Will even chop some wood and build a fire beforehand in case she decides to burn my corpse. She can wash the knives once she's pulled them out of me as that's her job...

That's the spirit. :hugesmile:

I properly just LOLed at this :laugh2:

I personally think that a man who could do those things to the mother of his children has an intrinsically nasty nature that can maybe be curbed, but not changed. Not to mention his self confessed chauvinism, his 'past' homophobia and racism etc.
However, I can understand that some want to give him the benefit of the doubt and that is fine.
What I don’t get is the over – the – top support for him and how to some he can do no wrong in the house. I have seen him being snide, manipulative and two faced yet his supporters never see this – as I said in another thread:

He is being made out as some kind of poor saintly victim. For a man with his history it’s quite incomprehensible to a lot of people that he isn’t just given the benefit of the doubt but is admired and applauded for what exactly? – keeping his temper under control and not lashing out at someone? What a changed man!
It’s not as if he is even that likeable – he’s miserable and not very entertaining. The other HM’s obviously aren’t keen on him as they have nearly all nominated him. So what is making people support him so passionately and part with their hard earned money to vote for him?

It’s puzzling for sure.

Nearly 40 years ago.

We should judge housemates on what they are like IN the house, not out of it

People seem to be getting mixed up with Jim's wives in here not surprising really though, he's been married 5 times.

Jet - the wife that wrote about the domestic abuse wasn't the mother of his children, they were only married about 6 months I think and never had any kids.

Kazanne - The wife you posted about was a previous one, not the one that wrote about the domestic abuse.

Kizzy - His current wife of 4 years is 43 not 24.

This was his marriages starting from most recent, I bolded the one that wrote about the domestic abuse.

Michelle Cotton
(m. 2010)

Tracy Hilton
(m. 1990–2000)

Alison Holloway
(m. 1987–1988)

Julie Gullick
(m. 1981–1986)

Sue Walpole
(m. 1971–1972)


I judge housemates the way they are in the house.

Cheers for that Josy, I myself wasn't clear on Jim's personal life so glad to have clarification!

Have any of his other wives accused him of abuse?
Was he charged with the abuse?

Since when? Seems that sentiment applies only to Jim. :rolleyes:

Michael Barrymore had a shady history in the media, but everybody loved him

That's not really true Jet I have read at least 3 posts today alone saying people should judge Luisa as a housemate and nothing more.

I brought that up in a thread last night and nobody acknowledged me... Michael Barrymore was accused of being involved in a guy's death and he came out of CBB with a brilliant public image; why are people quick to forgive him but not Jim? Is it because Jim's grumpy? I try to judge everyone based on what I see in the house.

I think it's because he's clashing with other favourites, it always seems to happen.

Didn't think of that, that's a good point

Not forgetting he assaulted his wife...

I can't find details of any actual charges brought against Jim Davidson for domestic abuse. Anyone seen any actual details of that?

:tongue: It just strikes me as a bit odd that people are happy to support a guy who was accused of murder/manslaughter of a guy who died at his house yet it's all guns blazing for a guy who admitted to domestic abuse many years ago. Is it because of the admission of guilt? Fair enough if it is... but I appreciate his honesty, he's very frank about everything from his past to his opinions in the house.

I couldn't either Livia.

I meant Barrymore assaulted his wife!

I couldn't find any either, google just kept taking me back to the one page about it.

So, he was obviously tried by the scorned ex and the media... I see now why some people are running with it. Thanks Lee.

I believe he actually admitted it himself so I don't see how it matters whether or not he was charged, it did happen

I think we've got to assume no charges were brought then, or it'd have been all over the tabloids for a start...

Id never seen or heard of Luisa before CBB, and my dislike of her is based solely on her in the house ,as it should be with everyone ,I was a BIG Lee fan before he went in ,cannot bear him now

You believe he admitted it, or you know he admitted it? I can't find anything about it apart from ex-wives accusations. In any case, people must be allowed to change.

Yes, other HM's are being judged on their past too. Good to see some people are not just saying that you shouldn't judge Jim - though I have also seen posts from people judging Luisa's past and then saying Jim's past shouldn't be judged!

Thanks for clarifying the wife situation. Makes one wonder though why he can't hold a marriage together.

This is a good interview he has given.

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

Oh Livia, I felt like I was in the witness box just then :laugh:

I read it here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dav...#Autobiography

In Davidson's first autobiography The Full Monty[34] (1993), he frankly talked about his violent and abusive behaviour towards his wife in a light-hearted manner: "We’re like a couple of boxers. On the first occasion, I poked her in the eye by accident. I actually went for the mouth. Thank heaven I missed, I’d have fallen in. I just took a playful punch. Unfortunately I caught her completely wrong. The second time I gave her a shiner. I threw a bunch of keys which whacked her in the eye. Just for a giggle she kept blackening it up to make it look worse."

I've got my wig on you know... I always wear it for getting stroppy on here.

I'm not trying to make excuses for him, and I don't have time for wife (or husband) beaters. But he's admitted it and says his life has moved on. You can't keep beating someone up for the same thing if they've turned their life around.

I just wikied him nothing on there ?:conf:

So I wonder what was different with that one?

Nice and fair post Zee:hugesmile:

No,I looked Livia there's nothing I could find.

google the ex wife.

the ex wife...Alison..

She was married and divorced three times before the age of 27, once memorably to comedian Jim Davidson




.

That liaison - made not so much in heaven but in some asylum for the terminally insane - lasted 11 months before disintegrating in a haze of booze and brawling.

"Yes, I've been around the block a few times," Alison tells you with an understandable edge of feeling in her voice.

Now, 10 years on, she has remarried and become a mother for the first time.

But her relationship with Davidson - which she describes as "the biggest mistake in my life" - could easily have found its way on to one of Don King's boxing promotions. At one stage Alison appeared with two black eyes. In his autobiography, Davidson says she gave as good as she got.

"That's absolute b***s," Alison says. "Jim saying I hit him is like O J Simpson accusing his wife of abuse. I hear Jim has stopped drinking now, but he was an alcoholic when I married him, and that says it all, doesn't it?"

It's funny when he does that Jamaican voice though.

yes its a joke
not a attack

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I think the reason that people are supporting Jim is because they are judging him simply by his performance on Big Brother. I guess that most people aren't interested in drumming up some dodgy bit of gossip from the past and all ganging up and punishing him for it like some deranged online lynch mob.

It's a TV show not a wild west courtroom.