Craig McLaughlin

I have had to...

accept what's played out, but that doesn't make it right and that doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

I have to be at peace with what happened.

One of the things the producer John Frost, I've known John Frost since the 1990s, that's the previous century.

and I've done a number of shows with Mr Frost.

Do you know when we first met, I made a pledge to him, and I'm smiling while I say it.

I can remember it like it was yesterday, and he laughed, and I said, whenever I'm in your employ...

I will never miss a show.

I held a record for the number of performances in London without ever missing a performance.

I was very proud of it.

Because for me, it's always been about the audience parting with their hard-earned dollars to come and see it.

We never missed a show.

Second, never missed a show.

And on and on and on.

The Greases, the arena shows, Chicago, Rocky Horror.

until 2018 when I had to step down, my last performance being January 7th, 2018.

But in relation to Cluedo, Vanessa and I had conversations with John, and I actually said to him, I said, you know, there's a small squad, to use a military term, because they weaponized the situation and they planned their attack using social media.

I said, there's a small group of people who will kick up a stink

that you're going to put me in this show.

And he said, and I quote, you're an innocent man.