Ricky Gervais, DJ Tim Westwood, Katie Hopkins, & The Murder of Julia Martha Thomas (UK Creepiness)
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02/04/23 • 75 min
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“A Quartet of UK Creeps”
Co-Horts! We have reached season 19 (!), leading it with one of our “Quartet of Creeps”--UK style! We have stories of creepiness from the worlds of entertainment, punditry and a tale about an Irish woman who really disliked her British boss. These stories are more of an overview than a deep dive into shitty behavior, and we always reserve the right to revisit any or all of them as solo episodes.
Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, murder, racism, sexism, transphobia, and general assholery.
Sources for Ricky Gervais
- Darryl R. Scott’s Medium post
- Paste Magazine
- The Mary Sue
- Vox
- Ricky Gervias’s tweets about how trans people are rapists, perverts, liars, and linguistic terrorists, and his claims to be very concerned with the state of cis men pretending to be women to rape them
- Wikipedia
- The Sun
- The Guardian
- ITV April 26, 2022
- BBC.com
- Tim Westwood and G-Eazy in 2015
- BBC and The Guardian's Abuse of Power
- Tim Westwood Hop Hop’s Open Secret
- Tim Westwood Wikipedia
- Gardner Davis YouTube 2019
Sources for Kate Webster
“A Quartet of UK Creeps”
Co-Horts! We have reached season 19 (!), leading it with one of our “Quartet of Creeps”--UK style! We have stories of creepiness from the worlds of entertainment, punditry and a tale about an Irish woman who really disliked her British boss. These stories are more of an overview than a deep dive into shitty behavior, and we always reserve the right to revisit any or all of them as solo episodes.
Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, murder, racism, sexism, transphobia, and general assholery.
Sources for Ricky Gervais
- Darryl R. Scott’s Medium post
- Paste Magazine
- The Mary Sue
- Vox
- Ricky Gervias’s tweets about how trans people are rapists, perverts, liars, and linguistic terrorists, and his claims to be very concerned with the state of cis men pretending to be women to rape them
- Wikipedia
- The Sun
- The Guardian
- ITV April 26, 2022
- BBC.com
- Tim Westwood and G-Eazy in 2015
- BBC and The Guardian's Abuse of Power
- Tim Westwood Hop Hop’s Open Secret
- Tim Westwood Wikipedia
- Gardner Davis YouTube 2019
Sources for Kate Webster
Previous Episode
Howard Hughes: Billionaire & Creep
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Season 18, Episode 10
Howard Hughes
An old-timey Hollywood Creep is a longtime fan favorite of this show. We feel it is time to talk about a billionaire who was acclaimed as an original thinker (he honestly was, though) and also one of Hollywood’s most prolific swordsmen.
Howard Hughes either inherited a fortune or grew a nice inheritance (more on that later) at the age of 19 and would go on to be one of the wealthiest people of the 20th Century while also innovating the worlds of business, aviation, real estate, and most notably--motion pictures.
He was also a manipulative, abusive Creep who treated women like trash and was not all that great to anyone who worked for or was related to him. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in the Martin Scorsese film The Aviator and got many of the essential details correct but missed an opportunity to expose his more douchey behavior.
Thankfully--this is what we do here at What a Creep!
Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, coercive control, and general assholery.
Sources for this episode: BritannicaWikipediaHistory.comBBC.comThe New York PostThe Daily Mail (UK)Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina LongworthRankerHoward Hughes: A Secret Life by Charles HighamCracked:NPR Fresh Air interview with Karina LongworthHistory How Stuff WorksTexas Monthly 1977Noah Dietrich WikipediaBe sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely ... don’t be a creep about it!
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- Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud
Next Episode
The Creepiness of the NFL & NON-Creep of the Week Pat Tillman
2 RecommendationsWhat a Creep
Season 19, Episode 2
The NFL
Are you ready for some football? The NFL (National Football League) is the wealthiest professional sports league in the world and the most popular in the United States.
It’s also got a lot of creepy behavior, including a culture of sexual harassment, doling out light punishment for players convicted of sexual assault and domestic violence, racism, and full-on ignoring player safety.
NON-Creep: Pat Tillman and the Pat Tillman Foundation
Sources for this episode
- AP News
- Bleacher Report
- CNN
- CNN
- The Conversation
- ESPN
- The Nation
- NBC News
- New York Times
- New York Times
- NFL
- NPR
- Ranker
- SB Nation
- Scientific American
- Wikipedia
Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely ... don’t be a creep about it!
- Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod
- Facebook: Join the private group!
- Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast
- Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep
- Email: [email protected]
- We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#
- Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com
- Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud
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