My solicitor tried to change an edit from anti-trans to pro-feminist and it was changed back within 15 minutes. I dont want my daughter to go into college and have a male-bodied person whose story she doesnt know in the toilet with her. An earlier version said an abortion had been medically recommended for Savita Halappanavar. Peter is married to actress Sarah Alexander, with whom he has two children. It was inspired by the royal family, and she voiced our future queen consort. Linehan who was kicked off Twitter for what the social media platform called repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation also defended Harry Potter author JK Rowling over her stance on transgender issues. I mention Graham Linehan, who co-created Motherland with his then wife Helen Serafinowicz before appearing to leave the series. Here [as opposed to in the States], you cant get out of it. He said: This is a completely confusing, incoherent ideology that we're all supposed to go along with that needs eternal training from the likes of Stonewall which is getting bundles of cash from the confusion that they're supposedly solving. At 55 years old, Graham Linehan height is 6 5 . ", "Linehan wins an Emmy for sitcom on the IT set", "BBC orders a full series of middle-class mum sitcom Motherland", "Graham Linehan: how my transgender views cost me my marriage", "Graham Linehan: the trans debate left me cancelled and broke", "Graham Linehan: My Today programme ambush", "NSW Liberal candidate likens anti-trans activism to opposing the Holocaust", "Harassers Use Substack Sign-Ups to Spam Trans People and Allies", "J. K. Rowling's transphobia is a product of British culture", "Graham Linehan, booted from Twitter for hateful conduct, returns with fake 'trans guy' account", "Empire and Eugenics: Trans Studies in the UK", "The alt-internet of anti-trans activists", "The GOP 'grooming' smear is sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence", "Matt Berry comments on 'transphobic' IT Crowd episode", "Graham Linehan: Trans activists 'don't realise the damage' they do", "Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment", "Those women who disrupted Pride in London and New Zealand are fucking heroes. Graham and Helen have collaborated with Amnesty on a short campaign film calling on the Irish government to repeal the eighth amendment of the constitution, which puts the foetuss right to life on the same footing as a womans. With Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Punch, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready. Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan says he may sue Apple TV for branding him anti-transgender. Ive seen The Road, there is no f***ing way Im living like that, Bella insists. [48], In an interview in the Irish Independent that month, Linehan ruled out working with Channel 4 again as they would not return the controversial IT Crowd episode to broadcast, and he said he would not work with the BBC as they had depicted a transgender lesbian couple, which Linehan described as "a heterosexual couple", in a CBeebies video. [59], Linehan's marriage to Serafinowicz ended in 2020 as a result of his anti-transgender activism, and he moved to London. He has written for shows including Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show . He still is so brilliant. She re-enacts her response, her elastic features shifting into a kind of befuddlement. It just got too much for her., Linehan continued speaking out, getting banned from Twitter until new owner Elon Musk reinstated him. So these kinds of little things are happening all over the place. He linked to a blog post featuring screenshots of abuse Rowling had received, describing those who wrote them as "ignoring the abuse received by women who speak out against gender ideology" and "literally useless". Sort of. And he just disappeared on the show and it wasnt really ever talked about. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. There has been growing demand for the Irish government to allow a referendum on legalising abortion, and last month thousands marched through Dublin to show their support for decriminalisation. The death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, after she was denied an abortion when she began miscarrying, focused attention on the issue, as did reports last year of the treatment of a young asylum seeker who had been raped before coming to Ireland, who was refused an abortion by the Irish health service. Linehan was one of the writers interviewed by Charlie Brooker in a special interview episode of the fifth series of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe programme, and again on Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe in 2010. In 2020 Serafinowicz guest starred in the second season of TBS ' Miracle Workers . [15], In April 2023, Linehan was again banned from Twitter, following his appearance at an anti-trans event in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Foster called the online abuse "transphobic" and "flatly homophobic". The shock of that revelation has prompted the couple to speak out about their experience for the first time, as part of a campaign by Amnesty International calling for decriminalisation of abortion in Ireland. [18] He became involved after the 2008 episode "The Speech" of The IT Crowd, written by Linehan, was widely criticised as transphobic and sexist when it was repeated in 2013;[citation needed] critics said it used gender stereotypes and trivialised violence against transgender women. The comedy writer has become a TV pariah since becoming an outspoken campaigner against gender self-identification - but claims hes been unfairly tarred as bigoted. Women who need this form of healthcare are not criminals.. Its such a beautiful school, said