The curse of Blunkett strikes again
Posted November 3rd, 2005 by ringverse
Trouble follows David Blunkett around like a bad smell.
Rebekah Wade, Editor of the Sun newspaper has been released from police custody after 8 hours in the cells, having been arrested for assaulting her husband, Eastenders "hardman" Ross Kemp, who declined medical attention for a split lip.
She had been out drinking and consoling her good friend David Blunket after his resignation in the hours before the alleged incident.
Red faces all round...And Murdoch isn't too happy.
I loved this, as the cliche
I loved this, as the cliche goes 'you couldn't make it up'. And I thought that SAS thing of his was SO accurate and that he was dead hard.
davidk, you're a wicked man.
davidk, you're a wicked man. btw, what do the real super army soldiers make of mr kemp?
it looks like ross kemp
it looks like ross kemp wasn't the only one .... his onscreen brother in 'Eastenders', steve mcfadden aka 'phil' also got assaulted by an ex-girlfriend ... on the same night.
now you really couldn't make that up, could you ?
What's more dangerous? Going
What's more dangerous? Going for a drink with DNA Dave or this guy?
Hmm. Almost exactly three
Hmm. Almost exactly three years ago (doesn't time fly... etc.)I was doing an assignment with KFOR and someone received in hte post a tape of the first two episodes of Mr Kemp's television series. Which, you will not be surprised to hear it bore no resemblance to what UKSF is like - OK one would not expect this in the plots which obviously have to be exagerated - but in language, humour, operational structures (a distinct lack of officers so Kemp's NCO character could be placed in charge). We were very amused.
Oddly, last year, in that fine periodical, the Radio Times, an extra in the programme who claimed to be ex 22nd, said that all this friends loved it, perhaps the sub text was that 'enjoy' is in the same way that I know nurses who watch Casualty, for laughs and 'spot the mistakes'. Or, more worringly, that this is how some enlisted members would like it to be.
Best film on the modern British army? Dog Soldiers.
Thanks for the
Thanks for the recomendation, i'll check the film out.
Of course no one mentioned
Of course no one mentioned the eastenders bloke was found in bed with his boyfriend....
I believe that is scurrilous
I believe that is scurrilous gossip, but if one were to be a scurrilous gossip, one might wonder if that might have something to to with the battering his on screen brother got from his girlfriend, on the same night...
Coincidence...?
at least it wasn't DNA
at least it wasn't DNA Dave's dog ; )
Ah yes, the version I heard
Ah yes, the version I heard was that he was caught in bed with Guy Black. I suspect that this wishful thinking on the part of a few disgruntled News International employees. Still quite funny though.
I heard that one too, via
I heard that one too, via separate people who work in TV and were at a Crouch End bonfire party. Funny old world...