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cat & dog lady • peri-menopausal • swears & sweats a lot • mostly can't be arsed 🙄 • probably a witch, a rabid Scottish one 🧙♀️ • forensics nerd
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WE NEED: dog fosterers ESPECIALLY in Glasgow.
If you have any questions, feel free to call me before applying - 07775 59204 or email helen
@rawspaws
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Dear Men
When you need to get past other men in public spaces, do you touch their lower back and/or hips to gently move them out of the way? If not why not?
Thanks
The Raw asking for (probably) ALL WOMEN
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Trying to keep up with replies & the 'not all men' & 'but what aboutery' going on.
To those folks saying 'I do this/this is fine' please reconsider your actions & think how you would feel if/when a complete stranger touches you without warning or permission...
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@the98percentpod
@EquityLPNP
@EquityUK
@MattHoodEquity
@MaureenBeattie2
@SpotlightUK
@MDLZ
Seriously, I want to see a really angry ginger kid rocking this role.
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I am pulling together a list of abusers in my industry.
So many of the abusers do not like that I am doing this.
I don't care.
If you have encountered shite/misogynistic/sexual abuse in the industry, please get in touch:
Helen
@britishactorsnetwork
.co.uk
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ACTORS: When a twat is a twat and everyone knows they are a twat but people are scared to report the twat and the twat has treated you badly CALL ME...I will take on the twat for you. This twat might be an agent, a CD or a producer. I don't care, get in touch.
#SickOfTwats
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Thank you 🥰 to the men standing up against the 'not all men' and 'but what about' fuckery that was inevitable with a tweet like this!
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@the98percentpod
@EquityLPNP
@EquityUK
@MattHoodEquity
@MaureenBeattie2
It's been amended. The bit about 'she must NOT have reached puberty' has been removed. Apparently, the rest of it is fine. Seriously,
@SpotlightUK
. Seriously?
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@oldenoughtosay
My fav from eons ago was a guy rabbitting on about breastfeeding & IQ & trying to 'call me out' by 'well akshully' linking to a paper critically reviewing lots of breastfeeding journal papers.
I wrote that paper & my name was very clearly stated in it & he still didn't get it.
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I now have drama schools getting in touch to 'pick my brains' about how they can improve things re sexual harassment 'issues'.
They 🤢 when I say I will need to be paid for said advice 🙄
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@the98percentpod
@EquityLPNP
@EquityUK
@MattHoodEquity
@MaureenBeattie2
@SpotlightUK
@MDLZ
What are your thoughts on this casting call Mondelēz Intl? Milka is manufactured by you, internationally. This is a casting call that has gone out in the UK for a CHILD for your Xmas commercial. I look forward to your comments...
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One down, hundreds to go...
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@the98percentpod
@EquityLPNP
@EquityUK
@MattHoodEquity
@MaureenBeattie2
@SpotlightUK
@MDLZ
It's been amended again due to the overwhelming outrage on this thread and after a call to Spotlight from
@MattHoodEquity
. Here is the casting now:
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@G_ori
@BethanyAudley
Yes, I remember this, I'll try and find it and link to it. I've literally tried this and my god, the number of blokes who actually barrel right into you is astonishing!
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Overwhelmed with notifications 👏 will reply to you all as soon as I can.
Have had 2 journalists on the phone wanting to do a story on this & other shitty castings & bad practice I have flagged up. Here's hoping the articles raise awareness & get folks doing DUE DILIGENCE xx
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Imagine if I just said
'FUCK IT'
and named them all in one big tweet list...
- bullies
- gaslighters
- emotional abusers
- sexual abusers
- rapists
and all the arseholes in between.
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#TimesUp
#OutThePredators
- Yes he’s on ‘the list’ I’m collating
- Yes I knew this article was coming out
#OurIndustryIsAShitshow
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@Helllvetika
I don’t agree with ‘real castings’ but my god, this should have gone to someone with an actual tail!
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I have been cautioned by the police not to mention abusers by name publicly and/or on social media.
However, they said nothing about responding to emails.
