Successfully sueing the Sunday Sport for Libel... C/D?

Really?

Ans to thread question, because it's all too easy to forget that it exists. And pleasant to do so, as well.

and would any right-thinking person believe anything they read in the sport?

:)

seriously: isn't most of the stuff the sport prints so far-fetched as to be obviously a kind of parody of tabloid reporting? eg "lesleh has sex with space alien on pluto" etc. which nobody's going to BELIEVE anyway. this seems a rare aberration.

I think that sounds lovely.

I read the Sunday Sport yesterday, it was fucking entertaining. Amongst the stories:

A naturalist with an OBE who liked to have sex with owls. He'd turn their heads round 180 degrees so he could look them in the eyes as he was doing them from behind.

A student with a haunted yoghurt pot which made spooky noises. When she opened it, 'DIE!' was written on the bottom of the lid in yoghurt. Headline: Paranormal Activia

An inventor who was obsessed with Tess Daley, so made a Tess Daley robot to do his housework. When it heard the voice of the real Tess Daley coming from the TV it went mad and tried to kill him, and he had to take its batteries out.

A man who regularly plays Pro-Evolution online with Osama Bin Laden. He knows this because his opponent's username is osama9/11.

Also all the topless girls had really strange looking boobs.

There was also the scoop that Eminem is secretly a big Emmerdale fan and is making negotiations to do a cameo.

Nice to see Dom still getting some work...

xp they should make that episode and call it 'Emineminemmerdale'

(and if that wasn't the actual headline the DS used, then they've really gone downhill)

Hi! My name is.. (what?) My name is.. (who?)
My name is.. Emineminemmerdale

(and if that wasn't the actual headline the DS used, then they've really gone downhill)

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, October 25, 2010 11:25 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

I believe it was.

I was walking past a newsagents earlier and the headline on the front page of today's DS is "X FACTOR IN FIX ROW", which is like, er, news? There's a fix row every year!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12958143

RIP

After Mr Sullivan sold up, the Sport was relaunched in April 2008. Additionally, former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik was recruited to lend some of his much-respected gravitas by writing a weekly political column.

Things just go from bad to worse for Lembit.

OK, this thread will do:

TV presenter Holly Willoughby has received an apology and a four-figure payment to charity in lieu of damages from the Sunday Sport after it published what her lawyers described as a fake "up the skirt" photo.

Willoughby complained after the Sunday Sport printed a fake photo on its front page under the headline "Holly Willoughby up the skirt photo shock!".

The picture showed a young woman getting out of a taxi with her bottom and underwear visible. The woman in the picture was reputedly wearing a dress made of the same material as one Willoughby wore to an awards ceremony, which was also printed on the same Sunday Sport front page.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/04/holly-willoughby-sunday-sport-up-skirt-photo

So, the only reason she got the payment was because it wasn't her?

ffs it's "upskirt" not "up the skirt"

for shame, Graun subs

To be fair, looks like the subs got it right in the standfirst there. "Up the skirt" is in quotes in the article and is the phrase used in other news sources. All the evidence points to Holly's lawyers being at fault.

Five hours later now, I had a colleague come over to my desk to ask a question. I started prodding at tabs in my browser looking for the one containing the answer she needed, but the first one I hit was a google search for "up the skirt". Stylish.

Hard hitting investigative journalism

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oops

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not the only escapade...

lol

HE may have been dead almost four years – but Michael Jackson remains pop’s most controversial figure. And his reputation for the outlandish grew last night after an outraged pet owner revealed his MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile.

Primate fan Brian Clowes, who along with wife Beryl keeps two macaques at his Crewe, Cheshire, home – said: “If I could get my hands on the ghost of Michael Jackson I’d wring its perverted otherworldly neck. “Unfortunately, due to the very nature of ghosts, that would be impossible.

But I’d certainly give it a ruddy good exorcism, or something.” Retired logistics manager Brian, 66, said he was woken on Monday evening by a ballyhoo from the converted garage where he keeps his monkeys – Elspeth and Silas.

He said: “We normally don’t get a peep out of them after dark but they were howling and screeching so I went downstairs to have a look. “In some ways, I wish I hadn’t. I opened the door to the garage and Silas was being bummed by what I can only describe as a sort of glowing, shadowy thing. It was obviously a ghost. “The spook looked at me and that’s when it hit me – it was Michael Jackson and it was making that bizarre ‘woo-hoo’ noise that Jacko used to make.

“Then it suddenly disappeared. It was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen but I imagine it was more troubling for Silas and his poor monkey bottom.” Brian, who admits he’d been drinking “a bit” on Monday night, said he came to Sunday Sport to warn other monkey owners their pets were at risk of non-consensual buggery by the ghost of Jacko. The attack on Silas would seem to confirm that e m o t i o n a l l y retarded sexual oddball Jackson had formed an “unnaturally close” relationship while alive with his own pet monkey, Bubbles.

Bumming monkeys is not the only escapade that Jacko’s ghost has been getting up to, it would appear. Earlier this month it was reported during the Jackson family’s ongoing £26bn damages claim trial that Lionel Richie’s ex-wife contacted Jacko’s spirit.

The ghost of the singer, who died in 2009, ‘told’ Brenda he “accidentally killed himself” The reports made no mention of any monkey bumming antics.

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