to think Andrew Sachs needs to get over "Sachsgate"?

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Sorry Mail link.

The Sachsgate scandal happened in 2008. I didn't find it funny and thought it was immature and disgusting. However they both apologised (something which Sachs at the time seem to accept), Brand and the controller of Radio 2 resigned and Ross was suspended for 3 months without pay. There was also a fine of £150,000 from Ofcom.

Sachs received many letters of support from people including David Walliams. This also probably gave a boost to his career, as he went on to work on Coronation Street. I'm also sure his granddaughter Georgina appeared on Celebrity Big Brother.

I would never condone what happened or what was said, but punishments were put in place and there isn't really more that can be done. You can't go back and erase what happened once it's done.

So to write an article almost 6 years after it happened stating the cruelty will hurt him and his family forever I think is a tad too much now.

To quote from the article

"To be honest, the whole Brand/Ross saga remains a painful experience that we’d very much like to put behind us. But it keeps resurfacing."

So why write an article about it?

I personally haven't heard anyone speak about "Sachsgate" in a very long time. The last time I heard about it was 7/8 months ago when I read an article stating that Sachs had signed a deal to publish a book about it. So aside from Sachs talking about it himself I haven't heard this mentioned for years.

Nancy? You bet us more than anything that Brand will be in court over sexual assault charges? And you're a journalist, aren't you?

I thought that what Ross and Brand did was vile. Apart from being hurtful to Sachs and his wife it was a gross violation of their grand-daughter's privacy. I am completely with limitedperiodonly about this. I also saw an interview with Georgina some years after the event and she was hugely damaged by it too. Perhaps people here can try and think how they'd feel if an ex or a one-night-stand phoned up their grandparents and left a message saying "I fucked your grand-daughter". And then broadcast it to the nation on Radio 2.

I used to quite like brand, and strangely despite the coverage of sachsgate I never actually knew what he and Ross said until I read that article today.

He hates women, it might have been a joke that went too far, but his hate was at the core of this and is quite sickening.

I thought maybe he was charismatic and women were just attracted to him for a good home, but he gas been chalking them up as a power trip.

I feel really bad for those taken in by him, they must worry that they might be next for the slut shaming,

But what offended me most about the whole Sachsgate thing was how badly Georgina was treated by everyone. To Ross and Brand and the Mail she was just the possession of her grandfather.

Me too. Katy Perry is well shot of Brand.