Drew Barrymore shared an emotional moment with an audience member during a recent taping of her talk show The Drew Barrymore Show.
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Blue singer Lee Ryan has avoided a jail term for drunkenly assaulting a Black female flight attendant.As The Guardian reports, Ryan received a 12-month suspended prison sentence for racially aggravated common assault and behaving in an abusive way towards the cabin crew member.The incident occurred on a British Airways flight from Glasgow to London in July last year. Ryan was found guilty of racially aggravated assault this January.As he sentenced Ryan on Thursday (September 28), Judge Nicholas Wood said that the incident “seemed like a lifetime for everybody on that plane”.He ordered the singer to pay £2,500 in compensation to the British Airways flight attendant Leah Gordon, £750 to her colleague Jade Smith, and £510 in costs.
Wood agreed to suspend the jail term for the next 18 months.After seeing psychological assessments of Ryan, and being made aware that he has high-functioning autistic spectrum disorder, the judge concluded that he didn’t pose an ongoing risk to the public.In January, Ealing Magistrates’ Court heard how Ryan was “slurring his words and staggering around” after drinking a whole bottle of port before the flight.After boarding the plane, Ryan was refused alcohol and told to sit down. He then allegedly told a female cabin crew member, “I want your chocolate children”, and called her a “chocolate cookie” before grabbing her wrist.Giving evidence, the cabin crew member alleged that Ryan “was making comments about my complexion – ‘You’re my chocolate darling, my chocolate cookie, and I’m going to have your chocolate children'”.The judge said at this week’s sentencing that although some of the language used by Ryan was commonplace in the “entertainment industry”, it had “no place on an aircraft, being
.Drew Barrymore shared an emotional moment with an audience member during a recent taping of her talk show The Drew Barrymore Show.
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Blue singer Lee Ryan has been handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence for racially aggravated common assault and being abusive to a member of cabin crew on a flight last year.The pop star, 40, was "slurring his words and staggering around" after drinking a whole bottle of port before a British Airways flight from Glasgow to London City Airport on July 31 last year. He appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, attempting to shield himself from photographers under his blazer on the way into court, where he was sentenced for the incident and ordered to pay costs to two members of cabin crew for his behaviour.
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