Actor Christopher Timothy, who used to appear in a television commercial advertising The Sun newspaper, came to Elstree last week with a bitter attack on the national press.
Many Fleet Street men, he said, were pigs.
Timothy, star of All Creatures Great and Small, said: “You can tell the Press the truth but, if they don’t like it, they will write something else anyway. I believe the only thing actors owe the public is a good performance,”
Timothy, speaking at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, was referring to the bad publicity he received after leaving his wife and six children to live with actress Carol Drinkwater.
He said: “After saying I wanted to play it down to make things easier for my children, reporters told me I should have thought of that before I left them. That means they are setting themselves up as judges as well as reporters. They are pigs, most of them.”
[From the Watford Observer of July 9, 1982]
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