Category: TV Twerps

Dastardly Deviant David Sullivan’s Deserved Downfall Goes Dotty

‘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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What a repugnant specimen – David Sullivan; a diminutive dwarf and convicted criminal (1982) and coffin dodger.

Mouthy Poundland muckspreader Lady Brady with another of her deservedly loathed job destroying mates Sir Philip Green. Karren Brady has been associated with David Gold for at least four decades and also worked for Sir Philip at his company Arcadia. Birds of a rotten feather.

Karren Brady has no place in the House of Lords. Shame on David Cameron for putting her there alongside the PPE profiteer Michelle Mone also. Disgraceful.

Brady with West Ham co-owner David Sullivan in 1993. Mr Sullivan was mocked by fans in September 2017 when they bounced a giant inflatable sex toy around a stadium during a game against Huddersfield.

The aforementioned inflatable.

Mouthy menace Ampika Pickston was declared by Ofsted to “not have the skills and experience to run” AP Care Homes in 2023; she no doubt took to a bathtub and drank her stupid self silly.

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.”

Herself…

“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?”

June 20, 2026
Moron of the Moment 2022 – Richard Madeley Insults A Lioness

As TV twerp and alleged tealeaf Richard Madeley patronises a member of the England ‘Lionesses,’ we call on GMB to fire this utterly reprehensible ratbag

Richard Madeley is certainly one thing and that’s reliable. This alleged shoplifter of champagne who brags about not wearing underpants is reliable at being offensive and he’s reliable at thinking his own cringeworthy gaffes amusing.

Madeley is reliable at being annoying and like the fictional character he bases himself upon, Alan Partridge, he’s someone who doesn’t realise that people are laughing at him and not with him. Here is a berk of the first order and here is a prized prat who this morning decided to insult one of England’s winning ‘lionesses,’ a lady named Chloe Kelly.

‘Lioness’ Kelly – who scored the winning goal against Germany on Saturday night – appeared on Good Morning Britain this morning and instead of being lauded by Madeley was left “perplexed” after he called her “Coco” because “that’s what [he] calls [his] daughter, Chloe.”

Though called out by viewers quite rightly as “creepy” and told to “show some respect” to the now legendary ‘Lioness,’ Britain’s worst television interviewer failed to make any form of apology and simply droned on: “Right, er, now it’s competition time. We’ve got another one.”

Pictured top – The most cringeworthy and creepy presenter on British television (left) with his boozed-off-her-brain wife and the legendary ‘Lioness’ Chloe Kelly (right). This winning goal scorer did well not to get up and lamp Judy Finnigan’s feckless fool of a husband.

Judy Finnigan is simply well-known for getting herself a little beyond over-refreshed and flashing her cleavage whilst her ‘Dorian Gray-like’ husband is simply well-known for being accused of helping himself to champagne in supermarkets and making an utter berk of his never-sorry-self.

Responses To Richard Madeley ‘Coco’ Gaffe With Lioness Chloe Kelly

https://twitter.com/nickoverheard/status/1554372512288575488
This morning on Twitter, a man named Nick @NickOverheard shared his thoughts on Madeley calling a ‘Lioness’ named Chloe Kelly who he’d clearly never met before Coco. Nick observed: “Could Richard Madeley be any more Alan Partridge if he tried?! 🙈 #gmb.”

‘King of Cringe’ Richard Madeley’s ‘Finest’ Moments

Many of these have done the rounds before, but mixed in are some new and especially outrageous examples:

On his son’s wedding

“There’s been so much angst about it… It’s been so choppy, but, yes, he got married and now we’ve got a daughter-in-law.”

Of his daughter

“Sorry Chloe, but you were an accident and you know it!”

To a member of the victorious England 2022 ‘Lioness’ team named Chloe Kelly

“Chloe or Coco, as I call my daughter, Coco, thank you very much. Thanks for coming in. Right, er, now it’s competition time. We’ve got another one.”

To a male weatherman of his daughter

“My daughter fancies you by the way.”

In conversation with President Clinton

“I know what it’s like to be wronged by the press. I was once accused of shoplifting. Unlike you though, I knew I was innocent.”

Of daubing himself in fake tan and turning a “shade of mahogany”

“What happened was at three in the morning I put my daughter’s fake tan on, I was doing a Donald Trump.”

On going commando

“I don’t wear underwear… 30 per cent of blokes don’t wear underwear, it’s not mad.”

Whilst on the lavatory squatting

“You are not filming me urinating. You can listen.”

To an actor who was playing a bisexual

“Would you prefer to have sex with me or Judy?”

Of his and Judy Finnigan’s sexual activities

“When we were trying to conceive, I would douse my balls in icy water before intercourse.”

“Remember when you had thrush, Judy? You had a terrible time of it.”

On Viagra

“It makes everything much longer and return, you know, swiftly.”

Of sex on television

“I don’t think what we see on television is erotic enough.”

Of women

“I’ve never met a single woman who’s happy with the way she looks, except Jordan, although I’ve never met her.”

“Women lie about sex. It doesn’t matter how many partners she says she’s had before you… She’s lying.”

Of alleged mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell

“The sharks are circling; they smell blood in the water… Cynics would say the [FBI] agency is playing a long game, seeking to sway the minds of jurors in advance of Maxwell’s trial next year… Innocent until proven guilty? That honourable credo is in shreds.”

