Vanessa Scammell
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C1 had not been invited back, nor had she been invited back for the 2015 production.
And, as previously mentioned, none of the women who went on to make allegations against Craig, who had applied, auditioned or expressed interest in returning to the show for this production, were successful in being cast.
Later that day, on October the 20th,
The very same day of the Rocky Horror Show cast announcement, three weeks after Weinstein and the frenzy of Me Too had exploded, C1 made her first move.
She posted on Twitter, along with an accompanying hashtag, Me Too.
Six days after this post, on October the 26th, Channel 7 made a public announcement that it was taking over the production of the Dr Blake Mysteries.
The Dr Blake Mysteries had been saved.
Channel 7 had taken on the very show the ABC had axed.
Coincidentally, just weeks later, an ABC producer, Jo Pacini, who happened to be an old acquaintance of Craig, as she used to date the bass player in Craig's band, contacted C1.
C1 spoke to Ms Pacini, but not about the man they had contacted her about, which involved another well-known Australian actor in the firing line.
No, she wanted to talk about Craig McLaughlin.
C1 then reached out to her former castmates, women with whom she had strained relationships, whom she had bullied or alienated back in 2014, to gather support, all of them having missed out on being cast in the latest production.
On December 7, C1 posted an image of the cover of Time magazine, featuring three American women standing together as one for the hashtag MeToo cause.
Her caption read, These women are heroes.
A few days before Christmas, I happened to bump into Siwon's husband whilst shopping in King's Cross.
He hugged me, told me I looked fabulous and proceeded to tell me what he and ****** were doing for Christmas.
I passed on our love to them both and waved him goodbye, not knowing that at this point his wife had already been interviewed by the newspaper and the ABC and that the story was in the can.
This man had been a long-standing friend and colleague to me over many, many years, and to this day I find it hard to reconcile that he was able to take part in such deception.
Just over a week later, on January the 8th, his wife appeared on the cover of every newspaper in the country.