It occurs to me that had a Radio Two producer actually considered pulling the recorded show, they would have met with bewilderment, possibly laughed at, and been made to put it straight back on the schedule because both Ross and Brand were paid huge amounts of cash and there was nothing to put in its place.
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
As the Allinson and Lester substitutions have proved.
Lesley Douglas is one of the very few people to come out with credit from this whole mess in terms of taking the rap rather than seeing the programme's production team fired.
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 31 October 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) They could have replaced it with this:
― snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/art_ross_brand_ap.jpg
Brand looks like kin of So Not Gonna Happen 3.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 31 October 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
how come sachs hadnt heard the answerfone message himself by the time the daily mail came calling? i'm sure this has been answered already.
― piscesx, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mail on Sunday contacted Sachs' agent first.
― Do they mean us? They surely do! It's Ray Conniff! (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 31 October 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
but it had been broadcast by then hadnt it? and so hadnt days passed for him to hear the message? or did the mail hear it before it was brodacast?
― piscesx, Friday, 31 October 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
AS I understand it a producer called Sachs on his mobile and played a recording of it to him before he heard it on his answerphone. He said there was a lot of noise as he was outside and he couldn't hear it properly but agreed with the producer that it shouldn't be aired and that he would do an interview on the following week's show.
He didn't listen to the show as he wasn't supposed to be on it and therefore didn't know it had been aired.
― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still totally confused about why the 25-year-old producer of the Brand programme still has his job.
Or had his job in the first place? I suppose that depended on what public school he was at in the first place.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Presumably the producer worked for Russell Brand's production company i.e. Russell Brand was their boss or summat?
― NickB, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/10/28/vicars-son-at-heart-of-brand-row/
― Stevie T, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Not a council estate boy from a comprehensive, I am surprised
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"As producer of Brand’s slot, he is thought to earn around £25,000 a year."
BBC spending the big bucks to hire the best talent, i see
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
That's quite high for the BBC.
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
per hour i'd say it's pretty great
― darraghmac, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Loose change for Jonathan Ross
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I presume The Sun paid for this tasteful video as it's much better quality than the ones on their myspace page which I have definitely not seen.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 31 October 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
how come sachs hadnt heard the answerfone message himself by the time the daily mail came calling?
That's what I've been wondering. The Mail on Sunday article came eight days after the programme was broadcast. And Sachs was scheduled to give a phone interview on the show, about his appearance on The Bill. It wasn't a prank call, as such.
― DavidM, Friday, 31 October 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, that's why he didn't hear the message! He wasn't in!
― Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Out cavorting with some satanic sluts no doubt
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
^ suspended for 3 months
The Daily Star has unearthed some Lesbian schoolgirl porn featuring herself.
How do they manage to put their hand on this stuff so swiftly, I wonders?
― Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Googling her name?
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Have you gone all Irish all of a sudden?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be after asking a question...
― Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i hear georgina baillie's going to be suspended for a week
from her nipples
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
or did someone already make that joke
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
milk it in while you can
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what Have I Got News For You will be like tonight. Hislop very smug, I guess.
(sorry if already mused upon)
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Lol @ The Fiver today:
JOKES AT EXPENSE OF OLD MAN = GUARANTEED POPULIST FUN
You absolutely cannot go wrong making cheap and tasteless jokes at theexpense of pensioners - millions enjoy them, they're what makesBritain great - which probably explains why Madrid-based clown RamonCalderon yesterday decided to curry favour by humourously accusingageing football manager Sir Alex Ferguson of being "senile"
― Matt DC, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Hislop very smug, I guess.
Yep, that's Ian, I guess also.
― Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
this (nsfw) is the girl from the story? She isn't that volutuous, I don't think.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, holy shit, bdsm + nazi insignia, there's a fresh combination. (Nb I am booorrreeeedd)
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
volutuomas
― Mark G, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
what about the have-a-go pensioner who foiled a robbery today? He's a good old fellow
― the pinefox, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
still don't get how come he didnt hear the answerfone message on his own answerfone at any point before the mail called.
― piscesx, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
AND if he didnt then surely he may have never heard it unless it had been drawn to his attention by the mail. how many 78 year olds can use an answerfone properly?
― piscesx, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
my dad's only 62, he can't use an answerphone!
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Likes: Cock rock, Cage dancing, Making vampire films, Chocolate covered strawberries,Being alone sometimes, Being in good company, Piercings, Leather jackets
Dislikes: Shallow people, Narrow minded people, Chavs who yell things at me,Having to sell out to earn money, Public transport, Dead fish
What is cock rock?
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate having to sell out to earn money too
― max, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Pop quiz! Which tabloid newspaper recently ran a front page story attacking "Singer Kate Perry" for posing with a knive WHILE CHILDREN DIED?If you answered the same newspaper who has paid Georgina Baillie an undisclosed sum for exclusive video shots of her ass you are right.So I expect she'll be vilified on the front page tomorrow after posing naked with a knive in a bath of blood with another woman WHILE CHILDREN DIED?NSFW shot of Andrew Sach's granddaughters tits here.
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
The most shocking thing about that photo is the fakeness of the blood. Tsk, tsk, no attention to detail...
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thebreakingnews.co.uk/hugh%20who.jpg
― snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
cock rock = another term for 'hair metal' bands like Motley Crue et al.
― Autobot Lover (jel --), Friday, 31 October 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
The most shocking thing about that photo is just how crap and tacky it is!
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Friday, 31 October 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Look at how uneven the tiles are. 'uckin' cowboy tilers, cost yer to put right guv...
― snoball, Friday, 31 October 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
'uckin'
in what argot, pray, is this a valid contraction
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Friday, 31 October 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Ned, is your argument that because Georgina Baillie takes her clothes off for a living, she is somehow less worthy of sympathy in this instance than she would be if she were, say, a nun?
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 31 October 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Or, to put it another way, would you say that because of her attire she was asking for this?
HIGNFY basically shite. Hislop looked disdainful, while no-one else appeared to share his indignation. Tom Baker possibly worst host since Brian Blessed.
― ailsa, Friday, 31 October 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link