[Wykey]

I have just had an idea which will help me with believing that they are "just good friends". I find it hard to imagine Chris becoming involved with someone who has a child.

There, that's helped.

Without being drawn into speculation, about who was on holiday with or without whom, which I realise I just have, if I'd booked a holiday with my significant other, and we then split up, I'd be more than happy for my best mate to take my place.

I'd also mention to my best mate that if he was going on holiday with his brother and brother's wife, that his good friend might well enjoy a break with good friends and that my best mate might be an ideal chaperon.

In fact, that very situation has arisen and taken place.

[Nicola_Red]

I have just had an idea which will help me with believing that they are "just good friends". I find it hard to imagine Chris becoming involved with someone who has a child.

I think you're right. I think Chris is a lot like me on that - it's a dealbreaker.

[dimtimjim]

Ruddy kids, who'd 'ave 'em...?

[Nicola_Red]

Well, not me!

[bmstinton93]

You would 'have' kids though, if you know what I mean...

[G-Sizzle]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but listen to how awkward Chris sounded when Westwood brought up his love life on the Love/Hate game.

[ianpwilliams]

I was hoping this topic would have faded away by now...doesn't seem right to me to talk about that stuff...but that's just my opinion, and I'm sure I'll get grief for saying it

[Ilovematt]

I was hoping this topic would have faded away by now...doesn't seem right to me to talk about that stuff...but that's just my opinion, and I'm sure I'll get grief for saying it

Grief

[a-moron]

I was hoping this topic would have faded away by now...doesn't seem right to me to talk about that stuff...but that's just my opinion, and I'm sure I'll get grief for saying it

Mare chance of a 18 year old guys 'plate spinner' fading away even if he was pumped full of viagra, getting a booby face rub fae some exotic dancer whilst the Saturdays tickled his bawbag with feathers constructed from their own lady garden hair.

[G-Sizzle]

I dont get why people are getting arsey about this topic, these guys live their lives in the public domain and we're fans of them. (some border line obsessively!) it's natural to want to know about these people.

It's the reason Red Tops sell stories about about celebs private life's because people are interested. Doesn't make it right but it's the price of fame I'm afraid.

[ianpwilliams]

I would consider myself to be a borderline obsessive fan (I wouldn't edit every show in order to never miss a single minute of it otherwise). I suppose I just don't understand the interest in their private lives, as I have no interest in it myself (which is why I also don't read the papers).

[the sniper]

I would consider myself to be a borderline obsessive fan (I wouldn't edit every show in order to never miss a single minute of it otherwise). I suppose I just don't understand the interest in their private lives, as I have no interest in it myself (which is why I also don't read the papers).

But isn't much of the shows content just sourced from the stories of their private lives?! I presume that you listen to the opening link everyday, which is often just a round up of what has happened in their lives the previous day... How many hours of content have been sourced from the toils and tribulations of Aled's relationship alone?! Tina and Matt's love life too, to a lesser extent.

[richbrown]

I would consider myself to be a borderline obsessive fan (I wouldn't edit every show in order to never miss a single minute of it otherwise). I suppose I just don't understand the interest in their private lives, as I have no interest in it myself (which is why I also don't read the papers).

But isn't much of the shows content just sourced from the stories of their private lives?! I presume that you listen to the opening link everyday, which is often just a round up of what has happened in their lives the previous day... How many hours of content have been sourced from the toils and tribulations of Aled's relationship alone?! Tina and Matt's love life too, to a lesser extent.

True, but there is 'on-air personality' and then their real-life. Those photos of Chris' holiday if anything show that they have a very separate life off-air and it is their private life. If they want to share it, there's plenty of mediums through which to do so (Twitter, the show, etc.). Dave has clearly voiced his disapproval of this kind of thread so I think it'd be the least you could do, as a fan, to discuss it sensitively and not poke and prod.

[Emmy]

It seems like some people posting in this thread are after the old 'Licky Licky Brown Nose Award' from the Afternoon Shows. If you're in the public eye and make money from that then any part of your private life is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

[MK Chris]

Absolutely not, with an attitude like that you could make a good career with the worst of the scummy gutter press.

