Question: was Jim ever punished for it? Besides media backlash.

I found this so far they were married TEN years so obviously they got on at some point
Jim Davidson




is facing a pounds 2million bill from his fourth divorce.

Tracy Hilton is formally ending their ten-year marriage after the comic admitted cheating on her with busty



TV hostess Debbie Corrigan.

The settlement will be Davidson's most expensive yet, and will almost certainly mean him losing his new pounds 1.4million Surrey mansion.

Ex-model Tracy, 31, is currently staying at the house with their three children. The couple bought the pad last year, with Jim telling friends it was the perfect home to restart their marriage.

Tracy, whose mother, Margaret, lives in a "granny cottage" in the grounds, will keep her pounds 75,000 Mercedes-Benz and Davidson may have to pay as much as pounds 15,000 a month in alimony.



"Tracy's primary concern is for the children and she's determined they will be taken care of by Jim," said a pal.

"She tried to make the marriage work, but Jim just can't say no to the ladies. It's his addiction. He has made it clear that he will not make waves over this. He's just as eager to get everything sorted."

The Mirror caught Davidson out after he spent the night with Debbie, 24, at Brighton's plush Grand Hotel. It put the final nail in the coffin of his marriage to Tracy, who supported him through his battle with the booze.

Davidson, the presenter of TV's Big Break began his latest fling when he cast Debbie as a fairy in his X-rated panto




, Sinderella.

He insisted: "I don't want people to look at me and Debs and think anything bad of her. My marriage was in terrible trouble and she just happened to be there. It's not right that Tracy and I should live with this unhappiness."

The pal added: "Jim is totally besotted




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with Debbie. But Tracy's devastated



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:laugh: I'm so wordy when it comes to debates, I can't keep things to less than at least one paragraph...

it implies delusion
could you justify Conor's behaviour?

I have been struggling to understand the massive support for Jim also. He have done his time and got his counselling or whatever but a man should never EVER raise a hand to a woman and visa versa ( just in case ppl are saying why pick the man) It does happen in some instances that a woman is violent towards a man. I feel that much of Jims support for this eviction is because people hate Jas and Luisa and Liz is not a strong housemate. Even if I hated every single housemate in there and they were all up I would vote to save them rather than Jim. Domestic violence should not be accepted and even if its years ago and Jim is a 'reformed character' I would still struggle very much to support him and I know what I am talking about believe me x

Nah still don't see the relevance

I support Jim as what he did was over 20 years ago and he seems to have changed his life around ,so kudos to him for doing that,Jasmine and Sam are also violent,dont see the constant disapproval for them

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Personally I hope Jim, Jasmine and Luisa stay because I watch Big Brother to be entertained, to discuss what happens in the house and to have in depth debates about all sorts of things. Liz hasn't provided that for me. I'm "supporting" Jim because I don't find any redeemable qualities about most of the other housemates, who have done things in the house that have ranged from slightly unpleasant to full on nasty - whereas despite being grumpy and despite his past, Jim really hasn't said anything out of order without being provoked first and even then, he's kept it within an acceptable level - his spat with Luisa was started by Luisa, he didn't say anything worse than what she said about him and it didn't escalate to Dappy/Luisa levels. Liz, Sam and Ollie are generally accepted to be objectively the nicest housemates because they haven't done anything nasty to anyone in the house but then they also haven't done anything of interest either and personally I don't want people coasting to the final and possibly winning it because they kept quiet so they won it by default.

I do wonder if there even IS a limit on what people are willing to overlook prior to a person entering a reality TV show. Ian Huntley? I mean he did it over a decade ago and it wasn't on TV so that's cool then if he goes in and calls Lynda Bellingham a "boring slag" right?

I'm just at a loss for words that people are willing to overlook such an obvious case of lifelong bigotry and hatred because he isn't as trashy as the others.

The scary thing is he's an identified misogynist, and it's mostly women supporting him. And what makes it worse is that he confirmed he was putting on an act, the public have fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Jim haters constantly drag his past up because that's all they can find on him apart from the boring old fart tag, which incidentally, like \jimmy Carr, he makes a living out of it.

It's a pretty horrible past to have.

Being at the top of the tree for many decades, not years, takes a bit of doing. Most of the people you champion have wet ink on their first pay check still.

It is his past though. So far in the house have we seen him do anything unwarranted and nasty? Personally I don't think so but I've not been able to keep up with all of the shows so I don't really know.

I get the whole idea of judging someone solely on their time in the house but certainly there's a point where there's too much to overlook. My thing with Jim is that as far as I'm concerned, his whole life and celebrity-dom is super sketchy and shady that he shouldn't have even been cast in the first place. This especially rings true when you factor in that he was initially supposed to be on CBB11 and would have to interact with Brian Dowling again.

I don't disagree with that view at all and I completely respect anyone who feels that Jim's past is too extreme to let go for the sake of an entertainment program. I certainly wouldn't want anyone who has been the victim of domestic violence to be upset with my casual support for Jim as a housemate.

