As practically everyone in the UK will know by now, a couple of radio presenters got themselves into a spot of bother this week.
BBC presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand joined forces for a downloadable-only podcast recording which ended up with the two making calls to the answer phone of actor Andrew Sachs, detailing Brand's involvement with Sach's granddaughter. The segment has been removed by the BBC, but Youtube came to the rescue - the whole thing is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7IHJ66wj9g, if you want to hear it...
The story of what happened later is available all over the internet, with varying degrees of anger or apathy depending on the publication. As of the time of writing, both Ross and Brand have apologised, Brand has stepped down from his position at the BBC, and Ross's future is in doubt. While we don't want to extend this story any more than it deserves, we would like to know what bdaily readers think about the whole affair - with calls coming from the public for the sacking of Brand, Ross, the producers, or all of them, we wondered who bdaily readers wanted sacked...
This week's Friday Poll asks: Who should be fired over the Andrew Sachs phone calls?
No-one, it's all a fuss over nothing
Russell Brand, he's always been a liability for the BBC
Jonathan Ross, he should really know better
Both of them
The BBC producer who allowed the broadcast to go ahead
The journalists who have perpetuated the story
Feel free to let us know what you think about the Brand-Ross-Sachs affair at bdaily.info/the-friday-poll.
You can't blame old Brandy through - the granddaughter is hot!
