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Huw Edwards took home his biggest pay packet since 2019 during his final year at the BBC, despite the newsreader being off-air for eight months amid a misconduct scandal.

The BBC’s annual report revealed that Edwards was paid as much as £480,000 in the 12 months to the end of March 2024, his highest salary since 2019, when he pocketed up to £495,000.

Edwards signed a new BBC deal early last year and presented coverage of King Charles III’s Coronation, which will explain why his pay rose around £40,000 compared with the £440,000 he took home in 2023.

At the peak of his powers, however, he was embroiled in a misconduct storm after allegedly paying a young person for indecent images and sending colleagues inappropriate messages. Edwards was signed off work in July 2023 with mental health issues and resigned from the BBC in April citing medical reasons. He has not commented on the allegations against him.

Speaking to media on Tuesday,...

Exclusive: Clive Myrie, one of the BBC’s most senior news anchors, has been criticized after making thousands of pounds delivering speeches to an investment company linked to Israeli arms suppliers.

Myrie is a household name in the UK and will be the face of the BBC’s election night coverage next month after being elevated into a more prominent role following the resignation of Huw Edwards in April.

The presenter supplements his £290,000 BBC salary with external speaking engagements and he was paid up to £10,000 by Quilter Cheviot, one of the UK’s largest asset managers, to present at a series of adviser roadshow events earlier this year. The events came after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking months of retaliatory assaults.

Myrie delivered an address on “politics, performance and planning” for Quilter Cheviot on at least three occasions in February, March, and May. He declared the contract in the BBC’s external events register,...

The BBC has set its election night coverage for the July 4 poll as broadcasters battle to secure debates with Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer as soon as possible.

Established presenters Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie will helm the BBC’s coverage in six weeks time, replacing Huw Edwards, who resigned from the BBC last month following a scandal involving his allegedly paying a young person for explicit images.

Kuenssberg, who hosts a topical Sunday show, and newsreader Myrie, will “bring insight, experience – and perhaps a little wit” alongside BBC political editor Chris Mason, according to the BBC, whose announcement on the coverage was always expected today.

Others set to feature on the night include Reeta Chakrabarti and Jeremy Vine analyzing results with the famous ‘swingometer’, Kirsty Wark, Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire, Naga Munchetty, Nick Watt and Alex Forsyth. Nick Robinson and Rachel Burden will be on the radio and Martin Geissler,...

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has revealed she has the debilitating womb condition adenomyosis.

Speaking on her BBC Radio 5 Live show this morning, Munchetty said she is in “constant, nagging pain” due to the condition and often can’t move, turn over or sit up. One particularly bad episode over the weekend led her husband to call an ambulance, she said.

“I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes,” Munchetty added. “Right now as I sit here talking to you: I am in pain. Constant, nagging pain.”

“It’s in my uterus and around my pelvis,” Munchetty went on to say, having invited others onto her show to discuss the condition. “Sometimes it runs down my thighs. And I’ll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.”

Around one-in-10 women are thought to have adenomyosis, according to the BBC.

BBC Breakfast viewers have accused the show of “scaremongering against” forthcoming teacher strikes.

Teachers in England and Wales are staging walkouts next month after union members voted in favour of striking over pay.

Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt welcomed Gráinne Hallahan, a senior analyst for Times Education Supplement, onto the series to discuss the subject.

However, viewers expressed disapproval of the angle of the segment and certain phrases used by the hosts, one of which saw Stayt describe the action as teachers “not turning up” for work.

“Not sure I like the phrase teachers not turning up from Charlie Stayt, which makes it sound casual rather than a difficult decision to go on strike,” @Stillteachers wrote.

Others questioned Munchetty’s comments, which saw her refer to the “massive disruption” striking may cause parents and children.

“The issue is it is massive disruption for parents and for children, obviously – their education being disrupted,...

Star broadcasters Rylan and Nick Grimshaw are among the first to react to the news that Ken Bruce is leaving his BBC Radio 2 show after 31 years.

Bruce said “the time is right” for him to move from the station, after presenting the mid-morning weekday show for more than three decades.

