Craig Charles, the actor who played Dave Lister on the cult sci-fi show Red Dwarf, and who now appears on the English soap opera Coronation Street, has been suspended from the popular show after allegations he smoked crack cocaine on a trip from London to Greater Manchester, where the show is set. Charles, who also hosts “The Craig Charles Funk Show” on BBC radio, supposedly took 60 hits of the drug.
The Daily Mirror, in another undercover scoop, took photos of him allegedly in the act of smoking crack cocaine from a reworked beer can and outlined, in lurid detail, his four hour trip in the back of a chauffeur-driven car. The tabloid has passed the pictures on to police.
The tabloid last year published pictures of model Kate Moss supposedly snorting cocaine, but the subsequent investigation by police faltered because they could not say for sure what substance she had been consuming.
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