in thinking that the BBC have chickened out by not sacking that overpaid windbag Jonathan Ross??

[lottiejenkins]

??? Do tell me???

JR is old enough to know better. A few weeks without pay isn't going to hurt him, but they can't sack him because he'll just get snapped up by another channel. I think it's quite interesting that the hullabaloo started such a long time after the initial incident, and increased in vitriol every time the clip was played! How indignant the other media can be when they have the opportunity.

Grandaughter is hardly an Angel is she come on now it was a bad joke but they dont deserve nothing bad happening to them.

Pr is through the roof for Russel brand as well his comdey sketch DVD's have had sales boost and all this press is great for all those involved

I am sure JR wont give a shit about losing 1.2m since he is the highest paid man on TV!

ross pulls out of ITV comedy awards shame. They should let Julian Clary do it instead! clicky

not particularly to you sycamore! but so many of the comments on this thread (and elsewhere) centre on how much he is paid.
I hate these trumped-up moral panics. tbh I am less bothered about the decision of the bbc to allow the material to be broadcast (the audience for that programme know what to expect) than I am about the outrageous editorial decision to keep this story at the lead of the news broadcasts all frigging week. That really is dumbing down, and the bbc, frankly, should have a little more judgment and intergrity than to follow the lead of the lcd newspapers who have worked themselves into such a morally indignant and pointlessly overblown lather about one man's hurt feelings.

They can't win can they! One minute they are not saying enough the next they are saying too much!

I heart Russel Brand he sat on my knee a few years ago on bigmouth

I think this whole think is stupid who actually cares it was a joke that went wrong They have said they are sorry what more do people want FGS!

I am curious how many of you would feel the same if it was your 79yr old grandad that this had been done to. Would you all see it as a joke gone wrong then? Personally I think R.B and J.R need to do a lot more apologising to the family, regardless of what the grand-daughter is or isn't the person this was directed at is an old man and this could have had serious repercussions on his health to say the least.

TBF theladyevenstar I don't think we know the full story.
If you watch this interview with Andrew Sachs it seems he did not hear this on his answerphone (so was possibly not recorded on it?) but from the producer of the show he was meant to appear on.

He was also asked whether or not to let it go ahead.

I think the whole thing was bloody despicable and sadly reflects the quality of programming we have today. It's something you'd expect from Brand who's made his name on this kind of thing. I have to say though I have a lot more respect for Brand because he resigned certainly the respectable thing to do. (And also because I fancy the pants off him ).

Ross has just become a complete joke. I started to dislike him long ago when all he could do was be crude (and lets be honest it doesn't become him does it). He's not funny at all. I dooubt his shows will get the ratings they used to get, he so should have been sacked.

Sounds like we are on the same page Harpsicord...

'I am curious how many of you would feel the same if it was your 79yr old grandad '

honestly?

dh's granadad fathered 8 children by 7 women and makes RB look a saint (never acknowledged 6 of them either or paid a penny)

My grandad spent the war hoiking dead bodies out of aircrashes

I don't honestly think they'd be overly suicidal at the message. My grandad would probably laugh and make a few racist comments as a random thing.

Now I have nothing but respect for Andrew Sachs but even the most repressive tv star in the 1970's would be, I am sure, infinitely less naive than the val doonican here's your slippers grandad image
would give them credir for

unless we're adopted our Grandads had sex too. With our Nan.

I'd feel upset for my grandad and would do everything to limit the hurt he was feeling.

lol at Peachy
good point, my grandad was in the trenches at Ypres. Russell Brand talking about condoms would probably have been something he could have coped with without major meltdown.
although he would have been 110 this year, so I doubt he would have been able to access his voicemail without a tiny bit of help and one great big f-off ear trumpet