BBC Suspends Unnamed Presenter Over Sexual Misconduct Claims

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Orange Is The New Black have claimed that they never received fair compensation from Netflix while appearing in the show.Released in 2013, the series initially followed Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) as she’s sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security women’s prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money.In a new interview with The New Yorker, the cast of the Emmy-winning series have alleged that they were paid a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) minimum wage of less than $900 (£690) per episode to appear in the show.Among those to appear in the article were Kimiko Glenn, Emma Myles, Beth Dover, Alysia Reiner, Diane Guerrero, Taryn Manning and Lea DeLaria, with Dover saying: “It actually COST me money to be in Season 3 and 4 since I was cast local hire and had to fly myself out, etc,” Dover added.“But I was so excited for the opportunity to be on a show I loved so I took the hit. It’s maddening.”She added: “They’re telling us, ‘Oh, we can’t pay you this much, because we’re pinching pennies’.“But then Netflix is telling their shareholders that they’re making more than they’ve ever made.

Kevin Spacey took the witness stand today during his trial in London.

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BBC Director General Tim Davie has warned that it will be complex for the corporation to get to the bottom of allegations against Huw Edwards while being mindful of its duty of care to the presenter.

A BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit photos has been accused of breaking lockdown rules to meet a young person from a dating website during the pandemic, The Sun reported. The newspaper said it has seen messages which suggest the presenter travelled to see the 23-year-old in February 2021, after meeting them on a dating website the previous November.

To say the mood is grim at the BBC would be an understatement. In a long line of recent crises, a messy, murky, seemingly sordid scandal involving a top presenter could prove to be its gravest in a decade.

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The BBC has suspended a member of staff following allegations that they paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images.

BBC Director General Tim Davie has admitted that complaints procedures could be improved amid questions over how the UK broadcaster responded to allegations that one of its top presenters paid a young person for sexual images.

The teenager at the centre of the BBC controversy has said nothing "inappropriate or unlawful" happened with the unnamed male presenter and that the allegations were “rubbish”. In a letter from their lawyer, read out on today's BBC Six O'Clock news the teenager, now 20, said the claims, originally made by their mother, were not true.The letter stated: “For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are ‘rubbish’.” The letter from the lawyer also said that the young person sent a denial to the newspaper on Friday evening via a WhatsApp message, in which they said the allegation was "totally wrong and there was no truth to it".The Sun had claimed a BBC presenter paid a teenager £35,000 in exchange for sexually explicit images.The teenager’s mother told The Sun she saw a picture of the presenter on her child’s phone “sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear”.

BBC presenter Jeremy Vine has slammed social media as a “massive fountain of sewage” after he was wrongly accused of being the star who allegedly paid a teenager for sex pictures.

The cop who exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile has insisted that the BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager for sexually explicit pictures should be identified.

The BBC has suspended a presenter over allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit images.

The BBC has been urged to act "very swiftly" in dealing with the claims centring on an unnamed presenter alleged to have paid a teenager for sexually explicit images. Government minister Victoria Atkins described the claims reported by The Sun as "very, very serious" as questions over the broadcaster's handling of the situation were raised.The newspaper said the star paid the person, said to have been 17 when the payments began, £35,000 in exchange for the images.

Scots broadcaster Nicky Campbell has hit out at a twisted troll who claims the telly veteran is the BBC star accused of paying cash to a teenager in exchange for explicit photos.

Lily-Rose Depp, were exploited during filming:“Go f–k yourself.”Rumors that the series turned into unseemly “torture porn” stem from a Rolling Stone article published before “The Idol” even premiered.“What is amazing to me is no one’s listening — I’ve not seen that before in all my days, such a dogged ‘We refuse to change the narrative,’” Adams, 58, recently told Vanity Fair. “I especially want to say to all the feminists, ‘Go f–k yourself.’ All these women that I’m working with are talking about their experience, and you’re not listening.

Drake has hit out at Childish Gambino‘s 2018 hit song ‘This Is America’, labelling it as “overrated and over-awarded”.During the ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour with 21 Savage in Chicago on July 5, Drake performed ‘Headlines’, during which news headliners flashed across the LED screen behind him, recounting some of the biggest headlines about the rapper.One headliner read: “The overrated and over awarded hit song ‘This Is America’ was originally a Drake diss record”.Footage of the moment was captured by a concertgoer and was later posted onto Twitter by HipHopDX – watch the clip below.Drake shades Childish Gambino's "This Is America" following diss song confession https://t.co/52WCdDsvQr pic.twitter.com/XayOQF3xj5— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) July 6, 2023The shade comes after Childish Gambino – aka Donald Glover – revealed earlier this year that the track was initially meant to be a Drake diss track before it became the political juggernaut that was released.“[It] was a funny way of like doing [a Drake diss],” he explained, “but then I was like, ‘This shit sounds kind of hard, though.’ So I was like, ‘Let me play with it,’” Gambino told GQ in April.Ultimately, the track evolved from a Drake diss to “reflect the culture of 2018”: “To me, culture is just compression of information, So I was like, ‘All of it just needs to be compressed into this moment.’ So what was happening needed to feel like it could only be happening right now.”Drake most recently kicked off the ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour with 21 Savage – find details and buy tickets here. Ahead of the tour’s kick-off, the rapper revealed that he had gotten high before his ‘Degrassi’ audition, and said he thinks “maybe I’m still high, maybe I’m in some coma.

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