The Press campaign against the Helen & Paul romance

[Sticks]

This thread is a spin off from the Favourite Paul & Helen picture? (http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=26486) thread.

Originally posted by Kaz

My memory is a little hazy after all this time but from what I can recall, at the time Paul was supposed to have been chatting up and entertaining a 'lady' in his room, he was actually on the telephone to Helen for a couple of hours!!

And the photo which appeared in the tabloids showed Paul's mate and a girl in the front seats of the car, with Paul very much 'all on his own' in the back.

Lies, damn lies it was. :mad:

I'm sure some of my fellow posters will confirm this! :thumbs:

I was on media watch when this came up in the Sun Online on the 27th August 2001. The following day the lady seen with Paul Clarke came forward to explain the Sun's Error

(I can not link directly in to the article as the Sun now charges a fee for archived stories :mad: )

For some reason the Sun had wanted to split the two up. They may have had their reasons, but they escape me :conf:

Going back further, there was that incident when Paul turned up at the end of the show party with an overnight bag and it was reported that it was all over because Paul trying his luck.

It was even reported in the Daily Mail :shocked: It was even said that Helen wanted to dump Paul as he would be a liability in her pursuance of a media career

Going back even further

:sleep:
Wake up at the back

The sister paper to the Sun, The News of the World had Paul saying hew would give Helen the heave ho, as he wanted his pick of the girls and she had served her purpose.

It happened to be the Daily Star that carried his side in the matter. :shocked:

[rachb]

I think this was the first article
Subject: Clarke with mystery blonde.

By JOHN ASKILL

BIG Brother's Paul Clarke was in big bother with lover Helen last night
after leaving a nightclub with a mystery girl.

Flirty Paul, 25, was seen drinking, chatting and dancing with a leggy blonde
for more than an hour before they left a nightclub together.

One reveller said the blue-eyed girl, dressed in a flimsy summer outfit, was
a "stunner".

He said: "She was petite but quite busty - quite a little bombshell. Paul
was obviously very impressed."

Another added: "There was lots of body language, touching of arms and stuff
like that."

Paul - whose romance with Big Brother housemate Helen Adams gripped the
nation - appeared determined to make the most of the night out on his own.

But as he and the girl left through a side entrance they were confronted by
a clubber. He swore at the girl and said he was "disappointed".

An onlooker said: "This guy started having a go at her saying he was
unimpressed with her behaviour. He was swearing, but she just shrugged her
shoulders and went off anyway."

Paul's tryst will shock sweetheart Helen - and it came just hours after he
bragged to 400 revellers that he HAD bedded her.

As later editions of Saturday's Sun revealed, Paul swigged bottles of lager
as he spent 30 minutes on a make-shift stage answering fans' questions.

When a girl asked: "Are you having sex with Helen?" he said they "do what
boy and girlfriends do".

He added: "After any type of pleasure she says, 'Oh my God!"

And when another girl asked what Helen's favourite position was he laughed:
"All of them."

Car designer Paul, star guest at the canal-side nightspot in Nottingham, was
then mobbed by clubbers.

He posed for a photo with Carrie Lambert, celebrating her 18th birthday with
pals dressed as Bunnygirls.

Then 25-year-old Pippa Jones, due to marry a policeman in four weeks, joked:
"You'd better give me a tenner so my fiance doesn't nick you." Paul, 25,
took out a £10 note, cheekily bent her over and signed it on her back.

One girl stuffed a signed photo of him in her cleavage. Others begged him to
pucker up - forcing him at one stage to plead: "No kisses." One reveller
said: "It was just mayhem."

Paul and the mystery blonde left the club with a man who described himself
as Paul's "friend and minder" Dave. Paul sat in the front of a taxi with the
others in the back.

Last night a spokeswoman for Paul, from Reading, Berks, and 23-year-old
Helen, from Cwmbran, South Wales, claimed the blonde was with Dave.

She said: "Helen and Paul are still very much together, and are very much in
love. Nothing is going to break them up."

But the couple are set to spend more time apart after Paul was signed up as
a guest presenter on Channel 5 show Exclusive.

He will jet to the rave island of Ibiza with blonde beauty Tess Daly to
report on its outrageous parties.:bawling:

[rachb]