The 71-year-old, who is leaving in March, joined the corporation in 1977 as a BBC Radio Scotland presenter 45 years ago. His first regular slot on Radio 2 was The Saturday Late Show in 1984. The following year he fronted the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, taking over from Sir Terry Wogan.

Bruce said: “Nothing stays the same forever and I have decided the time is right for me to move on from Radio 2 when I reach the end of my current contract in March. It’s been a tremendously happy time for me: I’ve made many friends and worked with many wonderful colleagues.

It’s 10.25am on a Friday morning and I’m starting to worry. I was supposed to start interviewing Naga Munchetty, the matter-of-fact, pixie-haired star of BBC Breakfast, just under an hour ago. But no one can track her down. Between 6am and quarter past nine, her face was beamed into living rooms and kitchens across the country; now she’s nowhere to be seen. At 10.29am, the publicist emails me. I’ll be on the phone with Munchetty in 10 minutes. The presenter comes on the line apologising profusely: she left her phone, with all her appointments on it, on her hall table when she left for the Salford studio this morning. Mystery solved. I had started to fret a little. “Oh no, I’m fine,” she says, laughing. “I’m just stupid.” She says sorry. Again. “There’s nothing worse than flaky interviewees not turning up.”

The 47-year-old journalist...

Lewis Capaldi made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show last night, where he delivered a series of typically filthy jokes.

The musician performed his latest hit “Pointless” on the BBC One show, on which Norton was interviewing guests Jamie Dornan, James Norton, Sophie Okonedo and Siobhán McSweeney.

After he played, Capaldi walked over to join the other stars on the sofa and give Dornan a lingering hug.

“I must apologise,” Capaldi joked, as he sat down. “In all the excitement, walking over, and with all the cheers, I might have farted slightly.”

To Dornan, Capaldi said: “I’m used to seeing you in Fifty Shades of Grey. So it’s weird seeing you here, without, like, a whip in your hand.”

After a pause, he then added: “And me without my cock in mine.”

Following laughter and applause from the studio audience and the guests (especially Derry Girls star...

Lewis Capaldi made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show last night, where he delivered a series of typically filthy jokes.

The musician performed his latest hit “Pointless” on the BBC One show, on which Norton was interviewing guests Jamie Dornan, James Norton, Sophie Okonedo and Siobhán McSweeney.

After he played, Capaldi walked over to join the other stars on the sofa and give Dornan a lingering hug.

“I must apologise,” Capaldi joked, as he sat down. “In all the excitement, walking over, and with all the cheers, I might have farted slightly.”

To Dornan, Capaldi said: “I’m used to seeing you in Fifty Shades of Grey. So it’s weird seeing you here, without, like, a whip in your hand.”

After a pause, he then added: “And me without my cock in mine.”

Following laughter and applause from the studio audience and the guests (especially Derry Girls star...

The presenters of BBC morning show Breakfast are in trouble with the London Fire Brigade.

On Saturday (10 December), the Lfb was forced to issue a stern reminder to co-host Naga Munchetty following the series’s latest broadcast.

The complaint came after spotting a laptop placed next to her on the sofa.

”Not for the first time we’re reminding @BBCBreakfast presenters not to have their laptops on the sofa and even worse on top of paper,” the Lfb’s official Twitter account wrote.

The account shared a screenshot of the laptop on a sofa from Saturday’s episode.

“Using them on a fabric surface or paper can result in a lack of airflow & can cause them to overheat,” the tweet continued.

The account accompanied the screenshot with a photo of a burnt out laptop.

The Independent has contacted BBC for comment.

Many responded to the post by thanking London Fire for sharing the advice,...

Michael Parkinson has shared his opinion on the interviews from his old talk show.

The broadcaster, who is 87, was invited on to BBC Breakfast on Thursday (4 November) where he talked about his new book, which was written by his son.

During the interview, Parkinson was asked about his talk show, which he presented from the years 1971 to 1982, and then again from 1998 to 2007.