Helen, who has fallen in love with her adopted city and county. Right now the scenes which will have mums laughing, or gasping in recognition, are being pieced together, tragi-comic joke by awkward character by shameful here-but-for-the-grace-of-God shortcut. He called non-binary singer Sam Smith a masturbating walrus for wearing an inflatable latex outfit, and someone else a pronoun wanker. In a recent message, he wrote: Go fk yourselves. He explained: For engaging in this debate, I have been the subject of a series of harassment campaigns, including vexatious legal actions, police visits, magazine articles misrepresenting my positions, threatening letters hand-delivered to my home, my wifes business address released online. . Mr Linehan said: It is a completely metropolitan elite thing. Its our job to try and make it funny and believable. Biden jokes that he's 'really not Irish' because he's sobe Woman has 'loud, full body orgasm' in the middle of LA concert, Meghan Markle's ailing dad says he refuses 'to be buried by her' in 'final ever' interview, I have a micropenis this is how I break the news to sexual partners, BDSY star Daisy Kelliher tells drunk Gary King to stop flirting with me, Rihannas iconic Met Gala looks through the years, Fans question North Wests lavish pre-Met Gala gift for Kim Kardashian: No way, NY Post Sports Reporter Zach Braziller breaks down the Knicks game 1 loss to the Heat, Elon Musk Tells Bill Maher Woke Mind Virus Is Dangerous On Real Time, Kim Kardashian seemingly shades Kourtney's wedding in now-deleted caption. [22] He used the social network Twitter to criticise "trans ideology", which he believes misrepresents transgender people and lesbians. She would have found it very hard to have been forced to carry a baby to term in the knowledge that it was going to die as soon as it was born. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Along the way Graham and Helen collected Sharon Horgan, of Pulling and Catastrophe fame, who had been writing a similar series for the United States with Holly Walsh. We came to visit them and went camping up at Waxham. Mr Musk, world's richest person, has struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44bn (35bn) and said he wants to make Twitter a bastion of free speech. [1] He attended Plunkett's School in Whitehall, on Dublin's northside, followed by Catholic University School, a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys also in Dublin, before joining Hot Press. The pushback was so weirdly aggressive that I just thought there was something a bit strange about it, he said. They started to target her family. She was justifiably scared, he said of his then-wife. You can get really put off by it., Shes happy with her current level of fame, where people seem to recognise her face from something or other, yet rarely know her actual name. Here, its a much friendlier, cosier process. We get together and share all our ideas. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Ive never seen this kind of hate and aggression towards women., He also worries that nowadays trans is so loosely defined and too often includes, for example, a 16-year-old girl whos got dysphoria.. She just happens to have spent all her ancestors money., Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lucy Punch, Keira Knightley, Annabelle Wallis and Matthew Goode in Silent Night', Punch says she feels slightly removed from everywhere, even if she calls LA home for most of the year. He was immediately impressed, which is quite an accolade when your husband is one of Britains top comedy writers. The programme featured interviews with several of the UK's most successful television comedy writers and performers including Steve Coogan, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Paul Whitehouse, Griff Rhys Jones and Ardal O'Hanlon, all of whom have worked with Linehan. "We came to visit them and went camping up at Waxham. In her new film Silent Night, and, well, most things shes in, the 43-year-old flings comedy hand-grenades with a Cheshire Cat grin. 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[58] On 13 February 2009, Linehan hosted the first BadMovieClub on Twitter[64] which repeated the next day at midnight, hosted by Phill Jupitus. I dont think it is safe for women in Ireland to be pregnant. But from the very first pilot episode of Motherland, in 2016, they did. [37][38] The grant was reviewed and went ahead. James Serafinowicz, the brother of Graham's wife Helen, is retweeting a lot of stuff critical of Graham, and has also stated that Helen's views are not the same as Graham's [3] His followers are tweeting misogynistic abuse at trans-supportive SNP politician Mhairi Black [4] -- Annanoon ( talk) 13:31, 27 February 2020 (UTC) Gasp! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. He is a writer and director . I love it here. I love all of them. Its about homophobia. In March, the writer confirmed the break-up of his 16-year marriage to Helen Serafinowicz. [36], In January 2019, Linehan expressed concern over the news that Mermaids, a charitable advocacy organisation for transgender children and teenagers, was to receive a 500,000 lottery grant to open clinics around the United Kingdom. Norwich just had this buzz. Linehan was born in Dublin in 1968. The first response I got was from someone saying and bear in mind Id just had the operation I wish the cancer had won,' he recalled. Linehan was also an executive producer of the first series of The IT Crowd, and an associate producer of one episode of Father Ted. