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Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mel Giedroyc claims close friend Sue Perkins was 'touched up' by ventriloquist Keith Harris' puppet Orville The Duck during 90s TV show
Mel Giedroyc has claimed that pal Sue Perkins was groped by the late ventriloquist Keith Harris' puppet Orville The Duck during filming for a TV in the 90s. Sue's best friend and presenting partner Mel has has said that Keith used the famous green bird to get handsy with the now 55-year-old Light Lunch presenter. Sue and Mel were co-hosting the Channel 4 chat show when the incident occurred in 1997 after the children's entertainer was invited on with his giant green puppet. Keith, who died in 2015 at the age of 67, had his own BBC series in the 1980s and appeared on countless other shows with the green puppet, who wore a nappy and spoke in a falsetto Lancastrian accent. Speaking on the Parenting Hell podcast, Mel said: 'It was the 90s, there was a lot going down. 'The most memorable of all of the lunches…. we had three puppeteers with their puppets for lunch, so it was like having six guests round the table. Mel Giedroyc has claimed that pal Sue Perkins was groped by the late ventriloquist Keith Harris' puppet Orville The Duck during filming for a TV in the 90s (Seen on Light Lunch in 1997) 'We had Keith Harris and Orville who got a bit naughty with Sue, Orville did, yes. Harris via Orville got a bit naughty Nineties.' Fronting the podcast, comedian Rob Beckett said: 'Of course you forget there's a hand in there,' to which Mel said: 'There's a ruddy hand.' Co-host Josh Widdicombe pointed out: 'They'd get away with it by claiming it was a grey area', and Mel replied 'Exactly'. Rob added: 'It is not a grey area. It's a hand in a beak. Get off my t**!' She also revealed how Keith, who died in 2015 aged 67, and the two fellow guests, Roger de Courcey with Nookie Bear and Matthew Corbett with Sooty, all seemed captivated by Sue, who was just 27 at the time. Mel continued: 'Then we had Roger de Courcey with Nookie Bear who used to work a bit of blue material - they were a little bit late night - and we had Matthew Corbett plus Sooty. 'I had a strong sensation that Roger de Courcey didn't like Matthew Corbett very much because he felt that Corbett's puppeteering was not the full deck. 'So there was real animosity round the table. There was a frosty bloody atmosphere round the table. Harris is in the middle of it all over Perks's grill.' She added: 'She was the honey trap, I was just the fly kind of buzzing round the edge rather desperately. They bloomin' loved Perks, all of them.' After the show ended in 1999, Mel and Sue went on to host Great British Bake Off for seven years, when it was one of Britain's biggest TV shows. But she insisted they also had happy memories of doing Light Lunch. Mel confirmed she snogged the runner on the programme, a then unknown Dermot O'Leary in one of his first TV jobs. She added: 'There was a lot going down - it should have been called Heavy Lunch.' It comes after Sue made a very x-rated confession as she recalled attending the birthday party of a spiritual friend of hers. The broadcaster was speaking to Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett on Thursday's Dish from Waitrose podcast when she told the story. Sue said she had been invited over to her friend's house and she had organised for an American Shaman to join them to 'perform a ritual'. The former Bake Off host said the group got into the hot tub at four in the morning... before revealing she had an alcohol enema. 'It was raspberry vodka, that's all we'd got left, we'd drunk everything else,' she said. 'Where he would blow it, a high strength blow into our, into our, into our a***holes.' She added: 'So, me and my, me and partner stood up, and he was just, he'd drink and then go, pfff, and you just felt this electrifying, electrifying-electrifying burn in your ring piece.' Recalling the day, Sue said: 'I went to a friend's birthday in the middle of nowhere. 'She's very spiritual and she said, look, I've got John the Shaman here. He's from the States. He will perform a shamanic ritual. 'We were all dressed up. He was dressed up very shamanically, he was wearing a sort of grass skirt and had a long sort of pipe, and, anyway, I just thought the shamanic ritual would come at some point, and it did, it came at four in the morning, when we were in the hot tub.' Sue added: 'Certainly brought me closer to a sense of myself, if not the universe. And I was thinking, this is weird, but I was, I'm not going to lie, battered.' She didn't specify which partner she was referring to in the story but she has previously dated TV presenter Anna Richardson, comedian Rhona Cameron, writer Emma Kennedy and artist Kate Williams.
