Scott Mills sacked by BBC

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Well I wasn’t expecting this…

Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 over 'personal conduct' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge1yn50y8o

Same… he seems like the blandest man alive. (Though I was happy enough to listen to his breakfast program.)

Intriguing...

He’s not been on air since Tuesday apparently.

I love to know what he's (alledged to have) done!!

I always find it so frustrating when something like this happens in this case personal conduct, but is often something along the lines of made a racist comment, did something sexist/inappropriate etc etc and its never in the news write up what they actually did/said.

I’m actually not surprised about the “personal conduct” part. He was on Race Across the World a couple of years ago with his lovely husband. Mills did not come across well.. quite selfish and grumpy. His DH had the patience of a saint.

I remember at the time thinking that he would a rather tricky to work with. I would put money on there being some sort of bullying allegations coming out.

Not really surprising always came across as an arrogant self obsessed prick

I wondered why he wasn't accompanying me to work.

His new job probably went to his head and he became an even bigger prick than he was already!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5510354-scott-mills-sacked

Thank goodness...he is painful to listen to. His long pauses drive me insane.

Yes I am aware there are other radio stations but where I work have it on every morning...

I was shocked to hear but he’s an arrogant arse, it was cringey how much he loved himself.

I hope this means they give the morning slot to OJ Borg, he's too good to be relegated to the midnight hours!

Oh here we go

Key word there might be "offences" (plural).

Maybe I misread it but I'm sure it said something about 1997 to 2000. That's four years!

It’s always so long ago. I wonder why it’s coming out now. Normally bbc quite like brushing these under the carpet.

There should have been a picture with that. Apparently police conducted an investigation into alleged sex offences against a teenage boy in 2016 which was deemed lack of evidence

I have to try and spring to Scott's defence. There were no charges in this case and there was insufficient evidence. It seems like this is one persons word against another and we have the presumption of innocence until proven guilty the last time I looked. The police probe was 10 years ago and the interview under caution was public record so why was no action taken in the intervening 10 years?

Fellow radio presenters aren't coming out with anger at these crimes but surprise at the sacking suggesting an amount of sympathy and this couple's with Scott being open about a chaotic period in his life involving substance abuse where relationship choices may have been ill considered.

I think if we stand by the sacking maybe it sets a precedent that any allegation against a celeb is taken as proof despite not having evidence to meet the criminal charge threshold and where would that leave us?

This seems to be the last act of an outgoing DG for whatever reason and I am thinking maybe in time Scott may get a large pay out for this.

Yes the long pauses!!! Not for radio.

I can’t find any details in the news about the allegation- where are you getting this?

Well we simply know there were historical allegations which the look e thought weren't sufficiently evidenced. The allegations as far as we know may not have been th at strong. To my mind we have to be careful about precedents where allegations are acted on without strong evidence of else you have the situation where every high profile figure is open to malicious attack by individuals....in this case my feeling is that if the police did not find reasons even to ask the CPS to charge then you have to have at least some faith in the process and accept innocence.

The relationship might be tawdry, I don't know, but that isn't a reason to sack someone 🤷

I just think the BBC have to come out with more now.

Maybe he admitted it?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/30/scott-mills-sacking-appeal-exoneration-bbc

interesting article here and if the BBC have over reached it maybe Scott has a good case to sue......We will see

The police enquiry was 2016 but related to allegations from 1997-2000.

He doesn't seem to be contesting it.

The Mirror says the BBC is in contact with an alleged victim.

The Guardian says if the BBC has overreacted then he could sue.

Either way, the public and the police, need to be told. This is very clearly a public matter - and if the BBC has new information about a criminal matter then MPs should be demanding they reveal all to the police.