:38PM

tritium wrote: »

That doesn't really make any sense C? Kelly, image sells, no one cares when she tarnishes that image. Sport star (male) wins big sports games, gets dropped like abbot snot if he tarnishes his image

I think there may be something else going on there, possibly involving the gender thing....

It's worth pointing out that in the UK, soccer players rarely get dropped for things they do. There was some footballer (I don't follow it so have no idea who he was, or played for) that was involved in a racist attack. He was told if he did it again, he'd be dropped. He did it again and was told if he did it again, he'd be dropped. And he did it again.

It all depends on the section of celebrity they're in.

harney · 10-09-2014 12:39PM

tritium wrote: »

Ooh we have a fan

Go on so kelly tell us how great Kelly really is

Nothing to do with being a fan or not. Just pointing out you can make a valid point and have some integrity doing so.

Calling her a cow taints your point slightly.

Gatling · 10-09-2014 12:40PM

tritium wrote: »

Sport star (male) wins big sports games, gets dropped like abbot snot if he tarnishes his image

I think there may be something else going on there, possibly involving the gender thing....

American footballer knocks girlfriend now wife spark out with a single punch and then drags her unconscious ass out of lift who then says the video was taken out of context .

Take glamour / underwear , shoe chick who says she punched her men for flirting ,
It's almost a pr exercise look I'm a hard chick sign me up for roles .
I'd love to hear there side were these full on assaults or something different

The Purveyor of Truth · 10-09-2014 12:43PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I'm so annoyed that she finds it so funny. Like she's literally the only one that's amused by it, holly and that other fella look kind of disgusted. Nasty woman

Oh, disagree with you there..

Schofield started off with a somewhat serious tone but at the end he was laughing with her and gave her a look like you would give a kid that was denying they eat a packet of biscuits that went missing. I can't imagine them having the same tone if they were discussing male-on-female domestic violence.

The message is regularly sent in society that it's okay for women to hit guys. Each week you will see at least one or two TV shows or movies where a woman is slapping a guy for something, often in comedies. Same with women kneeing men in the groin but suree when we see how some women can laugh at another woman cutting of a man's penis, it's hardly surprising when society has a tumbleweed reaction to them punching and slapping them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muuFygvXPAM

Kelly brook, domestic violence and media silence

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