I am sure you have all heard and read about the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand prank call by now. Basically they called up and left several answerphone messages on the phone of Andrew Sachs (used to be in Fawlty Towers), who was supposed to be on his (Russell Brand) radio show. The messages were quite rude and it turns out have upset Andrew Sachs.
The whole situation though has really avalanced since the media got hold of it. Originally there was just 2 complaints during the show but its now something like 25,000.
You can hear the part of the Russell Brand show which causes all this controversy on Youtube now.
PM Gordon Brown has got in on the act and said it was “clearly inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour“. Surely he should be worrying and dealing with the state of the nations economy etc rather than a couple tv personalities acting foolishly and leaving a message on someones answerphone.
The day after the interview was played out (it was pre-recorded) Jonathan Ross was suspended. His friday night show, at the moment, wont me on. Russell Brand was suspended but has since quit. If the BBC sack Jonathan Ross they will be saving a lot of money. He was on a massive £18 million three year deal. He was “OK” but in his interviews he did end up talking about himself a lot and certainly wasnt worth £6m a year!
