{"id":193995,"date":"2023-09-21T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=193995"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:37:08","slug":"liz-kershaw-claims-bbc-allowed-russell-brand-to-bully-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/liz-kershaw-claims-bbc-allowed-russell-brand-to-bully-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Kershaw claims BBC allowed Russell Brand to &apos;bully&apos; colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Radio legend Liz Kershaw claims the BBC allowed Russell Brand to &#8216;blatantly bully&#8217; and &#8216;humiliate&#8217; colleagues as she slams the broadcaster for allowing him to do &#8216;whatever he wanted&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Kershaw\u00a0singled out ex-Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas for enabling Brand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Douglas resigned after Brand and Jonathan Ross aired lewd phone messages<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The BBC allowed Russell Brand to &#8216;blatantly bully and humiliate&#8217; colleagues, Liz Kershaw has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The former radio presenter says the prevailing management culture permitted his antics and left behind &#8216;a trail of ruined careers and shattered lives&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In a damning attack, she singled out former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas for allowing Brand, who is facing sexual assault claims, to do &#8216;whatever he wanted&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Douglas championed the star at digital station 6 Music in 2006 and then at Radio 2 despite &#8216;objections from production staff, presenters and the listeners&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She resigned in 2008 after Brand and Jonathan Ross aired lewd telephone messages they left for Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/21\/75704231-0-image-m-20_1695329892363.jpg\" height=\"704\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former radio presenter,\u00a0Liz Kershaw, says the prevailing management culture permitted his antics and left behind &#8216;a trail of ruined careers and shattered lives&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/21\/22\/75704747-12546909-image-a-38_1695330433132.jpg\" height=\"575\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Douglas resigned in 2008 after Brand and Jonathan Ross aired lewd telephone messages they left for Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Ms Kershaw said: &#8216;My beef is not with Brand. It&#8217;s about the BBC management culture that prevailed and permitted his antics at Radio 2 and 6 Music from 2006 to 2008.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She claimed Ms Douglas &#8216;allowed Brand to blatantly bully and humiliate his co-workers, critics and even a national treasure, Andrew Sachs&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Ms Douglas&#8217;s representative aired on Channel 4&#8217;s Dispatches read: &#8216;Ms Douglas did not at any time encourage, enable and\/or fail herself to take any adequate steps within her power with regard to the conduct of Mr Brand of which she was aware.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>ITV boss Kevin Lygo is to be quizzed as part of Channel 4&#8217;s Russell Brand probe. Mr Lygo was in charge of all of Channel 4 content between 2003 and 2010 when Brand hosted spin-off programmes for Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12546909\/Liz-Kershaw-BBC-Russell-Brand-bully-humiliate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio legend Liz Kershaw claims the BBC allowed Russell Brand to &#8216;blatantly bully&#8217; and &#8216;humiliate&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":193994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liz Kershaw claims BBC allowed Russell Brand to &amp;apos;bully&amp;apos; colleagues - Tokens Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/liz-kershaw-claims-bbc-allowed-russell-brand-to-bully-colleagues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liz Kershaw claims BBC allowed Russell Brand to &amp;apos;bully&amp;apos; 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