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Article: BBC boss begins to feel the heat over sacking of Carol Thatcher
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 6, 2009
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Jay Hunt spoke in strident tones during a radio interview
explaining the decision
THE controller of BBC1 was under fire last night after her
version of events surrounding the sacking of Carol Thatcher was
denied by the presenter's spokeswoman.
Jay Hunt claimed that Ms Thatcher had been reprimanded for saying
"golliwog" while off air and had refused to apologise before she was
dismissed.
But her agent, Ali Gunn, dismissed this version of events,
saying: "They seem to have come up with a lot more evidence seven
days after the incident.
"Absolutely nothing was said at the time of the incident.
[Nobody] raised it with Carol. It was just a lighthearted joke and
that was how it was taken at ...