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What has Scott Mills done?

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PinkJ · 30/03/2026 12:01

As above!

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Breadandblutter · 30/03/2026 15:03

Notsosweetcaroline · 30/03/2026 14:26

He’s not been fired over allegations, he’s clearly been fired following an investigation into allegations. All we know is it’s person conduct. It will be confidential and the beeb, unlike them have acted swiftly. So I’d assume serious. There would also be lawyers involved for both sides.

This explains why he got a bit teary and serious while interviewing Harry Styles the other week.

TulipsDaffsAndSunshine · 30/03/2026 15:03

LostFuse · 30/03/2026 14:45

Will this do?...

Oh, I love this!

LoudTealHare · 30/03/2026 15:09

PinkJ · 30/03/2026 12:01

As above!

Historic male relationship 10 years ago!

Pluto46 · 30/03/2026 15:11

NoSoupForU · 30/03/2026 13:28

It is though. Every licence payer is entitled to know how they spend their money. And if such a big chunk of their expenditure has been on a personality who has been guilty of a serious misconduct then they also have a right to know.

That's how accountability works. Same with Huw Edwards and the myriad other people who have disgraced the BBC.

Like the lefty Beeb needs any help in disgracing itself !

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 30/03/2026 15:15

Breadandblutter · 30/03/2026 15:02

Wallace is hilarious, he was touting Cameos as Mothers Day gifts last week and this week he says he’s training to be an ‘autism coach’ - which means he’s paid for some pieces of paper for the right to offer advice to vulnerable families with little or no supervision or professional standards to adhere to. Dangerous stuff.

Excellent. A personal message from a misogynist, who famously detects women of a certain age. Just what every mum wants!

And your not wrong on your other points either. I hope nobody is crazy or desperate enough to use his "services" .

NoSoupForU · 30/03/2026 15:16

1000StrawberryLollies · 30/03/2026 14:10

Teachers' salaries come from public money. That doesn't mean that schools have to disclose why a teacher has been dismissed.

If a teacher is dismissed for serious misconduct, it is referred to the TRA isn't it? And the outcome of hearings are published.

Wellthisisdifficult · 30/03/2026 15:26

Callmebubblesdarlingeverybodydoes · 30/03/2026 12:14

Could be anything. Maybe having an affair, or sending sexual messages to a consenting and legal aged adult. Could be the above with a minor.
Could be he’s got a drug or alcohol problem.
Could be he’s said something inappropriate to another person, such as something racist or any form of discrimination.

Does it really matter?
Why should it be public knowledge?

Because we pay for the BBC

Whosthetabbynow · 30/03/2026 15:41

HoskinsChoice · 30/03/2026 12:51

No it shouldn't. It's none of our business. Would you expect to know why someone from Sainsbury's has been sacked just because you've bought your bananas from them? Or why a Sky employee was sacked because you pay for the movie channel?

Anything I was paying for, yes

midgetastic · 30/03/2026 15:43

You are paying g for bread
you are paying for radio programs

in both cases the company employs people to fulfil those things

yiu don’t own the people who work for the company

StillCreatingAName · 30/03/2026 15:46

You pay for all public sector employees if you pay tax in the uk, but that doesn’t give you any right to access their personnel files in any way. What’s this entitlement waffle about needing to know why someone has been sacked? If it’s someone you don’t personally know or work directly with, you have no need to know anything further.

Whosthetabbynow · 30/03/2026 15:46

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 30/03/2026 14:46

Is anyone running a tally on what number of disgraced, sacked presenters the BBC are up to now? Off the top of my head I can do Edwards, Wallace, Janus, Brand and now Mills but I'm sure there are more that I've forgotten. I didn't include Saville as he wasn't sacked, although God knows he should've been.

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Rolf Harris was on the BBC

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 30/03/2026 15:50

Whosthetabbynow · 30/03/2026 15:46

Rolf Harris was on the BBC

Thank you! I knew there'd been another big name bbc employee convicted and couldn't bloody remember who it was.

Whosthetabbynow · 30/03/2026 15:53

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 30/03/2026 15:50

Thank you! I knew there'd been another big name bbc employee convicted and couldn't bloody remember who it was.

Gary Glitter: Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It (so not an employee but was always on there)

imnothavingagoodtime · 30/03/2026 15:53

BunnyLake · 30/03/2026 13:20

Will they never learn? 🤷‍♀️

How do you know this?
Also, if it was consensual then so what! ( interns are above the age of consent).
If he did it on the bosses desk then maybe…

HermioneWeasley · 30/03/2026 15:54

imnothavingagoodtime · 30/03/2026 15:53

How do you know this?
Also, if it was consensual then so what! ( interns are above the age of consent).
If he did it on the bosses desk then maybe…

Because there’s a big power imbalance between a successful older presenter and a young intern. For the same reason organisations have rules against managers propositioning their teams.

2ndClearFoundation · 30/03/2026 15:56

I worked at the BBC.

