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Al Porter Scandal

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    #62
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    I wouldn't wish this type of allegation on anyone. It sticks like glue regardless.
    But how can so many men behave like this a d why the he'll haven't people spoken up before. No one is that powerful. No job is so important that someone should stay silent and endure this crap.

    In the small world of Irish comedy, Al Porter is was very powerful. I would imagine that his accusers might have been afraid that they'd be the only person speaking up and that he'd deny it or claim that it was just a bit of harmless fun, in keeping with his stage persona.


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    #63
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    It seems like nowadays if there's anyone that is disliked by someone else, suddenly they make a claim of sexual harassment and it's bye bye to their career.

    If it ever comes out that accusations that end up being false, those people should be pariahed as much as the people they are accusing. Guilty or innocent, it will destroy the life of the accused.


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    #64
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    theres supposedly another scandal involving a straight male comedian too, anyone else hear about it?

    Mod note:Folks, let's not go there. You are responsible for what you post and so is Boards for publishing it. To spare all of us the trouble, please confine yourself to commemorating on what has been published in reputable sources. Naming anyone like that WILL result in ban hammers being used!

    Thanks in advance,

    Buford T. Justice


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    #65
    Rikand
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    A combination of depression, having schizophrenic partners and engaging in wild sex with priests shall be his defense


    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/al-porter-after-wild-sex-with-a-priest-i-realised-the-priesthood-was-not-for-me-1.2858328?mode=amp


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    #66
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    After reading the Times article. Am I the only one wondering what sort of jeans this chap was wearing?? How on earth does someone get their whole hand down your buttoned-up, belted, presumably skinny jeans?? :-/


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    #67
    Don Kiddick
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    splinter65 wrote: »
    Imagine watching your dream career melt away like that before your very eyes, literally.
    He was setting himself up to be the Twink of the next 40 years.
    And it’s all gone.
    In a puff of smoke.

    Maybe someone should have told him to ....Zip up his mickey!


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    #68
    EPAndlee
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    Hopefully today fm will drop him and I won't keep having to change the channel anytime he's on


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    #69
    Tigger
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    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    After reading the Times article. Am I the only one wondering what sort of jeans this chap was wearing?? How on earth does someone get their whole hand down your buttoned-up, belted, presumably skinny jeans?? :-/

    you sort of squish the belly and push down


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    #70
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    surely he can't be the person in this article
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/he-put-his-hand-down-my-pants-entertainer-in-sex-assault-storm-36331159.html

    Some of the comments like:

    Some of the incidents date back several years.

    Yesterday, one of his alleged victims described the entertainer's behaviour as "one of the worst-kept secrets in the showbiz industry".

    Ireland's a small place and he's a powerful person. There's a sense of people not wanting to lose out on work or suffer because of going up against him.

    These would suggest someone who has been in the business a lot longer and is more 'powerful'.
    I wouldn't class Porter as being a powerful media figure.

    I feel he might not suffer as much as some of others, as he'll claim thats his sthick, he's camp and plays it camp, it was only part of his act.
    If he does suffer a career-ending backlash, he didn't last long, he's only 24 isn't he?


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    #71
    s15r330
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭s15r330


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I honestly never knew so many men had a problem keeping their hands / mouths / whatever to themselves, it's not that fúcking difficult. This whole thing is depressing and I'm afraid it's going to start making me paranoid when I'm around women.

    Yeh so many, out of the 3.5 billion of us...


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    #72
    Ineedaname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Ineedaname


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    its a promoter/booker , the name wouldnt be known to the general public

    He’s a promoter for a well known venue. Out of respect for the mod warning I won’t say anymore.

    I don’t really like to fuel rumors but I do know people that worked with him. There has been stuff said before and not all of it flattering.


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    #73
    RunRoryRun
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭RunRoryRun


    NIMAN wrote:
    surely he can't be the person in this article


    Reckon it is - some of the incidents / descriptions are identical to those featured in The Times this morning explicitly naming Al Porter.


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    #74
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    Tigger wrote: »
    you sort of squish the belly and push down

    Hi Al :)


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    #75
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Well he can’t pull a Spacey on it, he’s already come out as gay.

