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davem · Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Posts: 115

£150,000 pound fine for the Brand/Ross kerfuffle ouch!

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

"You're fined"?
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

No, we're fined, effectively! Rolling Eyes

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colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

That's very true. All money which now doesn't go into (a) programming or (b) paying executives' salaries or Soho wine bar expense accounts! Smile

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

If only they could deduct this from you-know-whose salary.

Ian.

davem · Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Posts: 115

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

A new waxwork of presenter Jonathan Ross has gone on show at Madame Tussauds.

Coincidently it cost £150,000 same as the BBC were fined. Seems everything Ross touches these days costs £150,000.

Gnasty Gnome · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 313 Location: West Wales

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

We shouldn't pay for there mess? I guess the argument will be Ross has paid for it, because the BBC never paid him whilst suspended.

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Someone told me that Ross had been arrested for shoplifting, for stealing a kitchen utensil.

He was asked by the policeman why, with all the money he had, why did he steal a kitchen utensil?

He replied "Well I saw it in the shop and decided it was a whisk I was prepared to take".

Razz

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Brand has spoken out about this fine. Writing on Social network Twitter " I've decided to pay ofcom fine, I'll put it on my expenses account" Apparently I don't have one like the MP's do. Also he asked if Jack Straw could pay for the Iraq war.

This comment comes after MPs Jack Straw and Hazel Blears have made it clear that Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand should cough up the 150k fine, not the BBC licence payer.

I think the MPs are right to say this, but Russell Brands comments seem to be a little childish.

MadeinSurrey · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

Surely not, Brand being childish? Rolling Eyes

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colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

Brand has made this "statement" (on Twitter, of all places? Yeah right) because he knows full well that OfCom has no legal right to make him or Ross pay up. So unless the ruling is magically changed overnight it's pretty much a non-issue.

Anyhow, OfCom was right to fine the BBC, given that it was the BBC who allowed the broadcast to be transmitted. It shows a major lapse in its own programme management. The fact that it is licence-fee funded is a separate issue.
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