Ross Barton (Michael Parr)

[rossfan]

I thought I'd post this nice news article about Michael. He's doing so well lately and he really deserves it! Really happy for him!


Emmerdale's Michael Parr has won another award - this time in his hometown
The actor picked up a prize at the Pride of St Helens Awards recently.

Emmerdale's Michael Parr just can't stop winning prizes at the moment, having had another successful night at the Pride of St Helens Awards.

The actor received the Imperial Arts Award at the ceremony, which took place in his hometown last Friday, the St Helens Star reports.

The news comes after he picked up Best Actor, Best Bad Boy and Sexiest Male at the Inside Soap Awards last month.

Parr, who plays Ross Barton on the soap, said of his Imperial Arts Award​: "I'm really grateful for this award and as always, it's great to be back here in the town.

"I want people to see St Helens as somewhere worth going to. I get fed up of describing it as somewhere between Liverpool and Manchester. I shouldn't have to."

He added: "There are so many talented people in the town, whether it's sport or the arts, we're really lucky."

​Meanwhile, the Emmerdale actor recently admitted that even after two years, he was still nervous when he heard about the show getting a new producer.​

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emme...his-home-town/

I found this picture of the night with Michael and his grandad.

[Telly Watcher]

The Inside Soap Awards (ISAs) are just an uncontrolled public opinion vote for members of the general public to vote for who they think, at the time of the vote, who should win a category in soapland from a limited number of choices.

The ISA votes are not one person-one vote (so multiple votes from one person are possible). The ISA vote seems very unfair and open to major bias and inaccuracy to me anyway, as there seems to be massive bias as far as geographical location and personal characteristics of voters may play a major part. For example: are most IS voters female, just fancy anything "bad boy" and exciting, someone local (Merseyside?), someone they've attached to on regular TV (Ross Barton?), etc. When (if ever?) the day comes that Mike Parr is finally recognised by his own experienced peer-group and elders within the acting profession by an Oscar nomination (award?) or some other similar award recognised by the acting profession, then I will, for one, be amongst the very first to stand up, clap and cheer. For now, he is just an unpleasant face on UK Emmerdale soap TV for me.

I myself voted for Ross in all available categories during the ISA vote. But this was like 3 months ago. This is like nuts now. We really need to move on from more recent terrible history. Ross Barton has done some truly dreadful things since August 2015 and after Mike Parr lied to everyone worldwide and Ross Barton "returned from the dead". If I was "head honcho" at Emmerdale, I'd make my first decision to totally ban every actor on Emmerdale from discussing, in any way, any present or future storylines on social media.

Ross Barton has behaved truly way beyond acceptable since his return in August 2015 and I, for one, am terribly disappointed with the actor over this but I do realise that the character is, to some extent (but maybe not absolutely, I'd have the very final say if it was me acting Ross!), at the mercy of the current Emmerdale storyliners. I just wish that I'd been an Emmerdale storyliner for Ross Barton for the return storylines from August 2015. I can assure everyone that I would have written things very differently for Ross Barton if I had been the one in charge of Ross's storyline and that there would definitely have included at least some character redemption by now, if not way earlier than this.

As for the recent "Pride of St Helens Award" for Mike Parr, well, I can understand, in a way, of how this was maybe very well-meant for a local lad who has done well for himself. But I do not, in any way, think that he is presently the most appropriate guy to be a respected figurehead for St Helens in Merseyside or a good representative for tourism within the Merseyside region. This award might well have been appropriate 3 or more months ago but it is not, in any way in my opinion, appropriate right now.

As Mike Parr said himself. "I get fed up of describing it as somewhere between Liverpool and Manchester". He really suggests, at least to me anyway by doing this, that St Helens is "chav central"? I am certain that he never meant this, however, but this is how it comes across for now.

The publication of the "Pride of St Helens Award" details from last Friday were not published until about 00:22 this morning (Friday 20/11/15), some 6 days after the Paris atrocities were committed. I really do wonder why there was a publication delay.

The St Helens Awards ceremony for Mike Parr on Friday 13th November seems to pre-date the Paris atrocities later that night. I suppose that no-one could have really known when or what was going to happen later in Paris then but I would never have advised the St Helens ceremony to proceed earlier with its award to Ross Parr. I really do not think that the City of Paris will ever award the Paris "bad guys" for that night from 8:20pm with a "Pride of Paris Award", other than something painted on the front of a cruise missile aimed at their criminal HQ.

I really do wonder right now if the world has already jumped off a cliff and cannot be saved. I really do hope that this is not the case and that the whole world can live in peace and prosper in the future.

Sources:
Arts award goes to Soap bad boy Michael Parr
Paula Morris / Thursday 19 November 2015
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/1..._Michael_Parr/

Local St Helens Star news available at:
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/

[deeCee]

The St Helens Awards ceremony for Mike Parr on Friday 13th November seems to pre-date the Paris atrocities later that night. I suppose that no-one could have really known when or what was going to happen later in Paris then but I would never have advised the St Helens ceremony to proceed earlier with its award to Ross Parr. I really do not think that the City of Paris will ever award the Paris "bad guys" for that night from 8:20pm with a "Pride of Paris Award", other than something painted on the front of a cruise missile aimed at their criminal HQ.

Michael Parr is acting a role.

Ross Barton and his crimes are fictional.

The Paris attacks are real.

I'm baffled as to what you see as a connection.

[Perdita]

Michael Parr is acting a role.

Ross Barton and his crimes are fictional.

The Paris attacks are real.

I'm baffled as to what you see as a connection.

You are not alone!!!

[rossfan]

Michael Parr is acting a role.

