Geogina Baillies sell out to the sun

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www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1872523.ece

Doesnt this sort of stink of hypercritism? when she said I wont comment until I speak to my 'agent' - was what she meant - I could make some money out of this - I know if every time I speak I have The Sun logo above my head I will bask in the glory?

Isnt talking about how rubbish RB is in bed stooping to the very level that we are accusing RB of? Will RBs granfather not have to read this article and will they not be upset? Sachs has been very dignified about the whole inccident though it has to be said.

morning Dittany! :wave:

I am talking about Mock the Week, are you?

If your best line is that everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot who doesn't understand, then your actual line of reasoning (or your ability to convey your meaning) must be lamentably insufficient.

Oh no - I am suggesting that the Mock the Week show is very different to what happened on the Russell Brand show, and hopefully the 30,000 people who complained about the Brand/Ross incident are not that stupid that they would let the Daily Mail et al sway them into picking up the phone again to complain about a show they really do not understand the whole context of...

"Agree the BBC has handled this really badly yet again and worry that they won't get many more chances to fuck up at this rate. "

Actually I would be delighted if the BEEB were scrapped I pay a licence fee despite hardly/if ever watching it. I really dont see (apart from typical Britith sentinmentality) why it still exists.

If the high ups at the Beeb cant handle a little thing like this and say "sorry for any offence caused, we are looking into it and will comment further once we have done so" then quite frankly they should lose their jobs. My guess is they were busy consulting with lawyers before they made any comment to ensure neither Georgia or Andrew Sachs could sue if they said the wrong thing.

Quite amazed so much political time and pages and papges of newsprint has been spent on it in the same week there was a small box in the paper saying the World Bank could be in trouble.

Of course we are going to discuss it on half term week, we have nothing better to do

Excuse the typos being hassled by a small child

QUOTE - If the high ups at the Beeb cant handle a little thing like this and say "sorry for any offence caused, we are looking into it and will comment further once we have done so" QUOTE

Erm... Isn't this what the BBC just did?

Just was far later than it should have happened.

Well - they apologised on Monday 27th, three/four days after they heard from Andrew Sachs. I don't suppose that is immediate but they would have had to investigate a little surely? They said

""We have received a letter of complaint from Mr Sachs' agent and would like to sincerely apologise to Mr Sachs for the offence caused We recognise that some of the content broadcast was unacceptable and offensive. We are reviewing how this came about and are responding to Mr Sachs personally.

"We also apologise to listeners for any offence caused." "

so that was them saying "we are looking into it and will comment further once we have done so" - I think?!?

It just seems so wrong to ask someone if they object to it being broadcast, them say no then broadcast it anyway...what were they thinking. I wouldnt be surprised by this behaviour from Channel 4 but really if the BEEB were all it was once cracked up to be they should be above this kind of behaviour.

Time to pull the plug I say let all these public schoolboy friends of friends go out and find a job in the real world.

I'm a bit confused TBH because another poster has been saying Sachs Approved it but I am not sure where that comes from!

It's made up beanie.

He didn't approve it, not by any stretch of the imagination.

Ah - right. I just wonder why that poster keeps saying it.

Well we are getting our information from the press who are well known for telling the truth quite possible from reading/listening to different sources that in one he did approve and in one he didnt.

If the BEEB are going to broadcast things this contentious they really need to get written approval from their victim rather than getting the lad producing the programme to verbally ask over the phone or they will be wasting even more of our money on legal fees.

WilyWombat - what paper says he approved it?

Did he ask over the phone and get a yes? I thought Sachs wanted to record an interview to edit in? Now I am really confused.

In my mind Sachs giving his approval (However misguided) would change a lot.

My understanding was that he hadnt approved it but I know someone else said he had..that certainly wasnt my understanding of the situation but as I said this should have been cleared or forbidden in writing and not verbally that way there could be no mis-understanding.

He was on PM the other day and he explained how he hadn't approved it.

He hasn't released any statement contradicting that since, so I'm happy to go along with PM.

Can someone provide a definite list of which papers and journalists we should believe, and which ones we shouldnt?

Thanks

In the meantime, I'll await the results of the investigation by Ofcom. It's all speculation otherwise, isnt it?

sorry if this has already been posted but the Mirror today are reporting that she is an £110 an hour dominatrix poor grandad

VeniVidiVickiQV - just stay away from teh daily Heil and you'll be ok.

BabyBaby - I suppose the Mirror are just pissed she didn't sell her story to them!

To all who are confused about whether AS gave the go-ahead etc . .

I was under the impression that he listened to the recordings of the show in a busy street, asked if he could hear it properly, to which the bbc agreed, and they also said he could be interviewed properly the week after. The show then went out. Even people on the tv are confused about this matter though. Matthew Wright said on The Wright Stuff this morning that AS DID give consent. I guess we may have to wait for the OFcom report to get a clearer idea of what actually took place.

Do we have to wait for the offcom report, won't the BBC release their findings or is that not how it works?