Sappy dappy

Adam Nichols
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Oh good grief.  Government-backed charity Beatbullying picked chart-topping band N-Dubz as its ambassadors only to have to withdraw its commendation of them after Dappy texted a woman who had been critical of him on Chris Moyles' show with, if you could make sense of the ungrammatical text-speak, what could possibly be construed as a death threat.  Why do charities feel they can employ "edgy" people and then become shocked when they act edgily?  Also as the woman who rang in enraged Dappy by describing him very accurately "as a little boy in a silly hat" or something similar I shouldn't imagine she believed him capable of a long-distance assassination.  The media have of course done their usual job on this, and within the same coverage have made Dappy look like a self-important infant and Al Capone. 


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