Jonathan Ross and Russell Banned

What's been happening?

Just incase you have been living on a remote desert island for the last few days, let me explain what has been happening to poor comedian and (wannabe) actor Russell Brand and TV presenter Jonathan Ross.

The dynamic duo teamed up for the BCC's Radio 2 show. During their pre-recorded slot they made a prank phone call to Fawlty Towers 78-year old actor Andrew Sachs.

They left a voicemail on the actor's answering machine saying that Russell Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baille. Please see the video below:



Despite the show being prerecorded, the editors at BBC decided to include the prank call in the show. After the show was aired just two people complained.

One of these was Andrew Sachs.

Over 27,000 complaints

How did just two complaints from just one prank call on the radio (which by the way Capital FM do ALL the time) turn into nearly a whopping 30, 000 complaints? And counting.

The other 26,998 people decided to begin getting angry only after the Mail on Sunday led the story eight days later.

Most of these whining callers probably haven't even listened to the original broadcast at all.

As Andrew Gilligan so rightly wrote in The Evening Standard today, "They were reacting to the row, not the show".

The current situation is that Ross and Brand are having to deal with a plethora of unwanted negative attention from the press, the BBC, and even Gordon Brown.

Please see my next blog for the latest on this fiasco.