If you have a concern about someone in the industry get in touch:
helen
@britishactorsnetwork
.co.uk
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@mrnickharvey
Went to my 1st under 18’s disco in an over 18’s club on condition Dad picked me up. I was 16 & agreed so long as he parked round the corner to not embarrass me. He turned up, right across the road wearing a deerstalker & a superman cape waving & yelling ‘coooeeeee I’m here Helen’
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When you are trying to change an entire industry whilst filling out your Universal Credit form...
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You know how I'm always saying 'call it out, speak up, message me and I will speak up for you'?
Well, now I finally have the evidence, I have spoken up for myself to
@CDGNews
- I'm expecting backlash, lots of shite, drama & even more blacklisting
Will keep you all posted...
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Having a cunt of a time with my mental health. You are not alone xx
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I then had a kick up the arse from pals who reminded me that this was one of the things noted in the casting I was tweeting about - no 'overweight' kids.
I decided to bite the bullet and I just recorded a slot for BBC Breakfast tomorrow.
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Wonder if the 2 agents who sent messages to all their clients calling me a fraud and to 'stay away' from me know their clients flock to me for help in either leaving them or getting them out of the shit contracts they have signed them up to...
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Am losing followers as I post more
#BlackLivesMatter
posts. Good - off you fuck you racist twats.
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@RoCa74394915
I plan on sliding into my cardboard coffin with a bag of hairbo in one hand a pint of wine in the other and a cat on my head singing 'I spent it all, bitches'...
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Them: can you help?
Me: Yep, here are my rates
Them: You don't help for free?
Me: Nope
Them: Thanks will look elsewhere.
3 weeks later
Them: hi, can you help, noone else can help & keep sending me to you
Me: Yep, here are my rates
Them: You really won't help me for free?
Me:
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I can't remember what life was like before I was on first-name terms with journalists, speaking to them every day whilst juggling people & stories. I continue to look out for the most important people - those brave enough to come forward.
Together we will change this industry x
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@ask_aubry
Christ, I would never have thought of trying different things if it weren't for this guy and his clutched pearls of wisdom.
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Last year I started collating a list of abusers in the film, tv & theatre industries. I started with a blank spreadsheet & with hundreds of emails still to get through, it's currently at 200 rows of reports & 71 columns of shitty behaviour.
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Whenever an actor sends me a showreel, I watch it with the sound turned off. Then I watch it with only the sound turn on.
Then I critique it.
Then I watch it fully. And critique it again.
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Another 'Patriarchy Chicken' blog:
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Dear industry
I speak up for actors & crew to be paid & respected.
I take down bullies & scammers.
We all know I've already fucked my own acting career by speaking out the way I have because the industry doesn't like it.
I literally have nothing to lose.
DM me your gripes!
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The sooner our industry is regulated & starts holding abusers PROPERLY to account for their behaviour instead of turning it back on their survivors, the better.
If you cover for an abuser &/or protect them you are just as bad.
Am fucking raging & have been for most of the day.
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@Willoughbeer
Quite, my Mum is partially deaf so considering that others may not hear me is always top of my list too and yes, a tap on the shoulder/arm is one thing - a 'let me take you, woman, by the hips and move you to one side' is a whole other ball game!
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I am now linked to a mental health therapist. Had my first session tonight.
I've a 'lot to unpack' with my past traumas and PTSD diagnosis.
Onwards and upwards 🥰
Mental health is a cunt and a half. Don't be afraid of it. Embrace it and deal with it xx
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Do (some) CD's honestly think actors sit by their phone waiting for emails to ping... Here we have one bitching because actors couldn't attend an audition due to holidays, childcare commitments and a day job not allowing them time off... Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
#CastingManifesto
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Yet when I sent a report where 22 women came forward about an indie filmmaker it was rebuffed as a third-party complaint and I was told I'd be arrested if I mentioned said filmmaker again on social media.
#WhatTheFuckAreTheRules
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Eyes update:
Not great news for me I’m afraid folks 🙁🙁
Big day tomorrow.
At the eye hospital to find out if I've gone more blind in the last 2 years* or if the deterioration has remained stable. I think I've lost more of my vision but will see what the experts say. Going slowly blind is not fun!
*usually checked annually but COVID!
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Been sent photos today.
