'Willy Wonka' Actor From Disastrous 'Glasgow Wonka Experience' Accused Of 'Grooming' Student From Time He Was A Teacher
Paul Connell, the actor who played Willy Wonka at the disastrous Glasgow Wonka Experience that's become the internet's favorite meme over the past week has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a former student, throwing a "Milkshake Duck" into what is already a chaotic story.
The claims were made by TikToker Annie Louise Lewis in videos she said were deleted by TikTok. According to her, she was in a romantic relationship with Connell when he was her teacher and she was a student in drama school.
The TikToks state they started dating when she was 16 and he was 22. Though no longer on TikTok, they have been reposted to Twitter / X in recent days as Connell has garnered massive virality amid the Willy Wonka Experience event.
Lewis' TikToks made before and after the deleted videos that reference the situation, but not Connell by name, remain active.
Instagram posts dating back 2015 allege that the pair were an item at that time. Annie Louise Lewis stated that when she was 16, she did not think their relationship was illegal because the Scottish age of consent is 16.
When their relationship was revealed when she turned 17, she claimed she was expelled from school. She also said they dated for five years, and claimed she came to think of their relationship as her being groomed years later in therapy.
Connell has done multiple interviews in the wake of the Wonka Experience fiasco going viral. He appears to have deleted his Twitter account after Lewis' videos came out, but his TikTok is still active.
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Richo Vee
So… what's wrong with the phrase "milkshake duck" exactly? I don't get it.
Rhettorical
Stop trying to make Milkshake Duck a thing. It's not a thing.
Revic
Is milkshake ducking not a description of the precise sequence of events playing out in this incident?
QuasiMadman
"It's only milkshake duck if the individual in question was well known and well-loved prior to the event"…
Is what I would say, if Milkshake Duck were a thing, which it is not and should never be.
Revic
This individual had gotten a lot of sympathetic media coverage, though the window in which it occurred was maybe too brief to qualify. Putting aside whether this qualifies: I'm trying to figure out, when claiming it's "not a thing," if people are saying "this sequence of events never occurs" or "people do not use this term for it" or "people should not use this term for it" or something else. "A thing" is very ambiguous.
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