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. All rights reserved. These antiquated laws, enshrined in a constitution that was written for another time, bring suffering and sometimes even death to the thousands of women and girls they touch, she went on. Some months later, they moved back to Ireland, where they discovered that, had they been living there during this first pregnancy, Helen would have been forced to carry the pregnancy to term, or face a 14-year prison sentence for procuring an illegal abortion. When Helen Linehan found out in 2004 that there was something fatally wrong with the 11-week-old foetus she was carrying, she was advised to have an immediate termination, because doctors knew. He appeared in the Identity Parade round of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. The Dubliner said: If you believe that JK Rowling is transphobic, a woman who has devoted her work and much of her fortune to the vulnerable, the bullied, the forgotten and the abused, then you are under a spell.. Together, Graham Linehan, of Father Ted and the IT Crowd fame, and Helen, who was a Cartoon Network producer before having their children, began writing the script which became the pilot episode of Motherland. This is a land grab and standing up to it took real guts. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Website and all original content copyright Chortle 2000 - 2023. He also appeared in the pilot of Little Britain, as well as in series one, episode four, as a bystander who gets in the way of character Kenny Craig when he is attempting to hypnotise, from a distance, a man whose car he has crashed into. Ive had a few moments of people looking nervous of me, she recalls. contact the editor here. Spolen s Arthurem Mathewsem napsal mnoho spnch televiznch komedi, nap. [15] They have two children[56][57][58] and lived in Norwich. He then jumped in with both feet, sparking the threats he blamed for ending his marriage to Serafinowicz, also a comedy writer with whom he has a son as well as the daughter he wanted to defend. But Im not that person at all. She played a gloriously potty-mouthed sex worker in a Woody Allen film the otherwise joyless You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and the offers suddenly poured in. Its time Irish political leaders stopped turning their backs on women and committed to a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment., Although a referendum earlier this year made Ireland the first country to legalise same-sex marriage through popular vote, Graham said he thought this did not indicate that a referendum on abortion would be easily won. [63] In 2018, Linehan underwent successful surgery for testicular cancer.[15]. I dont know how I would I have got through that, mentally or physically, she said. During this appearance, Linehan took issue with Today presenter Justin Webb over what he saw as the attempted staging of an artificial argument between himself and the critic Michael Billington. That is not the case. Abortion is an important medical procedure and when thats taken off the table, then youre not safe. And so Graham and Helen Linehan and their two young children followed ITV arts editor Nina Nannar, and her family to Norwich. Abortion isnt something that anyone wants, but you still have to fight for it. Punch winces. Then, as if Charlie Brookers suddenly hijacked the script, they start to address the dystopian elephant in the room: a toxic fog is lurking towards Britain, the end of the world is nigh, and all of them are planning to kill themselves by Boxing Day. A place without abortion puts two lives in danger, not one, he said. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. On 6 June 2011, Linehan appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to discuss his adaptation of the Ealing comedy film The Ladykillers for the West End stage. Amanda supercilious leader of the terrifying alpha mums. As the latest scenes in her hugely successful tell-it-how-it-is parenting sitcom take shape, series creator and writer Helen Linehan talks about Motherland, mothering and more, Some of the cast of Motherland (photo: BBC/Merman/Colin Hutton) (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a). Now, he says old friends and colleagues are ghosting him, and he has been dumped from every job he had lined up even the Father Ted musical he hoped would be his pension. Motherland creator and writer, Helen Linehan, at her Norwich home (photo: Denise Bradley), Some of the cast of Motherland (photo: BBC/Merman/Colin Hutton), By Ireland will never become a mature country until we move past this point. Mld a vzdln [ editovat | editovat zdroj] Norwich just had this buzz. Graham Linehan ( / lnhn /; born 1968 [1]) is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. [24], In 2018, Linehan praised anti-transgender protesters at that year's London Pride event who had carried banners and flyers saying that "transactivism erases lesbians", calling them "heroes". Smugness and self-satisfaction and ego alongside massive insecurity, she lists off. Graham Linehan was born on May 22, 1968 in Dublin, Ireland. Fans tend to be terrified when they spot Punch in the street. When she tried to escape to England to have an abortion, she was arrested and deported back to Ireland, where she was forced to go ahead with the pregnancy. Pipe down, everyone, be quiet. He later expanded on this criticism in an article published in The Guardian, saying "I'm talking about that very specific, very artificial, very Today programme format of a presenter acting as referee between two people who have been chosen to represent the opposing sides of a manufactured argument. Anne supportive to the point of servitude. Interviews as well are so odd, and revealing stuff about yourself. [2], Linehan and Arthur Mathews met while working at Hot Press. I dont mind talking about my work, but people who talk about things that are terribly personal, Im like: Why are you sharing that?, Plus, you can sometimes get to know someones worldview a bit too well. Their longest