“Firstly, consider the conditions under which Ms Maxwell is being held. They are truly grim… It would take a heart of stone not to feel empathy for another human being suffering what amounts to mental torture. To coin a phrase: you wouldn’t treat a dog like that.”

“But it’s not sadism, or premature punishment ahead of a verdict. No; there’s calculated purpose behind this pitiless regime. But, here’s another prediction… it will. They’re trying to break her.”

On elephants

“So, are you telling me elephants are not born evil?”

After a woman remortgaged her house to fund treatment for her dog

“Is there a point where you just say: ‘Too expensive, the dog has to die?’”

To a man crying after paramedics saved his life

“Stop crying! This is supposed to make you happy! Anyway, after the break, the biggest dog in the UK. And he really is big. Don’t miss it!”

Showing sympathy for people who died in quicksand in Morecambe Bay

“Yes, what an awful way to die.”

On assisted suicide

“At that point where you just need a little push to go over the edge, I wouldn’t give a two-penny f**k if there was a risk of being prosecuted.”

In Nostradamus-like fashion on coronavirus and lockdowns

“We are being duped… [They are trying to] put the fear of God into the public. A great reckoning is coming.”

“There’s no point in running away and hiding from the virus.”

“We must learn to live with coronavirus.”

“If I had a bell, I would ring it… Only 59 people who have been double vaccinated and without any other serious underlying health problems, died from COVID, out of 50,000 deaths in England, this year.”

“I have to say that the majority of people are surprisingly forgiving [to government representative Steve Barclay], and are actually saying that they understand that the reason for some of the mistakes wasn’t malpractice but scientific ignorance – we didn’t know enough… But on the whole, you seem to be getting away with it – as far as our viewers are concerned.”

Of catarrh

“With men when we get all the catarrh we have it up, like Leo on Titanic… Judy swallows her phlegm.”

Of old women skipping

“There’s not many better things than seeing an older woman skipping.”

Of wanting to be black

“I hope when I’m reincarnated I come back black because you age better.”

To actress Keira Knightley

“Can we get some make up please, get Keira looking like a crack whore, she’d make a good crack whore.”

To singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor

“Where did you get your face?”

To mindreader Derren Brown

“Can we have petroleum and a rope? We are burning you at the end of the show.”

To Sex Pistols singer-songwriter John Lydon

“If we could throw a fishing rod into the corridors of time and reel you in, you’d throttle you wouldn’t you?”

To gay Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant

“How’s your wife?”

To a novelist

“If you were going to write an autobiography, who would it be about?”

Of troubled footballer Paul Gascoigne

“He suffers for us. He bears our pain in the most public way possible… Perhaps this has always been Paul Gasgoine’s destiny.”

To a psychiatric patient

“So, Jane, when did you first realise you were quite clearly mad?”

To a group of dwarves

“Do you find that people patronise you? That means that they talk down to you?”

Of an autistic teenager

“The thing with Daniel [Wakeford, a ‘star’ on Channel 4’s Undateables] is, he has autism but is very intelligent and as we can see extremely talented. Has Daniel always been autistic?”

To an anorexic teenager

“Five stone? Wow, that’s concentration camp thin, that is.”

To a caller

“I understand you have a little lad of 12. Is it a boy or a girl?”

And finally and most insensitively, to a young child with leukemia

“Hello baldy.”

In April 2021, we revealed that the one-time classmate of ‘Spreadsheet Phil,’ the former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond, Richard Madeley was being followed by Ghislaine Maxwell’s PR team on Twitter and that he’d written two columns in the ‘Daily Express’ in which he expressed “empathy” for the now convicted mucky madam sex offender. The presenter has yet to make his views known on what he feels about Maxwell’s multiple victims and her much deserved 20-year jail sentence.

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are often pictured out boozing. Often, ‘Mummy Finnigan’ finds herself looking a little beyond pissed.

The presenter once dressed up as Ali G to present ‘This Morning.’ It was later voted “one of the worst moments in television history.”

Richard Madeley is also often compared to the inept comedy character broadcaster Alan Partridge. They not only look alike, but also are equally incompetent and tactless. Twitter users regularly condemn Romford, Essex born Madeley as “daft” and as a “pompous prat.”

In July 2021, the ‘Dorian Gray of Daytime Telly’ was mocked for being a lookalike of the person portrayed in the quite tasteless Diana, Princess of Wales statue. At the time, the all-round berk was also lambasted after claiming he “suffered from PTSD after his son’s wedding.”

‘Mummy-like’ Judy Finnigan’s decision to defend footballer Ched Evans – jailed for 5 years in 2012 for allegedly raping a 19-year-old – on ‘Loose Women’ in October 2014 shocked the nation. Responding at the time, Katie Russell, of Rape Crisis England and Wales remarked: “Judy Finnigan’s comments are really unfortunate and could potentially cause some hurt and distress to the many survivors of sexual violence who will inevitably have been watching ‘Loose Women’ and who will read and hear her views reported.” Frankly, though she’s thankfully somewhat retreated from our screens in recent years, here is a woman best known for boozing, flashing her boobs and falling off sofas who is just as bad as her horrific husband.

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In another Alan Partridge-esque moment in September 2021, Judy Finnigan’s husband Richard Madeley banged on about the dangers of quicksand. Naturally, he had to make personal reference and claimed: “It got me once… More of that later.”

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Whilst ‘Dorian Gray-esque’ Richard Madeley is best known for helping himself to champagne in supermarkets, his wife Judy Finnigan will be forever remembered for flashing at an awards ceremony in 2000.

August 2, 2022