Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
No, he shouldn't be talking to them. In fact, I don't think he should be talking to any of the media right now. He should be keeping his head down and working out whatever it is he needs to work out.

You can't help but feel that the unpleasant aroma of Max Clifford is lingering all over this. Tiger Woods looks like a prick for good reason, but you don't need to go cap in hand to the media begging for forgiveness. It just isn't neccessary.

I still like Hatton and of course wish him well, but can understand where you are coming from on this.
What annoys me is the complete fakeness of it all on both sides. The News of the World just want some cheap and easy sensationalism to sell their crappy papers so pay people to rat out celebs for doing things that millions of ordinary people do.

They then become the moral voice of the nation and exhibit puritanical shock and disgust, as if the nation actually cares about morality and ethics.

The person who sells the celeb out is always a 'friend' doing it for their own good and only happened by chance to have hidden cameras already in place to record the behaviours that will soon occur and leave them feeling they must do something about them.

Then the celebrity who depends on a clean cut image to make money, sponsorship, endorsments etc will go completely over the top, checking themselves into rehab, publicly apologising for everything and chastisting themselves so as to to limit the damages to their reputation and allows their sponsors to renegotiate new contracts once their penance has been served.

Then the sponsors will drop them citing their transgression makes them no longer suitable role models, only to clamour to re-sign them once the allotted timeframe of a few months has expired and they are restored in the eyes of the public.

It's such a charade.

Have you noticed it's mostly sportspeople who apologise as their images seem to be more negatively affected by bad press?

How often do rock stars, or comedians apologise for taking drugs, or cheating on their spouse? Or film stars for that matter?

Those celebrities whose persona's are not damaged, or are even enhanced by such scandals NEVER apologise and in fact are just defiant. The only ones who ever do are those who are perceived as 'role model's' and thus are forced to humble themselves to remain marketable.


Fuck all of them, Hatton has completely sold out with his fake apology.

Did you watch the interview? He claims he couldn't remember taking cocaine as he blacks out conveniently just before. What a pathetic, cowardly fat prick.