Monday, January 15, 2007

‘Big, cuddly softie’ Ian Roberts in Court on Assault…

‘Big, cuddly softie’ Ian Roberts in Court on Assault…


‘Big, cuddly softie’ Ian Roberts in Court on Assault Charge


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Former rugby icon-turned-actor Ian Roberts appeared in court in Sydney yesterday to dispute assault charges made by former boyfriend, Ben Prideaux.


In the mix of this gay potboiler are a misplaced laptop computer, a sleeping stranger, a best friend who heard a different story, acting showreels, and an angry boyfriend who likes to scratch. It’s a “he said, she said” story that Roberts says has been “a thorn in [his] side.”


Roberts explained to a Sydney court that his former boyfriend was in hysterics at the time of the alleged assault after finding a stranger in Roberts’ bed: “Ben still had not calmed down. It was a no-win situation for me…He was fanatical. He had worked himself up … I tried to calm him down. I said: ‘Babe, it’s me; it’s all good.’”


According to Roberts’ best friend, Prideaux called him following the incident and said that “Roberts was just a ‘big, cuddly softie’ and had not hit him.”


The drama resumes, along with the trial, at the end of May.


Ex-league star ‘fearful of scratches’ [courier-mail]
Big softy Roberts a lover not a fighter, court told [sydney morning herald]



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