After the news report was broadcast, Sideman announced he was quitting BBC Radio 1Xtra over the incident. He said the news report represented an “error of judgement”, adding it “feels like a slap in the face to our community”.
One person Tweeted: "Helen Whately truly is the idiot's idiot's idiot's idiot."
"From examining human turds to marching with them."
The paper hired Mr Hanks who worked as a private investigator for more than 40 years gathering information on celebrities, has been jailed four times, including in 2017 for extortion.
'Misogynistic and outright f*cking creepy."
"What is it about Naga Munchetty that riles the angry pink Brexitty old men so much?"
"First they came for Huw Edwards and I did not speak out. "Because it was a joke you paranoid, stupid, flag fetishists."
“It’s a metaphor for an entire year of Covid incompetence," he said. So that’s “Have I Got News For You” for the chop then?
“To use parliamentary privilege to smear a journalist – knowing you can’t be sued for defamation because you are saying it in Parliament – is extremely troubling.
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