Former Grange Hill and London's Burning actor has been found guilty of sex assaults
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypy3rl83vo

Another celebrity who had it all. He is not first case or a celebrity to be a creepy family friend. He even made a few million from a few forgettable singles, of course it would been mostly middle aged women who bought them or grannies.

I never knew he would morph into both Ian Huntley and Michael Owen once he aged. He was very lucky to found fame with having very little talent.

Why do guilty people going to court always pretend to be on the phone?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47045484

Stupid and rude GM - even assuming, as you do, that the Jury and Court got it right, there is no need to be so nasty. Please never again use such spiteful and unpleasant language.

JK2006 wrote:
Stupid and rude GM - even assuming, as you do, that the Jury and Court got it right, there is no need to be so nasty. Please never again use such spiteful and unpleasant language.

A bit rich, JK. Has in your movies you admitted sleeping younger guys. Yes, they are grey areas in the law at the time.

Then again if I don't believe the I am conspiracy theorist, remember? Then Barney will tag me in a post!

Also please correct spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in future posts.

He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.

It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.

John Alford on TOTP in 1996 - youtu.be/oesmJSwP6P8?feature=shared


When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.

Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.

Rich wrote:
Yet another child in the entertainment industry who became a troubled aimless adult


Name one industry/occupation/career that hasn't seen the same levels of fallout! From religion to the law - and politics/sport.


The imbalance of wealth though is more worrying - with trillionaires taking over the world, whilst millions starve.

Some of these rich people run countries, religions, international business, mineral delivery etc. - with little controls.

Rich wrote:
He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.

It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.

John Alford on TOTP in 1996 - youtu.be/oesmJSwP6P8?feature=shared


When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.

Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.

In the 1970s and 1980s a lot of TV stars released singles and John Inman released an LP, in the 1990s the trend started again. Handy Andy released If I had a Hammer, which flopped.

I wish there were recordings of Fine China, Before Fina China, there was Opal Butterfly, Barrymore did the keys.

I don't think he would have made millions on those songs, more like 1000s. They were all cover versions, so he would just give a performance credit on them, and they weren't massive hits.

The case just seems like a "He said - She Said case" where the jury sided on the side of the young girls, and now this mans's life is over.

Rich wrote:
He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.

It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.

John Alford on TOTP in 1996 - youtu.be/oesmJSwP6P8?feature=shared


When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.

Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.

Yes i got the impression from the way he pleaded his innocence too.