[jet]

I knew nothing about him but there was something about him that gave me the shivers, so I googled him:


http://www.thefreelibrary.com/JIM+DA......-a079472756

JIM DAVIDSON EXPOSE MY HELL MARRIED TO CRUEL TV COMEDIAN: SHAME ON HIS BOSSES AT BEEB.




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ANGRY ex-wife Alison Holloway launched a scathing attack on TV companies for turning four-times-married wife abuser Jim Davidson into a huge star.

She said: "Shame on people like the BBC for having this man as the standard bearer of family entertainment.

"He has no family values - for God's sake he's got five children by three separate wives.

"He's an alcoholic, self-confessed womaniser and violent bully. I wouldn't want my two children coming within 100 metres of him."

Alison also blasted Prince Charles - who presented Davidson with his OBE - and senior Conservatives for mixing with the Generation Game host.

She said: "Every time Prince Charles shakes his hand, every time the Tories ask him for support, they are condoning his actions.

"They are saying everything about you is OK but there is nothing OK about him at all."Every time he appears on TV there's a husband slapping his wife around somewhere and we are effectively saying it's OK to do this."

Alison explained that she had suffered in silence but decided after her parents Sylvia and Geoff died within seven weeks of each other last year that one day she'd set the record straight if Davidson kept smearing her.

She says: "They were really afraid of him because they had seen how he had bloodied and bruised my body.

"I felt the time is now right to tell the real truth about Jim Davidson.

"In his latest book Close To The Edge he dismisses our marriage as a nothing, that it never counted. How convenient. Well it wasn't for me.

"He is a wife beater and abuser of women and people ought to know that."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davidson_(comedian)

Davidson has been known to make offensive jokes about ethnic minorities, homosexuals and disabled people in his stand-up act, which has made him a subject of negative media coverage and frequent criticism. The Shropshire Star reported that much of it has focused upon his divorce payments, income tax bills, and court orders for cancelled shows.[20]
In October 2003, Davidson refused to go on stage in Plymouth because he objected to wheelchair users in the front row. A spokesman for the Plymouth Pavilions, where he was performing as part of a national tour, said: "Jim Davidson apparently took exception to a number of wheelchair users in the front stalls of the Pavilions Arena. Mr Davidson cited the fact that a proportion of his act was aimed at disabled customers and that he would be unable to perform under these circumstances."[21]
Laurence Clark, himself a wheelchair user, in response performed a show called 'The Jim Davidson Guide to Equality' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004. Clark refused to perform the show if Jim Davidson was in his audience.[22] Martin Fletcher describes Davidson as "extraordinarily foul-mouthed, racist, and sexist" and a "throwback";[23] whilst quoting Garry Bushell describing Davidson as a "family entertainer".
In 2002, Davidson's close friend, former 22 SAS soldier Charles "Nish" Bruce committed suicide[24] by jumping from a light aircraft at 5000 feet over Fyfield, Oxfordshire without a parachute whilst on a private flight home from Spain to Hinton Skydiving Centre.
Later in 2002, Davidson was escorted from the grounds of the Marriott Bristol Royal Hotel, after it was alleged that he had become confrontational and abusive to staff.[25]
In 2004, comedian Jimmy Carr threatened legal action against Davidson, accusing him of having plagiarised some of his comic material. Davidson responded by saying the claims were 'ridiculous', and no further action was taken.[26]
In October 2006, he was again accused of making insensitive jokes about cancer sufferers, blind people, a woman in a wheelchair, and the recent trial over the murder of Damilola Taylor, prompting a woman to walk out of the show in disgust. Davidson vehemently denied the charge, claiming that jokes about blind people and cancer sufferers would have merited a "mass walkout". He also said the comments about the Damilola Taylor trial were taken out of context: "My actual remark was that I thought the killers should be locked away forever. And if she objects to that then that is her prerogative. Davidson was also quoted as saying "If what I was saying was true I would have got up and left myself".[27] There where no other complaints about his performance on that night.
In 2007, Davidson was called on as a character witness to drug trafficker Brian Brendan Wright. Despite Davidson's testifying to Wright's character, the judge concluded that Wright was in fact "a master criminal, manipulative, influential and powerful," and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.[28]
In September 2007, on celebrity reality TV programme Hell's Kitchen, Brian Dowling mentioned comments made by fellow contestant Jim Davidson about Dowling's homosexuality. Davidson asked Dowling, "Are you on our side?" when referring to whether or not he would be participating for the boys or girls team, mentioned the term "shirt-lifter" in front of him, and repeatedly asked if he'd like to try on one of John Virgo's lovely waistcoats, which Davidson owns. Davidson later described himself as a "homophobic arsehole". The programme was broadcast on ITV on 4 September 2007.[29] On 10 September 2007 Davidson asked to leave Hell's Kitchen following further problems with Dowling.[29]
After Davidson's exit from the programme, the BBC reported that the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom had received 46 complaints alleging that Davidson had bullied Dowling. Ofcom concluded that nothing unacceptable had happened. ITV1, the channel which had originally broadcast the programme, issued a statement, regretting Davidson's "unacceptable remarks".[30]
In December 2007, Davidson again courted controversy when he made a joke about rape victims during a show at the Newark Palace Theatre, in Nottinghamshire. A local paper, the Nottingham Evening Post, stated that: "there were moments when he did stray too far over the line (most notably with a routine on rape)."[31]
In May 2010, Davidson was found guilty at Newton Abbot magistrates' court of a driving offence.[32] On 21 August 2013, Davidson was informed that he would not face any further action regarding the allegations of historic sex abuse, due to insufficient evidence.[33]

[Northern Monkey]

Ex wives and girlfriends are always making claims against famous men,They usually get paid for it.As for his comedy,It's the same as any comedian(Bernard Manning,Chubby Brown,Jimmy Carr etc).If you're easily offended you steer clear of these guys.