Parkinson, who is widely considered to be one of the best talk show hosts of all time, was asked by Naga Munchetty: “Do you get sick of seeing the TV clips?”

He replied: “Do I get sick of it? Absolutely. I don’t recognise the person.”

Elaborating, he replied: “It’s a disguise, this is a disguise. All of it. You’re not yourself at all. It changes you. No matter how considerate you might be of the problems of being famous, it changes you, and it’s bound to.

Michael Parkinson has shared his opinion on the interviews from his old talk show.

The broadcaster, who is 87, was invited on to BBC Breakfast on Thursday (4 November) where he talked about his new book, which was written by his son.

During the interview, Parkinson was asked about his talk show, which he presented from the years 1971 to 1982, and then again from 1998 to 2007.

Parkinson, who is widely considered to be one of the best talk show hosts of all time, was asked by Naga Munchetty: “Do you get sick of seeing the TV clips?”

He replied: “Do I get sick of it? Absolutely. I don’t recognise the person.”

Elaborating, he replied: “It’s a disguise, this is a disguise. All of it. You’re not yourself at all. It changes you. No matter how considerate you might be of the problems of being famous, it changes you, and it’s bound to.

You’re watching the BBC News at 10, and everything’s gone bloody bats*** mental,” newsreaders may have wanted to say, but have not. For months now – years, even – broadcasters have been heroically reporting on the unfolding chaos of our political world without giving any hint of their own thoughts or feelings. They must tell us the unprofessional things the government has been doing while always remaining consummately professional. But levels of dysfunction within the Tory party have recently reached a high watermark, and some of the on-screen poker faces have slipped. And, frankly, who could blame them?

How, for example, could BBC newsreader Martine Croxall not get the giggles, late on Sunday night, when telling us that Boris Johnson wouldn’t stand in the leadership contest? His David Brent-esque return from the Dominican Republic to try and reclaim his old job had flopped beautifully, and the human response was to find that deeply funny.

Former Britain’s Got Talent star Jonathan Goodwin has reflected on the stunt that left him paralysed.

In October 2021, Goodwin performed an escapology stunt in which he planned to remove a straight jacket while hung upside down between two suspended cars 30 feet in the air.

The cars, however, were released prematurely and Goodwin was crushed between them.

His fiancée, Sherlock star Amanda Abbington, revealed the news on the podcast Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner, stating: “He fell 30 feet and lost a kidney, broke both shoulder blades, shattered both legs. Third degree burns, broke his spine and severed his spinal cord and nearly died. And then on the operating table, he nearly died again.”

She added: “He’s paralysed now, he’s in a wheelchair. Unless there’s a kind of stem cell surgery or that thing that Elon Musk is designing with the little chip, he’ll be like that forever.

Naga Munchetty has spoken out about the harsh treatment she says she received at the start of her journalism career.

The BBC Breakfast anchor has been a part of the broadcast network since 2008, when she began reading bulletins on Working Lunch.

Despite being one of the country’s foremost news personalities today, Munchetty has claimed that she experienced discouraging management at the early stages of her career.

During her time as a print journalist, she recalled being brought to tears on one occasion, after someone in a superior position apparently threw her work at her.

“I was told I was bloody useless,” she explained in Radio Times.

“I did go home many a day in tears, but equally, I learnt not to make mistakes, that mistakes weren’t acceptable.

“That fear of making a mistake meant that you did your research twice as well, and to the best of your ability.

Lewis Capaldi has responded after his keyboard player was spotted swearing onstage during his performance at the National Television Awards

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter played his new single “Forget Me” during the awards on Thursday (13 October) night.

During the performance, viewers spotted Capaldi’s keyboard player telling a camera operator to “f*** off”, with one tweet reading: “Anyone else see Lewis Capaldi’s keyboard man tell someone to ‘f*** off’ mid performance?”

One angry viewer tweeted Capaldi: “Lewis Capaldi’s keyboard player just mouthed f*** off at the camera man!! What an unprofessional little turd”.

The singer responded: “I agree Pete, totally unacceptable, will be having words. Thanks for bringing it to my attention”.