Last night, posters popped up on theatres in London saying ‘you are working with these people’ and then naming some concerning people along with the
#MeTo
hashtag.
Be interesting to know if anyone spotted them...
Not posting the pics here, yet.
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I have resigned as a committee member for the Online Branch of
@EquityUK
For those of you who thought bitching to Equity would silence me, think again.
I will not stop outing bullies, predators & those who seek to manipulate people in our industry.
My work has only just begun
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Working on a Sunday? Yep - working on 'the list' and just had a lovely 1-hour phone call with another investigative journalist. Moved forward with officially reporting one name on the list too so been a productive yet draining day so far! x
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@rachelparris
It's beyond appalling, isn't it!! I get so sick of having to call out this shit on sites that say they vet and check all castings. This has been amended but the only part that has been removed is the 'she must NOT have hit puberty' part. The rest is, apparently, ok!! 🤬😥
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- Filmmakers requesting 'essential nudity' & bikini photos with CV.
- Ad agencies needing actors to do their own filming with crappy buyouts.
Let's sort this industry NOW: make changes, set the standard & set boundaries for going forward.
Racing to the bottom is so 2019.
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How about a month where ALL the men fuck off and let women get on with sorting all the shit out? Men can only come back when given permission and once they have signed ALL RIGHTS to their penis over to the 'Government'. Sound fair?
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Blocked another guy cos of cuntish behaviour.
If you DM me with 'wow hot profile pic, how old are you?' & you honestly believe it will result in 'on which day of the week would you like me to suck your cock' then you are de-fucking-luded. Obv I'm a 'bitch' for saying 'no' to you.
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Tick tock.
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@ask_aubry
Pretty sure it was me who shat out my shit this morning & put the Glide under my boobs to stop the chafe. I’m almost positive God was in the other room planning the next flood & had nothing to do with any of it. My (ex) husband is still in the freezer where I left him. Paul lies.
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Just off the phone to the BBC. If all this doesn't spark a change in the industry, nothing will!
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If everything opens tomorrow, I still won't be going anywhere.
#FuckingStupidIdea
#PeopleAreStillDying
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And another one:
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So far, I’ve had phone calls with The Stage and The Telegraph so look out for articles soon. Hope I’m quoted properly 😀
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When you get messages on a Friday night from proper decent CD's saying:
'let's chat next week, I got your back, how can we make this work?'
...you know you are on the right track with
@BritishActorNet
#Time4Change
#Actors
#Casting
#RockTheBoat
#HoofTheAppleCart
#NoPayNoWay
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@LstansX
@CommonsDCMS
@AlexDaviesJones
@cj_dinenage
@OliverDowden
Well, now I'm on the
@Dcms
roundtable that
@RebeccaFMusic
got started with
@cj_dinenage
, things will hopefully start changing. Lots of people have lots of solutions, it's a matter of linking them all together:
@saysoconcerns
@callitfilmtvapp
@TIMESUPUK
Model's Trust & more x
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It is with the heaviest of hearts & through a river of tears that I post this update.
#FosterBabyKeira
crossed🌈Bridge at 14:15 today. She was 20½.
Her wee body finally failed her.
I am 💔💔
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My Twatter is going mental. My FB messages are going mental. My emails are going mental.
I am trying my best to only smoosh this wee beast today. It's hard cos the level of cuntiness out there is HUGE.
Am choosing smooshing though x
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Updated with full list of theatres the posters appeared on:
Almeida, Apollo, Lyric, Sondheim, Palace, Noel Coward, Wyndham, Vaudeville, Young Vic, Old Vic, National, Trafalgar and Playhouse.
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Random bloke online: if you didn't swear so much I'd likely choose you as a wife.
Me: Fuckity bawsacks with a side of cuntflaps and an extra helping of stop being a wankpuffin ya fucking twatspangle.
Pick me, pick me, pick me. Jokes. Fuck off you utter shitgibbons.
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If I ever get a job on a contract with
@JohnBarrowman
do I really need to add 'no penis in my face' as a clause to my contract? Is this where we are at now?
BURN IT ALL DOWN
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Them: You now have over 7,000 followers on Twitter. Will you limit your swearing and stop using the c-word to set an example?
