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I had been watching some old Strike It Lucky on Challenge and, after reading about it in the papers, I watched Jeremy Kyle interview Michael Barrymore on ITV catchup last night. While not very deep (it was Jeremy Kyle after all), Barrymore came over rather well consider how his crap things turned out (many of which was due to his own internal torments).


I'd love to see him back on TV - he really had such an amazing way with people. He seems to have lost his career by a complete trial by media.

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Yes, I thought he was very funny on Strike it a Lucky and always had such an easy rapport with the contestants. He had a horrible childhood growing up in a Bermondsey, his father regularly beat his mother and in his community, if you believe the interviews, spousal abuse was accepted as normal. The show House That Made Me with him, paints a truly depressing picture of growing up in Bermondsey in the 60's.
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grabot Wrote:

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> Yes, I thought he was very funny on Strike it a Lucky and always had such an easy rapport with the

> contestants.


I think that was his genius - he could have the whole audience laughing without him ever taking the piss out of or belittling the contestants, yet they were always at the centre of the joke.

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Loz Wrote:

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> I'd love to see him back on TV - he really had

> such an amazing way with people. He seems to have

> lost his career by a complete trial by media.



I always liked him, and met him once years ago, he seemed a nice man. I thought it was sick the way the press assisted the father of the dead pool guy in basically hounding the man.

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Back in 96 when he was still a popular figure in the press, he was at this posh golf club the day my cousin had her wedding reception there. He was really cool about posing fkr a couple of photos and playing the clown for a couple of minutes. Absolutely no impatient celebrity that has no time for the public vibe at all.
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