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He must be having a meltdown drink driving now
He’s recently left rehab for drug depandancy hasn’t he? And isn’t his wife leaving him? I’m guessing he has a boatload of problems and is looking for another crutch to lean on, no excuses for drink driving though.
As the late Robin Williams said, "getting into that state, means, you're making too much god damn money".
Looking for a bigger and higher high.
One thing he doesn't need is social media on his back though.
Too late for that, Social Media is/and will be all over this. But have to say, publicly broadcasting your family problems isn't the most private way of dealing with them.
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One thing he doesn’t need is social media on his back though.
No he probably needs a decent brief and a panel beater more, but as he's made his money on the back of celebrity culture I've got limited sympathy for any adverse publicity, no doubt his press people will be spinning it like mad
Given his wealth, he'll have the best legal team money can buy. Will be interesting to see what happens.
The press seem to like him, so I guess he'll get broadly sympathetic coverage rather than being lynched online...
Thankfully nobody hurt* - I have sympathy for anyone with dependency problems, even with alcohol but there’s no excuse for driving over the limit. I’d even have a smidge of sympathy for someone caught “the morning after” but anyone who does it of an evening has a bloody good idea he or she is over the limit before getting into the car. I can’t quite figure out how somebody with his kind of money can’t just simply get himself a driver for the night, same for any celeb/footballer/wealthy sort really.
EDIT: I did read that a child had been taken to hospital to be checked but my reading of it was that everybody was more or less ok.
How about you yapping old biddies keep you ****ing noses out of the life of someone you don't even know.
I used to commute on that road and have no sympathy for drink drivers, it was 3pm i think i read. Its dangerous enough out there. He only lives in chiswick so could have walked it in 20 mins.
Dec - is that you?
How about you yapping old biddies keep you **** noses out of the life of someone you don’t even know.
Someone needs a cuddle.
I never understand why people with the amount of money he must have choose to drive at all, let alone after a drink. Day to day driving is a bore, pay someone else to do that for you.
Not sure how he had a licence anyway
Get a driver and you can drink in the car without spilling any when steering- win double I'd say.
How about you yapping old biddies keep you **** noses out of the life of someone you don’t even know.
How about drunken celebrities keeping their cars from crashing into people they don't even know?
Banjoing someone with your car is a touch more intrusive than making a comment on an internet bike forum.
How about you yapping old biddies keep you **** noses out of the life of someone you don’t even know.
Having a bad morning?
Cheer up, buttercup!
Some predictable paper headlines coming up, has to be Ant & wreck or PJ & drunken!
Let's get ready ready, let's get ready ready, let's get ready to...
lose my driving licence. 🙁
I was thinking that if this turns out to be the demise* of Ant and Dec, will Dec then sue Ant for destroying his livelihood?
*I think Ant should be dropped from TV if convicted, there really is no excuse for drink driving.
Many many moons ago I failed a roadside test was taken to the local station and had to take a formal test, which I passed.
Just saying, failing a roadside doesn't mean you will be charged or convicted.
Given that they’ll have done the formal test some time ago now, probably safe to assume he failed that one too. Well done for being close enough to the limit to have passed the test after waiting a bit though
Who?
He's the presenter of I'm a celebrity get me out of jail
And Saturday Night Takeaway (on my own at home cos I'm on a tag and curfew)
Given that they’ll have done the formal test some time ago now, probably safe to assume he failed that one too. Well done for being close enough to the limit to have passed the test after waiting a bit though
roadside tests are a traffic light system. Green = pass, amber = some alcohol, red = fail.
I was amber on roadside, so had some alcohol in my system, but the roadside test does not measure how much (hence the official test). But feel free to judge me if you must, I`m not bothered either way.
Who?
Who's on first.
I genuinely thought Ant was the other one!
Silly boy - obviously got a fair few problems and I hope he gets them sorted. Doesn’t excuse the drink-driving, though. He could easily afford a chauffeur as well.
I drove through Richmond at about 4pm yesterday. I could have been killed!
Brings a new meaning to Wonky Donkey.
"He’s recently left rehab for drug depandancy hasn’t he?"
Painkillers I think. None of the good drugs anyway.
"Not sure how he had a licence anyway"
I think that's the other one. But honestly, who really knows which is which?
