Brad Wilson

[pinknick103]

It will be a massive blow to everyone to see the hugely talented Brad leave the show. I for one will really miss seeing him. I havn't seen him that many times, but had hoped I had a fair bit of time to see many more of his performances. The last time I saw him, I did think god hes suddenly got so tall.
I love how he is so smiley, especially in the finale
I get my october rota tomorrow, so Ill know then if I can go - fingers crossed
All the best Brad - you will be missed so much xxx

[NIKKIE-NIKKIE]

We are still trying to get this confirmed from the Production Company.

So just in case things do change, we should hold off on futher best wishes until we know 100% concrete, and then we can continue on in the traditional fashion.

[Justin]

I guess attempting to get confirmation is sensible. As long as it doesn't include asking for permission whether they're happy for us to discuss this publicly. If they're unhappy that Brad has told the world - well tough. We're unofficial. Although this begs the question of what we do if we can't get confirmation/the powers that be refuse to give confirmation one way or the other until much closer the time.

It's almost ironic in a sense - that on the one hand the sole reason that we don't speculate on leaving dates is to spare the kid's feelings (and as far as I understand it has nothing to do with whether the production are happy or not), and on the other hand when we get a source that pupports to be from the kid himself and have no reason to doubt it - if anyone investigated further it appears his entire extended family are on the FB group as well - we say, well we're not sure about you..we'll wait for confirmation from your boss. This of course has no intention of causing hurt to the kid (in much the same way that speculation has no intention of causing hurt to the leavers), but it does seem...ironic - if we're going to operate on the principle that a kid might not understand that speculation of leaving dates aren't mean spirited - the "not yet adult enough to understand" principle (which I agree with btw), we're clearly using a different principle when we display a skepticism to his statement that is of course in his own best interests, and yet this disbelief has the same potential of causing unintended hurt.

Whatever, I'll stop and to make this Brad-themed as opposed to policy issues...

Good on you, Brad. Well done - in more ways than one.

[johnnyc]

Well spoken, Justin. Although you believe it's sensible to do so, I've never understood why we need to await "permission" from the company, after the child's family has given us the go ahead to report the date for his/her final show.

And now, back to Brad.

[Justin]

I wonder when Brad is next on. I'm guessing Thursday or even Saturday matinee.

[bubsycm]

Let me know if you find out, I'm off on Thurs!

[johnnyc]

I wonder when Brad is next on. I'm guessing Thursday or even Saturday matinee.

I hope he is on one of the shows this week beginning with the Thursday matinee, and continuing through the Saturday matinee, so that I can see him perform one last time Sadly, I will not be at his final show.

[Mike]

wow i feel like a oldtimer now.. i was at Brad's 1st show.... wish i had the chance to see who much he has grown into the role...

[Mike]

Well spoken, Justin. Although you believe it's sensible to do so, I've never understood why we need to await "permission" from the company, after the child's family has given us the go ahead to report the date for his/her final show.

And now, back to Brad.

well said Johnny...

[ERinVA]

I would just point out that a post on facebook is not the same thing as the family giving permission to the forum to confirm a child cast member's leaving details. Facebook and this forum are two entirely different things, and to my knowledge this forum hasn't received any permission by anyone in Brad's family to post anything about Brad's leaving date. So while it may well be true, and probably is, no one has contacted us directly to say anything about it one way or the other.

The criteria we use are that we either await confirmation to us directly by the company or the family, or we accept official publication of information in the news media. None of those things has occurred in this case.