How did people in the United Kingdom react to what Lady Gaga said to Jonathan Ross?
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Sensitive_Fly_7036@reddit
Have you seen Jonathan Ross? Thats just his humour - he’d find it funny.
Stop equating joking with sexual harassment, it just trivialises a really serious issue.
smellyfeet25@reddit
Would it be a "joke " if a man said it to a woman ?. BET IT would be a different story then . Usual two tier system. like when a woman was going around pinching men's bums in London . when i reported it a security guy he told me it was just a bit of fun. why should i have this woman near me? If i was a woman it would have been "meh sexual harassment"
Sensitive_Fly_7036@reddit
On a chat show? With a female host who makes sex jokes? Yes, I’d be saying the same thing. It’s a joke. Stop trying to make this into something it’s not
smellyfeet25@reddit
OH get real . If a man said a female chat show host was wxt . He would be cancelled in no time and you know it
Sensitive_Fly_7036@reddit
I mean he’s a rapist now, but russel brand did it for years and he wasn’t cancelled. It was seen as banter. If you can name one man who has made a sex joke to a woman host and it’s ended his whole career, and I’ll give you a prize.
smellyfeet25@reddit
Some old actor Mickey Rourke said to the female presenter on Big Brother that he liked her dress and it was like a big thing. Even some woman in the audience asked the presenter if she was "alright" .
Sensitive_Fly_7036@reddit
That’s not what happened and he’s not been cancelled. https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/celebrity-big-brothers-mickey-rourke-sparks-outrage-inappropriately-touching-aj-odudu-22866928/amp/
smellyfeet25@reddit
All of which would not have made headlines if it was a woman doing that to a male presenter . it would have been viewed as" a bit of fun." ...
smellyfeet25@reddit
It certainly would if it had been a man who said something like that to a woman
Sad-Insurance1313@reddit
This is the first I've heard of this
Suspect I'm far from alone
cragglerock93@reddit
I'm a big Lady Gaga fan and it's the first I've heard of it tbh.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
Checking in here as someone else who has never heard of this.
Theunluckyone7@reddit
In general, I just think in alot of occassions like this, people aren't outraged because it was said to a man. I think there are too many double standards.
UnacceptableUse@reddit
Yeah I'm sure nobody ever said anything of the sort to lady gaga and got away with it... Right??
Theunluckyone7@reddit
To be fair back then you're probably right but now, I do think there are alot of double standards. And i'm a woman ...
UnacceptableUse@reddit
If it was now that this had happened I might agree more but it was 15 years ago
RobCarrol75@reddit
If she said it to woman, I might have remembered it!
PurpleOctopus6789@reddit
Literally no one cares. Most people don't even know something like this was a thing (myself included) because they're not interested in some weird comments made by celebrities.
deathmetalbestmetal@reddit
While you're correct that nobody cares, if you don't know who Jonathan Ross, James Corden, Jools Holland or Jeremy Clarkson are then you are comically unqualified to make that claim.
heyitsed2@reddit
How old are you, out of interest? I'd have thought Jonathan Ross was unavoidable like James Corden or Jools Holland... Or Jeremy Clarkson... Just people everyone in the UK is at least aware of... (On a bit of a J theme there...)
PurpleOctopus6789@reddit
in my 30s. Haven't hear of the first two. I heard the name Jeremy Clarkson but have no idea who he is or what he looks like. I grew up without watching much tv either unless it was specific shows but I was that kid that would rather watch the x-files than anything else.
heyitsed2@reddit
Fair enough! You're probably better off not knowing who any of them are to varying degrees anyway
Tight-Principle-743@reddit
Well I doubt many knew about it - or even remember it so I don’t think people really bothered that much.
FornyHucker22@reddit
I can confirm Jonathan Ross gas a teeny tiny erection
Scared-Room-9962@reddit
I don't think a single person gave the slightest fuck
TranquillityQuack@reddit
Not a flying fuck either
Ok-Blackberry-3534@reddit
There were rumours of a fuck being given somewhere near Rotherham, but it was never substantiated.
MaxBulla@reddit
I heard Lee Anderson gave it and wrote a letter to the Daily Mail who ran with the story for a week
Nervous_Ant2673@reddit
I'm in Rotherham. Didn't hear a thing.
Voy-urgh81@reddit
Correct
when_music_hits@reddit
Not sure why the OP feels the need to fixate on what literally no one else can or would bother to verify. Odd? Yep. Value? You're in debt if you think it's a quality post...maybe aswell file for bankruptcy
mtmp40k@reddit
It’s a joke. We don’t give a fuck in this country.
We will be confused about why someone is asking about something that happened years ago that no one gave a fuck about.
Weird question
dsv2202@reddit
No one cares, love.
CountryBulky7105@reddit
Bad bot
FreeBogwoppits@reddit
I don't think anyone particularly reacted. Its very much inkeeping with his style of chat show.
Have a look at his interviews with 'Dr Martin Scrote' in his original chat show.
AdAffectionate2418@reddit
Likely wouldn't have raised much of an eyebrow - we tend to be a bit more bawdy over here than our transatlantic counterparts.
Brilliant-Second5749@reddit
And the crowd went mild.
likelivewirevoodoo@reddit
I along with probably everyone else hadn't heard. But now I have, the meter's barely registering a millifuck
elf_n_safety@reddit
I suppose it’s all in context; given that that was probably around the time of the whole ‘Gaga is a hemaphrodite’ bollocks, she probably would have said she had one too
Brilliant_Bowler_994@reddit
Just go back to bed. Noone busied themselves with this type of questioning or analysis back then. We weren't looking for a victim and a bad guy. We just watched it.
Lau_kaa@reddit
This is the first time I have ever heard of that moment.
Funmachine@reddit
... They didn't.
fattoad349@reddit
Nobody and I mean nobody gave a single fuck about it
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