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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 17:26 #1

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PinkNews Exclusive. Former Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has written to BBC Director General Lord Hall over the decision to discipline Graham Norton for wearing a ribbon for World AIDS Day on his chat show, and says the corporation is not being consistent with its own guidelines.

On Monday, the senior Labour MP told PinkNews.co.uk: “I have written to the Director General of the BBC to express my concerns about this and ask him to review the guidance.

“It is inconsistent for presenters to be allowed, even obliged to wear a British Legion poppy and to grow facial hair to draw attention to prostate cancer but forbidden and reprimanded for wearing a red ribbon.

“The red ribbon does not even support or endorse any particular charity but is a symbol of the world wide battle against HIV/AIDS, which one would have thought was wholly uncontroversial.”

www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/16/former-cul...ton-aids-ribbon-row/
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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 17:27 #2

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I'm no fan of the ribbon personally, but I did find this story odd.
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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 17:31 #3

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This is what bureaucracy is like. The BBC is one of the world's most bureaucratic institutions. Somewhere within their caverns there were 27 layers of managers who had to justify their own existence so they made this decision. Of course, Graham Norton will fold faster on the issue than Superman on laundry day because where else could you be paid a seven figure salary for asking Kate Winslet about poo?
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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 17:38 #4

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I dunno, I'd like to think Graham's a bit feisty and will stick to his guns. I'll probably be proven wrong though.
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We shall see...I saw him in a bar once and can confirm he is 'weeny'. Like a little gnome.
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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 17:53 #6

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386319...-61million-year.html
BBC paid Graham Norton £2.61million last year
Let's wait and see!

I suppose he could always start at the bottom in retail and work his way up if this doesn't work out.
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BBC must review guidelines following Graham Norton AIDS ribbon row 16 Dec 2013 23:50 #7

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For that kind of money, he'll sing like a fucking canary if the BBC tells him too.
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