Anthony Worral-Thompson Arrested For Shoplifting Tesco Value Food!

[Si Hunt]

Bizarre!

Celebrity TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested for alleged shoplifting of low-value items from Tesco, it has been reported.

Worrall Thompson, who is best known for his appearances in ‘Ready Steady Cook’ and ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’ in 2003, was caught red-handed on a hidden camera stealing the items from a Tesco store in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.

A camera was set up amid concerns that the famed chef had been stealing from the store five times over a 16-day period.

Worrall Thompson, was arrested on suspicion of theft at the branch and taken to a local police station on Friday.

It is reported that the 60-year-old, of High Wycombe, was cautioned for shop-lifting goods like cheese and bottles of wine from the self-service checkouts by failing to scan the barcodes and then leaving the store with the goods.

You'd think he could afford to buy his own cooking ingredients! What next, Delia Smith caught hotwiring cars??

Si.

[SiHart]

He ought to brie more careful.

What a stupid man. Did he think he'd get away with it? It's like Richard Madeley all over again, people thinking because they're in the public eye they can get away with anything. It's not as if he's hard up is it?

[Si Hunt]

Maybe it's a compulsive disorder thing?

Si.

[Stuart Wallis]

Bizarre!

You'd think he could afford to buy his own cooking ingredients!

There is something ironic in this situation...

[Nyder]

Quel bizarre! I bet he feels a fool now. And it'll give comedians enough material to last all year.....

[Jon Masters]

And yet in the same forum we have a thread about anonimity unless convicted.

Remember he's only been cautioned - maybe he's suffering from dementia, or some other mental illness. In light of what was said elsehwere, seems a bit presumptious to assume he was doing it deliberately or because he thought being famnous would let him get away with it....

[Si Hunt]

Although this is slightly different Jon, in that he's admitted it, apologised, and said he did it "on a whim and without rhyme or reason".

Si.

[Jon Masters]

True, although the same report also says he will 'seek the treatment that is clearly needed' suggesting he recognises something isn't right. And I doubt that he or the police stepped forwards to give the story to the press.

[Stuart Wallis]

Which, in light of other recent events, begs the obvious question...

[Larry]

Bizarre!

You'd think he could afford to buy his own cooking ingredients! What next, Delia Smith caught hotwiring cars??

Si.

I'm not sure if being able to afford it really comes into it I'm sure there have been many people over the years caught shop lifting who come from good middle class backgrounds and they have commited the crime due to emotinal problems rather than deliberatly going out to steal from a shop.

[MinaHarker]

I'm not sure if being able to afford it really comes into it I'm sure there have been many people over the years caught shop lifting who come from good middle class backgrounds and they have commited the crime due to emotinal problems rather than deliberatly going out to steal from a shop.

Winona Ryder...

[Si Hunt]

Larry always dances under my intended irony.

Si.

[Larry]

Larry always dances under my intended irony.

Si.

never do get irony...

[Si Hunt]

It's what you use on a shirty.

Si.

[duncan]

Very good.

Are we not going to do any AWT jokes then such as he's going to be the host of a new daytime cookery show called Ready Steady Crook.

[Rob McCow]

Every Little (man) Helps (himself to whatever he can filch off the shelves).

Is a very weak joke along those lines!

[Stuart Wallis]

It's what you use on a shirty.

Si.

And an irony bar is what you use against people who get shirty.