Ross Barton and his crimes are fictional.

The Paris attacks are real.

I'm baffled as to what you see as a connection.

I don't get it either!

[rossfan]

Michael Parr is acting a role.

Ross Barton and his crimes are fictional.

The Paris attacks are real.

I'm baffled as to what you see as a connection.

I don't get it either!

[JessicaMad]

The Inside Soap Awards (ISAs) are just an uncontrolled public opinion vote for members of the general public to vote for who they think, at the time of the vote, who should win a category in soapland from a limited number of choices.

The ISA votes are not one person-one vote (so multiple votes from one person are possible). The ISA vote seems very unfair and open to major bias and inaccuracy to me anyway, as there seems to be massive bias as far as geographical location and personal characteristics of voters may play a major part. For example: are most IS voters female, just fancy anything \\"bad boy\\" and exciting, someone local (Merseyside?), someone they've attached to on regular TV (Ross Barton?), etc. When (if ever?) the day comes that Mike Parr is finally recognised by his own experienced peer-group and elders within the acting profession by an Oscar nomination (award?) or some other similar award recognised by the acting profession, then I will, for one, be amongst the very first to stand up, clap and cheer. For now, he is just an unpleasant face on UK Emmerdale soap TV for me.

I myself voted for Ross in all available categories during the ISA vote. But this was like 3 months ago. This is like nuts now. We really need to move on from more recent terrible history. Ross Barton has done some truly dreadful things since August 2015 and after Mike Parr lied to everyone worldwide and Ross Barton \\"returned from the dead\\". If I was \\"head honcho\\" at Emmerdale, I'd make my first decision to totally ban every actor on Emmerdale from discussing, in any way, any present or future storylines on social media.

Ross Barton has behaved truly way beyond acceptable since his return in August 2015 and I, for one, am terribly disappointed with the actor over this but I do realise that the character is, to some extent (but maybe not absolutely, I'd have the very final say if it was me acting Ross!), at the mercy of the current Emmerdale storyliners. I just wish that I'd been an Emmerdale storyliner for Ross Barton for the return storylines from August 2015. I can assure everyone that I would have written things very differently for Ross Barton if I had been the one in charge of Ross's storyline and that there would definitely have included at least some character redemption by now, if not way earlier than this.

As for the recent \\"Pride of St Helens Award\\" for Mike Parr, well, I can understand, in a way, of how this was maybe very well-meant for a local lad who has done well for himself. But I do not, in any way, think that he is presently the most appropriate guy to be a respected figurehead for St Helens in Merseyside or a good representative for tourism within the Merseyside region. This award might well have been appropriate 3 or more months ago but it is not, in any way in my opinion, appropriate right now.

As Mike Parr said himself. \\"I get fed up of describing it as somewhere between Liverpool and Manchester\\". He really suggests, at least to me anyway by doing this, that St Helens is \\"chav central\\"? I am certain that he never meant this, however, but this is how it comes across for now.

The publication of the \\"Pride of St Helens Award\\" details from last Friday were not published until about 00:22 this morning (Friday 20/11/15), some 6 days after the Paris atrocities were committed. I really do wonder why there was a publication delay.

The St Helens Awards ceremony for Mike Parr on Friday 13th November seems to pre-date the Paris atrocities later that night. I suppose that no-one could have really known when or what was going to happen later in Paris then but I would never have advised the St Helens ceremony to proceed earlier with its award to Ross Parr. I really do not think that the City of Paris will ever award the Paris \\"bad guys\\" for that night from 8:20pm with a \\"Pride of Paris Award\\", other than something painted on the front of a cruise missile aimed at their criminal HQ.

I really do wonder right now if the world has already jumped off a cliff and cannot be saved. I really do hope that this is not the case and that the whole world can live in peace and prosper in the future.

Sources:
Arts award goes to Soap bad boy Michael Parr
Paula Morris / Thursday 19 November 2015
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/1..._Michael_Parr/

Local St Helens Star news available at:
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/

I actually find it quite disturbing that you dislike a fictional character so much that you feel the need to bring a real life international crisis into it and have to slam the actor on EVERYTHING he does. You keep writing long walls of text on how much you dislike Ross Barton and anything to do with him, okay we get it, the character annoys you, it's not a national disaster! You seem intent on targeting the actor, and his fans over a fictional story. I find it disgusting that you are comparing a TV show character to an evil terrorist group.

What's next, are you going to start slamming Mike's mum and dad for being the reason he is alive? If it bothers you so much, switch off and dedicate your time to real life issues!

[Telly Watcher]

Michael Parr is acting a role.
Ross Barton and his crimes are fictional.
The Paris attacks are real.
I'm baffled as to what you see as a connection.

Promoting violence, whether real or fictional, large-scale or small scale, or anything in-between, in the news or on TV, especially if it is unnecessary, is not usually a good idea or answer to problems in a village, town, city or country. That seems to cover everything from Emmerdale village to Paris city, from one extreme to the other. This is the connection I was trying to explain before. There are other ways of telling a story or solving real-life problems than by using violence.

I've given my ideas, others will have theirs. They may be the same, they may be different. That's what a having balanced discussion is all about. Agreeing to disagree is part of doing that.

[deeCee]

Depicting violence isn't promoting it though, anymore than Jai being shown snorting cocaine is promoting drug use.

I am wondering what violent act in real life would you have used agains Mike Parr if the Paris attacks hadn't happened when they did?

There simply is no connection between Mike Parr and international terrorism that I can see.

And to be honest, I don't want my entertainment infantilised in order to protect the weak-willed and the moronic.

More Ross please

[deeCee]

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