and I found this one aswell
BIG BROTHER flirt Paul Clarke secretly wants to dump besotted blonde
> Helen Adams.
>
> Paul, 25, has pledged publicly that he will wait for the dizzy
> hairdresser as she battles for the £70,000 first prize in the TV show.
>
> But he has told pals he does not think their relationship will last 24
> hours in the outside world.
>
> He plans to stand by her initially at the end of the show this Friday
> then quietly drop her when the spotlight is off them.
>
> The bad news for Helen is that Paul appears to have at least THREE other
> girls on the go.
>
> One is a beauty he bedded weeks before going in the TV house. Another is
> a girl he met after Christmas while working in Germany.
>
> He said: "I have not had sex for three months but there were a couple of
> people before the Big Brother experience who I was interested in. My
> head is clouded about all that at the moment. I have got to sit down and
> think about everything."
>
> Asked about the other girls, a clearly flustered Paul told the News of
> the World: "That's personal."
>
> To add to the confusion surrounding Paul's love life, he was greeted on
> his eviction from the house by yet another girl who seemed to regard
> herself as his girlfriend.
>
> A Big Brother insider said: "This girl was in pieces and clearly thought
> she had something going with Paul. It was very embarrassing because she
> was upset while he was talking about his fondness for Helen.
>
> "The producers were keen to keep it all quiet because it ruins the Paul
> and Helen fairytale. It looks like Helen is going to get badly hurt. The
> fact is, she is far keener on him than he is on her, and she is going to
> get her heart broken."
>
> Paul became the seventh contestant evicted, with a massive 84 per cent
> of the vote, on Friday night.
>
> Minutes later Helen, 23, tearfully told the other housemates: "I love
> Paul."
>
> Paul, an £80,000-a-year car designer from Reading, Berks, admitted he
> came "very, very close" to having sex with Helen in the Big Brother
> house.
>
> Their televised antics prompted Helen's boyfriend, Gavin "Big G" Cox, to
> dump her.
>
> But the furthest Paul and Helen went was kissing on the cheeks under a
> blanket in the show's 'den'.
>
> After his eviction, Paul revealed: "I went on a guilt trip because I
> didn't want to do the wrong thing. I wanted to stay a gentleman. I was
> relieved that Big G was not there to meet me afterwards. I've seen his
> picture now and he is a big guy.
>
> "I wouldn't have been happy about what was going on between me and Helen
> if I'd been her boyfriend. I think Helen will be relieved that it's all
> over with him now, too."
>
> While Paul refused to be drawn on making a firm commitment to Helen, she
> was sleeping in his bed to keep his memory fresh.
>
> She sniffed his bedsheets, saying: "I'm trying to decide which side
> smells more like Paul." Then she asked the other housemates: "Do I sound
> like a psycho bitch?"
>
> One poignant moment during Paul's eviction appeared to show his true
> feelings for Helen. She stood next to the door so she would be the last
> housemate to see him go. She looked up longingly at Paul as he strode
> outside but he blanked her.
>
> Later, presenter Davina McCall, pictured left with Paul, asked him to
> send a message to Helen. All he could say was: "Let's go out for a drink
> when you get out."
>
> Paul admitted he did not fancy Helen when he first saw her. He said: "I
> nominated her in the second week. She came out with a few comments but
> obviously she redeemed herself. I started to warm to her after she was
> nominated. Her reaction showed that I had been completely wrong about
> her.
>
> "She was a role model for when I was up for nomination. She became my
> ally in the house and that was really important to me.
>
> "I lost people like Penny and Stuart, who I was close to, early on.
>
> "I felt that I was very much a one-man band in there at times and Helen
> was always in there for me. She did me proud. Gradually I began to fall
> for her personality. The girl is incredible."
>
> Paul denied evicted housemate Josh Rafter's claims that he faked
> feelings for Helen to boost his popularity with viewers.
>
> He said: "My affections were genuine. If Josh said that, he is not a
> very good judge of character."
>
> Helen devised a secret code so the two of them could talk about sex. It
> was simply deciphered, though, because all she did was swap the word
> "stuff" for sex.
>
> Paul admitted that he was embarrassed by its simplicity.
>
> But he insisted he wants Helen to win. He said: "I don't think Helen
> needs any support from me to win. The girl is so bubbly and cheery
> she'll be fine on her own."

[Kaz]

To add to the confusion surrounding Paul's love life, he was greeted on his eviction from the house by yet another girl who seemed to regard herself as his girlfriend.

A Big Brother insider said: "This girl was in pieces and clearly thought she had something going with Paul. It was very embarrassing because she was upset while he was talking about his fondness for Helen.
This snippet for me just illustrates how the tabloids get away with printing absolute rubbish.

As I'm sure all of us know, the girl who greeted Paul when he left the house was his sister!! :shocked:

And any 'BB insider' worth his or her salts would surely have known this.

All that negative press really upset me at the time, but now I just look back on it with contempt. It was pathetic.

Despite it all, Paul and Helen are still together and doing just fine, thank you. :love:

[cc100]

well, time has proved just how much c**p it all was.

i never(or rarely) believe owt i read now

[BusyBee]

Thank goodness they decided at the time not to read anything in the papers and to be completely honest with each other. It was the making of them. They could so easily have been swayed by all the rubbish written.

The media really had it in for them because they wouldnt give them the sleezy stories they wanted.

They didnt check their facts - just printed the rubbish. For instance when Paul was supposed to have gone off with that girl was more or less the time that she moved in with him. Girlfriend just moved in so I'll get in on with someone else and let the press take photos. Oh yes a very good idea that:sleep::sleep:

[WILDCHILD]

The media did treat them badly.
I also hated it when people aroundme said, 'Like they will ever last' - Paul & Helen have proved all of them wrong, especially Paul who shows that his love for Helen is really genuine.:love:

[BusyBee]

Not that any of the above posts makes us biased in any way!!:hugesmile::hugesmile:

All I can say is

WE WOZ RIGHT ABOUT THOSE TWO ALL ALONG:love::love:

[Sticks]

This was one of the few times that I came down on the side of romance, when people that knew me expected me to be in the cynical camp.

Maybe because I flirt with the conspiracy theorists camp that I seemed to be counter to others expectations of me :conf:

[Mairi]

Whatever reasons you had, Sticks, I'm glad you're on the side of romance.

It's what makes the world go round.

:colour:

[BusyBee]

I deal with marriage breakups and family problems at work all day, but a little trip to this site soon gets me believing in the power of love again.

Who needs a Mills and Boon romance -nothing they write can beat the reality of P&H.:love::love::love::love:

[James]

I didn't like reading those tabloid stories at the time, and they aren't any better now.

Well wide of the mark.

[Maggie]

Love does make the world go round Miriam

:colour: :love: :love: :love: :colour:

And the papers will make up and print anything to sell papers :devil: their fav is to build people up then knock them down :devil:

I never waste the money and buy one :nono:

[Sticks]

Originally posted by discolady
I never waste the money and buy one :nono:

You don't need to when you can read them on line for free :hugesmile: