• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    If he’s not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.

    Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren’t adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14? (It’s ok though because Boris is a red hot-blooded “man’s man”).

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      If he’s not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.

      It kind of depends on the details. Also with a well-paid and high-profile figure like himself there may be a disrepute clause in his contract and, while he may not have acted illegally, the BBC may well decide that they have been muddied by their association with him.

      Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren’t adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14?

      I feel there are many sticks to beat BoJo with and his sexual shenanigans isn’t one of the largest and weightiest of them.

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        1 year ago

        If that happens, then give it a year and he’ll take up Jon Snow’s position as head anchor of Channel 4 News. Not sure if Krishnan Guru-Murthy ever got Un-suspended for his on air comments, I’m a bit out of the loop.

        Or there’s always Sky or c5…

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          1 year ago

          Oh quite possibly, unless these complaints from inside the BBC stick. He may be a nightmare to work with and I imagine most channels won’t take the risk.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, he may get turfed out then, like Clarkson did. Funny thing is I don’t think Amazon prime video have a news outfit at the moment. Maybe a times radio online-exclusive podcast. That would be unfortunate. I’m forseeing a real ‘rise and fall of’ situation here.

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              1 year ago

              And like Clarkson, if someone thinks there’s money to be made, there’ll be chequebooks opening as long as he’s not done anything too heinous. That said, Clarkson had made himself a marketable brand while Huw Edwards is just another old white guy reading of an autocue, admittedly one with a mellifluous voice. He just seems more replaceable, possibly with someone younger who might add a bit of diversity to the line-up.

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                1 year ago

                I think silver-haired white guy has been on-brand for professional autocue readers though. That is changing a little bit, but I think it’s the majority - at least until the grandfathered contracts run out (the likes of Huw, Eamonn Holmes etc) and the Beeb, Sky and ITV diversify. I don’t watch too much rolling news but I think the BBC at least are already doing this with their news output.