‘Heretics’ interview by Andrew Gold with Matthew Steeples about sexual allegations against convicted criminal David Sullivan featuring scandalous stories about West Ham FC, Karren Brady and Ampika Pickston goes viral; watched over 207,000 times in just three days
On Thursday evening an interview by Andrew Gold premiered on the Heretics YouTube channel at 6pm. By 9pm on Saturday evening, this 39-minute programme had been watched by well over 150,000 people and by Monday morning at 10am, it had attracted some 207,000 views; that’s more viewers than many a mainstream media show.
Featuring the sordid and sleazy story of David Sullivan – the clearly not a ‘fit and proper person’ to be in charge of a football club at the very least given he hadn’t been allowed near women and youth games in years – this show delved into the history of a brash and brazen bullying billionaire whose tenure at both Birmingham FC and West Ham FC never ran smoothly.
More importantly, Gold and Steeples delved into the recent allegations of sexual impropriety that Sullivan has been able to keep under the carpet for years and took a serious look at another pair of pantomime villains in this piece – David Sullivan’s gobby unfit-to-run-a-care-home wife-to-be Ampika Pickston and the David Cameron appointed to the House of Lords “associate of the dildo floggers” Karren Brady.
Watch the 39-minute programme here; it certainly pulls no punches. Do you believe David Sullivan to be delusional and dreadful or do you think he’s fallen foul of what he labels “false allegations”?
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In his own words… Self-declared “King of Porn” David Sullivan on…
His diminutive stature…
“I’m short, so I have the ‘hightism’ thing against me, which hurts… I was born short. I wish I had been like Brad Pitt, but I am what I am. I may not be black, I may not be Jewish, but I’m little… Perhaps I would prefer to be a black Jewish man than a small white man. So, I get ‘hightism’ remarks against me. You’ve just got to take it on the chin. It’s not very nice.”
His claim that he’s a “moral man” during an interview in 2000…
“We all live our lives by our own standards and what we believe to be right and what we believe to be wrong and by my rules, I lead my life. I’ve never taken a drug in my life, I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life… Erm, it’s pretty unusual in this day and age… I don’t think what I do is particularly bad.”
The type of women he ‘goes for’…
“I like ginger women, actually. I like redheads.”
Sexual assault allegations against him…
“After a lifetime spent building businesses in the adult industry in which I have met thousands of women, it is sadly inevitable that a small number of improper conduct claims are being made against me.”
A 1989 newspaper interview, when asked about his sexual desires…
“I can have up to three a day but some days I don’t have any – it depends how I feel and what else is happening… I have a desire to make love to most women.”
What he got ‘upto’ with women…
“What’s the point of owning a sweet shop if you can’t eat a few sweets?”
Responding to claims in 2008 that he sexually assaulted a 25-year-old at his Essex mansion…
“I’m a rich person so I’m a target for this sort of thing. That is the world we live in.”
Being a pornographer…
“I’ve made a lot of people happy. If I was an arms manufacturer or a cigarette manufacturer, and my products killed millions of my clients, I’d have a bit of doubt about the whole thing. I was a freedom fighter. I believe in the right of adults to make their own decisions.”
What was in his smutty books, newspapers and magazines…
“We feature fantasy and fun… We feature ladies in glamorous situations looking their best… All our stories, our books, are really the adult equivalent of comics that for the average factory worker in Wigan or the unemployed non-worker in Liverpool, they actually get a lot of fun out of reading our books and I think we do no harm whatsoever. We just put a bit of fun into peoples’ lives.”
His desire to leave the porn business after his 1982 criminal conviction for living off immoral earnings…
“I’d like to get out personally purely because I’ve done it for eleven years and in life if you do anything for eleven years, you feel like a change.”
Why he was going to sell his shares in Birmingham FC in 2007…
“I think deep down the public have had enough of us… Everybody says I should call it a day and ‘What do you need all that grief for?’”