[jet]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

Ex wives and girlfriends are always making claims against famous men,They usually get paid for it.As for his comedy,It's the same as any comedian(Bernard Manning,Chubby Brown,Jimmy Carr etc).If you're easily offended you steer clear of these guys.

It's not his comedy that bothers me in particular...it's his fists, his homophobia etc etc etc...

[King Gizzard]

His past is pretty common knowledge Lol

[jet]

Originally Posted by Nathan

His past is pretty common knowledge Lol

Not to me it wasn't - and I'm not laughing.
If it's that well known then he hasn't a hope of winning.

[Kizzy]

A wife beating bigot with criminal connections... And a staunch supporter of the tories naturally.
Blurgh, he makes me wretch.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Nathan

His past is pretty common knowledge Lol

This.

I also try to judge people as housemates by the way they are in the house.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Josy

This.

I also try to judge people as housemates by the way they are in the house.

I try to do that too... think he's a bit of a dick in general but in the house he's been fine so far, which stands him in good stead against everyone else in the house really.

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Josy

This.

I also try to judge people as housemates by the way they are in the house.

yeah, me too, same with when people give crappy nominations that aren't related to the house

[jet]

Originally Posted by Josy

This.

I also try to judge people as housemates by the way they are in the house.

I don't. If they are arseholes outside of it, they are still arseholes no matter how they try to sugarcoat themselves in a 3 week slot.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Nathan

yeah, me too, same with when people give crappy nominations that aren't related to the house

Yeah that annoys me

Originally Posted by jet

I don't. If they are arseholes outside of it, they are still arseholes no matter how they try to sugarcoat themselves in a 3 week slot.

Fair enough, I think everyone is entitled to the benefit of the doubt though, lots of people that feel wronged by celebrities sell stories about them that often tend not to be true, I am in no way saying that about Jim I had heard a lot about him from years ago but I still like to judge housemates on their actual behaviour in the house.

[Kizzy]

Am I watching a different show?
He's a moody old git, sure he's a manic depressive he's either singing and being all animated or moping about grumbling.

[jet]

Well, Evander was slated for his opinions about homosexuality (rightly so) yet Davidson gets a pass because his documented bigotry against Brian Dowling didn't happen in front of our noses on CBB? I don't get the logic.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Am I watching a different show?
He's a moody old git, sure he's a manic depressive he's either singing and being all animated or moping about grumbling.

I don't think he's moody not from what we have seen anyway, I think Linda tries to provoke him a lot and he does well to walk away from it every time.

Originally Posted by jet

Well, Evander was slated for his opinions about homosexuality (rightly so) yet Davidson gets a pass because his documented bigotry against Brian Dowling didn't happen in front of our noses on CBB? I don't get the logic.

I don't know how you come the conclusion he gets a pass? I'm only posting my own opinion of him in the house nothing else.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Am I watching a different show?
He's a moody old git, sure he's a manic depressive he's either singing and being all animated or moping about grumbling.

I'm just enjoying Linda's rapid descent into desperately trying to tip him over the edge and him coolly palming her off and making her look stupid in the process. He's a grumpy old bugger but he's not said anything to make himself look stupid in the house, which is why he's one of the better housemates for me so far.

[jet]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Am I watching a different show?
He's a moody old git, sure he's a manic depressive he's either singing and being all animated or moping about grumbling.

Apparently so. I feel like I'm in an alternate CBB world where bigotry and wife beating are acceptable for 3 weeks if you did it before you walked through the magical golden door of the safe house.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by jet

Apparently so. I feel like I'm in an alternate CBB world where bigotry and wife beating are acceptable for 3 weeks if you did it before you walked through the magical golden door of the safe house.

Well you could really find something bad that most celebrities have done or supposed to have done in the past, but with your logic then no one would support any of them.

I have seen no one condoning anything that the celebs have done in the past or brushing things under the carpet but we can judge them on how they act or come across in the house because we watch it.

[Kizzy]

Don't worry jet people like him can't function normally for long, one too many sherberts one night and the mask will slip.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Don't worry jet people like him can't function normally for long, one too many sherberts one night and the mask will slip.

You would really hope for someone to lose their cool on TV just for the purpose of saying 'I TOLD YOU SO'?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Josy

You would really hope for someone to lose their cool on TV just for the purpose of saying 'I TOLD YOU SO'?

Just having my say like you joz

[jet]

Originally Posted by Josy

Well you could really find something bad that most celebrities have done or supposed to have done in the past, but with your logic then no one would support any of them.

I have seen no one condoning anything that the celebs have done in the past or brushing things under the carpet but we can judge them on how they act or come across in the house because we watch it.

But they aren't in the CBB house and exposing themselves to scrutiny...
To me he's an arsehole outside and therefore he's still an arsehole and 3 weeks under a different roof trying to behave for the cameras won't make me give him a pass.

[jet]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Don't worry jet people like him can't function normally for long, one too many sherberts one night and the mask will slip.

It would need to slip really dramatically for some to change their views I think.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Josy

This.

I also try to judge people as housemates by the way they are in the house.

.

[Northern Monkey]

Everybody has a past,Most people have done things they're not proud of,But as Josy said,We're not judging them on their past,We're judging them on their performance on a gameshow,Also,People change as they get older,He may not be the same man he was 20 years ago.

[jet]

Well as I said there is something about him that doesn't ring true to me. I think he's holding himself well in check. But each to their own and I'm done talking about someone who normally I wouldn't waste my time on.