I reckon... He has addiction issues which he's been in rehab for, he was clean of both painkillers and alcohol and now he's obviously not, and he's got mental health issues, so that's most likely where this has come from. If so, he needs help not a witchhunt.
He looks like a Declan. He should be Dec. I'm going to carry on calling him Dec.
"The one on the left out of Ant and Dec" (c) The Poke.
Mildly pmsl at that.
“He’s recently left rehab for drug depandancy hasn’t he?”
...and he's going back in.
Regarding telling them apart, it was always easy if you remembered that "Dec" was closer to the "deck" (being the shorter of the pair).
I'm in the "leave someone experiencing mental health difficulties the **** alone" camp fwiw. Any criminal misdoings will be dealt with in the appropriate way at the appropriate time. The tabloid press today seems to have forgotten a lot of the learning from the last few years since the "Bonkers Bruno" nadir.
Apparently, his mother was in the car with him. How come she didn't notice he'd had a drink?
'It's okay Mum, I've only had one' ?
What a scumbag! must have been well pie eyed to crash. Whatever the state of his mental health he doesn't deserve our pity he deserves our scorn for getting behind the wheel drunk.
What a scumbag! must have been well pie eyed to crash.
How do you work that one out?
He needs punished for the drink driving, he needs help with his problems, he doesn’t need to hear tabloid or other people’s opinions just because he’s famous.
Okay I conceed there might have been other factors involved but it's a reasonable assumption given that your chances of having an accident are greatly increased if you're intoxicated, generally you don't crash if you're sober. (in addition to it being 4pm in the day with your mum in the passenger seat) and also due the fact that he failed a breath test.
The problem I have with being massively sympathetic to him is he makes money from a programme where the central theme is to humiliate, embarrass and ridicule people. They may be "celebrities" but why are they doing it, do they have an addiction to being in the public eye, do they need the cash because they're on the bones of their arse career wise so are prepared to chew on a kangaroos old man? I suspect some do and the production company are preying on people's weakness. Iirc he also advertises / lets his image be use on a gambling app, so to some degree he's not a lot better than the tabloids etc, lie down with dogs etc
I'm happy that his "personal life" should be kept "personal" Yet this incident isn't Personal, it's Public in both nature and effect.
So, FWIW I'm happy that the Public are informed about the incident. His past history and misdemeanours have already been publicly available and reported upon, I don't know if he's ever challenged the reporting of truths or fiction in that respect but suspect his Lawyers have been informed and issued FOI's and challenged, correctly, any infringements within the Law. What I do believe has happened though is his misdemeanours haven't been challenged per-sè because he and his sidekick live in an observational Public Media driven environment content on Media circulation of their "goings on". He is in control of media profile to some degree, issuing statements about personal and medical issues for either sympathy or monitory gain opens out the question of Social Media intrusion.
I wish the Guy all the very best. Dealing with deep personal issues is one thing, having them publicly distributed is quite the other.
He is the face of many a very successful TV Programming profile that has built it's reputation on humiliation and ridicule, maybe some of that is finding it's way back to the visual perpetrator of such. How his employers/buyers of the "profile" see his situation remains to be seen, on the one hand they must disassociate with the act of Drink Driving and the Law and on the other support a figurehead that commands public support and sympathy and ratings.
So whilst we may mock and poke about his situation, we should also empathise with it too.
I really really hope he gets back on track after this one. Ant & Dec are funny, entertaining & totally harmless (apart from Ant being a danger in a car that is)
I also hope Dec has a solo plan, just in case.
When I drove past his house tonight all the paps were looking very cold. None of his neighbours seem to be bring out hot drinks for them.
Every day drivers get caught drink driving, they usually loose their licence, their job, their income, their family and sometimes freinds as they cant drive to see them.
and every day one of those pissed up drivers seriously injures or kills somebodies partner/wife/husband/kid/freind/workmate/other road user.
They chose to drive, they chose to drink, they chose not to call a taxi or take a bus, or even phone a freind.
Just thankfully this well paid media celebrity didnt injure anyone serious, or leave them with life changing injuries, both physical and mentally as far as it is reported.
He is not the first and will not be the last,lets all just hope none of us are affected by a drunk driver.
