Nicky Bates

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Painkiller from #TheGreatEscape is all yours

Johannes Radebe and Matt Cardle strut down the Kinky Boots red carpet!

@kinkyboots_uk @MattCardle ❤️

The West End must have a Charlie Price! 👞 💋 @MattCardle

Our official photographer @Roy10Tan had a look behind the scenes yesterday at the West End launch for @kinkyboots_uk starring @jojo_radebe & @MattCardle. The show runs at the @LondonColiseum from 17 Mar-11 Jul Watch out for Roy’s exclusive pics from the shoot, coming soon!

Matt Cardle is the soul of a man in this sneak peek clip of Kinky Boots ahead of its West End opening this month!

@Heavy_Boab My son of 28 stays indoors all the time because of the way he’s been treated with Tourette’s syndrome. Including schools who had no idea!!

Delroy Lindo called it “a classic case of something that could be very negative becoming very positive.” For families living with Tourette’s, this past week has not felt positive. Since the BAFTAs and what happened with John Davidson, I have been arguing that my son deserves to leave his home and be included in society like everyone else. I have had to explain, again and again, that Tourette’s is neurological. That tics are involuntary. That coprolalia is not belief, not intent, not character. Yet the conversation keeps circling back to whether people like John, and by extension my son, should simply stay home to avoid offending anyone. Stay home. Remove yourself. Do not attend events. Do not exist publicly in case your disability makes someone uncomfortable. That is the reality this week. This is not abstract for me. My son already navigates anxiety and the constant fear of being misunderstood. Inclusion cannot mean only if your disability is convenient. It cannot mean you are welcome as long as you do not embarrass us. My son deserves to leave the house. He deserves to attend events. He deserves to exist in public. And I am exhausted from having to argue that basic truth.

@HannahEBeachler Idiot!!!

I keep trying to write about what happened at the BAFTAs, and I can't find the words. The situation is almost impossible, but it happened 3 times that night, and one of the three times was directed at myself on the way to dinner after the show.

@BBCNews The @BBCNews and @BAFTA should be apologising to John and the cast of I Swear. The film was about bringing awareness about Tourette’s syndrome and now you’ve let the whole Tourettes community down. My son an adult stays indoors all the time due to discrimination about his tics!

BBC apologises after guest with Tourette's shouts racial slur during Baftas bbc.in/4s0cOa0

@MarcJohn_Oxford @BBCNews Cause of people like you my son spends his whole life alone. He’s never offended anyone! Try living with Tourette’s and watch the film I Swear you may learn something!

@BBCNews If someone has a condition that means they can’t stop themselves from shouting out highly offensive language they should have the judgment to decline an invite to an event like this I know it may not be fair but life isn’t fair, these guys should never have been subjected to this

This intelligent young Black woman with Tourette’s Syndrome explains the incident at the BAFTAs and how Tourette’s affects the person living with the condition. Her race shouldn’t need mentioning, but unfortunately too many people have reacted emotionally to this situation and need a Black woman to explain why someone with Tourette’s who is white is not vocalising profanities toward Black people simply because they’re racist. We need more logic and critical thinking, as this woman brilliantly demonstrates, and fewer snap judgements driven solely by emotion.

The Tourette’s community after all the progress they’ve made over the years

@virginmedia @MelinaKakoulid7 Then need a stupid password for your own account. Why would you want to talk about someone’s else’s account. Surely home details should be enough.

@MelinaKakoulid7 How do you mean please, Melina? We are busier than normal over the phone but answer all calls asap.

Goodafternoon @virginmedia I really wish you would stop referring customers to my chat please. We customers really need to speak to a human being. Why are you doing everything possible to stop customers speaking to a human being? Can someone answer the telephone?

From Northampton to the West End, we're getting ready to RAISE YOU UP! 🙌🏾👠

First day of rehearsals! 🙌🏾 Time to rewrite the plot… 😘👠

@calumscott £336.25 for M&G London

@nickyb36 Where are you seeing that?

Meet and greet is a beautiful way of me appreciating you guys direct and in person, beyond the stage! ❤️‍🔥 You can get yours at calumscott.com

👠 NEW ARTWORK REVEAL 👠 This is your official first look at @Jojo_Radebe and @MattCardle together! 😘 Fall head over heels as this joyous, brand-new production of Kinky Boots struts its way to London this Spring. 💋