Possibly ironic? Simon Baron-Cohen...

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...as many of you will know, Professor Baron-Cohen (the well-known Asperger's expert based in The Autism Research Centre in Cambridge, England) has a famous cousin, Sacha Baron-Cohen the star of Ali G, Borat, Bruno and The Dictator.

I've just seen this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... ywood.html

...in which he is described as (copied and pasted from the article):

ITs from the daily mail though.

Things that cause cancer, according to... The Daily Mail.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-st ... to-z.html/

It's a vacuous tittle-tattle rag, a noise-generator made of paper - nothing more.

That still doesn't mean that this article is untrue, or that the quotes were not actually spoken by the named people.

I've seen quite a lot of tosh on the Anorak website itself. (pot, kettle...)

I don't really care that the Anorak site quite probably is tosh, because it still makes a good point about that "newspaper" in general and more to the point, links to actual pages - and while none of it is proof that this specific article is any different to the usual mindless drivel The Daily Mail publishes, I see nothing about it which indicates it isn't, either.
What I do see though is idle speculation and pointless "showbiz" tittle-tattle which doesn't actually attempt to establish anything of use or merit at all. It simply fills a space.

Although not quite the right saying...

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

We of course have no proof either way, clearly your views about the newspaper in question have totally coloured your response in any case.

The thread is not meant as a ground-breaking, mind-blowing, utterly serious matter. It's just an observation, along the lines of 'oh look, there's a turn up for the books' level of interest. Would be nice to have peoples' views on it, rather than a character assassination of whichever newspaper it appeared in.

In the meantime, there are plenty of other newspapers with the same type of story on him you are welcome to trash if you like:

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment ... 49739.html
http://www.newshour24.com/2013/02/22/14 ... dicule.htm
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/the- ... mic-838574

Plenty more if you Google. If they are all liars and he is not "famously reclusive" and all those people who know him haven't really said those things about him, perhaps they are all happy to be sued.

So a gossipy rag publishes a speculative article on its showbiz pages and you go looking to take it seriously and back it up like it's saying something relevant, important or of use? Using similar, showbiz tittle-tattle stories from other newspapers?
Well, good luck with that one...

Is there anyone on the forum at the moment who is interested in more than trashing newspapers!

Were you hoping for stimulating discussion? I can't really see what the point would be, even if the article's claims had any merit. Then again, I don't like gossiping about celebrities.

I'm pretty sure that's old news. I think I remember reading Simon saying somewhere that he and Sacha have an agreement-- when they're together, they don't talk shop. They agree to leave AS and Borat the hell alone, and talk about something other than work.

Although, in my own speculative little mind, I can see the whole thing being a sociology experiment that a couple of really smart possibly spectrum teenagers dreamed up one summer...

While we're making celebrity diagnoses, has anyone dug up any spectrum dirt on Charles Darwin??? Wouldn't that be funny??? If social Darwinism says we deserve to be mistreated, that it's only the natural order, and Darwin was an Aspie, that would be really funny, wouldn't it???