17-03-2023, 12:43 PM
From this week’s Popb*tch:
Quote:What was happening in the BBC news rooms on Friday, at the height of the Gary Lineker crisis, while employees' heads fell into their hands worried that they were all about to become a national laughing stock (again)?
Director of News Programmes, John McAndrew, brought his wife in for a little tour of the offices as he's lining her up for a job there.
Maybe you know her? Daisy McAndrew? Off TalkTV? She's been telling colleagues for a while that she'd be headed off to the Beeb soon, now that her husband was calling some shots there.
If it happens, it will leave a presenting spot free at The Talk. Who's going to get it? The smart money is currently on Penny Smith – but you sleep on WhatsApp's own Isabel Oakeshott at your peril...