Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is now asked whether he met the individual again, and says: “I don’t have a very strong memory but my instinct tells me that we may have seen each other again.”

He says this is based on the text messages they exchanged.

He says at the time the allegation was raised, he put the number “into my device which I had at the time” in 2019, and nothing came up.

Spacey was later able to find the number on an old device he had in storage, he says.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey describes how he watched a video of the complainant who mentioned he was upset on a bus and that had sparked a memory.

It made him recall an encounter he had with someone he had a sexual encounter with in his flat.

Spacey says he had gone to the bathroom and when he returned “it was like everything had changed".

“The person I had had this intimate moment with was suddenly awkward and fumbling” and said he had to go and catch the last bus.

Spacey says he “did not want to say it”, that the man had run out of his apartment, but he had “hurriedly left".

“It felt very odd” and Spacey felt like the man was “making an excuse".

It had concerned him and his memory was he had phoned this person to make sure they were okay - and if they caught their bus.

They were okay and they continued to know each other and see each other for a period of time. That was his memory of it, he tells the court.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey now says the complainant may have said some things which were true, but after initial descriptions of a meeting - things were not true.

“He accused me of drugging him, and then falling asleep for hours and hours… [this] terrible attack on him. None of that was true,” Spacey says.

He says that in 2019, when he heard the allegations for the time, "I’m not hearing him tell it, I’m hearing a police officer tell it".

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey says he watched a video interview with the complainant “many times”.

He says it was his investigators who found the phone number for the complainant, and he thought it was a “different name from any of the ones” he had heard previously.

He rang the number multiple times in the days in August, and there were “more than 20” text messages over the period of five months.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey says he does not recognise the complainant by name or appearance, or by a summary of the accusation.

He says his records show he was not in the UK in August 2008, when the man claims the incident took place.

Spacey says he thought this was “someone trying to shake me down”.

He adds that he flew back to the UK on the morning of 9 August - and the alleged incident is said to have happened the day before.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is now being asked about a police interview, in which he said he did not recognise the complainant from his photo or a summary of the allegations.

The actor says that was true.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

The court hears that the complainant mentioned in our last post wrote to a woman involved in a theatre programme, and asked if the letter could be passed to Spacey.

The woman wrote back, and said she would.

Asked if he ever received a letter from the complainant, Spacey says: “I don’t believe so”.

But he does admit to ringing the man - something shown by his phone records. Spacey says he doesn’t remember where he got his number from.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

We are now moving onto another complainant, and an alleged incident which is said to have taken place in March 2008.

Spacey is asked about a photograph where he was next to the complainant, and says he does not know how he came to be next to the man.

The jurors also now look at an email. Spacey says he doesn’t think he ever received an email from the complainant.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Still on the event, which took place at a theatre, Spacey says it was one his "dear friend" Judi Dench asked him to get involved in.

"I would do nothing to ever embarrass her, or to embarrass myself in such a way," he tells the court.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

The court is hearing some of the technical details of the evening in question - including a skit involving Spacey and Dame Judi Dench in which they were dressed as nuns.

Dench was also involved in another sketch, which was a parody of a song from the Sound of Music, Spacey tells the court.

Spacey says he doesn't have a "very strong memory of the rehearsal”, but the jurors are now looking at pictures of it.

The actor is asked if he recognises the complainant in a picture, and says he does not.

He says: "I never said any of the things that he claims I said to him, and wouldn’t. And never have to anyone in my life."

Spacey says what the complainant says he did to him are "madness", because "it never happened".

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is talking about an event hosted at a theatre now, which Dame Judi Dench was involved with.

"I did many, many, many of these kinds of benefits in the time that I was living in London," he says.

"You have one chance to pull off this show," Spacey adds.

He says it would've involved 18 performers and two choirs, and the rehearsal "has to be done with a kind of clockwork efficiency".

"You arrive before your slot, you rehearse and then go away before the performance," he explains.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is talking about his relationship with Judi Dench, and a letter he once received from her.

He says they made "a film together called The Shipping News in Nova Scotia", which was released in 2001.

Her husband had just passed away, and "we all thought she would drop out of the film" but she didn’t, and he made it "his duty to make her laugh" as much as possible during filming, Spacey says.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

The court has just heard how Spacey once bought British actress Dame Judi Dench a ping pong table.

We’ve already had lots of high profile names being mentioned by Spacey as he gives evidence in his trial.

So far, these include:

• Val Kilmer
• Dame Judi Dench
• Sir Elton John
• Jack Lemmon

They’re not names reporters usually hear during trials in UK courts.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

The focus is now on an incident which is alleged to have happened at a theatre.

The court is hearing about the layout of the theatre, and Spacey's role in the production that evening.

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is now asked about the first complainant’s allegation that Spacey grabbed him so hard he nearly drove off the road.

"That never happened," says Spacey.

“Anything like that?” asks his barrister Patrick Gibbs KC.

Spacey: "No."

Gibbs: "In 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 or any other year?"

Spacey: “No I was not on a suicide mission on any of those years."

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Patrick Gibbs KC, Spacey's lawyer, asks the actor: "Who was making the running? Who was taking the lead?"

"I would have taken the lead," Spacey says.

He adds that the man "made clear he did not want to go any further than we were going and I respected that".

In response to the allegations by the first complainant, Spacey says: "I was crushed. I never thought the [complainant] I knew over 20 years later would stab me in the back."

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is asked about alleged touching, and Spacey says touching of the groin area did happen.

“It developed… it developed over time," he says.

Spacey says the complainant said things like “this is new for me”. “I think he may have been surprised by his reaction," Spacey tells the court.

He says the complainant did have a physical reaction.

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Of the same complainant mentioned in our last post, Spacey says he was a "lad’s lad" and that "over time we began, I am assuming it was me, began to touch him in more romantic ways and intimate ways”.

He says things did not happen in the way the man “had described”, explaining:

“Slowly over time it became somewhat sexual but we never had sex together.

"He made it clear he didn't want to go any further.

"That happens at times and you just respect how far someone wants to go or not go.”

Spacey says he remembers "the tone, the atmosphere and the laughter, adding “we had a very fun time together”.

Asked about the allegation of touching, Spacey says: “It didn’t happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way. It was gentle. It was touching and to my mind romantic. It was not what he has described.”

The actor says the relationship developed. "The more we spent time with each other, the more comfortable we were with each other."

Michael Sheils McNamee
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Spacey is describing the nature of his relationship with one of the complainants.

He describes it as a “funny and charming, and flirtatious” one.

He says “it became somewhat sexual, but we never had sex together - because he made it clear he didn’t want to go any further".

Asked if he is a flirt, Spacey says: “Yeah, I am a big flirt.”

Frankie McCamley
Reporting from Southwark Crown Court

Jurors are now reviewing screenshots of a LinkedIn page, which were produced by Spacey at the time he was interviewed.

It shows photographs which are still on the complainant's LinkedIn page, which Spacey says are still up there today.