Michael Barrymore: Show Trial By Media

Andrew Billen interviews Barrymore for The Times today.
The feature is called - oh dear - 'Tears of A Clown'.
"Television careers die but they rarely remain buried. The medium exhumes its fallen stars and offers them the opportunity to die again. Outed (as much by himself as by the press), arrested (in connection with the death at his home of a stranger called Stuart Lubbock) and fired (by ITV, his spiritual home), Michael Barrymore first made a return to television five years ago on Celebrity Big Brother."
How could he hope to beat that intro?
Billen paints a picture of Barrymore as a lonely man.
You get the feeling there are some in the media who'll only be happy if he kills himself.
The tabloids hounding of Michael Barrymore has been one of the most disgraceful media spectacles of the last decade.
A show trial by media, it always stank of homophobia; "Well, what do you expect?"
Barrymore - a once brilliant, now broken man - returns to our small screens in a Channel 4 documentary series, Where I Became Me, where people revisit their childhood haunts.
It should make for interesting viewing.
Few people seem quite as haunted as Michael.
Poor sod.