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EVELEIGH-SYDNEY, Australia – Within mere seconds of his vocal opener on reality singing contest franchise The Voice Australia 2022, all four judges hit their buttons to spin round and watch Out Olympic trampoline gymnast Dominic Clarke singing Sam Fischer’s “This City.”
Clarke, who identifies as gay and queer, received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his performance from judges Guy Sebastian, Keith Urban, Jessica Mauboy, and the judge he ultimately picked as his coach and The Voice mentor, Rita Ora.
During the discussions following his performance, Clarke acknowledged that he was an athlete and right after Sebastian called attention to the Olympic rings tattoo on his left forearm, he admitted, in responding to a question of which endeavor was more difficult for him it was singing.
Clarke told the quartet that: “This [singing] is way scarier. Because this is my soul! This is my soul! I’m a robot on the trampoline. But here this is…you’re getting 100 percent me. And that’s really scary.”
Clarke, who had come out just prior to the Tokyo Olympic games, told Outsports magazine at the time:
“When I got onto that Olympic floor with all those other athletes, I danced and smiled, and I was campy and quirky with the whole world watching. I was composed and competed authentically and it led me to be Dominic Clarke, Olympic Finalist and Proud Gay Olympian. I was having a gay old time.”
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The CPS told the BBC it could not confirm or deny whether or not Spacey will need to be extradited to the UK
LONDON – The Crown Prosecution Service announced Thursday that actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with five counts including three complaints relating to sexual abuse, which is alleged to have taken place in London, and one in Gloucestershire during the time period between 2005 and 2013.
Crown prosecutors told media outlets that the decision to move forward was based on a lengthy investigation by the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Directorate at Scotland Yard. The Directorate is a national police agency which handles specialist crime investigations such as e-crime, sex crimes (paedophile unit) or kidnappings.
In its reporting Thursday, the BBC outlined the cases against the actor.
The first two charges relate to alleged sexual assaults on a man, now in his 40s, in London in March 2005, while a second alleged victim, a man now in his 30s, is claimed to have been assaulted in London in August 2008.
The serious sexual offence charge – causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent – also relates to the second alleged victim.
The third complainant relates to an alleged assault on a man who is now in his 30s in Gloucestershire in April 2013.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, told the BBC that following the Met’s review of evidence the CPS had “authorised criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men”.
She added: “The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Spacey are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.”
The CPS told the BBC it could not confirm or deny whether or not Spacey will need to be extradited to the UK.
Spacey’s alleged sexual assaults occurred while he was living in London and employed as the renowned Old Vic Theatre’s artistic director in London between 2004 and 2015.
Spacey has been embroiled publicly and later in court over sexual assault allegations since October of 2017 when Out actor Anthony Rapp told the world that the Oscar-winning actor had tried to “seduced” him when Rapp was 14 years old.
Rumours about Spacey’s behaviour had circulated in film and theatre circles for a considerable length of time previous to Rapp’s allegation.
Spacey’s response was immediate. He apologized and came out. “I’m beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years,” Spacey wrote on Twitter.
“This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I know that there are stories out there about me, and that some have been fueled by the fact that I have been so protective of my own privacy,” Spacey said, adding “I now chose to live as a gay man.”
In July of 2019, Cape and Island District Attorney Michael O’Keefe announced that a charge against Spacey which accused the actor of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old boy in a Nantucket, Mass. bar had been dropped.
In court documents, Cape and Island District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said the charge was dropped “due to an unavailability of the complaining witness.”
News anchor Heather Unruh accused Spacey of getting her son, William Little, drunk at the Club Car, a bar in Nantucket, Mass., and groping him in July 2016 when Little was 18 years old.
In October of 2019, the office of then Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced that prosecutors have declined to move forward in a sexual battery case against the actor because the accuser had died.
That case, one of several involving accusations of sexual misconduct and assault by the Oscar winning actor, allegedly occurred after an October 2016 incident. A masseur had claimed that Spacey had inappropriately touched him in a sexual manor at a private home in Malibu as he was giving Spacey a massage.
A statement released by the LADA’s office notes that the masseur’s allegations against could not be proven without his participation in court proceedings. The alleged victim had also civil suit pending in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Spacey for the same incident.
After an investigation, Dick, 56, was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery and booked into Orange County jail
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Ca. – Orange County Sheriff’s deputies were called to O’Neill Regional Park, located at 30892 Trabuco Canyon Road in Trabuco Canyon Wednesday, after a man called 911 and said that actor and comedian Andy Dick had sexually assaulted him.
A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department told media outlets that deputies arrived at a campground at the park at around 9 a.m. Wednesday morning and contacted the caller, a man who said he was the victim of the assault.
After an investigation, Dick, 56, was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery and booked into Orange County jail, Sgt. Scott Steinle said and added that the victim was taken to a hospital for an assault examination.
The arrest and the prelude to the arrest was apparently live streamed on YouTube by a channel labeled Captain Content’s RV.
There are no further details available as of Wednesday afternoon the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Dick has been arrested several times on allegations including drug possession, groping and more. In November of 2021, Dick was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on a felony domestic violence charge.
Law enforcement sources told TMZ at the time that Dick allegedly hit his boyfriend on the head with a liquor bottle, leaving a deep cut.
He was also arrested in late June 2021 on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon — a metal chair — on a man identified by Page Six as ex-lover Lucas Crawford. The arrest led to a breakup between Dick and then-fiancée Elisa Jordana.
Dick told Page Six that Crawford first “body-slammed” his leg in that brawl. Dick said he threw the chair after his leg was broken.
The popular comic performing as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Fest has long courted controversy with comments made about trans people
LOS ANGELES – Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. A suspect is in custody for rushing the stage while brandishing a plastic replica of a gun that shoots forth a blade, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. After regaining his composure, Chappelle joked that the attacker “was a trans man,” a reference to the comic’s controversy within the LGBTQ+ communities.
The suspect has been identified as 32-year-old Isaiah Lee, who is being held by LAPD on $30,000 bail. Chappelle and the man scuffled on the floor of the stage before the man ran away behind a screen. Security staff surrounded and tackled the man, and according to Chappelle, stomped him in the rear corner of the stage. Lee was rushed to a local hospital. So far, there’s no evidence that Lee identifies as transgender.
Chappelle, beloved by many for his clever television program Chappelle’s Show, has long been a controversial figure to the LGBTQ+ communities. Last October, following the premiere of his Netflix The Closer, which featured insensitive cracks about trans women’s genitalia and TERFs (or trans-exclusionary radical feminists), among other topics, several trans employees of Netflix staged a walkout. Additionally, trans comedians told CNN they felt that the comments were an example of “punching down” on those with less power and a betrayal of the astute social commentary for which Chappelle is known. Chappelle eventually agreed to meet with members of the community to discuss the tenor of his jokes about trans people.
The Bowl incident echoes the Academy Awards ceremony in March, in which eventual best actor winner Will Smith walked on stage and delivered a blow to the face of Chris Rock due to an off-the-cuff joke the comic made about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairstyle.
It also further raises questions about the safety of comedians who are known for caustic humor.
The comedian was performing at the venue as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Fest, an 11-day stand-up comedy festival. Rock, who also performed during the concert took the stage with Chappelle, and asked “Was that Will Smith?”
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