Monday, Aug 17, 2009

Property Behaving Badly

Mail: Neil Morrissey vows to pay creditors after property firm collapse leaves him £2.5m in debt

"Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey is millions of pounds in debt after a property scheme he invested in collapsed, it was reported today. Morrissey (who provided some of the voices in the children's television show Bob the Builder), set up a property company five years ago".

Posted by alan @ 11:46 AM (1688 views) Add Comment

12 Comments

1. paul said...

It's all good bear fodder, but I think it would be a mistake to put him in the same league as the Turner-Bovey shysters. If anything he shows them up and its not as if he's been investing in stuff because he thinks it'll be a moneyspinner - it sounds like stuff fairly close to his heart.

Monday, August 17, 2009 12:00PM Report Comment
 

2. Francis said...

Can we fix it? No we can't!

Monday, August 17, 2009 04:36PM Report Comment
 

3. vacuouspolitician said...

...why do we put so much emphasis in all these "so-called" personalities? So what...who really cares what a third rate actor thinks! Perhaps if the BBC/fee payer hadn't paid him so much he would perhaps be in the same position as millions of other less fortunate ordinary people. Why not spare a thought for good old ordinary Tom and June who lost their jobs with Woolworths and remain on the New Labour scrap heap. They are the true victims of this mess and face huge problems for the future day by day...

Monday, August 17, 2009 05:18PM Report Comment
 

4. techieman said...

Tom and June? Surely you mean Terry and June?

Monday, August 17, 2009 05:32PM Report Comment
 

5. vacuouspolitician said...

lol.

J...U...N...E...!

Hmmm...Were Terry and June ordinary people? Maybe...maybe not...

Monday, August 17, 2009 05:44PM Report Comment
 

6. inbreda said...

ordinary people? I don't know. But Terry was about as good an actor as morrisey.

Monday, August 17, 2009 08:03PM Report Comment
 

7. stillthinking said...

Good for him. Maybe 2.5 million fund raising is a bit of a challenge off the back of Men Behaving Badly, but if he manages it, trustworthy guy.

Monday, August 17, 2009 10:32PM Report Comment
 

8. vacuouspolitician said...

@6. Quite. I believe it was Terry who was the voice for Penfold...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:21AM Report Comment
 

9. bluebeach said...

Also "Carry on Camping....Ah, the best...Terry Scott was a put-upon suburban, coerced into outdoor vacations by his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife, while Charles Hawtrey was the campest of campers who befriends them..... those were the days eh...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 08:00AM Report Comment
 

10. Diddy said...

I agree with the essence of stillthinkings comments. We can all get affected by a sudden downturn as we see now in the economy and it appears that greed of others has put us there. That is not fair but it has happened before and will happen again, sadly. Whether it is a job lost at Woolworths, as mentioned, or £2.5M on a business that someone felt passionate about it is still sad to see people affected for the worse. When I read Morriseys comments on how he chose IVA to a "simple bankruptcy order" I was impressed, and wondered whether i would have had the guts to try to pay off my debts, £ by £, over such a period. Many would walk away from their liability(and they might have no other choice) and some mock him and call him greedy. However, it is extremely rare to read of such a decision and those who like to take a pop at people know they cannot genuinely take that from him.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 09:34AM Report Comment
 

11. vacuouspolitician said...

@10 Time will tell. Words are fine... after all its great PR. But lets watch this space hey. If he pays it all off, in full, from his own personal fortune then and only then I will consider him an honourable person. At the moment...

@9. "his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife" lol. Yes. Brings back memories...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 06:29PM Report Comment
 

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