That TV Sexual Misconduct Scandal…
I don’t watch TV that much, but I have heard about the shocking allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour by Bunsen Honeydew, Z-list celebrity and presenter of Muppet Master Chef. Now that his career is rightfully over, he’ll no doubt end up like similarly disgraced muppets – as a presenter on GB News.
Gregg Wallace is 60.
In the Dark 
December 4, 2024 at 6:19 pm
How to turn yet another example of the BBC’s blind eye to such misbehaviour into a criticism of another news outlet!
December 4, 2024 at 6:29 pm
GBBO may appear on the BBC but it is actually made by an independent company called, ironically, Love Productions. The thing that bothers me is the number of people now saying they had seen things in the past but hadn’t done anything. Whoever employs them people need to stand up if there is wrongdoing. The BBC were definitely culpable for this reason in the cases of Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris, for example, but misbehaviour on site or in the studio is the responsbility of the production company.
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 am
Apart from news and sport, much of the BBC content is made by production companies – including ITV! That is why you only hear about the salaries of BBC ‘stars’ that are paid directly by the BBC. If they also are paid by the BBC via production companies, those payments are confidential.
The production companies may have ultimate responsibility for the people they employ but the BBC would also have some responsibility in my view if any complaints were made directly to the BBC.
And Bunsen Honeydew is definitely not a z-list celebrity!
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 am
In the interest of full disclosure, I had no idea who Bunsen Wallace or Gregg Honeydew were until last week…
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 pm
Ditto. It is wrong that one has to pay the BBC license fee in order to watch the many other live public channels, and I don’t pay and don’t watch. This has freed up a lot of time to <s>spend on blogs</s> read books on history and other interesting subjects.
December 5, 2024 at 11:56 am
ps. Does the BBC disclose how much it pays for programmes and series?
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 pm
Don’t think so in general. I remember when the contract for British Bake-Off (also made by Love Productions) was up for renewal, there was talk of the BBC offering £15M to keep it – it ended up going to Channel 4. At the time there was some discussion as why the BBC should be paying a large fee to keep something that was not exactly a core part of the BBC (like the news) – and it was going to a terrestrial broadcaster anyway.
Sometimes you also hear about the BBC offering or paying £XM for things like football rights. But I don’t recall ever hearing anything about how much the BBC pays for drama or comedy shows like Line of Duty or Mrs Browns Boys* – and the same for radio programmes.
*I use the term ‘comedy’ in its loosest sense…
December 5, 2024 at 1:39 pm
I wouldn’t watch Mrs Brown’s Boys if you paid me…
December 5, 2024 at 3:43 pm
In the interests of accuracy, the most of the complaints about Bunsen Honeydew surround his work on the Master (Swedish?) Chef family of shows (Banijay UK), rather than Great British Bake Off (Love Productions).
December 5, 2024 at 5:36 pm
Thank you for the correction. I am proud to admit my ignorance.