John Fardy

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834 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Claire Byrne Show · John Fardy reviews ‘Michael’ the biopic · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

there's a scene where this truck arrives and the whole family are standing in his mansion and they're wondering what is it what is it michael and a monkey comes out and this is bubbles and that's about as dramatic as it gets to be honest and there's occasional scenes of him staring at peter pan books going that's who i want to be but like to me that's just that's very pedestrian screenwriting you know

Yeah, I mean, some of the reviews have called it bad karaoke and they've called it just like cosplay.

You know, there's absolutely nothing in it.

Now, there is all of the scandal around Michael Jackson, which was left out.

And we were told that was because there was a legal agreement between one of his alleged victims and the Jackson family or the Jackson Trust, which meant that that case couldn't be mentioned.

But I mean, it's not really a reasonable explanation, is it?

Because you can avoid mentioning that one case and fulfil the obligations of that legal agreement, but you don't have to leave out all of the scandal around Michael Jackson and the claims that were made against him.

You absolutely don't.

And, you know, that statement that was issued from the Jackson estate, you know,

is very handy and I don't mean to be cruel but saying that there was an NDA they discovered in this out-of-court settlement with this young man Jordan Chandler so thereby we can't mention anything to do with his clearly strange relationship with children and it's more pointed at times because you may know there was three and a half hours of this and apparently

And now it's just over two hours, but apparently it went on.

So it now stops in 1988 where he's on the stage at Wembley.

Sorry to give a spoiler, but he's broken free from Joseph, let's say, and he's out on his own and that's where it ends.

Now, apparently there was, as I say, nearly two hours more of footage that went in.

to all these things that happened in the 90s and noughties around accusations of child abuse.

And that's all been left on the colouring room floor.

But as a result of it, you have this really strange scene where he's in a toy shop, Toys R Us, I think it is, and he's buying some toys and all these kids come up to him and he starts signing autographs.

And the vibe you're getting is that the makers of the movie are saying, look, he was just out by himself and then he sees all these kids and he was happy to share his fame with them.

and it leaves an awful taste in your mouth.

And the thing is, right, people are going to pile on in now as we have this conversation, Clare, and say, you know, he was found guilty of nothing, right?

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