As you are a stanch supporter of Jim, did you post this to make him look better Kaz? I don't understand you at all, this proves what a w**ker he is.

Oh FFS, can't you see the difference in someone giving someone a one - off slap and the deeper problem of domestic violence which affects innocent young children and deep emotional connections between married couples. Jesus......

No need to get all bent out of shape jet.
I can't support him due to his past, but others are more forgiving he may have changed he may not who knows?
His new squeeze is 24! thats a bit young for a 60yr old...:/

..just putting the wife beating aside..(which I know is the topic..)..Jim is nothing that I personally admire in a person...and I think that what is annoying is that he's generalised as someone who was typical of his era which he is not at all...he was always a marmite person..yeah, I get that some people like/liked his humour and comedy style but equally a lot of people didn't and I personally never did...and that's fine because we don't all find the same things and comedians etc funny but the thing of 'of his time' type thing is just not so, anymore than you could say someone like Frankie Boyle for instance, represents today's humour...it's just his style of humour and some people like it and some people don't and there is no generalisation about it...it's all subjective to the individual person....

..but anyway, it wasn't from 'his time' when he was in Hell's kitchen and didn't show any change in his bigoted views...I guess it's interesting with the analogy to Chis Brown because people do have very fixed views about him and that would be hard to change them...he would have to do something for those views to be changed and that's just a natural thing that people do have personal things that they find abhorrent in someone, we all do...for me, Jim hasn't done anything in the house for me to change my opinion of him...I find his humour still quite sarcastic and personal...and it's just not really my thing..and I think he's extremely sexist, which again, Dappy was rightfully criticised for and I don't think it's any different for Jim or Lionel because for me, there is no 'age' that, that's expectable....


..anyway, I could go on but I won't..:laugh:...I will say one positive thing though..I don't personally think that Jim has shown any signs that he has changed at all, and that is a judgement of his time in the house..he's too contradictory, oh let's all live and let live/chill etc and then he'll throw something out there that's quite provocative to an argument and just walk away from it..but then he's not the only one to do that either...but if by being in the BB house and seeing his popularity etc does change him for the better as a person because he's encouraged by the support etc...then that's a good thing...but he still won't be funny..:laugh:...

..as for the wife beating thing, well there are many, many people out there who have had issues with alcohol etc and had bad times in their lives and have still never raised a hand in violence to another person and especially someone who has had trust in you, so that really doesn't equate for me...there is absolutely no 'excuse' that makes that acceptable...but yeah, in the house, just generally not really that impressed with him...

Couldn't have put it better my self, 100% agree with you, another thing people on here seem to he overlooking as well he is homophobic pig, the way he treated Brian Dowlan on Hells Kitchen was vile ....IMHO

That's what makes him even more objectionable of a casting choice, especially when you consider that he was this close to entering a series Brian hosted

Exactly, I can't believe he's is favourite to win at the moment, can't understand why people would consider putting money on him.:devil:

we are taught that forgiveness makes us a better person!

do I trust jim? hell no!, do I find him amusing?, yes.

we laugh at someone when they hurt them selves!.

to ben, life's a funny old game!

Reece we all interact every day with people who do not share our views, I have a friend who is an out and out racist, I also have family members who hold racist views and sexist views on women, that doesn't mean I cut them out of my life, mainly it means I just roll my eyes, or we have a bit of a debate about it. It is possible to know and get on with people who have completely different views and outlooks in life.

Interesting article here, even if it is from the DM if anyone cares to read it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...ilderness.html

he got help in dealing with his anger..he's a changed man..get over it.

Why are people so consumed with Jims past. If memory serves me right, Nelson Mandela had a pretty chequered past and so did his wife Winnie. Are we to forget him now due to his past. I think not. Jim haters are just desperate to slag him off and his past is all they can see, its blinding them.

Ive read through all this and all I can see is people saying look at his past...look at his past....move thw **** on...he hasnt personally done anything to anyone here....

Reformation and learning are the points of having experiences. Jim's ex-wife may never forgive what he has done, but I have no right to hate him on her behalf as though he beat me. The logic of punishing him eternally is flawed in that none of us are perfect and if raised differently, or having witnessed domestic violence and having become desensitised to it, taught different ideals or placed in different situations, we might be stunned at how our ethical boundaries shift. Jim is controlling himself whilst being constantly attacked. His saying he is not being his usual self may be linked to his own guilt and poor self-view due to past transgressions. That conviction that we are intrinsically evil is often the greatest motivator to effect change in our behaviour. I suspect there is a lot of displacement and projection here and Jim is taking the hatred for some posters' own experiences.

To me there are few things worse a man can do than lay a finger on a woman. Alcoholism or not there is no excuse. I find it very hard to attach myself to a man that has done that I don't care how long ago it was and what he does in the house.

Great post.

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People still going on about it, this wife beating thing is getting beyond boring. Anyone would think he kicked the living **** out of her. It was a slap driven or fuelled by extreme alchohol abuse and it does not condone it, I know, but in some ways he has changed and that's hard. Give the guy a break and applaud him for changing.

