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Norman Josiffe (born 12 February 1940), better known in the media as Norman Scott, is an English former dressage trainer [citation needed] and model who was a key figure in the Thorpe affair, a major British political scandal of the 1970s.
Barnstaple, the main town in Thorpe's North Devon constituency. John Jeremy Thorpe was born in 1929, the son and grandson of Conservative MPs. He attended Eton, then studied law at Trinity College, Oxford, where, having decided on a political career, he devoted his main energies to making a personal impact rather than to his studies. [6]
Scott (known then as Norman Josiffe) had first met Thorpe early in 1961 when the former was a 20-year-old groom working for one of Thorpe's wealthy friends. The initial meeting was brief, but nearly a year later Scott, by then in London and destitute, called at the House of Commons to ask the MP for help. [122]
Scott praised Hugh Grant’s performance as Jeremy Thorpe but called the actor ‘not a very nice person’ Norman Scott hits out at his ‘very unkind’ portrayal in A Very English Scandal Skip ...
In 1965, Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal Member of Parliament, must contend with disgruntled ex-lover Norman Josiffe, whom he met in 1961 and had a relationship with for several years. Thorpe had met Norman when the latter was a 21-year-old stable boy in Oxfordshire and wrote many letters to him, which Norman kept.
In 2018, he portrayed Norman Scott in the BBC One miniseries A Very English Scandal, opposite Hugh Grant as parliamentarian Jeremy Thorpe, and also starred as Michael Banks in Mary Poppins Returns. In 2020, Whishaw had a lead role in the fourth season of the critically acclaimed FX black comedy crime drama Fargo , portraying Patrick "Rabbi ...
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