Okay I conceed there might have been other factors involved but it’s a reasonable assumption given that your chances of having an accident are greatly increased if you’re intoxicated, generally you don’t crash if you’re sober. (in addition to it being 4pm in the day with your mum in the passenger seat) and also due the fact that he failed a breath test.
You could be driving very well and have someone else drive into you.
I just don't "get" drink driving. If I'm driving, I don't drink anything alcoholic at all. It's safer that way.
If I decide to have a drink, then I'll get the bus or a taxi. Neither are particularly inconvenient nor expensive.
But the consequences of driving after a drink are massive.
Bit of a no-brainer really.
Zero sympathy for DD's
He must've been nipping on to do that much damage to his car Hate mail link
Okay I conceed there might have been other factors involved but it’s a reasonable assumption given that your chances of having an accident are greatly increased if you’re intoxicated, generally you don’t crash if you’re sober. (in addition to it being 4pm in the day with your mum in the passenger seat) and also due the fact that he failed a breath test.
I attend more people crashing sober then those who are well pie eyed. Generally at 4pm they’re less likely to be drunk not more, there’s umpteen reasons why people crash before you get to be being pie eyed.
It occurred to me that he may have been secretly drinking. Not uncommon amongst relapsing dependents, and would explain why his Mum was in the car.
I feel sorry for him and his problems, but drink driving is a really serious thing...the fact that he's in the public eye means that he needs to be seen to feel the full force of the law.
When he's well enough, which will be a while, no reason why he shouldn't still work, IMO
How about you yapping old biddies keep you **** noses out of the life of someone you don’t even know.
Well considering he’s spent a considerable amount of his life in the public eye, pretty much everything to know about him is public knowledge, it’s fair to say the public know him better than they know some of their own family.
But I’m sure he’ll feel much better for the concern you’re showing on his behalf.
What a scumbag! must have been well pie eyed to crash.
How do you work that one out?
I saw the video on the news, and as he got out of the wreck of his Mini, he was clearly unsteady on his feet, and he looked half-asleep, like he could barely keep his eyes open, plus to do that amount of damage he’d have been going at some speed, and he was on the wrong side of the road.
Apart from that, it was an exemplary bit of driving...
I just wrecked my car, I just wrecked your car, psyche!
Well, he's back in rehab and has withdrawn from the TV program . No Takeaway this Saturday, and the last two after that will be with guest presenters.
Who could Dec replace him with? I’m going Russell Grant because Grant and Dec is very similar sounding. That or Brant could give up on trousers and bikes for Brant and Dec.
I just wrecked my car, I just wrecked your car, psyche!
That made me proper lol
They have finally got round to towing the car he hit away.
Into rehabilitation, which is the best outcome before the court case that will inevitably follow. At least he’s taken control and responsibility for his actions, and ITV have clarified thier support for the programme.
I wish him well, and glad he’s unable to drive for some time to come.
Who could Dec replace him with?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Adam Ant and Dec, but not overly hopeful.
I'd give that Steven Mulhern a chance. He hardly ever seems to be on TV and comes across as really talented when he is.
and every day one of those pissed up drivers seriously injures or kills somebodies partner/wife/husband/kid/freind/workmate/other road user.
More than one, on average, even allowing for a significant number of the victims also being the perpetrators. Latest DfT stats (2017) for drink drive accidents:
Killed: 200
Seriously Injured: 1,170
Who could Dec replace him with?
Jamie Carragher is at a loose end till next September. Could add a touch of edgy slapstick to the last two show's.
This : “he (like anyone else) deserves our scorn for getting behind the wheel drunk”
End of really.
He must be bored to death of being part of Ant and Dec/PJ and Duncan.
He's loaded so he could go off and do something else away from the world of showbiz.
It's pointless doing rehab if you are returning to the same situation.
"This : “he (like anyone else) deserves our scorn for getting behind the wheel drunk”
End of really."
True. And like anyone else with mental health and addiction problems, he deserves our understanding and sympathy too.
I was fairly ambivalent to the whole situation...
But just seen a post on Facebook which used him as an example about people dealing with depression/addiction aren't always the people you think and the comments are just an outpouring of sympathy and saying they agree...
