X Factor star Lucy Spraggan reveals she was raped by hotel porter while competing on show
She wasn’t, in fact, actually competing at the time of the alleged rape. We’d have noticed, that would be odd even by the standards of that show.
Inbetween competing, around the time of competing, entirely possibly, but while, no.
An X Factor contestant has revealed how she was raped by a hotel porter while competing on the ITV talent show.
Lucy Spraggan, a 31-year-old singer, suddenly dropped out of the show in 2012 citing illness, despite her popularity with both the public and the judges.
Now, 11 years later, the musician has revealed how she had been out at a Mayfair nightclub to celebrate a fellow contestant’s birthday with members of the show’s production team before she was attacked at her hotel.
In an interview with the Guardian to promote her memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, she said was aged just 20 when she fell unconscious and was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team, where a porter offered to help get her to her room.
Fell unconscius after drinking in a nightclub, eh?
Hmm.
’X Factor star Lucy Spraggan reveals she was raped by hotel porter while competing on show.’
Was anyone arrested, charged and convicted? No?
Then that should read ‘X Factor star Lucy Spraggan claims she was raped by hotel porter while competing on show.’ shouldn’t it?
According to wiki, she was indeed raped, and the perp got 10 years for that.
Of course, the sobbing and moaning has nothing to do with the release of her memoir this month, and a new album next month…
Pity Sales are Easy Sales, after all…
Thanks, Grikath, as I’d never heard of her, I didn’t want to Google to find out, and add to her hits!
https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime/22032156.wembley-hotel-porter-jailed-raping-celebrity-guest-room/
Ah.. Found the actual occasion.. I was wondering why there wasn’t more of a stink about this…
And yes… Cultural Enrichment was involved…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/15/lucy-spraggan-reveals-she-was-sexually-attacked-during-x-factor
You can, if you wish, read the tale in the Guardian.
The usual line in such circumstances is to claim “I was drugged” rather than the more accurate “I couldn’t hold my liquor”.
Glad the perp was sent down though, regardless.
Boganboy:
Interesting how the Guardian doesn’t mention the ethnicity of the attacker. They must have had a quick “Oppression Olympics” team meeting, and decided that even being a tattooed lesbian doesn’t justify that sort of revelation.
Natural language is full of ambiguities, and this is one example. “While competing” can mean something that happened either during performance on stage or within the period of the whole competition. Tha latter is the sense intended here.
It says “aged just 20”.
At what age do we drop the “just” from the ages of people who have bad things happen to them? Twenty seems high to still be using “just”.