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Acrylic-bob · 02-07-2006, 08:22

Can anyone offer any form of justification for the BBC's recent decision to pay Jonathon Ross £18 million of Licence Fee payers hard earned cash?

I thought that ITV's decision to pay Lorraine Kelly over half a million a year was excessive, but ITV earn their money through advertising not public subsidy and they are thus at liberty to spend it any way they choose, but this Ross contract takes the biscuit! What is so uniquely wonderful about the foul-mouthed Ross that makes him worth £18 Million of public money? It will be remembered that it was Ross who, at the recent children's party at Buckingham Palace, gleefully informed HM The Queen in front of an assembled audience of children and millions of television viewers that the English football team had just "Stuffed Equador".

Am I alone in thinking that there is something wrong here?

At a time when there are millions of people who would give their right kidney for a chance to appear on television, why do all the presenting jobs appear to go to the same handfull of "faces"?

02-07-2006, 08:22	#1
Acrylic-bob God Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tragic Conn Posts: 4,007 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 2470	Worth every penny???? Can anyone offer any form of justification for the BBC's recent decision to pay Jonathon Ross £18 million of Licence Fee payers hard earned cash? I thought that ITV's decision to pay Lorraine Kelly over half a million a year was excessive, but ITV earn their money through advertising not public subsidy and they are thus at liberty to spend it any way they choose, but this Ross contract takes the biscuit! What is so uniquely wonderful about the foul-mouthed Ross that makes him worth £18 Million of public money? It will be remembered that it was Ross who, at the recent children's party at Buckingham Palace, gleefully informed HM The Queen in front of an assembled audience of children and millions of television viewers that the English football team had just "Stuffed Equador". Am I alone in thinking that there is something wrong here? At a time when there are millions of people who would give their right kidney for a chance to appear on television, why do all the presenting jobs appear to go to the same handfull of "faces"? __________________ Enough is ENOUGH Get Britain out of Europe