"CELEBRITY INSULTS ANOTHER CELEBRITY!"

"CRUDE COMMENTS MADE ABOUT SOMEONE'S SEX LIFE!"

Ground breaking news in this time of credit crunches, knife crime and the looming spectre of Windows 7.

Get a grip people or, preferably, shut the hell up.

...but 'so what'?

I'm afraid I still agree with Bob Geldof on Russell Brand.

Is the register saying that abusive messages about this girl are ok becvause she is into S&M ?

Its not far from she wanted it your honour she was wearing a short skirt.

The British press are a bunch hypocrites who will say and do anything to sell papers? no way!

Seems the Daily Wail should have researched the story a little better. I'm about as liberal minded as you can get but even I think videos portraying medical experiments and nun abuse are sick and wrong. So I wonder what all the people who complained to the BBC because the Wail told them too would think of it?

So what, she can get up to what she wants and shove it on a myspace page

the problem was that brand & ross decided to have a go at a well respected pensioner because he couldn't appear on the show, just because she's a little alternative doesnt excuse the initial abuse

How can El Reg be so cruel?

Posting an article with links like that while we're all sitting in work, fearful of clicking them, yet concerned that half of them will be taken down before we get home!

That, El Reg, is the "sado" in sado-masochism of the very highest order.

I also agree with Bob Geldof on Russel Brand, but then again I also agree with Russel Brand on Bob Geldof...

As for Sachs granddaughter... I suppose I thread carefully enough when I say that this issue with mr.Brand and mr. Ross might not exactly hurt her career... or cause too much damage to her reputation (whatever that might have been prior to this incident).

@ac er, no. I most certainly am NOT saying abusive messages about Miss Baillie are ok. Or at least not as a response to her sexuality.

If you have other issues with her, then express them as you see fit.

The piece began as a slightly amused take on how people on the internet have a tendency to re-invent themselves. The clue is in the sub-head that refers to high-speed airbrushing. Miss Baillie appears to be doing it. The Mail appears to be doing it. And the Sun...well maybe they are taking a stance that is ever-so-slightly inconsistent with the stance of their sister Paper in the Max Mosley case.

What are the political leanings of the Satanic Sluts? Haven't the faintest - but might ask them that next week.

Is their use of imagery just a bit risky? Well, take a look at their site: note the copy, backdrop, typology, use of the SS initials and one or two other elements. Then make your own mind up.

One problem, of course, is that as individuals we can be attracted to a style of imagery, irrespective of its content. In a sense, that is at the heart of many censorship debates: we might enjoy certain thoughts, images, concepts; but have no intention ever to act upon them.

The censors would see things differently.

Heart - because commenting on my own pieces takes me into realms of narcissism I would have preferred to avoid.

She already knows how to regenerate herself.

Look, 2 people complained when the show went out, and those complaints were about the use of the word "fuck". Not a dicky-bird about "abuse".

A full week later, Max Clifford sells a story to a newspaper whipping up a frenzy, and thousands of people start complaining about a programme they would never listen to.

Andrew Sachs says he hasn't been attacked and doesn't need any apologies, and wants it to just blow over.

But the attention seeking Ms Baillie milks the story for all it's worth, makes money, makes a name for herself, and somehow there are people here who think she has been cruelly wronged?

Get a fucking grip.

Looks like a cheap version of Rockbitch to me. (Before you Google that, beware that Rockbitch REALLY is NSFW).

"So what, she can get up to what she wants and shove it on a myspace page

The problem was that brand & ross decided to have a go at a well respected pensioner because he couldn't appear on the show, just because she's a little alternative doesn't excuse the initial abuse"

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You either haven't listened to the podcast or you didn't hear the same one I did, they didn't abuse him, they left some voice messages in which they got very giggly and stupid, then they rang again (big mistake on their part) and knob head Ross shouted out "he f*cked your granddaughter", then they hung up, then they rang again and in an extremely uncomfortable silly moment brand let slip the satanic slut members name.

Sach's complaint wasn't even the calls, it was that the BBC aired them when they asked and he said no. Then the papers started printing pictures and the granddaughter got involved.

Brand and Ross shouldn't have been suspended just because the media are sensationalising this whole thing, no matter how annoying people find them - and Brand shouldn't need to resign to try and save somebody elses skin either. At the end of the day, Sach's himself may have been offended, fine, and the producers were wrong in airing the skit after Sachs said no - but that is the producers fault, and the BBC should look at that problem, not the material itself.

At the end of the day, her alternative activities isn't a hobby, it's her job, she's posed for page 3 for gods sake, so how she can claim to be offended or say this has caused embarrassment is beyond me, the BBC should have some sort of protection for their employees when the complaining people are directly profiting from giving kiss and tell stories, and calling for the heads of the bbc to fire people.

She's getting royalties from the pics I'm assuming, and the storys the papers are buying from her, she's already said more in less than a week about her relationship with Brand than he's ever said about her, it wasn't even clear he'd slept with her from what he's said until she told the Sun. I find it hilarious that she seems more outraged than her grandfather - considering this all happened to him, but of course she's outraged - it means she gets to do something she couldn't do before, and that is get in the media spotlight and have her pictures posted on the front of the papers for a week, until the elections next week anyway. Then it will be naked pics of McCain and Palin, not her.

