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Kershaw producer canned
The fallout from the "abuse of trust" panic at the BBC has claimed its first scalp: Liz Kerhsaw producer Leona McCambridge has been sacked, following the revelation that many of Kershaw's competition phone-ins were pre-recorded with friends masquerading as listeners.
According to the Mail's report, Lesley Douglas, controller of Radios 2 and 6, went round to McCambridge's house to sack her with three personnel staff in tow; the Mail further speculates that Ric Blaxill could also be in trouble, after he did similar things while sitting in as producer on Russell Brand's show. (Yes, former Top of the Pops' Blaxill).
The confusing thing here is that the Kershaw breach of "trust" came to light while thye BBC was conducting an amnesty over competition fudging following the Blue Peter and Saturday Kitchen mistakes; it's an odd amnesty which ends in punishment.
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It's a bit odd that this is the first sacking. The cost to enter these competitions was the price of an e-mail (£0.00) or a text (£0.00 - £0.10). Deception is wrong but this is surely minor compared to the premium rate phone-in fiddling that has also been going on, if only in financial terms.
Interestingly the details of the sacking appear to have been removed from the Mail story..... no mention of Ric Blaxill either
Blaxill's been allowed to walk away (as apposed to being sacked)
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