    Hope the advertisers on Today FM follow boycott his radio show. It’s the only way these guys will learn.

    So he should be punished because some bandwagon jumper makes an allegation?


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    #76
    Username exists
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Username exists


    That's the Gaiety panto on the look out for a Dame


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    #77
    Jobs OXO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 887 ✭✭✭Jobs OXO


    There seems to be an awful lot of this sticking your sex stick where it's not wanted. Time to dial down the deviancy


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    #78
    Snowfire
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    batistuta9 wrote: »
    There's a female comedian saying she was raped

    Maybe she's joking....


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    #79
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    RayM wrote: »
    In the small world of Irish comedy, Al Porter is was very powerful. I would imagine that his accusers might have been afraid that they'd be the only person speaking up and that he'd deny it or claim that it was just a bit of harmless fun, in keeping with his stage persona.

    No he wasn't 'very powerful' and to say so, makes an equivalence between this case and cases where people truly were in fear for their careers.
    I don't particularly rate the guy but he did not have the power to make or break careers, he just didn't.


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    #80
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I know a girl who went to the recording of Blind Date in the Helix in August and she said he was making jokes about big black cocks, to a black man, when the cameras weren't rolling. Not that this makes him guilty, but it should illustrate what kind of twat that he is, so wouldn't be surprised.


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    #81
    pauliebdub
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    Hopefully this will be the end of him, can't stand him.


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    #82
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Rikand wrote: »
    A combination of depression, having schizophrenic partners and engaging in wild sex with priests shall be his defense


    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/al-porter-after-wild-sex-with-a-priest-i-realised-the-priesthood-was-not-for-me-1.2858328?mode=amp
    The waiter smiles and heads for the kitchen. “And that’s just some good old-fashioned flirting,” chuckles Porter, turning to me as though he’s been doing a demonstration. “I say that I’m a feminist because I make men feel how they made women feel for hundreds of years. That’s my aim as a feminist hero.”


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    #83
    Ewan Hoosarmi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Ewan Hoosarmi


    NIMAN wrote: »
    surely he can't be the person in this article
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/he-put-his-hand-down-my-pants-entertainer-in-sex-assault-storm-36331159.html

    Some of the comments like:

    Some of the incidents date back several years.

    Yesterday, one of his alleged victims described the entertainer's behaviour as "one of the worst-kept secrets in the showbiz industry".

    Ireland's a small place and he's a powerful person. There's a sense of people not wanting to lose out on work or suffer because of going up against him.

    These would suggest someone who has been in the business a lot longer and is more 'powerful'.
    I wouldn't class Porter as being a powerful media figure.

    I feel he might not suffer as much as some of others, as he'll claim thats his sthick, he's camp and plays it camp, it was only part of his act.
    If he does suffer a career-ending backlash, he didn't last long, he's only 24 isn't he?
    OOh err Matron.


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    #84
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    So he should be punished because some bandwagon jumper makes an allegation?

    Is this a joke post? Is there sarcasm here that I am somehow missing?


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    #85
    TheDavester
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    Wonder will Amanda Brunker make a claim against him


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    #86
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    TheDavester wrote: »
    Wonder will Amanda Brunker make a claim against him

    Even Porter wouldn’t touch her flute.


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    #87
    Ush1
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    I haven't read the article but he sounds a bit like Andy Dick. He will try it on with any bloke but never rapes them or anything. Just more a desperation thing.


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    #88
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    I'm also a little surprised by this, when I saw rumours of a powerful Irish entertainment personality, this isn't who I was expecting. I had to google him, never heard of him. As a 24 year old, how would he have been powerful enough to destroy careers years ago?


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    #89
    Ush1
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    Am I the only one who finds his stand-up funny? :(


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    #90
    Greybottle
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    Ush1 wrote: »
    I haven't read the article but he sounds a bit like Andy Dick. He will try it on with any bloke but never rapes them or anything. Just more a desperation thing.

    Sexual assault is sexual assault and that can be traumatic and life changing as well.

    The defense that 'he never rapes them or anything' is a bit sick to be honest.


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    #91
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Am I the only one who finds his stand-up funny? :(

    Yes, yes you are


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