News.com.au
3 days ago
- Politics
- News.com.au
‘In shock': Ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein again accuses Donald Trump of misconduct
An ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein has resurfaced her claim that Donald Trump 'groped' her during a meeting with the sex trafficker in the early 1990s, saying the alleged incident left her 'frozen' and 'in shock'. Stacey Williams, now 57, dated Epstein more than 30 years ago, long before he was first arrested for his sex crimes. The incident she recalls, allegedly involving Mr Trump, happened in 1993. She spoke about it before last year's presidential election, and is now bringing attention to it again amid the renewed controversy around the Epstein files. 'They were best friends,' Ms Williams claimed of Mr Trump and Epstein during an interview with CNN today. 'I dated Jeffrey for a period of, more or less, I think about four or five months. And the only friend that he would mention every time we saw each other, or had a phone conversation, was Donald. They were very close, and they were up to no good. 'It was such a long time ago. But that was his bro, that was his wingman.' CNN host Brianna Keilar noted that her network had spoken to three friends of Ms Williams, who said she had spoken to them about the alleged incident contemporaneously, many years before Mr Trump entered politics. 'I want to point out that I was polygraphed, before I did all this, by one of the most renowned examiners in the world,' Ms Williams said. She also pointed to Epstein's testimony in interviews with the author Michael Wolff. 'Jeffrey confirmed to Michael what the two of them did to me,' she claimed. 'I was dating Jeffrey, and he was always talking about Donald. It was his bestie and everything. And he was joking about how Donald thought I was hot, or whatever,' she told Ms Keilar, recalling the alleged incident. 'He said, 'Let's stop in and see him.' So we went up to his office at Trump Tower. And within a couple of minutes, Donald was outside his office, and his hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on my hips, up and down. 'The two of them kept having a normal conversation.' Ms Williams spoke of how 'shocking' the experience was. 'When that happens in broad daylight, in an office, with assistants walking back and forth, you're in shock,' she said. 'If it happens in a dark alleyway, you fight back. But when it's brazen like that, which is Donald Trump's forte, you go into shock. 'So I froze. And it was over very quickly, it was a few minutes. And then we got back in the elevator, and Jeffrey's energy had changed.' She said Epstein was 'enraged' by the incident and, shouting, asked, 'Why would you let him do that?' once they were outside the building. Her interpretation was that Epstein expected her to resist more and was angry when she 'froze'. This all echoes an interview Ms Williams gave during last year's election campaign, which Mr Trump's spokespeople dismissed as 'fake' at the time. 'The second he was in front of me, he pulled me into him,' said Ms Williams. 'And his hands were just on me, and didn't come off. Then the hands started moving, and they were on the side of my breasts, down to my hips, back down to my butt, back up. They were just on me the whole time. And I ... sorry. I froze.' Ms Williams said she believed the incident was 'some kind of weird, twisted game' between Mr Trump and Epstein, whom she said allegedly 'smiled at each other' while it was happening. 'It's obvious this fake story was contrived by Kamala Harris's campaign,' Karoline Leavitt, who is now Mr Trump's White House Press Secretary, said at the time. According to Ms Williams, Mr Trump sent her agent a postcard later in 1993, after the alleged incident. On its front was an aerial view of his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. 'Stacey: Your home away from home. Love, Donald,' he wrote on the back. Ms Williams alleged she was 'berated' by Epstein after the encounter. 'Jeffrey and I left and he didn't look at me or speak to me, and I felt this seething rage around me, and when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just berated me, and said why did you do that?' she recounted. 'He made me feel so disgusting, and I remember being so utterly confused. 'I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways. I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me. 'And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat.' Mr Trump has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct since he entered politics a decade ago. In 2023, however, he was found liable in civil court for sexually assaulting the author E. Jean Carroll, and was ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages. The judge in that case found that Mr Trump 'digitally raped Ms Carroll'. Mr Trump appealed the ruling, but that appeal was denied earlier this month. The President's personal conduct came into sharper focus, this past fortnight, after his hand-picked officials in the Justice Department and FBI reneged on their previous promises to release the so-called 'Epstein files'. Mr Trump was a friend of Epstein for about 15 years, but no evidence has ever emerged to implicate him in the sex trafficker's crimes. This week The Wall Street Journal published a story alleging Mr Trump wrote Epstein a gaudy birthday message in 2003. The note, printed inside an outline of a naked woman, said Mr Trump hoped 'every day (may) be another wonderful secret'. The President has called the note 'fake' and launched defamation proceedings against the newspaper. He has also instructed the Justice Department to release a small number of Epstein-related documents. 'I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval,' said Mr Trump today. 'With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more. MAGA!' Grand jury testimony only involves evidence offered in an attempt to move a prosecution forward, which in this case means it will almost exclusively relate to Epstein and his chief co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. That testimony will not implicate Epstein's unindicted co-conspirators, and indeed the Justice Department has requested, in its filing, that third parties remain unidentified.
