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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Dee Jefferson

FOUND: Craig mclachlan withdraws from cluedo production following backlash over casting - What They Never Told You

Craig McLachlan outside court
Craig McLachlan has pulled out of the Australian production of Cluedo after his casting provoked a backlash. In 2018 he was accused of kissing and groping his female co-stars but was later cleared of all charges. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Craig McLachlan has withdrawn from the Australian production of Cluedo after a backlash to his casting seven years after he was accused of, and denied, touching, kissing and groping his female co-stars without their permission.

Last Wednesday the show’s producers Crossroads Live announced that McLachlan had been cast as Colonel Mustard in a stage adaptation of the 1985 film Clue, based on the boardgame.

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