Getting fired from a job in the media

With yesterday's new of the return of Tomorrow's World I was reminded when a host was fired. Down below is the specife incident and 2 others.


Carol Voderman

In the mid 1990s Tomorrow's World dumped the studio demonstrations of new inventions to just being filmed items. Voderman was brought in to provide links for the items. However less than a year later after starting the job she found herself in hot water .Voderman did an advert for Ariel washing powder in the manner of her presenting an item on Tomorrow's World. After complaints of the BBC endorsing a commercial product Voderman was fired though she claims there was nothing in her contract. Carol still maintain a high profile with her presenting the civic minded Pride of Britain awards this week.


Russell Brand

The boundaries pushing comedian once had his own Radio 2 show where he would he talk about various subjects with guests. One week Andrew (Manuel in Fawlty Towers) Sachs was to be on the show however when he did not turned up Brand and another guest Jonathan Ross phoned Sachs home. The phone call had Brand saying he had met his granddaughter with Ross shouting in the background that Brand had sexual relations with her in very frank language. The resulting furore saw Brand and Ross issue grovelling apologies to Sachs and his granddaughter and the controller of Radio 2 at the time fired.


Jess Yates

Yates presented Stars on Sunday a show in which celebrities would perform either bible readings or hyms. Among them were Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee, Norman Wisdom, Bing Crosby and Roy Orbison to name just 5. However when news broke that Yates (he was separated from his wife at the time) was having an affair with an younger woman he was fired as host. A few years after his death Yates found himself in the headlines for the wrong reasons as it turned out the woman (Paula Yates) he had raised as his own turned out to be the child of the infamous Hughie Green.