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Will we be counting Bill Roaches absence as him having 'left'?
Pyramidbread
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Obviously he will be coming back, but will we be counting it as him having 'left' the show (which he never did, really) or will it just be seen as an extended break? Or does this mean soon Eileen Derbyshire will be the worlds longest continuing performer in a single role?
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By the time Bill comes back onscreen he would have played Ken all together for 53 and a half years! Eileen has only clocked up 52 or 53 altogether if you count all the times she returned and left in the 1960's! Bill is still the longest serving actor!
He's actually only had one significant gap in appearances prior to now, a three-month absence in 2007, so it's really sad that the long timeline has been broken now.
Being all confident, buoyed up by family around, outside a courtroom having escaped a conviction is ONE thing...but as Turner found out, some of the public are not going to be as understanding.
I found the interview on C4 news tonight very interesting. A wonderful man who heads up a charity helping adult victims of childhood abuse made the point that however much time the state takes to select a jury, to expect them NOT to be at least in some way influenced by 'stardom' is unrealistic in the modern world.
He's returning soon, it took a while for them to write him back in. Presuming you mean Michael Le Vell.
But not every celebrity or famous person accused of a crime is guilty and just too famous to be found guilty so how do you try them? No matter how innocent someone is people can always throw this excuse out there. That is wrong in my opinion
No, I mean Michael Turner. That is, is it not, his REAL name?
After his disgusting triumphalist display after being cleared last year, seen immediately swilling beer and laughing with his 'mates' in a bar just yards from the court steps, I refuse to refer to him with his 'stage' title.
People earn respect...and stage titles come with respect...and ability.
MT is a c**p actor, anyway, always has been. I don't know whether he did anything wrong with that young girl or not, the jury didn't have enough evidence to convict, but personally I remain open-minded.
Please remember that, as Clive Coleman has just said on News at Ten, sometimes people escape prison because a jury could not prove to a sufficient degree to warrant a guilty verdict.
So both of these Corrie cases are 'not proven', really, and it is perfectly reasonable to see them that way rather than simply 'not guilty'.
He has returned and is back filming already. I think we will see him on screen around March maybe
So if tomorrow i go to the police and accuse you of something, And it is my word against yours, You are happy some people will assume you did it because you may not be able to prove you didn't 100%?
Yes absolutely disgusting that a cleared man went out to celebrate. >:(>:(:p
It's not as simple as him walking back into the studios and starting back work on the show, it's written so far in a advance so would have had to wait a couple of months for his character to be written back in as Roach will no doubt return later in the year.
Why shouldn't he celebrate? If I went through a year of court proceedings and having the world look at me as a pedophile or rapist and then was finally found not guilty and acquitted I'd be bloody celebrating too.
How ridiculous that you suggest a jury is blinded by their celebrity status as though you yourself, who wasn't present to see all evidence, here all testimonies has an opinion more worthy? As you don't know him, your opinion is gathered entirely from what you see and read of him in the media, so how is that more valid than the juries decision?
Just because guilty people can sometimes get away their crime because there wasn't sufficient evidence against them how do you know with any certainty it applies in this particular case?
You're talking shit.
There have been 3 Corrie court cases bungled by the prosecution since June last year all with sex charges.
This. And if I might add, they seem to be approaching this with anything but their professed 'open mind'.
You really have a major chip on your shoulder don't you? Perhaps you need to get out more and concentrate on your own life instead of soap opera actors!!