Nov
22
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I lead a sheltered existence, where Jo Brand, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Paxman and Babs Windsor [1] are celebrities, so I hadn’t heard of Paul Danan until today. He is apparently a former Hollyoaks actor and has been sacked from Preston’s prestigious panto for swearing at hundreds of kids as he was supposed to be turning on the Christmas lights. Apparently, he said, Make some fothermucking noise, Preston
(but without the spoonerism).
That’s not the bit I find remarkable, however. Someone called Jess Butterworth, from Walton-le-Dale, is quoted in the Lancashire Evening Post as saying, Children hear stuff like that all the time at home.
I don’t think he’s done anything wrong.
It speaks volumes.
The panto, by the way, sounds as though it would be best avoided. A spokesperson for the production company told the local rag, Our shows are for families and do not even have any innuendo in them.
1 Look, I don’t have to like all the celebrities, I just have to have heard of them. And besides, that moment in Carry on Camping
is surely etched on the minds of all red-blooded males of a certain age in the land. And, yes, they really are the first four famous people I could think of. Just in alphabetical order.
