ROSSBRANDMANUELGATE...
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 09:27AM 
The BBC Trust reports today on the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair. Brand quit his Radio 2 show last month after he and Jonathan Ross made crude phone calls to actor Andrew Sachs in a pre-recorded show which was then aired. Station boss Lesley Douglas also left, along with one of her executives. Ross was suspended for 12 weeks. The Prime Minister condemned the broadcast, while media coverage of it prompted more than 37,000 complaints.
I will be on the BBC shortly (Hopefully - The Nolan Show) and my view is that Ross must go! His £18m 3 year contract is as obscene as his behaviour on TV and Radio. I also think that if the BBC retains Ross, as is my predcition, it will make more and more people challenge the very basis of the license-tax. The concept of the State Broadcaster wasting millions on a lewd clown brings its reputation into sharp focus.
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Reader Comments (13)
Has anyone missed him on TV? I certainly havent.
There is something repellently lizard-like about these two parasites which has clearly got up the nose of former Torygraph editor Charles Moore. He said this morning that unless Ross goes, he will withhold his license fee.
He need'nt worry, FaceBook is hoping to raise more than a million signatures to get it axed, and things look promising.
Bye bye BBC, I hope you drown in your own gravy.
He's a little turd.
nah, he rocks. what he did was funny
this Manuel thing....Andrew Sachs - a one trick pony who stereotyped Spanish waiters and becoming a national institution for it - and people call it humour. Que?
edited DV - any more comments like this and Obama Llama Ding Dong will be gone gone.
OLDD: "nah, he rocks. what he did was funny"
Ross and Brand are both an 'aquired' taste. But if you are prepared to pay to watch them, carry on. I would prefer not to (watch them or pay to do so).
OLDD: "this Manuel thing....Andrew Sachs - a one trick pony who stereotyped Spanish waiters and becoming a national institution for it - and people call it humour."
Of course Andrew Sachs didn't do anysuch thing, he got a job with a script written by someone else. It's what actors do.
I don't like Brand, but I have to admit that I thought Ross was good - at times. He could also veer off into schoolboy crudity too often. I do miss his t.v. program on a Friday night, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
I think he has to go simply because there's no way his show can be the same again. Either he'll be too stiff trying to be inoffensive or he'll be worse.
I'm still at a loss to understand why the BBC didn't kill the show before it was broadcast. I suspect they were thrilled to get an opportunity to get out of his excessive contract because the market has tightened. I think Ross gave them the flexibility they needed to either renegotiate or void his contract.
It will be interesting to see if the BBC bring back Ross's Friday night tv show in the new year. My bet is they won't dare.
I'll be glad to see the back of them both.
Brand/Ross is radio/TV made by chav-shite, for chav-shite. Best to flush them both down the sewer where they belong.
"edited DV - any more comments like this and Obama Llama Ding Dong will be gone gone."
i took a chance Vance, i know it was a pants rant my man
still, you'd have downloaded the video, right?
Don't take a chance on me.
Plus - my name is David. .
David doesn't rhyme with 'chance', 'pants', 'rant' or 'man', thus negating the Russell Brand stylee of my repost. Sorry i had to explain that to you, though it doesn't suprise.
two full stops on your last post is supposed to indicate what? righteous indignation? oooo, you're butch when you're righteously indignant lol.
Hey Obama - you're such a wit, such a talent. Guess what - ding dong rhymes with gone. Missing you already.