The Sun's forgiven him and, after a week of writ-chasing, so has Stuart Lubbock's dad, so is this the signal for Michael Barrymore to return to England and the sort of Strike it Lucky TV role that helped make him famous?
Endemol, after Noel Edmond's renaissance now the specialist in reviving stagnant TV careers, thinks it's high time he was back , and he's said to be making the first tentative steps with a guest slot on Channel 4's Friday Night Project.
Almost as stunning as the Sun's U-turn on Barrymore is the paper's volte face on the evidence. Across two pages a Sun investigation claims to have 'unearthed "lost" evidence'. Except that most of this missing evidence has been in the public domain for some time, it just depended upon where you looked for your information: as can be seen in a three-year-old piece by Mark Simpson.
After two years living in New Zealand, and the backing of The Sun, is Barrymore now ready to be given his own show and if so, what format should it take?
