[Stooky Bill]

We all have different life experiences, but I can honestly say that I've never worked anywhere where a person wouldn't be given a send-off if leaving for a competitor, usually with jokes about the team at the competitor being nowhere as nice, etc.

Clearly, there are other factors at play when you're effectively part of the brand and we're talking about an on air send-off, but I guess what I'm saying is... this is absolutely nothing like leaving M&S for Lidl.

I've known it happen a couple of times, one a presenter who left a news programme for its direct rival. They weren't even let back in the building after handing in their notice.

The other worked for a facilities place in Soho, nothing particularly notable job-wise, he handed in his notice to go to a rival down the road
Immediate gardening leave, barely allowed to say goodbye to colleagues.

It happens