The Guardian
16-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Suspended Tory MP denies sexually assaulting two women at London club
An MP faces trial over allegations he groped two women in one night while drunk at the Groucho private members' club in London. Patrick Spencer, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault at Westminster magistrates court on Monday morning. He was told the magistrate could deal with the case, but exercised his right to be tried by a jury in the crown court instead. The prosecutor, Polly Dyer, told the court Spencer was accused of touching the breasts of two women without their consent on 12 August 2023. She said the prosecution's case was that Spencer made an initial approach to one of the complainants that made her feel uncomfortable at about 8pm that evening. It was alleged he appeared intoxicated and insisted on buying her a drink, to the extent that she felt forced, and asked about her marriage. About four hours later on the same night, the prosecutor alleged, Spencer walked up behind the woman, put his arms beneath hers, and cupped her breasts over her clothing. The chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, heard the woman was taken by surprise, that she did not know why he had done it, and had not consented. The court heard the prosecution's claim that the second complainant had given a similar account relating to the same night. It was alleged Spencer insisted she try a drink. In the hope it would make him relent without her having to be rude, the prosecutor said the second complainant took a sip. But Spencer put his arms around her, cupping her breasts, the court heard. The complainant removed his hands and the prosecution told the court she had not consented. Spencer became a Conservative MP in the general election the year after the incidents are alleged to have occurred. The Conservative party said he had been suspended and that the whip had been withdrawn with immediate effect. Spencer, who wore a suit and glasses as he sat in the dock, rose to enter his not guilty pleas. He opted for a trial before a jury and was bailed to attend Southwark crown court on 14 July.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Yahoo
Creep allegedly told random women they had a spider walking on them — and then groped them: NYPD
A creep molested two women on the streets of Queens with a juvenile prank before committing over-the-line public gropings, according to police. The alleged perv is suspected in two incidents on June 2 in which he approached women and pretended that they had a spider on their bodied before groping her private parts, according to the NYPD. One unidentified 25-year-old woman was walking home just before 10:50 p.m. on Astoria Boulevard when the creepy suspect approached her yelling that she had a spider on her body, cops said. He then allegedly grabbed and slapped her buttocks over her clothes and ran away on foot. Later that same night, another woman walking alone near Newtown Road was approached from behind by the alleged sicko, the NYPD said He yelled to her that she had a spider on her body then grabbed and slapped her buttocks and vagina over her clothing, cops said. The NYPD is asking anyone with information on the incidents to come forward.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Yahoo
NYPD hunts Queens pervert groping women after saying they had spiders on them
Cops are asking for the public's help in tracking down a scheming suspect who groped women after telling them they had spiders on them in separate Queens incidents this week. A 25-year-old woman was walking home near Astoria Blvd. and 22 St. at about 9:50 p.m. on Monday when the creep approached and told her she had a spider on her before grabbing and slapping her buttocks over her clothes and then running off, cops said. The suspect struck again a half hour later, roughly a mile away. He approached another 25-year-old woman who was walking home near 47 St. and Newtown Rd. in Astoria, and told her the same line before grabbing and slapping her buttocks and vagina over her clothes. Cops released surveillance images of the suspect Saturday in hopes that someone will recognize him. He is pictured wearing a black jacket with a black hooded sweatshirt underneath, maroon pants and blue sandals — the clothes he was seen in. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). All calls are strictly confidential.