Me: Why would I change? I am the same person and there are still cunts out in the world! What fucking example should I suddenly be setting?
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Birthday flowers arrived from Mama Raw - how stunning are these?! 🥰🥰
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Hi
@SkySports
, could I please ask why you are only paying actors £250 all in (no buyout) for an advert when they also have to do all the filming themselves in an incredibly short same-day turnaround? Thanks.
@SpotlightUK
@EquityUK
@EquityLPNP
Screengrabs of casting available.
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Meeting with Elizabeth Peyton-Jones, CEO of Models Trust tomorrow to see how we can link up with the work going on with
@BritishActorNet
@RebeccaFMusic
@saysoconcerns
&
@callitfilmtvapp
. So many good people with working solutions.
@DCMS
pls take note
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I say the word 'cunt' a lot. I'm Scottish & I love it.
Tweets, where I have used this word, have been grabbed & used as 'evidence' to show how awful a human I am having called out someone in the industry.
FUCK A DUCK they will stoop so low to try & shut me up.
Cunty McCunters
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RIP Papa Raw. 27 years ago today. I turned 19 as my Dad took his last breath. I’m 46 today - 3 years older than he was when his cancer riddled body finally gave up.
Think about him every day 💔🥰
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If a CD doesn't have time to tell actors
#YesOrNO
or
#RemoveFromPencil
they don't have time to be running
#PaytoPlay
workshops. Actors are browbeaten into believing they have to pay to attend these workshops in order to be seen -
#FuckOff
#IAmBAN
#WeAreBAN
@BritishActorNet
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And yes, he’s on ‘the list’. Named now - Charlie Hanson.
In a TV exclusive, Channel 4 News has learnt Netflix has suspended a producer, amid accusations of historic sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.
Reporting by
@MinnieStephC4
,
@GirishJuneja
and
@sophwilkinson
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Them: Report the fuckers, get them on 'the list', I believe their victims/survivors
Also Them: They are my pal, innocent until proven guilty, be nice
FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF & GOOGLE:
- cognitive dissonance
and
- confirmation bias
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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Them: am scared to report my industry sexual assault
Me: only tell me what you are comfortable reporting
Them: ok. Xyz
Me: holy shit. Xyz? What a cunt
Them: Gah you are my new best pal
Me: I have a blow-up bed if you ever need a space in Glasgow
Them: Might book a train right now
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@ask_aubry
I had my first grope from a grown-ass creepy-as-fuck adult man on an escalator in a shop when I was about 9. Never seen my Dad move so fast to grab him!
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I've been calling out shitty behaviour in the industry since 2008 - everything from actors not being paid to sexual harassment & bullying.
If you don’t like that I do this, get in touch with those behaving shittily & educate them instead of trying to silence & gaslight me.
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All these emails in today and I've not yet got through all the ones from yesterday! I will reply to all of you, I promise x
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@Emanuel_nld
@ask_aubry
Bet you don’t touch a man on the lower waist to move him out of the way. HANDS OFF! Use your words.
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I'm a rape & sexual assault survivor dealing with hundreds of emails reporting rape, sexual assault, harassment & all sorts of other misogynistic crap in the entertainment industy. I'm sick of it. If I can name without going to jail, I will
@TimeIsUp
@OutThePredators
@FuckYou
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@Ginger_Tucci
Thank god he told you how to use the Google - how ever would you have managed otherwise?
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Want a depressing read? Check the comments on this thread! Look at all the brown nosing and desperate ‘pick me, I’d never cancel’ going on.
Wonder how the 4 actors who cancelled, for whatever reason, will feel reading this from their fellow creatives
#ThrowActorsUnderTheBus
I’m casting today. 4 people cancelled already!
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Casting Director teeets: 6 actors called to cancel their audition today and their ‘unprofessionalism’ astounds her
Actors of Twitter: could have been me, selfish aresholes, blacklist them, I once walked 8k in 4ft snow wearing only knickers and sandals for a 3 min audition.
#FFS
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Finally found the missing jigsaw piece of information & am now like Jessica Fletcher on speed. Getting all my ducks in a row before I go public with the shitty levels folks will stoop to in this industry to shut you up when you call out bad behaviour.
#NoFucksLeftToGive
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