BBC bosses have held an emergency meeting to decide the future of Jonathan Ross.

What an extraordinary discussion the Today programme (0810) has just broadcast on the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand scandal. The affair is still dominating the front pages. There are revelations that part of the offending item about Andrew Sachs that was cut out and not broadcast featured Ross suggesting, in explicit detail, that the two of them perform a sex act on Andrew Sachs to ‘apologise&...

KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Is this what we really need right now? The world economy fell off the fence, and just as finance ministers, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) start trying to put it back together again... a sex scandal threatens to debilitate the managing director of the IMF. Late last week, the Wall Street Journal began looking into an affair that has rocked t...

BBC chiefs played down suggestions of wider failings following the recent scandal involving Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross in a grilling by MPs today.

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The whole row over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s disgusting prank calls continues to dominate the headlines this morning. That prime political opportunist Jack Straw has now waded into the matter, dropping heavy hints that Jonathan Ross should be fired. Brand and Ross have created a good moment to bury bad news--normally the news that house prices have fallen 15 percent in the last years...

Lesley Ross quits over scandal that blew up 'on her watch' and BBC suspends Jonathan Ross for 12 weeks over prank call

Russell Brand fell on his sword yesterday. The Controller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, has also done the same. Jonathan Ross, quite naturally, has decided not to do the same and I imagine the BBC doesn't want to go through a lengthy legal battle with Ross's lawyers. Although Ross is being suspended without pay, I wanted to see him go. The BBC will not allow comments on their website to be...

Charles Moore (grand honest  fellow) lays into the Beeb here. David Davis Posted in Anglosphere, Celebrities, Chavs, cheeseburgers, Humour, knickers, Law, Liberty, politicians, poor people, pornography, sawdust and rat droppings, Sex, sex and more, Sex, naughty, Wireless Tele Vision   Tagged: BBC, Charles Moore, culture, humiliation, Jonathan Ross, license fee, naughty words, s...

A co-conspirator has forwarded me a note he's just found addressed to Jonathan Ross: "Dear Jonathan I've shagged your daughter. Who's laughing now? Regards, Gary Glitter" I wonder if Jonathan Ross will find that funny and the sort of thing the BBC should broadcast. I know I don't. Hat Tip: Anuj.