For a flat out firing pretty much anywhere, it has to be a form of "gross misconduct"

5128gap · 30/03/2026 15:57

Callmebubblesdarlingeverybodydoes · 30/03/2026 12:14

Could be anything. Maybe having an affair, or sending sexual messages to a consenting and legal aged adult. Could be the above with a minor.
Could be he’s got a drug or alcohol problem.
Could be he’s said something inappropriate to another person, such as something racist or any form of discrimination.

Does it really matter?
Why should it be public knowledge?

It matters to me what organisations like the BBC are sacking people for these days. Its a useful barometer of where their values lie. As they have significant influence over the messages the public recieve, its helpful in gauging if the messages need to be seen in the context of organisational bias.

Additup · 30/03/2026 16:00

rwalker · 30/03/2026 12:22

As disappointed as people will be with this I’d guess it’s a social media thing and he’s breached there guidelines which you can be instantly dismissed

if it was a sexual allegation not sure any employer could sack someone over an allegation till it’s been investigated and an outcome normally they’d be suspended pending investigation

And if it's a sexual thing they'll be able to go on garden leave while receiving a massive salary until they're found guilty of said sexual crime at which point they won't have to pay anything back and they'll just be allowed to slip away rather than be sacked.

Or is that rule just for news readers?

ImDoneOnceAndForAll2 · 30/03/2026 16:07

Lmnop22 · 30/03/2026 12:05

If it’s following a complain/allegation as suggested by the initial reports, it’ll be either violent or sexual

You have no idea. Could be neither

Never2many · 30/03/2026 16:11

HoskinsChoice · 30/03/2026 12:51

No it shouldn't. It's none of our business. Would you expect to know why someone from Sainsbury's has been sacked just because you've bought your bananas from them? Or why a Sky employee was sacked because you pay for the movie channel?

well then the question would be, why shouldn’t it be public knowledge?

If you publicly sack someone, make the announcement publicly as breaking news it’s not unreasonable to think that people should be told why.

And the reality is that if it isn’t made public knowledge people will make their own deductions, which may not be anywhere near the truth but which may still have the ability to harm someone’s reputation.

Clearly whatever he was sacked for was serious, but if someone is sacked for e.g. addiction issues, people have a far different view of that than when someone is sacked for downloading disturbing images such as in Hugh Edwards’ case.

StillCreatingAName · 30/03/2026 16:16

5128gap · 30/03/2026 15:57

It matters to me what organisations like the BBC are sacking people for these days. Its a useful barometer of where their values lie. As they have significant influence over the messages the public recieve, its helpful in gauging if the messages need to be seen in the context of organisational bias.

That’s a politician’s answer to why you want to know the gossip.
Please don’t try and spin it into some kind of interest in organisational change, it’s quite clear a number of posters on here want the gossip and have no respect whatsoever for families of the people involved or that it’s a pretty difficult day for friends and colleagues of people involved…of which, there are none posting on here if they are true friends.

BillieWiper · 30/03/2026 16:18

Ihatelittlefriendsusan · 30/03/2026 13:20

Irrelevant. Does nit give you the right to know what has happened in his private life.

If it was only in his private life he wouldn't have been sacked. It must have been something that was either done publicly or would come out and give the BBC a bad name. It must have been in some way work related. Even if it was talking to people on SM who were 'fans'.

5128gap · 30/03/2026 16:22

StillCreatingAName · 30/03/2026 16:16

That’s a politician’s answer to why you want to know the gossip.
Please don’t try and spin it into some kind of interest in organisational change, it’s quite clear a number of posters on here want the gossip and have no respect whatsoever for families of the people involved or that it’s a pretty difficult day for friends and colleagues of people involved…of which, there are none posting on here if they are true friends.

I'm interested in why the BBC are sacking people these days for the reasons I've given. Please don't presume to know my mind, its arrogant and absurd of you given we are strangers.

LemonTT · 30/03/2026 16:23

StillCreatingAName · 30/03/2026 16:16

That’s a politician’s answer to why you want to know the gossip.
Please don’t try and spin it into some kind of interest in organisational change, it’s quite clear a number of posters on here want the gossip and have no respect whatsoever for families of the people involved or that it’s a pretty difficult day for friends and colleagues of people involved…of which, there are none posting on here if they are true friends.

Exactly, there is no entitlement to anything yet and there may never be. Those people screaming for it want to indulge themselves in the usual public pile on and shaming. Like they probably did with Caroline Flack. Look where that ended.

There is a reason to circumspect with how and when information is released. Because quite frankly the public at large go wild with it and it has serious consequences.

Some of the these posters would be clucking with their knitting by the hangman or guillotine.

Breadandblutter · 30/03/2026 16:25

I’d say as licence fee payers we have a right to know why he was sacked, but we don’t have a right to go fully into his personal life. Some people are wrong uns, but even they have some right to privacy.

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