The BBC is an establishment, funded by the paying public, which brings information and leisure to the world over.
Right here we check out all of the scandals the BBC has needed to reply in latest months:
Gregg Wallace was fired from the present after a sequence of sexual misconduct allegations, together with one accusation of undesirable touching with 45 out of 83 claims towards him upheld.
John Torode was sacked after an allegation associated to a severely offensive racist time period allegedly used on the set of MasterChef in 2018. He has apologised to anybody he precipitated offence to.
The BBC was left with a conundrum about whether or not to air the cooking sequence, and determined it was the “proper factor to do” for the beginner cooks who had taken half competing.
However it confronted a backlash from some ladies who got here ahead, whereas former Movie star MasterChef contestant Kirsty Wark recommended the BBC may have refilmed the sequence with out the 2 co-hosts.
The primary three episodes had been launched on iPlayer on Wednesday (August 6).
The BBC introduced that Wallace shall be changed by Irish chef Anna Haugh within the closing episodes of the sequence, as a result of the allegations towards him first emerged throughout filming in November.
Naga Munchetty & Richard Frediani
It has been reported that an HR adviser from consultancy agency PwC was earlier this yr employed in as exterior assist to evaluation the “tradition” of the BBC One morning present BBC Breakfast.
The programme was hit with bullying allegations towards Naga Munchetty, 50, and editor of the present, Richard Frediani.
Frediani took a interval of prolonged go away from the programme, which he has headed up from Salford since 2019, amid the bullying allegations however got here again a month later after an exterior session.
The BBC Breakfast editor had been accused of shouting, swearing and creating an intimidating environment, sources instructed Deadline.
A supply instructed The Occasions: “Fredi has no relationship with Charlie [Strayt] and Naga, which is bizarre when they’re half of his frontline presenting roster.
“It seems he would not like them and so they don’t love him — for no matter motive, they do not speak to one another”.
Naga Munchetty additionally got here underneath hearth for allegedly bullying a junior staffer, with scrutiny rising over the inner tradition of the broadcasting home.
She then additionally got here underneath hearth herself for 2 incidents that allegedly occurred over a three-year interval.
In 2022, Munchetty, 50, is claimed to have used a crude phrase for a intercourse act and requested a colleague if they’d accomplished it. Though the precise remark hasn’t been reported, one supply instructed The Solar that it was “Crass, inappropriate and wildly unprofessional. The individual felt embarrassed”.
Munchetty was additionally accused of bullying a lady final yr, with The Solar claiming she allegedly accused a youthful staffer of stealing, with out presenting proof.
The supply instructed The Solar: “It was humiliating. There was no proof, no apology. The lady left not lengthy after, fully demoralised”.
The Commonplace has approached Munchetty’s representatives for feedback relating to the incidents, however the tv presenter has seemingly but to publicly tackle the allegations.
The 63 yr previous is now reportedly additionally ‘underneath evaluation’ alongside Munchetty and it has been claimed the co-hosts will now face a proper investigation on the Beeb, albeit individually.
A supply instructed The Solar: “Plenty of folks have come ahead to share their experiences with Charlie, so the BBC has formally moved to position the complaints underneath evaluation.’’
In an announcement, a BBC spokesperson stated: ‘Whereas we don’t touch upon particular person circumstances, we take all complaints about conduct at work extraordinarily significantly and won’t tolerate behaviour that isn’t according to our values.”
Feminine presenter displaying lewd pics to a junior member of employees
A seasoned feminine BBC presenter, who has not but been publicly named, was the topic of a grievance after allegedly displaying a junior colleague an undesirable intimate picture of an unknown man.
The Solar reported that the star, who is claimed to be a family title who options among the many BBC’s highest-paid presenters, was instructed by bosses to apologise to her co-worker after displaying them an image.
It’s reported that the junior feminine member of employees was “horrified” and tearful after being proven the NSFW picture, stated to be of a person’s genitals.
In August 2024, former newsreader Huw Edwards admitted having 41 indecent pictures, which had been despatched to him by one other man on WhatsApp. They included seven class A pictures – probably the most critical classification. Two concerned a toddler aged about seven to 9.
Edwards, 63, was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence suspended for 2 years at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom
