Brand/ross 'prank' - Page 7

jaysay · 30-10-2008, 16:22

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Originally Posted by Margaret

I am wondering whether the BBC deliberately let this go to air uncensored.
This has provided them with a perfect excuse to get rid of an overpaid employee

Didn't realise they had anyone at the Beeb with enough intelligence to think of that, just the stupidity to give them contracts in the first place

garinda · 30-10-2008, 17:46

The contoller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over this debacle, and Jonathon Ross has been suspended without pay for twelve weeks.

jambutty · 30-10-2008, 17:56

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Originally Posted by garinda

The contoller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over this debacle, and Jonathon Ross has been suspended without pay for twelve weeks.

So someone else has fallen on his sword but it looks like Ross is going to get away with it.

Maybe his contract is so water tight that sacking him is not an economical option.

But public pressure could still force him to resign.

katex · 30-10-2008, 17:58

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Originally Posted by garinda

The contoller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has resigned over this debacle, and Jonathon Ross has been suspended without pay for twelve weeks.

Does that mean Ross will be losing £1,384,613.30p then I wonder ... guess paying a high price .. sure he won't suffer though.

Seems a little sad about Lesley Douglas ... after all she controls all the other programmes on Radio 2, which in my opinion are excellent.

lindsay ormerod · 30-10-2008, 18:00

Are none of you even at all bothered that the "lady" in the middle of this has admitted to having slept with Russell and is now plastered all over the tabloids discussing his "technique" ?
Hardly a shining example of misused and innocent is she?
She is getting the best publicity of her life by basically being a bit "loose".
Russell Brand will be snapped up by a commercial radio station within days, and Jonathon Ross isn't going to miss a few weeks wages.
It's not done any of them any harm, no one died.
End of.

( and for the record My Booky Wook is very funny!)

jambutty · 30-10-2008, 18:09

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Originally Posted by katex

Does that mean Ross will be losing £1,384,613.30p then I wonder ... guess paying a high price .. sure he won't suffer though.

Seems a little sad about Lesley Douglas ... after all she controls all the other programmes on Radio 2, which in my opinion are excellent.

Wasn’t she also involved in the premium line phone calls scandal?

jambutty · 30-10-2008, 18:12

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

Are none of you even at all bothered that the "lady" in the middle of this has admitted to having slept with Russell and is now plastered all over the tabloids discussing his "technique" ?
Hardly a shining example of misused and innocent is she?
She is getting the best publicity of her life by basically being a bit "loose".
Russell Brand will be snapped up by a commercial radio station within days, and Jonathon Ross isn't going to miss a few weeks wages.
It's not done any of them any harm, no one died.
End of.

( and for the record My Booky Wook is very funny!)

This affair isn’t about the granddaughter but a lewd, scurrilous and slanderous remark made to and about Andrew Sachs.

Now that is ‘end of’.

katex · 30-10-2008, 18:13

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Originally Posted by jambutty

Wasn’t she also involved in the premium line phone calls scandal?

Seemingly, so suppose was her second hit .. still ...

Neil · 30-10-2008, 18:16

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

It speaks volumes that only two complaints were issued after the recording was aired and thousands more after the NON-STORY hit the rags.

I think it shows that the people that watch/listen to those 2 found it funny but a lot of other people on reading about it were shocked that the BBC could do that.

I did not listen to it and I think what was done was wrong.

cashman · 30-10-2008, 19:04

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Originally Posted by Neil

I think it shows that the people that watch/listen to those 2 found it funny but a lot of other people on reading about it were shocked that the BBC could do that.

I did not listen to it and I think what was done was wrong.

agree completely, what "Speaks Volumes" to me is obviously very few listen to these cretins, hence 2 complaints, also speaks volumes to me about the IQs of those few who do.

katex · 30-10-2008, 19:13

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Originally Posted by cashman

agree completely, what "Speaks Volumes" to me is obviously very few listen to these cretins, hence 2 complaints, also speaks volumes to me about the IQs of those few who do.

Run for the hills .. he's back ! .. hope you had a lovely holiday Cashy ..

Sure a figure of 2 million listeners was quoted .. ? Or was it 400,000 ... mmm no think that was Brand's salary. Was a lot anyway which surprised me.

Well anyway, the grandaughter is getting her own back by telling the world how crap Brands was in bed ... the ultimate public insult . LOL

West Ender · 30-10-2008, 19:32

Jambutty is right, it isn't about the granddaughter. It doesn't matter what she did or didn't do or what she's doing now, she can sleep with every adult male in the BBC for all I care. The point at issue isn't her morals but the unacceptable behaviour of 2 radio presenters. It would have been bad enough if they had made the phone calls privately, and it certainly wouldn't have been any business of the public, but the fact that they pre-recorded it and then broadcast it is what makes it all the more reprehensible. Acceptable standards of broadcasting have nose-dived in recent years and the complaints are indicating that Joe Public, in general, disapproves.

Me? I'll stick with Radio 4. Could you ever imagine John Humphrys effing and jeffing on the Today programme?

cashman · 30-10-2008, 19:33

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Originally Posted by katex

Run for the hills .. he's back ! .. hope you had a lovely holiday Cashy ..

Sure a figure of 2 million listeners was quoted .. ? Or was it 400,000 ... mmm no think that was Brand's salary. Was a lot anyway which surprised me.

Well anyway, the grandaughter is getting her own back by telling the world how crap Brands was in bed ... the ultimate public insult . LOL

yep we did ta,

aint unduly bothered about her or them, the whole point of what happened to me is lack of respect fer a 78 yr old fella, who aint a bad owd stick,in my view, fer me its things of this ilk, being acceptable to some is the main reason society has gone downhill, n people are too thick to see it.

Lilly · 30-10-2008, 21:09

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Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

Are none of you even at all bothered that the "lady" in the middle of this has admitted to having slept with Russell and is now plastered all over the tabloids discussing his "technique" ?
Hardly a shining example of misused and innocent is she?
She is getting the best publicity of her life by basically being a bit "loose".
Russell Brand will be snapped up by a commercial radio station within days, and Jonathon Ross isn't going to miss a few weeks wages.
It's not done any of them any harm, no one died.
End of.

( and for the record My Booky Wook is very funny!)

Who the grand-daughter has slept with is irrelevant.

Are you going to do as Garinda suggested and post your Grandad or dad's phone number on here?

shillelagh · 30-10-2008, 23:02

I havent heard the recording of the show - just read about what it said on the bbc website. As far as im concerned both of them should have been sacked. Have they never heard of the saying respect your elders. Would they like to have been on the receiving end of a phone call like that. I know i wouldnt. I asked my brother what he would do if that had been him - about his two daughters. First he'd visit a solicitor, get them arrested and when they'd posted bail or whatever then he'd go after them and beat them up. They showed no respect for either andrew sachs or for his granddaughter. I wonder how many women russell brand went to bed with were quaking in their boots just in case that happened to them, it wont now that he's resigned but until he resigned there was the chance that it could have happened to them. Agree with Lilly and everyone else - would you like that to happen to your granddad?