His ownership of West Ham in a 2017 interview with The Guardian…
“I feel like I haven’t done well enough. Nobody’s done well enough. I work my socks off but sometimes it’s not good enough.”
The woman he made managing director of Birmingham FC aged just 23 and then had working with him for four decades in football…
“Karren is a good businesswoman but she doesn’t understand football.”
Giving a loan of £1 million to “crime boss” David Hunt to aid a libel action against The Sunday Times…
“[Just a] normal commercial transaction.”
Of the style of business of him and cronies during a 2017 interview with The Guardian…
“I think we’re the most honest, open people you’ll ever deal with… We’re not liars.”
Football agents and negotiating with them…
“Giving in to terrorists or kidnappers. If you pay the ransom, they will only come back for more.”
His crony Karren Brady having a column in The Sun…
“If I stop her doing it, the club would have to give her the money. And it’s a substantial amount of money, so I prefer for her to do it and the club not to give her the money… I’m confident Karren will write anything detrimental.”
His clearly delusional self:
“I am a private man, and those who personally and professionally know the real David Sullivan, not the caricature invented by the tabloids, know exactly who I am and what I stand for. I am absolutely not the person the media has decided to paint me as.”
In her own words… “Overpainted Aunt Sally” Karren Brady on…
Her destroyer of jobs and the high street mate ‘Sir Shifty’ Philip Green…
“The most dynamic, the most energetic, the most relentless business-person I have ever come across, a whirlwind of energy and ideas.”
The nearly as controversial businessman Mike Ashley…
“I feel sorry for a guy like Mike Ashley… He tried his best… I feel tremendous sympathy for Ashley.”
Her “precarious work-life balance”…
“[It’s a] balancing act… [I feel] constant guilt over being a working mother.”
“I live day by day. There’s no other way.”
“Dead end jobs” (that she certainly wouldn’t herself consider taking)…
“No one wants a dead end job, but at least it’s a start.”
Sexism…
“I always laugh I read about sexism cases in the newspaper.”
“It’s rubbish to say you can’t be proper friends with the opposite sex.”
Her own mistakes…
“My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave.”
Religion…
“I am a faithful companion of Jesus.”
Contradicting herself in spite of taking up a position in David Cameron’s government as Small Business Ambassador…
“I have no interest in politics.”
Her being investigated in connection with corruption in football…
“I was in a very dark place… It was gut-wrenching… I didn’t want to have to justify myself to people.”
The East End of London…
“A hotbed of racism.”
Meeting the general public…
“I have met people in the street who say: ‘You look like Karren Brady, but she is fat.’ But I don’t care.”
Her nickname at school…
“I was called ‘Fried Eggs’ and all that at school. Size does matter.”
Eating cheese…
“I’m a hard cheese person and I could have it with biscuits for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
Condoms in the Birmingham City boardroom…
“I found [a condom] floating in the toilet… And it became this big whodunit. I mean, in the boardroom toilet of all places.”
Her “wickedly indiscreet newspaper column”…
“It’s what I leave out that would make your hair curl.”
A desire to look like Sarah, Duchess of York…
“Deep in my soul, I’m secretly a redhead.”
Her dream man…
“I prefer my men slightly overweight. Having said that, my ultimate dream man is Jimmy Nail and he’s skinny.”
Comedian David Walliams…
“Someone needs to tell him to calm down… Creepy.”
Unsurprisingly getting abuse given her own vile tongue…
“The abuse I get is vile. And so much worse now than it’s ever been.”
“At 23, I had skin as thick as a rhino… I don’t have any fears.”
“I dare to put my head above the parapet, to have a mind and a voice of my own and to plough my own furrow.”
“[I am now] one of the most highly sought-after motivational speakers in the world.”
“I look like a demented Rapunzel.”
More modest than the late Mother Theresa, one is simply left asking: “What on earth was it about the very wealthy woman Karren Brady that David Cameron saw fit to elevate her to the House of Lords?”
