Tulisa Contostavlos drugs case

[carinaman]

Art0ir said:

Derek Smith said:

I'm not exactly 'with-it' as the hip young adults say today.

No. No, they don't.

Only old, bad-hip adults say it when talking about young adults.

In the Tom Capsule feature on Tom Ravenscroft's Friday evening show on BBC Radio 6 they played a clip with the late Alan Whicker interviewing a Councillor in Newquay complaining about unwashed, unkept Beatniks along with a couple of songs from the same time. You had to guess the year.

[Halmyre]

carinaman said:

Art0ir said:

Derek Smith said:

I'm not exactly 'with-it' as the hip young adults say today.

No. No, they don't.

Only old, bad-hip adults say it when talking about young adults.

In the Tom Capsule feature on Tom Ravenscroft's Friday evening show on BBC Radio 6 they played a clip with the late Alan Whicker interviewing a Councillor in Newquay complaining about unwashed, unkept Beatniks along with a couple of songs from the same time. You had to guess the year.

Go on, what were the songs?

[carinaman]

Halmyre said:

Go on, what were the songs?

Gimme a while I'll iplayer it and/or look for the playlist.

[carinaman]

Halmyre said:

Go on, what were the songs?

Willy Moon's Shakin' - though it sounded different on Friday, a different, less scratchy mix perhaps?

It's at 1 hour 15 minutes in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049k1lz

The other song was Boys by The Shirelles.

I've gone off thread but I guess there's some link with her being related to a chap that was in Mungo Jerry.

Edited by carinaman on Wednesday 30th July 11:49

[Halmyre]

carinaman said:

Halmyre said:

Go on, what were the songs?

Willy Moon's Shakin' - though it sounded different on Friday, a different, less scratchy mix perhaps?

It's at 1 hour 15 minutes in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049k1lz

The other song was Boys by The Shirelles.

I've gone off thread but I guess there's some link with her being related to a chap that was in Mungo Jerry.

Edited by carinaman on Wednesday 30th July 11:49

I've never even heard those songs (or heard of them for that matter), far less be able to date them!

[chris watton]

Halmyre said:

carinaman said:

Halmyre said:

Go on, what were the songs?

Willy Moon's Shakin' - though it sounded different on Friday, a different, less scratchy mix perhaps?

It's at 1 hour 15 minutes in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049k1lz

The other song was Boys by The Shirelles.

I've gone off thread but I guess there's some link with her being related to a chap that was in Mungo Jerry.

Edited by carinaman on Wednesday 30th July 11:49

I've never even heard those songs (or heard of them for that matter), far less be able to date them!

I think the Shirelles were an early to mid '60's female pop combo....

[Halmyre]

chris watton said:

Halmyre said:

carinaman said:

Halmyre said:

Go on, what were the songs?

Willy Moon's Shakin' - though it sounded different on Friday, a different, less scratchy mix perhaps?

It's at 1 hour 15 minutes in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049k1lz

The other song was Boys by The Shirelles.

I've gone off thread but I guess there's some link with her being related to a chap that was in Mungo Jerry.

Edited by carinaman on Wednesday 30th July 11:49

I've never even heard those songs (or heard of them for that matter), far less be able to date them!

I think the Shirelles were an early to mid '60's female pop combo....

Willy Moon's Shakin is only from last year! The Shirelles song is from 1963 - I thought both tracks were from the same year, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

[carinaman]

Halmyre said:

Willy Moon's Shakin is only from last year! The Shirelles song is from 1963 - I thought both tracks were from the same year, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

No, I've probably got the wrong artist for Shakin'. Perhaps the Moon version is a cover, it sounded different on iplayer. The wrong end of the stick is very likely my fault.

Seems Jack White has covered it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvpoiiBW9bc

I think this could be the original:

http://www.last.fm/music/Little+Willie+John/_/I%27...

There's a clue to the likely year on the right. I like the way he says 'nervous' like the bloke that did the intro to Hart to Hart said 'murder'.

Edited by carinaman on Wednesday 30th July 15:29

[vonuber]

This was quite an interesting interview, especially given the methods they used:

article said:

Did Contostavlos not think it unlikely that they were so keen to pair her up with DiCaprio, given her limited acting experience? "But the amount of money they spent, thousands of pounds, sending me to nightclubs in Vegas where I've got the best table, the biggest bottle of vodka, my own security guards. This is over about four months. I was like a lost puppy because I wanted it so badly to be true." She looks at Varey, sitting across the room from us. "He's the one who said, at times, something's not right. And I was, no, no, no, they're going to give me £3.5m, they've promised me Oscars, I'm going to be a movie star, I'm going to meet Leo. If somebody had told me what it really was at the time, I would have said, that's impossible, how is that even legal?"

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/aug/02/tulisa-contostavlos-fake-sheikh-simon-hattenstone

[Oakey]

You'd think celebrities would be sheikh averse by this point. Like if I was a celeb, and a sheikh started promising me the world, I'd be suspicious. Does Hollywood usually send sheikhs to cast people for Hollywood movies?

[BlackLabel]

The trial of Mazher Mahmood, the undercover journalist known as the "Fake Sheikh", has opened at the Old Bailey in London. Mr Mahmood, 52, and his former driver, Alan Smith, 66, are charged with perverting the course of justice.

[SystemParanoia]

is there a TL;DR summary of this whole thing ?

[beko1987]

She was on the first episode of the new series of Celebrity Juice last week, and the first think Keith bought up was her drugs use!

She has started to emerge I think, which is a shame as she is a tt

[HTP99]

beko1987 said:

She was on the first episode of the new series of Celebrity Juice last week, and the first think Keith bought up was her drugs use!

She has started to emerge I think, which is a shame as she is a tt

Fit though!

[Shakermaker]

SystemParanoia said:

is there a TL;DR summary of this whole thing ?

Yes...

The reporter pretended to be a Sheik.

He tried to report that Tulisa done some drugs and got her in trouble.

He then got found out for lying.

Whether or not she did drugs or not, I don't actually know.

[hairykrishna]

SystemParanoia said:

is there a TL;DR summary of this whole thing ?

A 'reporter' spent 10's of thousands of pounds conning a minor celebrity into thinking he was a casting agent with the goal of getting her to arrange a small scale cocaine deal. She gave them the number of someone who may or may not have supplied them with less than a grands worth of coke. The Sun ran a sensationalized front page story about it and seemly exaggerated or made up entirely some details. Minor celeb ended up in court for supplying cocaine. Judge decided reporter was lying about the details and the case got thrown out. Reporter now being tried for perverting the course of justice.

[SystemParanoia]

So... Did she arrange the deal?

Being duped doesn't excuse her does it?

[hairykrishna]

She says no. Her story is that she gave them the number of a mate, who she told to bullst them, after she was pressured into supplying drugs. The case was thrown out because the reporter lied. She had previously talked disapprovingly about drugs to his driver but the reporter persuaded the driver to change his story and lied himself when asked about it in court.

[BlackLabel]

"The undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood has been found guilty of tampering with evidence in the collapsed drug trial of the singer Tulisa Contostavlos."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/05/fake...

[Soov535]

BlackLabel said:

"The undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood has been found guilty of tampering with evidence in the collapsed drug trial of the singer Tulisa Contostavlos."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/05/fake...

Good luck in prison!