Michael Barrymore talks about how his world collapsed on him on the Stephen Nolan show.

Pass the sick bucket.

I got pushed by the family to take them to see this cretin, whilst on Holiday in Weymouth in 1987 twice. I have never met such a bigheaded ego filled pusshead as this fella. The man that could make 2 hours seem like 2 months. I saw no talent, just a halled together load of trash, miming on some awful gutwrenching song to which I felt like shaking the twit. Awful man.

Yeah, but MB was/is popular with most kids, his true audience, and unpopular with infantile bent Cops/Media.

So OK wiv us.

Awight ?!

He actually sounds quite a bit better than he's done for years. That awful slurring has finally been brought under control. I've never found him remotely funny, but for a short time he was undeniably brilliant with a Light Entertainment audience. His biggest mistake, in my opinion, was sticking with ITV - if he'd gone to the BBC, where they would have forced him to tighten up his act and bring more discipline to his shows, he might just have survived, but as is so often the case with ITV, they allowed him and his wife to control everything, and fail, and go mad, and then they ditched him. From Benny Hill onwards, they've always allowed that star idea to completely dominate normal programme making rigour, with the inevitable results. I feel a bit sorry for him, as well as for that poor bloke who got caught up in such a sordid private life, but it's high time ITV took some flak for their hopeless attitude to such figures. They excuse everything until it doesn't suit them to, then they absolutely destroy the very thing they created.

Hugely talented in a very minimal but original way.

so I take it you didn't like him bh ?

never much of a fan myself. but what would I know..i though Savile was celibate

I'd of feared that if he gone to the BBC, things may not of been that good. At one point, he was offered "The Generation Game". As they gave it to Jim Davidson, it became Davidson's Ego & act like a twat, whilst trying to be bigger than the contestants.

I think a similar story would of been the case. Of course The Generation Game was also offered to Jimmy Tarbuck & Paul O'Grady. Which would of been more approriate to a family audience.

Where as Barrymore appealed to the type of extroverts (or nutters) that appeared on "Strike It Lucky". Which suited him. Out of that Summer Seasons were a mess of too much ego.

He did a similar style "Summertime Special" thing on one channel in 1988 & it wasn't good at all.

I'd sum him up, as someone that should never of been allowed to have a one man show, as his ego was too big. Possibly not far away from Jim Davidson. Though Davidson's capture of an adult audience was feasibly ok, if you enjoyed smut & his stage shows, where he would spend about 20 minutes, going on about what a bighead Jimmy Savile was. Pot, kettle, black stuff.

Maybe (probably) Barrymore needed the help of a psychiatrist. An acquired taste on stage though.

Forget the 'good or bad entertainer' bullshit.

The human being Michael Barrymore is yet another in a still-growing long line of life-scarred victims of bent-Cops/Media. And in his case also a scorned woman who twice lied on oath but was never charged nor prosecuted by bent-Police for the very serious crime of Perjury - Quel Surprise.

Many tabloid newspapers accused Barrymore of holding drug-fuelled gay orgies in his home and asserted that he must have had some responsibility for the death of his guest, gay Stuart Lubbock. It was claimed that Barrymore had been seen at the party forcing cocaine onto Lubbock's gums. Barrymore subsequently received a police caution for possession and use of cannabis, but no other charges were laid against him or anyone else in connection with the death, although two other party-goers, unemployed Justin Merritt and drag queen Jonathan Kenney were arrested on suspicion of murder on 6 June 2001. The inquest that took place in September 2002 reached an open verdict.

In light of the verdict, and the fact that Barrymore's ex-wife Cheryl was approached by a friend of the Lubbock family, Cheryl provided the Lubbock family solicitor with both a sworn affidavit and subsequent court testimony that her ex-husband had lied under oath, and could in fact swim, this later proved to be untrue. She also alleged the entertainer had rubbed cocaine on to the gums of other people as well as himself though police never charged Barrymore with any cocaine posession or other offences.

In November 2002, Barrymore's lawyers successfully demanded that Essex Police re-investigate matters surrounding Lubbock's death. Their focus was on Barrymore's allegations that the injuries inflicted upon Lubbock's body could have occurred while lying unguarded in the mortuary. A pathologist's report found that Lubbock's wounds were only four hours old at the time of the examination at 4 pm, while Lubbock had been pronounced dead at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow at 8.20 am that morning so there was a mysterious gap of eight hours.

On his claims, Barrymore told BBC Radio 5 Live, "We want to prove the fact that the anal injuries could not have happened at the house." He added: "If these injuries had happened then, why have the police not charged anyone with anything?"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore

ZeroTolerance wrote:
Forget the 'good or bad entertainer' bullshit.

The human being Michael Barrymore is yet another in a still-growing long line of life-scarred victims of bent-Cops/Media. And in his case also a scorned woman who twice lied on oath but was never charged nor prosecuted by bent-Police for the very serious crime of Perjury - Quel Surprise.

Many tabloid newspapers accused Barrymore of holding drug-fuelled gay orgies in his home and asserted that he must have had some responsibility for the death of his guest, gay Stuart Lubbock. It was claimed that Barrymore had been seen at the party forcing cocaine onto Lubbock's gums. Barrymore subsequently received a police caution for possession and use of cannabis, but no other charges were laid against him or anyone else in connection with the death, although two other party-goers, unemployed Justin Merritt and drag queen Jonathan Kenney were arrested on suspicion of murder on 6 June 2001. The inquest that took place in September 2002 reached an open verdict.

In light of the verdict, and the fact that Barrymore's ex-wife Cheryl was approached by a friend of the Lubbock family, Cheryl provided the Lubbock family solicitor with both a sworn affidavit and subsequent court testimony that her ex-husband had lied under oath, and could in fact swim, this later proved to be untrue. She also alleged the entertainer had rubbed cocaine on to the gums of other people as well as himself though police never charged Barrymore with any cocaine posession or other offences.

In November 2002, Barrymore's lawyers successfully demanded that Essex Police re-investigate matters surrounding Lubbock's death. Their focus was on Barrymore's allegations that the injuries inflicted upon Lubbock's body could have occurred while lying unguarded in the mortuary. A pathologist's report found that Lubbock's wounds were only four hours old at the time of the examination at 4 pm, while Lubbock had been pronounced dead at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow at 8.20 am that morning so there was a mysterious gap of eight hours.

On his claims, Barrymore told BBC Radio 5 Live, "We want to prove the fact that the anal injuries could not have happened at the house." He added: "If these injuries had happened then, why have the police not charged anyone with anything?"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore

I am amazed how everyone thought Barrymore's idea of sexual assault in the mortuary was ludicrous but accepted that Savile nipped in and out of mortuaries up and down the country without question.

Probably because both ideas are nonsense. Unless the anal injuries in Barrymore's case were used as a set up.

I would of thought that anal sex would be quite impossible on a dead person. Rigamortis etc. Wouldn't be much fun, with a dead vagina, either unless you were plain sick.

And I doubt Jimmy Savile was that sick. Except for stuff that Gambaccini puts about, because it just happened that JS didn't like Homosexuals & Gambo was just a little yankee, with little fans.

Theres an excellent line in the very under rated sitcom Filthy, Rich and Catflap about Barrymore, "all Barrymore does is anything by John Cleese followed by a couple rounds of awoight!"

I thought Barrymore had an absolutely magnificent and individual rapport with his audience, always ready to push the envelope further which, in many cases, was hilarious.