Bombs going off in India, armies killing people in Congo, earthquakes in Pakistan, US election hype, freaky cold-snap in UK, credit crunch - you would assume the papers would have better things to do than spend time and money reporting this shit.

And don't get me started on how the tories can call for a commons debate on something as trivial as this, yet seem to do fuck all when it comes to politicians with bribes, telecoms companies illegally wiretapping us as a nation, and our failing economy. How much tax payers money is being wasted on this media witch-hunt now? I want figures!!!

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"Totally agree.

There seems to be a bit of a "she is a goth so deserves it" attitude here, totally wrong. It doesn't matter what your sexuality there is no need for people to call your grandfather about it, then transmit it on the raidio."

No - it's a double standards thing... and I didn't realise that being goth was a sexuality these days. Most goths tend to be straight, gay or bi... I should know... I used to be one! ;)

And please all past and future commentards - he wasn't cold-called - he was rang for a pre-arranged interview, and wasn't available.

Paris - because she deserves it too! ;)

Hopefully the military arm of that party organization. Where do I sign up? I just want to driver Tigers around, honest.

Mine's the one in Flecktarn.

What fun does a monk get?

Nun.

Paris may deserve it (I say no, but she gets it anyway and she's a grownup), but you wouldn't take that tale to her Mum or Dad. How can she give as good as she gets if you go to her family instead?

Mr. Sachs was phoned by the radio2 production team, played the sketh and asked if it was okay to transmit; seems a combination of things leave the reply some what vague, the rest is history

Quick read thru thesuns site for comments she comes over as a witch, not many prols like her

Whats her Radio voice like? How is she in font of the camera (TV)?

I see a SKY 1 exclusive; Russel & George or some such witless crap that would never survive series 2 but could yeild a big $$$ contract

<b>"Ross& Brand so offensive that they put 28,998 people into a coma for a week"</b>

maybe it's just me who missed the story about that one, though it does explain why the traffic was so good last week!

or possibly 2 people listened to the show and complained re language, then a week later the sunday media run a story and the readers think" I don't like Brand, I shall complain about the wastrell" and then 1500 people complained, then the TV media pick it up cos they're bored, and then the rest think "I don't listen to late noght radio 2 it should be nice music, and anyways they've got wierd hair let complain"

I'd use the word witch hunt but hey

The news gets taken over by something that Ross and Brand did but no one was really saying what it was about. So it takes the reg to shine a light on it!

Gates looks a bit satanic.

Most people are getting over the drama of all this now, so the media are suddenly realising they need a new twist to the story.... behold, the beginning of the media backlash on the granddaughter, you know, the one who has nothing on our very own moderatrix:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a134209/sachss-granddaughter-works-as-dominatrix.html

@ Mark - I'm sure Paris' parent's already know quite enough about their daughter, without me letting them in a few things! :)

@ Fraser - One thing I loved about being a goth was how everybody just got along. Plus in alot of the clubs I hung around in you could just walk down a hall and be jumped on by hot ladies in black, or see 2 ladies (ladies??) gettin it on. Ahhh... I miss my goth days. In my phase, it was a mix of vampire goth, then mosher goth, then I gave up when 12 year olds knew more new bands than me... still, never got the whole dominatrix thing, but I'm happy for others to be happy with it themselves! :)

Now, where's my leather jacket, whip and gimp mask.... ah, here it is!

Sir/Madam,

I salute you... My sentiments exactly. FFS Yesterdays front page on news.bbc.co.uk was all bransrossgate affair, when thousands have been displaced and massacres are occurring in DR Congo. I fed up too my back teeth with the growing celebutard news reporting (and that includes the celebutards in the American election).

At least I have the elReg too fall back on :o)

In which case, shouting boy, she should stop selling stories of her shags with Brand to the fucking paps!

True - but then again shouldn't somebody give the parent's a heads up?? lol - my god... think of the children!!

So the british press are scum who will take any half story and twist it any way they can in order to sell their rags, is anyone really surprised? It seems this time they thought they could sell more my making ms B the victim and going after the big names of Brand and Ross, if the facts were slightly different they might have twisted it the other way.

The british papers are run by a bunch of lowlife fuckwits and anyone who buys their rags is only encouraging them.

Paris 'cos her grandad already knows what she's like.

Love it all really. Little Britain has spent several years 'parodying' the British public as a mixture of doll scum, racist, fascist homophobic people in some of the most extreme ways ever portrayed on television, but it is OK because one of the is 'a gay' and everyone bangs them a load of awards.

Alf Garnet reincarnated AKA Pub Landlord is onto something like the 4th season of his mock extremist chat show and that's OK.

What exactly is not ok? I refer to my original posting on the Little Big Planet story which outlines these exact double standards, of which a large majority of the press then also commented on such as my statement about how it is now 'OK' to make fun of the Queen to her face, something that no less than 30 years ago would have found you hanged.