Tweeters Attempt to Break the Super Injunctions
There are reports that users of Twitter are attempting to break the super injunctions.
It’s now getting to the point, where someone with a super injunction might think of doing an Andrew Marr for the money.
Suppose you are an well-known actor, athlete or a footballer say, who has had a brief dalliance with a Z-list celebrity. But your wife is perhaps a sensible woman who has forgiven you and has warned you about future conduct. Remember, strange as it may seem, there are a lot of women married to celebrities, who very much manage the family’s finances and often have a serious career in their own right. Perhaps you just want to act or play football and get on with your life. So you strike a deal with the Z-lister and sell the story. After all, in a footballer’s case the season is almost over and you can find a nice island hotel to hide for the summer.
So someone will take the money, settle with the Z-lister, write a few articles and run.
Once one has done it, the others might fall like a pack of cards.
You have to admit that probably keeping a super injunction going is not a trivial business and costly in terms of both time and money. The bill might hurt more than the adverse publicity.
Farewell – Sir Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper was a gentleman in a sport that doesn’t have too many. Although one wonders if recent British boxers have taken their lead from the way Our Enry behaved.
I saw him once, as he had been asked to open a new shop opposite our offices in Ipswich. He was just strolling down the street confidently towards the shop, people were calling and talking to him in a friendly way and he was signing autographs and chatting to the crowd like only real celebrities do.
He’ll be sadly missed by all.
The Real Losers From the Delayed Honeymoon
The decision of the royal newly weds to delay their honeymoon is a really intelligent one.
It will allow all the fuss to die down and they can enjoy a few days of rest and recuperation on Anglesey, if they want to. I suspect too, that the good people of Ynys Mon, will put their own protective cordon around the couple to make sure the only interesting pictures the paparazzi get are of sheep. I know from experience of Suffolk, that when outsiders start to pry and invade privacy, they are given very short shift.
I suspect though that the tabloids and the celebrity magazines, have spent a fortune to spot where the couple are going. And it has got them precisely nothing, except a large bill. When the couple finally sneak off, the gutter press will hopefully be caught napping again.
I suspect they may have another cunning plan up their sleeves.
Good for them!
Andrew Marr Comes Clean
Having watched Have I Got News For You and seen what Ian Hislop has said since Andrew Marr has come clean over the superinjunction, I think that he made his statement just in time. I think if Marr hadn’t broke his silence, it would have been all over the place within a week.
This always happens in the end, as someone makes a mistake or perhaps sadly one of the parties dies and then it gets published.
These privacy superinjunctions may have their place in some areas, like the protection of children But in many places they are just being used by indivduals and companies to hide wrong doing. Or should I say delay publication, as inevitably that’s what happens.
It would appear now that the tabloids are looking for the next person to come clean.
There is also a serious side to all this. Read this article in the Daily Mail. One person, who has found a serious health problem with paint, has even been prohibited from talking to his MP. It’s getting to be all very Kafka!
The Mail is also getting its claws into Fred the Shred in this article. At one time the injunction said that we couldn’t refer to him as a banker.
I’ve just typed his real name coupled with the w-word into Google. You get a lot of very funny articles.
Superinjunctions have now created this new game of Googling the Internet to find out the truth. You usually can! The google Toolbar is particularly useful, as it knows the common searches. Let’s say I’m a sportsman, who say has been associated with a Z-list celebrity, but I’ve taken out a super injunction to stop my wife finding out and divorcing me, thus relieving me of a lot of my money and half my salary, which would mean I’m unattractive to bimbos. If I continually type my name and that of the celebrity into Google, I can check that no stories are appearing. But all I’m doing is making it easier for people to find the association.
You can run, but you can’t hide.
Censorship
The Times today has been censored, just like papers used to be in Eastern Europe and still are in places like Iran.
It’s because they were talking about a sex scandal involving a well-known footballer. Apparently to mention his name in connection with scandal is now against the law.
Would I be guilty of contempt, if I put a list of all current footballers in this post, which on the law of averages would include him?
It doesn’t matter, as the truth will surface in a few days about who had the relationship with a former Miss Wales, Imogen Thomas, who appeared as a housemate on Big Brother.
But I’m totally against censorship, as it the tool of preference for every dictator since Stalin and Hitler. No-one should fear the truth.
Celebrity Sex Secrets
The Times today, has the headline “Call girl must keep celebrity sex secret”.
It says how a celebrity has got an injunction ostensibly to keep his indiscretions from his wife.
He’ll be lucky if he gets away with this!
C did lots of divorces where all sorts of hanky-panky was going on, but partners always worked out the truth for themselves. So in the end, no injunction will stop everything for all time.
So whoever it is that has obtained the injunction in The Times, he ought to make a clean breast of t now, as it’ll all end in tears. The tabloids just have too much to gain from printing the truth. And somebody will accept their wads of notes to give them the story.
I was once told a story in the 1980s by the manager for BT in East Anglia. He said that when they got complaints about high phone bills and checked, they found that someone was calling a particular number continually. From the pattern, they would often deduce, that someone was having an affair. In those days, divorce details were often reported in the local paper and they often found a divorce followed the phone bill complaint.
We can all speculate about who it is in The Times article, but give a couple of months and it’ll all be in the open.
How To Look Younger
I was walking down towards the old Middlesex hospital today, when I heard a familiar and distinctive voice behind me. I turned slightly and saw the lady in question getting into the taxi, she had just hailed. I then recognised her, as she was wearing the same dress as she had on BBC Breakfast this morning.
But she certainly looks younger on the television!
Is This a Must-See Show?
Charlie Sheen’s new one-man show has not had the best of reviews in Detroit.
The Times even gave it no stars.
So is it something that is so bad, it just has to be seen?
Mel Brooks got the story line of The Producers absolutely right, with it’s underlying story of the awful, Springtime for Hitler.
Does Vanessa Feltz Have Another Job?
This poster that was in many places on Syros, says it all.
I’ve no idea what it’s all about.
The Indiscrete Celebrity
The First Class Lounge at Lime Street was empty, when someone I thought familiar entered.
Immediately, they sat down, their phone rang and they proceeded to give their e-mail address to someone at the other end of the call.
It was then obvious, who they were.
Perhaps, they thought I was engrossed in my computer and it didn’t matter. But I heard the e-mail address and it might be something they’d have preferred to keep secret.
I have found the person on the web and I now know that I heard it correctly. So my hearing isn’t as bad as I have been thinking!
In this case it didn’t really matter, as the serious thinker doesn’t hide their identity on the web. But how many Z-List Celebrities have complained about harrassment because they’ve inadvertently given their e-mail address or mobile phone number to all and sundry?
The Anonymous Widower 