But it appears the ‘Someone You Loved’ singer took the situation light-heartedly after following up his tweet with a photo of him giving his band member the middle finger.

He captioned the photo: “This one’s for...

Lewis Capaldi has responded after his keyboard player was spotted swearing onstage during his performance at the National Television Awards

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter played his new single “Forget Me” during the awards on Thursday (13 October) night.

During the performance, viewers spotted Capaldi’s keyboard player telling a camera operator to “f*** off”, with one tweet reading: “Anyone else see Lewis Capaldi’s keyboard man tell someone to ‘f*** off’ mid performance?”

One angry viewer tweeted Capaldi: “Lewis Capaldi’s keyboard player just mouthed f*** off at the camera man!! What an unprofessional little turd”.

The singer responded: “I agree Pete, totally unacceptable, will be having words. Thanks for bringing it to my attention”.

But it appears the ‘Someone You Loved’ singer took the situation light-heartedly after following up his tweet with a photo of him giving his band member the middle finger.

He captioned the photo: “This one’s for...

When presenter June Sarpong agreed to take on the most public-facing diversity and inclusion role at the BBC in the fall of 2019, the corporation — and indeed the world — was a different place.

“I joined when the BBC was just coming out the other side of everything that had happened with [breakfast presenter] Naga Munchetty,” Sarpong tells Variety on her last official day at the BBC, capping off three years as head of creative diversity. “Feelings were heightened.”

The U.K. public broadcaster was smarting from a heavy backlash against the attempted censure of Munchetty, who was reprimanded for breaching impartiality guidelines after she criticized, on air, then U.S. President Donald Trump for perceived racism. The decision was overturned by then BBC director general Tony Hall, but only after widespread outcry against the corporation for punishing one of its top hosts for calling out racism, which many felt should be exempt from impartiality rules.

The Crown will return to our screens this autumn as a new cast step into the shoes of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family.

Netflix’s historical drama has seen a resurgence in interest around the world following the death of the monarch earlier this month.

During the streamer’s fan event Tudum on Saturday (24 September), Netflix announced that season five of The Crown would be arriving on Wednesday 9 November.

Imelda Staunton will be taking over from Olivia Colman as the Queen, with Jonathan Pryce playing her late husband Prince Philip.

Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki is playing Princess Diana, while Dominic West will portray a young King Charles III.

Seasons five and six will be set in the Nineties and will feature a young Prince William and Harry for the first time.

Production is currently ongoing on the sixth season of the show, but was temporarily halted following the Queen’s death.

Post Malone has been admitted to hospital after “having a very difficult time breathing”.

Last week, the “White Iverson” rapper tripped over on stage, bruising his ribs in the process.

While he reassured fans that “everything is good” following the incident, on Saturday (24 September), Post cancelled his concert at the Td Garden in Boston at the last minute.

In a post shared to his Instagram Story on Saturday (24 September), the musician wrote that he was struggling to breathe and experiencing “a stabbing pain whenever I breathe or move”.

“Boston, I love y’all so f***ing much,” Post wrote.

“On tour, I usually wake up around 4 o’clock Pm, and today I woke up to a cracking sound on the right side of my body. I felt so good last night, but today it felt so different than it has before. I’m having a very difficult time breathing, and...

Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh did not have a “screaming match” on the set of Don’t Worry Darling, according to the film’s crew.

The psychological thriller, which was released on Friday (23 September), has been plagued with reports of behind-the-scenes drama, in particularly regarding an alleged feud between director Wilde and star Pugh.

A recent report by Vulture, citing an anonymous source who spent a significant amount of time on set, alleged that the pair even once got into a verbal altercation on set.

According to the source, news of the hostility got back to studio executives, with Warner Bros’s Toby Emmerich forced to step in as a referee of a “long negotiation process” to guarantee Pugh’s participation in the film “in any way”.

In a statement shared with The Independent, Warner Bros co-chairpersons and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy said: “The studio is very grateful...

Lewis Capaldi left Naga Munchetty red in the face following an awkward mix-up on BBC Breakfast.