marriage has been 16 years to Helen Serafinowicz. She described Irelands abortion laws as abusive. But as she mulls the idea over, she seems to get turned off by it. Then their daughter's best friend announced she was. The 54-year-old was banned from Twitter in 2020 for repeated violations of the sites rules on hateful conduct, but was recently reinstated in Elon Musks moratorium on controversial accounts, and has renewed his relentless campaign against what he calls transgender ideology. God, imagine the protests! she exclaims, her mouth curled into mock outrage. [15] In October 2015, the couple worked with Amnesty International on a campaign film calling on the Irish government to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which "acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right". Earlier this year, the Harry Potter author complained to police after campaigners posted a photo of her Edinburgh home on Twitter. Last month, he gave an interview to the BBCs Nolan radio programme claiming he had been cancelled for his views. Downloads only available on advert-free plans. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Graham Linehan was born on May 22, 1968 in Dublin, Ireland. People will be throwing buns at me. The 54-year-old writer told The Times of London that threats against his views so "scared" his wife, Helen Serafinowicz, that it destroyed their 16-year marriage, leaving him living apart from. [8] Linehan said it would finish the series as they had planned it before the death of the lead actor, Dermot Morgan. [citation needed] Linehan wrote and directed the 2006 Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, in which he sought to move away from the British trend towards mockumentary comedies. Linehan told The Mail on Sunday the potted biography was a bunch of smears and lies. After a couple of years in Norwich Helen set up a business restoring vintage mid-century day beds, chaise longues, sofas and chairs, much of it from Germany hence the name Stubenhocker, or couch potato. Helen was married to writer Graham Linehan. . I moved to the States because I kept getting cast as posh idiots. Menu. He is most noted for the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Helen Serafinowicz used to be Peter. I have always been very proud to be Irish but I am embarrassed by Irelands abortion laws. Oh, hanging out with all my aristocratic friends, you mean? she jokes. [30] Police issued Linehan a verbal warning not to contact Hayden. All he has left, he says, is this weird story of mine that I can use to make jokes with his woes already featuring in the few, heavily guarded stand-up shows he can book, the paper noted. anything and everything has been tried to silence me and prevent people from hearing the reasonable fears many women have about the impact of this ideology on their sex-based rights. Linehan had tweeted the words "Durr imm gonna kill em" in response to a Twitter user who referenced counter-protestors at the Belfast event. Post-natal groups, breastfeeding groups. And which is she most like? [17] The episode was never made as Adventure Time ended in 2018. I found I enjoyed interiors.. Hat Trick Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions have been contacted in relation to this story. Graham Linehan Wife Linehanwas marriedto his wife, writer Helen Serafinowicz,the sister of actor Peter Serafinowicz. He co-wrote the first series of the BBC sitcom Motherland and directed its pilot episode. In August 2009, in response to criticism of the National Health Service by the US Republican Party, Linehan created the #welovetheNHS campaign on Twitter. He is a writer and director, known for Motherland (2016), Father Ted (1995) and The IT Crowd (2006). Spouse Helen Linehan (m. 2004) And so Graham and Helen Linehan and their two young children followed ITV arts editor Nina Nannar, and her family to Norwich. I was just amazed they wanted to work with us, said Helen. She remembers driving past a bus with her face on it shortly after she began working on The Class, and having a mild panic attack. When her children were tiny Helen Linehan would jot down scraps of conversations, anecdotes, day-to-day events which made her laugh, or roll her eyes, or even despair. The comedy writer told the Communications and Digital Committee that engaging in the fashionable American orthodoxy of gender identity ideology led to the split from his wife after work dried up. Designed and build by Powder Blue in association with Ive always liked people just verging on the grotesque. It is a form of abuse against women. Its very: Just do it, then get out. Its disrespectful. Graham Linehan. I ended up working a lot, and with an American accent, she remembers. [61] In January 2009, he helped to publicise the Atheist Bus Campaign. Many others those who perhaps cannot face the thought of undertaking such a long journey for such a harrowing reason, or who perhaps cant afford to make the journey in the first place risk unsafe, illegal abortions, which, without medical supervision, risk health and even death, Helen said. [20] Linehan felt the joke was "harmless" and says he did not understand the "ferocity" of the response, arguing that a transphobic character did not make him or the episode transphobic. He previously alleged Hat Trick offered him more than 200,000 to walk away from the production. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. The foetus had a condition known as acrania, which meant that its skull had not closed over the brain. Graham Linehan worked on sketches for Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Steve Coogan and more before co-creating and writing Father Ted (ranked second only to Fawlty Towers as the greatest British sitcom by a panel of experts) and then writing and creating The IT Crowd.