For me it’s John Peel.
Famous Radio DJ.
Introduced me to lots of different music BUT I later discovered him to be a paedophile.
An interview originally published in The Herald in April 2004 stated that he admitted to sexual contact with “an awful lot” of underage girls. He said that, in the United States in the 1960s, the only available “pool of single, unconnected women was high school”.[32]
Rolf, can you see what it is yet, Harris. I used to think he was fantastic the way he painted most of his images with a 4" brush and also all his songs hit the spot.
Later, he was sent to prisons for sexual offences.
Some years back now I used to religiously run up to and around The Outer Circle, essentially a road that encompasses Regents Park. There and back, twice round was about six miles , a fitness thing.
I’d always run anticlockwise, a famous celebrity of the time would run clockwise, we’d pass on a regular basis and politely nod. He wasn’t smoking a big cigar and wearing hefty jewellery while running.
The rest is history.
Yes, that was a big disappointment, I remember as a child I used to love watching him.
Oh yes, another disappointment, I loved watching his show every Saturday afternoon.
David Attenborough.
I used to love his nature programmes and his unique observation of animal behaviour.
Now all you get is him driveling on about man’s damage to the planet, deforestation, and the changing climate due to the enormous amount of CO2 man is producing.
How does he expect a Brazilian farmer to support his family by claiming back some rain forest to graze his cows and grow some crops. And while we’re on the subject, what happened to all our forests in the UK? Not to mention the thousands of houses springing up everywhere, together with hundreds of hectares of solar panels and wind turbines where one decent sized coal fired power station would provide more power than the lot of them, take up helluva lot less space, and Drax actually sits on at least 300 years worth of coal…?
Yeah, we know David, try telling the people who can actually do something about it, instead of preaching to some couch potato eating take aways and swilling a can of lager.
Flying all over the world and probably living in a decent house with the obligatory Range Rover on the drive, you haven’t done too badly off it have you?
