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nod



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:04 pm    Post subject: CE late Reply with quote

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13028381

25mins late for R5 show Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am at a loss as to why he's there in the first place ..there are many more seasoned presenters suited to this sort of programme already at 5 Live.... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I feel the same Becky however I've managed to listen to his standin on the Breakfast show most mornings. It's bearable....... CE isn't!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris was asked to do some commentary on the Masters for 5 Live, because he likes Golf, and has done before... He had to take a weeks unpaid leave from Radio 2. He's not getting paid for his services for 5 live. At the end of the day!! They are trying to make a story out of this, because of his past mistakes. He will never live that down..Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the problem Mark - he hasn't moved on

We're still stuck with him on Radio 2 - unless of course you know something that we don't Confused
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...


Rubbish. He hasn't moved on at all. He's a knob.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ColinB wrote:
mark occomore wrote:
Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...


Rubbish. He hasn't moved on at all. He's a knob.


He seems to be everywhere......did I hear his voice on an ad for McVities biscuits thonight? Perhaps it was a nightmare!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Angela W wrote:
ColinB wrote:
mark occomore wrote:
Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...


Rubbish. He hasn't moved on at all. He's a knob.


He seems to be everywhere......did I hear his voice on an ad for McVities biscuits thonight? Perhaps it was a nightmare!


Your not hearing things. He's the voiceover for McVities biscuits...
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Angela W wrote:
He seems to be everywhere......did I hear his voice on an ad for McVities biscuits thonight? Perhaps it was a nightmare!


Unfortunately it wasn't a nightmare - although with the amount of airtime his annoying voice is allocated I'm sure many a nightmare will be induced!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Angela W wrote:
ColinB wrote:
mark occomore wrote:
Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...


Rubbish. He hasn't moved on at all. He's a knob.


He seems to be everywhere......did I hear his voice on an ad for McVities biscuits thonight? Perhaps it was a nightmare!


Should have been a Hobnob
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ron, please tell me you don't mean we're going to have him hosting his own cookery show next Surprised
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't panic! Captain Chris is there in his own time- not being paid, just tagging along for the ride with the 5-Live people. That said, being late is a discourtesy to others- so I’ll send Captain Chris on a Sheduling and Time Management Course: Captain Wogan can take charge for a while. Yes you did hear Captain Chris on The McVities advert.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:
Don't panic! Captain Chris is there in his own time- not being paid, just tagging along for the ride with the 5-Live people.


Lucky 5-Live people! Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Chris was asked to do some commentary on the Masters for 5 Live, because he likes Golf, and has done before... He had to take a weeks unpaid leave from Radio 2. He's not getting paid for his services for 5 live. At the end of the day!! They are trying to make a story out of this, because of his past mistakes. He will never live that down..Maybe everyone else needs to move on, like he has...


No, I don't think so ....I think it's fair to report this ..not least because there would have been listeners wondering where he was (perhaps Wink)and wanting an explanation...he was supposed to be at work for a certain time and he was late ..he wasn't caught in a traffic jam or something similar that prevented him from being there ..he was late because he forgot what time the show was due to start.. Rolling Eyes ...he doesn't deserve to be tarred and feathered Wink,but the fact is he acted very unprofessionally.

And he didn't have to take unpaid leave, he chose to do it to indulge one of his hobbies ....after all it's hardly going to break him financially is it?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

becky sharp wrote:
And he didn't have to take unpaid leave, he chose to do it to indulge one of his hobbies ....after all it's hardly going to break him financially is it?

He might not have been paid for "commenting" (as he put it) but who paid for the trip to America?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:

He might not have been paid for "commenting" (as he put it) but who paid for the trip to America?

He can certainly afford to pay for it out of his own pocket and probably charter a private jet to fly him over there!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If he's taking unpaid leave from R2 and is not being paid for working on R5 (why is that?) what's the fuss about?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:02 am    Post subject: CE late Reply with quote

Evans' timekeeping is on a par with my boss's and both of them ought to have After The Fire's 'One Rule For You, One Rule For Me' as a ringtone!

Because me and the others on the team aren't allowed to be late, and her maj arrives late with some Reggie Perrin excuse.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even if it is unpaid leave, why is the R2 controller allowing him to be absent from work for two weeks whilst he effectively works for another network?

Could have been worse, though - we might have had Victoria Derbyshire or Dotun Adebayo doing the Breakfast Show for a fortnight instead of Richard Madeley....
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Even if it is unpaid leave, why is the R2 controller allowing him to be absent from work for two weeks whilst he effectively works for another network?



Perhaps he felt sorry for the R2 listeners.... or he's looked in on here and decided we deserved a break! Wink
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