I think as far as situations in the house occurred, i think he's handled himself well, he's walked away from confrontation and people blatantly trying to get a rise out of him (Jasmine and Linda spring to mind) I hope it's a way he's learned to deal with his temper and that he's changed who he was. That being said I would never support him to win because of his past.

This thread title fits perfectly into the Nelly Furtado "Maneater" song.

http://www.empireonline.com/images/f.../photos/20.jpg

And that's all I gots to say about that.

i dont like Jim but im fine with people wanting to support him as a HM. i just cant.
can say the same for the Luisa haters on here as well or anyone in a series that gets a lot of air time. even the smallest of things to nit pick.

he's such a two faced lying man, is there support for him honestly??? he is horrid, i mean he knew about lee and jasmine in that toilet no doubt about it, but to casey he didn't say nothing or warn her, he plays one game with one person and later on he tells the other person the complete opposite, he's so two faced and grumpy it's untrue, i hope he leaves

in his defense there though maybe he didn't want to be the one to hurt her feelings or maybe he just wanted no involvement in the triangle saga?

I didn't want to comment on this thread because I do understand the total opposites as to opinions there are as to Jim and aI have said a fair bit already as to him.
I feel however I want to answer for my part as to Jim and the sort of question put as to why I don't mind being seen as supporting him so far in the house and voting to keep him in.

I do believe that people can change and need to be given the chance to change, if they do set out to change their behaviour then I give some credit to that.
I cannot say I liked Jim Davidson that much before he went in the house, I like some of his comedy and am not keen on most of it.
I had to make a conscious effort as I do with near all housemates, to judge him solely on what he is like as a housemate.

This thread title really ought to read he 'was' a wife beater.I haven't heard of any more incidents as to the one reported a good while ago now.
I have read bits about that period of his life and of course totally deplore what he did,I doubt anyone would not.
However, we don't know what goes on behind closed doors with lots of people, we could in ignorance of having no knowledge, be praising people and celebs who are really as bad or even worse than Jim was.

He is in a new marriage now, he seems happy enough as does his current family do too. He sought help for his problems and maybe they have succeeded.
True, he is grumpy, that isn't in itself a crime, he doesn't like some people so makes put down comments as to them, that is not a crime either.
I don't like Cheryl Cole for example,I have my direct reasons for that and if around her, I would be far from pleasant as to her or about her, every chance I get I would make a put down comment as to her,does that make me a bad and grumpy person, not eligible to be liked.
I would say it didn't in any way.
While in a CBB house,if she ever were to go in,I would initially see how she acted there.

Jim is,in my view, being himself in the house, it may well be he has learned to control the nastier elements as to getting physical with anyone but like all of them he has the right to be disgruntled and miserable if he so wishes with those and the things that go on in the house.I likely would too.
The most miserable in there is Linda,I don't like her because she went in there,in my opinion, with an agenda if Jim was in the house too, to provoke him.
I gave her the benefit of the doubt but she showed her true colours, by 'not' taking Jim aside to say he had upset her and then saying so to the other women in there and allowing him to be pulled up in front of them, for me that showed her nasty, devious and vindictive side.
She was first to do that, not him.
I also think had Jim not been there she would have had to get at someone else too to play the victim as her Sister did near all her series.

As a housemate,(while never condoning in any way any past rotten behaviour), I have found Jim to be entertaining.
Far more than most and certainly better than the boring,epic running nonsense of the love triangle.
So as a housemate, he has made me warm to him,far from my own thoughts as to him before he went in.
I have seen little from him that he has done that is really bad in the house at all.
That is what I am judging him on now and that is what I try to do all the time.

Such as,I had a dread of Frankie Cocoza going in the house after his reputation on X factor and other things outside the house.
Again with him,I found him to be a really good housemate too as I find Jim to be.

If we believe people are incapable of change, then there would be little point in anyone trying to change.
The Kitchen show has been mentioned, on that, Jim certainly could not control his temper or hold back on his tongue when he needed to as well.
His time in the BB house is a big contrast to that show and as to his control of his temper etc;.
I give him credit for that and that is why I will vote to keep him in, why I am enjoying most of his actions as a housemate and even why I wouldn't begrudge him winning it either.

He isn't someone I would likely get along with myself but I don't need to, I am watching a show and he isn't doing any great wrong in it.
I said this elsewhere, he has had allegations made against him for over a year now and those serious allegations have been dropped and there is, it is reported, no action going to be taken.
Things like that can make you think and change and reflect on your life,it may well be he is using this BB as a way to try to mend some of his bad reputation and from all that has been seen so far, other than his grumpiness,I have to say the temper and really vile insults have not been apparant at all.
For that too, I give him credit as to his time in CBB.
At any rate 'so far'.

..it wasn't a slap though, not even close to being a slap, and I also would applaud anyone who had done something similar but then reassessed their lives/behaviour and shown a change but even after many years, he showed no change in another reality TV show and so far for me, he hasn't shown that he has changed in the BB house..I'm sure that others will see anything he does differently to how I do but then I guess that we all look for different things in the housemates we support and have different reasons for supporting them etc...