Charles Hawtrey

[barry1010]

People on twitter praising him, how much they loved him in Carry On films, such a funny man.

Don't get how is ever on tv days, he was a vile man who paid a 15 year old boy for sex when he was 70.

How come he is not as loathed as others?

[Bazile]

Mine was to brainiac

[drmorgans]

Or even camping outside your home (or nicking your watch):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/65225543

[andy-hughes]

roopower - // ... but I can see his point about autographs. It must be really galling going for a walk or to the shop and having a piece of paper thrust under your nose - a bit different at a stage door or the like. //

I think the vast majority of famous people accept that being stopped in public, more for a selfie these days, is just part of being famous, and they deal with it with grace and patience.

Famous people I have interviewed have almost all had that approach, the only real 'no no' is approaching a famous person when they are eating, that is generally seen as bad manners.

John Inman said that someone shouted 'I'm free!!' at him in the street almost every day of his life, and he accepted it as being part of being famous, and said he would prefer that to simply being ignored.

[naomi24]

Bazile 11:23, that's the boy! Go for it. ;o)

[Bazile]

//Hatred was a lonely bitter alcoholic who resented never receiving the roles and rewards he was convinced his talent deserved.//

I think he would played a good German officer , wearing a monocle .

He would need to change the voice though

[Peter Pedant]

his brother was a MOH ( medical officer of health) at Cambridge.

this post will probably get deleted as not sexy enough

[andy-hughes]

Peter - If posts were deleted for not being 'sexy enough' you and I, and probably everyone else, would disappear from the AB forever!!

[andy-hughes]

I always understood that Mr Hawtrey never gave an interview in his life - it appears that he did -

[nero2024]

it looked a very strained interview

[nero2024]

thousands of men still are paying for sex with younger men /older children but not been caught out

[Ken4155]

Andy Hughes @ 11.37; ................the only real no-no is approaching a famous person when they are eating."

Reminds me of the time i was in the same restaurant as David Beckham and he was livid because of the number of people who approached him and asked...................................................."Is that Ken4155 over there, David?"

[barry1010]

I'm fully aware of that, nero, and if they know or suspect that the young people are under the legal age of consent those adults are loathsome creatures

[Bazile]

Twas a very short interview , wasn't it ?

[andy-hughes]

nero - // it looked a very strained interview //

It did, and I suspect that was the best couple of minutes cut from a longer section that was unusable.

Mr Hawtrey was clearly not comfortable being interviewed, and failed to provide any useful information to Roy Hudd, so it makes you wonder why Mr Hawtrey was booked in the first place.

People who almost never give interviews adopt that position for two reasons - they have nothing interesting to say, or no-one is very interested in them anyway.

I think they got the double whammy here.

[douglas9401]

Och well, he's dead now so none of this matters.

Carry on.