Which is ok, apart from the fact he got in a car drunk at that point you are a **** regardless of mental illness or addiction IMO
But because he's a generally well know likable chap everyone is just sympathetic, if it was Dave down the road that got pissed up and smashed a few cars up and a kid has to be taken to hospital I doubt people would be feeling sorry for him.
"if it was Dave down the road that got pissed up and smashed a few cars up and a kid has to be taken to hospital I doubt people would be feeling sorry for him."
Davist!
PS; how does the quote thing work now?
Well, ITV have announced what will replace their show on Saturday
Fast And Furious 5.
Satire is dead.
"But because he’s a generally well know likable chap everyone is just sympathetic, if it was Dave down the road that got pissed up and smashed a few cars up and a kid has to be taken to hospital I doubt people would be feeling sorry for him."
If I knew his background and it was comparable to PJ or Duncan's, then yes I would feel sorry for him. I'd also say he's a prick for drink driving- they're not mutually exclusive. Alcoholism is a bastard of a thing, and when you combine it with mental health issues you can't judge people the same as you would someone who'd done it while in a sound/stable mental state. My anxiety's driven me to do some things that are irrational or stupid, because I am wrong in the brain. You can't judge broken people by the same standards.
What Northwind says.
I’ve a lot of sympathy for anyone with alcohol addiction or alcoholism it’s a really horrible condition. It has absolutely nothing to do with him being famous that I have sympathy. As I said yesterday he deserves to be pushined for drink driving if he was.
Well, ITV have announced what will replace their show on Saturday
Fast And Furious 5.
Satire is dead.
As someone who suffers with mental health problems I completely understand how people make unusual/poor decisions at times but my point is people seem to be unable to separate being sympathetic towards that to being critical of drink driving. As northwind said they are mutually exclusive you can be someone suffering from an illness but also a **** for drink driving at the same time....
Fast And Furious 5
Wizard idea! Let's get Aunt Fanny to make us a picnic, load up the Scooby and race Dick and Julian down to the seaside for an adventure!
on the list of people I feel sympathy for, he's pretty close to the bottom.
No special guests, Dec to go solo. I'm wondering how that will work...
No sympathy here - if he's guilty then he should be banned and get the punishment he deserves. This is from someone that's had life changing injuries from a bad driver. Thank god there were no major injuries !
Dec going solo ..but I'm guessing Steven Mulhern will have a bigger than usual part to play..
I think he has more talent than the pair of them to be honest .
Hope he A: gets the help he needs and B: faces up to any consequences his actions cause with the correct attitude.
As someone who has also failed a breathalyser test on the roadside in my youth but passed the official test like trailwagger, it's very easy to think you are sober when you're not. I had been out all weekend on a stag do (the biggest bender I've ever been on) and had stopped drinking on the Sunday around 7pm. I didn't drive until Tuesday morning and still tested positive! I'd even checked with a friend whether I seemed back to normal and she said I didn't have any outside symptoms of being a bit tipsy. It was around christmas time so there was areal chance of getting pulled over hence why I left it a whole day to drive and that still wasn't enough. For the Record the roadside test came up Red and the official one came up 32 micrgrammes an hour later so just under. I took it as a warning to be extra careful from then on. I also know an alcoholic who doesn't drink huge amounts, just keeps himself constantly topped up. He regularly gets pulled over and usually blows yellow. Occasionally he blows red but again he always blows under on the official test.
I'm not condoning what he has done but until we know the full story (if we ever do) then judging him is a bit harsh. As a prominent celebrity who makes his money from being wholesome he needs to get this sorted correctly.
We all know he shouldn't be drinking and driving. I'm sure he does too. But he's an addict and depressed I'm also quite sure (as most addicted don't plan to be that way) that he never woke up one morning and though "you know, I think I'll get stuck into prescription painkillers and booze".
One could question the ethics of his GP who continued to prescribe ...
“you know, I think I’ll get stuck into prescription painkillers and booze”.
Reminds me of Noel Gallaghers distinction between the classes.
"The middle classes experiment with drugs, the working classes get stuck in!"
But he’s an addict and depressed
yes, because he has a lot to be depressed about. That justifies putting other peoples lives at risk...
I wonder how he's gonna address it on the first programme without him?