You do realise the article you read to tell me this was 'fake' is based on real events.
So common that it makes it in to Wikipedia - have you tried tackling these places first before registering here to cast shame on someone? I'm sure the Morrissey/Wyngarde demographic pales to that of Times / Independent / Guardian readers.
Feel free to tackle these and then get back to me:
From his TIMES obituary:
"His stock fell further when in 1975 he was fined £75 for gross indecency with a crane driver in a public lavatory at a Gloucester bus station. The defence insisted that he was not homosexual and that he had merely been drunk. One result of the court appearance was to reveal what was probably his real name: Cyril Louis Goldbert"
(
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/peter-wyngarde-obituary-vwzj2798n)
From the Guardian:
"During a time when it was difficult to be an openly homosexual celebrity, it was known in acting circles that Wyngarde was gay – with Petunia Winegum as a nickname – but it was kept secret from the public."
"He was outed publicly as gay in 1975 following charges of gross indecency, and the ensuing scandal saw his television appearances dwindle."
(
https://www.theguardian.com/culture...nd-tributes-paid--cult-tv-star-peter-wyngarde)
From The Life of Alan Bates by Donald Spoto:
"Less tranquil was The Caretaker, "a poetic exploration of the desire to dominate". Bates was in a relationship with Peter Wyngarde, known to the profession as Petunia Winegum, who as Petruchio put a banana down his tights during matinées. The liaison was a psychologically damaging, Pinter-style situation."
(cited in: Roger Lewis reviews Otherwise Engaged: the Life of Alan Bates by Donald Spoto - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...3666144/The-minute-they-got-close-he-ran.html)
From the Independent:
"It was only much, much later that I read, I think in Private Eye, the reason for Wyngarde’s switch from ubiquity to obscurity. It was an incident that took place in the rather unglamorous and unerotic surroundings of the gents’ loos at Gloucester Bus Station. Wyngarde was caught, very possibly by some sort of a police entrapment, engaged in what was described as an act of gross indecency with a man.
Wyngarde maintained his innocence and proffered the explanation, for why he had been discovered prone in a cubicle, that he had slipped backwards on a piece of soap carelessly left on the floor. He was given a token fine, but this television career, at any rate, was simply over."
(
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-department-s-flares-space-1999-a8166156.html)
From the BBC:
"Wyngarde was briefly married to actress Dorinda Stevens in the 1950s, and then had a long-term relationship with actor Alan Bates.
His career suffered a setback in 1975 when he was arrested and convicted of "an act of gross indecency" with a lorry driver. He was fined £75 by magistrates under his real name Cyril Louis Goldbert.
The star said the conviction upset him deeply, but did not affect his career. However, his days as a leading man were largely finished.
He attributed his decline to type-casting by "small-minded people", but homophobia was undoubtedly a factor."
(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42731220)
A different era: How iconic actor Peter Wyngarde's 'liaison' in Gloucester Bus Station changed his world forever:
(https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/peter-wyngarde-gloucester-bus-station-1101106)
How Peter Wyngarde's secret sex life was exposed by police, destroying career of the 1970s pin up who inspired Austin Powers:
(https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/how-peter-wyngardes-secret-sex-11872774)
I'm sure the sterling work of one blogspot and someone registering here to tell me how awful I am is a great use of time and befitting of Peter's memory (something I was actually positive about).
FWD.
