February 15, 2023, 12:35:59 AM
To support his case, Mr. Grant reminded viewers that Chris Bryant, a member of Parliament who pressed Ms. Brooks, a former editor of The News of the World, into admitting that the paper had paid the police for information, during a hearing in 2003, was the subject of tabloid mockery not long after.A photograph Mr. Bryant had taken of himself, in his underwear, and sent to a man he met through a gay dating Web site, was obtained and published later that year by The Mail on Sunday, a rival tabloid that has also been accused of underhanded tactics. The photograph was used by The Sun, another News Corporation tabloid formerly edited by Ms. Brooks, as recently as 2008, in an article about Mr. Bryant?s political career that referred to him as the ?gay pants MP Bryant.?Last week, Mr. Bryant called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the News of the World scandal. In an interview with London?s Evening Standard, Mr. Bryant said that the last time he met Ms. Brooks, a few years ago, ?She came up to me and said, ?Oh, Mr. Bryant, it?s after dark ? shouldn?t you be on Clapham Common?? The common has a reputation as a place where gay men meet for casual sex. According to Mr. Bryant, the English soap opera star Ms. Brooks was then married to, Ross Kemp, objected and said to his wife: ?Shut up, you homophobic cow.?
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