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BBC Breakfast host halts live broadcast to share 'sad' breaking news with fans – Daily Star

August 5, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

BBC Breakfast was abruptly interrupted as presenters Ben Thompson and Sarah Campbell shared some “sad” news.

Filling in for regulars Jon Kay and Sally Nugent on on Monday (August 5), the presenters shared the announcement of England cricket legend Graham Thorpe’s death aged of 55.

The show paused its usual programming to break the shocking news to viewers, with Ben addressing the audience: “Just some more news to bring to you this morning away from the Olympics and some sad news as-well.”

He continued with a sombre tone” “News of the death of the former cricketer Graham Thorpe at the age of just 55. His family revealed he had been diagnosed with a serious illness back in March of 2022.”

John Watson shared “sad” news with BBC Breakfast viewers

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New Radio 1 host Jamie Laing is slammed for making a dig at predecessor Jordan North while sharing private BBC email: ‘Shame on you!’

August 2, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

New Radio 1 host Jamie Laing has been slammed by fans for making a dig at Jordan North while bragging about the success of his show.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, took over from Jordan’s Drivetime slot earlier this year and took to Instagram on Thursday to share a private company email which detailed the listener growth over the past few months.

But his post proved to be controversial by followers who deemed it was unnecessary to drag Jordan down to promote his own success.

Jordan moved to rival Capital FM to takeover the Breakfast show from Roman Kemp after 10 years at Radio 1.

Jamie shared the company email, which said: ‘Comparing the 6am to 10am time period Greg James (who’s on for most of that) has managed to grow his audience from 3.8m to 3.9m, no mean feat with…

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Jamie Laing slammed after sharing confidential BBC email

August 2, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

Jamie Laing has been slammed by his fans after he shared a confidential work email from the BBC with his followers.

The former Made In Chelsea star Jamie, 35, currently works for the BBC, hosting a Radio 1 show alongside Vick Hope and Katie Thistleton.

The star has been working in this role since the start of the year when it was announced he’d be taking over Jordan North’s former Drivetime slot, a decision some blasted for being ‘classist’.

Bending the rules with his current employer, the presenter took to Instagram to reveal the success of the show as it was praised in an internal email for performing well in the last quarter.

Jamie shared a screenshot of the email with a caption that…

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Fake BBC report claims Ukrainian businessmen donated to Trump campaign – Full Fact

July 26, 2024 Web Shared Hosting News 0

A video purporting to be a BBC news report about Ukrainian businessmen making donations to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is fake.

It has been shared on X (formerly Twitter), and also on Facebook. The video claims that “three of Ukraine’s richest businessmen have donated $8m to Donald Trump’s election campaign”.

Text within the video, which features a BBC watermark, also claims the report has been produced with investigative journalism organisation Bellingcat.

The video claims the donations occurred after the attempted assassination of the Republican presidential candidate on 13 July and says they were made through “cryptocurrency transactions” to Mr Trump’s “cryptocurrency wallet”.

However, both the BBC and Bellingcat have denied that…

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