[richbrown]

It seems like some people posting in this thread are after the old 'Licky Licky Brown Nose Award' from the Afternoon Shows. If you're in the public eye and make money from that then any part of your private life is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

And at what point do you draw the line? Photographing them, detailing their private affairs online, leaking their private photos, hacking their voicemail?

[Emmy]

Well I'd draw the line at doing something illegal, so I'd have to choose hacking from that list. That's not to say I felt much sympathy for the various celebrities who were involved in the recent hacking scandal. I did feel sorry for the 'civilian' people whose phones were hacked simply because they had been unfortunate enough to have suffered personal tragedies which were deemed to be newsworthy, but the people who chose to be in the public eye, no. If you really value your private life then stay far away from the glittering world of showbusiness.

[richbrown]

Wow...

[MK Chris]

Well I'd draw the line at doing something illegal, so I'd have to choose hacking from that list. That's not to say I felt much sympathy for the various celebrities who were involved in the recent hacking scandal. I did feel sorry for the 'civilian' people whose phones were hacked simply because they had been unfortunate enough to have suffered personal tragedies which were deemed to be newsworthy, but the people who chose to be in the public eye, no. If you really value your private life then stay far away from the glittering world of showbusiness.

What about those for whom fame is an unfortunate by-product of doing something they actually love? People who don't want to be in the public eye and so rarely turn up to public events and give interviews but still find their private lives leaked all over the gutter press? Those who don't seek publicity in the papers. Are they 'fair game'?

[Yudster]

I genuinely don't know if "celebrities" are fair game or not. Most of them I have absolutely no interest in anyway, so it doesn't matter - but someone like Dave - is he fair game?

Actually I don't think it matters - what matters is that because I listen to him on the radio every day and have that "relationship" with him, I'm interested. Now on the one hand being interested in the lives of your friends is fine, and the whole CMS team seem like our friends don't they? But then I remember that they aren't, and what feels like a perfectly normal curiosity and genuine interest suddenly feels embarrassing. A dichotomy.

[Emmy]

What about those for whom fame is an unfortunate by-product of doing something they actually love? People who don't want to be in the public eye and so rarely turn up to public events and give interviews but still find their private lives leaked all over the gutter press? Those who don't seek publicity in the papers. Are they 'fair game'?

I'd still say that yes they are. Almost every job in the world has its good and its bad points, and you have to accept both when you sign up for a job. Lines of work which put someone in the public eye are no different. For all the perks and advantages jobs such as acting/presenting/singing etc. bring, and that may well include the fact that a person is getting to do what they love, there are going to be downsides to them too, such your private life being talked about in the press and by the public whether you like it or not.

You either embrace the publicity and aim to use it to your advantage in order to further your career and make more money, or you just learn to deal with it by keeping your head down as much as possible, and trying your best to ignore what is written/said about you. If you really can't deal with it then you're almost always free to walk away from it all. I say almost always because there are those unfortunate souls such as members of the royal family, or the children of major celebrities who are thrust into the public eye from birth and may not have the choice of anonymity. I do have a small bit of sympathy for people in that kind of position.

[MK Chris]

How charitable of you.

[Paul]

there is 'on-air personality' and then their real-life. Those photos of Chris' holiday if anything show that they have a very separate life off-air and it is their private life. If they want to share it, there's plenty of mediums through which to do so (Twitter, the show, etc.). Dave has clearly voiced his disapproval of this kind of thread so I think it'd be the least you could do, as a fan, to discuss it sensitively and not poke and prod.

Absolutely concur. Can this thread please come to an end?

17 pages of uncomfortable reading, to a level I've never seen before on this site.

Paul

[Emmy]

Absolutely concur. Can this thread please come to an end?

17 pages of uncomfortable reading, to a level I've never seen before on this site.

Paul

Such uncomfortable reading, yet you made it through all 17 pages? Well done. I honestly don't see what your point is. It's not as if people posting here are contacting Dave directly in order to make their views on his personal life known, or are sending him links to the thread so he can see what's being said about him. He has no need to read what's been written here at all if he doesn't want to, therefore I don't see how it could possibly impact on his life or be a problem in any way.

Edit-I appear to have now made it 18 pages of uncomfortable reading.

[Nicola_Red]

Also, posting in a thread to ask that it come to an end is kinda counter-productive.