Amazing Last Pictures Of Stephen Gately
NOT everyone waited until Stephen Gately was buried to throw mud. The tabloid media jumped the gun and Jan Moir set out to prove why not a single hack has been made a UN Goodwill ambassador.
Now Gately has been laid to rest, the tabloids that made themselves the subject of the story can refocus on the dead star. And today the News of The World has pictures of Gately on the night of his demise.
THIS is Boyzone star Stephen Gately just hours before his shock death - captured on CCTV entering a gay club in Majorca (below right).
Not any old club, mind, but a gay club.
The 33-year-old singer, pictured with husband Andy Cowles, looks carefree and sober. As thousands mourned Stephen at his Dublin funeral, a barman at the club revealed: “He only had one drink. . . he was NOT drunk.”
It doesn’t matter if he was drunk or not, unless you’ve read the tabloid narrative and ignored the coroner’s report and concluded that he died from unnatural causes, in which case his blood-alcohol levels are of paramount importance.
Our heartbreak final video of the star - just hours before his death - confound wild rumours that he got “totally trashed” on an eight-hour booze binge.
Wild rumours, like those mentioned in the Sun, the News of The World’s stable mate which delivered the factual and not-in-the-least-bit-wild headline:
Stephen killed by 8hr binge
And the Mirror’s:
Stephen Gately choked to death on his own vomit
Go on:
The Boyzone star was captured on CCTV footage as he entered a gay disco bar with his civil partner Cowles - both looking completely sober and happy.
Not any old disco bar, mind, but a gay disco bar.
The dramatic images, obtained exclusively by the News of the World, may finally give comfort to his devastated family and friends.
How the press makes itself important. Stephen Gately is dead and his mourners will take comfort from seeing a grainy CCTV video of their relative and friend and the News of The World’s opinion that he looked “sober and happy”.
No, he didn’t look suicidal. He didn’t look depressed. He didn’t look stoned. No pills are seen. Were it not for the “gay bar”, he might not have looked gay.
The video shows they left at 12.33am. They then went to the Euphoria bar 50 yards away, where Stephen met up with jobless Bulgarian Georgi Dochev, 25, before heading across the road to the Black Cat club.
That jobless Bulgarian. Or, if you prefer, a student.
Stephen Gately has been buried – twice: once in the press and once in consecrated ground.
Pictures from his funeral are here.
Posted: 17th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Is Jan Moir trying to get a job with Fred Phelps, for when she’s sent packing from this one? Then she’ll be able to appear at soldiers’ funerals holding banners with equally offensive remarks as she penned in that opinion piece. (The state has a law against Phelps now by the way, to keep a certain distance from all funerals. If he doesn’t he commits an offense.)
Her agenda is ‘gays are promiscuous’. And she pushed that completely disregarding their marriage (or civil partnership). Celebrities have people in their residences all the time - it doesn’t mean they are sleeping with them. Would she make accusations about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie when people stay with them? I don’t think so. That’s because of her hatred of gays. She thinks that just if it’s printed in another tabloid that that gives her the right to repeat it. Whether something is libel or not can be defended by it’s veracity - not by whether it’s printed in another tabloid. Hence she’d have a hard job convincing a judge what she did was not libelous.
The only truthful thing she said was that he didn’t die of natural causes. If you have a stroke and you’re 80 then that could be called natural causes. If you’re 33 then no. A coroner in the States would probably have listed it as ‘death by misadventure’. But I think I know why this doctor said ‘natural’ causes. It was because the liquid in Stephen’s lungs was not illicit drugs, nor sea water, nor any iatrogenic substance, but possibly his own stomach contents.
However, everything else she said was lies; an unconscionable tirade of defamation and innuendo. She thinks that by saying “not playing canasta” instead of using the word ’sex’ that it will be her escape from a libel suit. A prosecuting attorney would argue there can only be one reasonable conclusion to what she was referring. I say make her pay.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Just like to say I am a different Clive from he who posted last entry.
I have absolutely no interest in the late Mr Gately and never listened to Boyzone.
so do not share his sentiments.
I also have no time for Jordan, Peter Andre, the Daily Mail or Bruce Forsyth.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Stephen Gately was happily married to Andy Cowles and there was no having sex with a bulgarian in the sleezy way Moir stated. She’s a liar. She should be sued for defamation. Speaking ill of the dead is an abhorent practice. She should be sued for libel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYLJor0uYao
Some people like Moir just can’t accept other people’s happiness.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Yes… one should hitch one’s wagon very carefully on the internet!
I do allow myself the occasional ironic smile at the implosion while thinking ‘what goes around comes around’.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:24 am
You would think that old Chesty had enough on his plate with his aviator pal flying in the face of CR
October 19th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I also see that old Chesty is allegedly in on the act now taking a pop at Gately and the circumstances of his death as he sees them. No surprise there then!
October 19th, 2009 at 9:49 am
It gets worse
October 19th, 2009 at 9:35 am
agree ironside, and her forced apology was mealy-mouthed and self-justifying.
In a week when a man was battered to death by three teenagers (two of them female) for being gay it seems we’re rapidly heading back to the bad old days of bigotry.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:02 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221360/Stephen-Gately-debate-dominates-internet.html
Well I am not Gay Jan Moir and I am one of those who put in a complaint. Jan Moir just does not get it ,her remarks disgust everyone. If in her tiny square mind she thinks she has only upset the Gay Community she is from another planet. This was a loving son, brother and friend. He was also good looking and from what I have heard a very good and kind person. Jan Moir will never be remembered in such a cherished way. Instead she will be thought of as a spiteful bitter woman who gave no thought for Stephens grieving parents.If Jan Moir had a decent bone in her body she should pay a visit to Stephens parents and apologise, I feel she is however too spineless to do such a deed.