Star Chrissie: I find Chubby Brown funny
CHRISSIE Hynde admitted she finds controversial comic Roy Chubby Brown funny and added: “People won’t speak to me now.”
The Pretenders singer, 68, argued comedians like Brown are just trying to comment on society.
She told the Headliners podcast: “They’re probably not saying something because they are racist but might be saying something taking the mick out of someone who is racist.”
She also said “cancelling” old comedy shows was “destructive” because they provide an accurate reflection of their time.
It comes after the BBC and Netflix removed programmes which featured characters in “blackface” including Little Britain in the wake of Black Lives Matter.
A WOMAN jailed for trying to hire three hitmen to murder her ex-husband was once arrested over a deliberate fire at his home.
Victoria Breeden, 39, claimed she was “joking” and “not serious” about having Rob Parkes, 40, killed.
But we can now reveal that she was spoken to by cops following a serious arson attack at her ex’s £250,000 house.
The early morning blaze caused significant damage to a car and to Rob’s home near Milton Keynes, Bucks.
One neighbour said: “There was a petrol bomb and the car was parked out the front and it went up. The whole front of the house was damaged.”
Breeden and a man were arrested after the 2014 fire but not charged.
Later the same year the mum-of-three made her first bid to have Rob killed when she offered a friend £5,000 to arrange a hit. Yesterday Breeden was jailed for nine years and six months at Chelmsford crown court for three counts of soliciting murder.
Rob and his new wife moved home shortly after the blaze.
One of the three men whom Breeden approached to kill Rob told the Mirror: “When Victoria asked me it seemed like an offthe-cuff comment.
“It was only after the police got involved that I realised how serious she was. She was basically
Rob said that he felt unsafe going from guy to guy until she found someone who would do it. I spoke to her husband after the court case. It was surreal. We had a really nice chat and he seemed a reasonable man.
“I just wanted to apologise to him because I still felt guilty about not coming forward sooner.”
Mr Parkes, reading his victim impact statement to the court, said that the trial was “harrowing” for him as he heard “just how my ex-wife wanted to kill me”.
He added: “I’ve never felt as unsafe as I have in the last year.”
Mr Justice Chamberlain, sentencing Breeden, said: “The evidence demonstrates that your main motivation in trying to persuade others to kill Rob Parkes was to regain custody of (a child).
“It must be obvious to you now that that cannot happen.”
A court heard in March how Breeden tried to persuade three different men to kill Rob in the five years after the fire.
She had become “bitter and angry” after their relationship broke down and he won custody of their daughter.
She was also angry that he married her best friend, Victoria Balmer.
Her crimes were uncovered after boyfriend Graham Wall, 45, secretly recorded Breeden over suspicions she was lying to him. Instead of discovering infidelity, he heard plans to bump off Rob, which prompted him to call police.
When officers raided her home in Littleport, Cambs, they discovered £18,000 in cash hidden in
a baby milk tin.