The “Someone You Loved” singer appeared on the morning programme on Saturday (24 September), during which he complimented co-host Charlie Stayt on his “great hair”.

“Can I just say, you’ve got great hair. We were talking about it outside,” Capaldi said, with Munchetty mouthing: “It’s a wig.”

“It’s a wig, is it? I didn’t say that. Looks great,” Capaldi said.

“Well you’ve got great hair too,” Stayt replied, with Capaldi offering him a high five.

“Would you like a room?” Munchetty said, with a surprised looking Capaldi asking: “Would I what?”

After she repeated herself, Capaldi said: “I thought you said ‘a rim’.”

Munchetty gasped and covered her face in embarrassment, saying: “The time now, we’re coming on to nine o’clock... We’re going to have a little word with Lewis.

Lewis Capaldi left Naga Munchetty red in the face following an awkward mix-up on BBC Breakfast.

The “Someone You Loved” singer appeared on the morning programme on Saturday (24 September), during which he complimented co-host Charlie Stayt on his “great hair”.

“Can I just say, you’ve got great hair. We were talking about it outside,” Capaldi said, with Munchetty mouthing: “It’s a wig.”

“It’s a wig, is it? I didn’t say that. Looks great,” Capaldi said.

“Well you’ve got great hair too,” Stayt replied, with Capaldi offering him a high five.

“Would you like a room?” Munchetty said, with a surprised looking Capaldi asking: “Would I what?”

After she repeated herself, Capaldi said: “I thought you said ‘a rim’.”

Munchetty gasped and covered her face in embarrassment, saying: “The time now, we’re coming on to nine o’clock... We’re going to have a little word with Lewis.

Frank Cottrell Boyce, who co-wrote two of Queen Elizabeth II’s most iconic on-screen cameos – at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony with Daniel Craig and this year’s Jubilee sketch with Paddington Bear – said the monarch had “brilliant” comic timing and could have been an actor.

“She’s absolutely glowing in that moment,” he said of her appearance alongside Paddington in the 2-minute long sketch, which commenced her Platinum Jubilee celebrations in July. “And you’ve got to remember that that’s real acting that’s going on there. Paddington isn’t really in the room. She’s acting with an eye-line and with someone pretending to be Paddington. That’s proper acting going on. But I also think it’s true happiness.”

Cottrell Boyce made the comments during an appearance on BBC breakfast news on Friday morning, following news of the Queen’s death on Thursday. As he paid tribute to her acting skills,...

Bill Turnbull’s death aged 66 from prostate cancer has led many to reflect on his best broadcasting moments – but the radio and TV presenter had another great love: bees.

The former BBC Breakfast host started keeping bees about 15 years ago, after a swarm turned up at the bottom of his garden. “I called the police, who called a beekeeper, who just came along and collected the swarm in a cardboard box,” Turnbull said in a 2017 interview with outdoorist Lynne Allbutt. “I was so inspired and wanted to see if I had that zen-like ability to do the same.”

He added: “As well as my bees, I keep chickens and have two black labs, Nina and Bonny. Nina is bee-phobic. She got stung once and now prefers to wait by the car whilst I check my bees.”

Turnbull was no stranger to bee stings himself. “I’ve been stung more times than I can remember,...

The family of Bill Turnbull paid tribute to him as they announced his death yesterday, saying the BBC and Classic FM presenter made them laugh every day and that they were “immensely proud” of him.

The 66-year-old, who co-hosted Breakfast for 15 years, died at home in Suffolk almost five years after being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.

A special programme will be shown in his honour on Friday, the BBC said.

“The last week of his life was very special: the whole family was with him and we shared some wonderful moments,” wife Sarah McCombie said in a statement read out on air by Naga Munchetty.

“Even though he was often in pain, Bill was dignified and brave throughout, and he was his usual determined self right to the very end.

“Billy made us laugh every day and we are immensely proud of him – he was the heart of our family.

U.K. broadcaster the BBC has recorded an overall profit of £227 million ($314.2 million) for the financial year 2020/2021, an upswing from the previous year’s £119 million loss, the organization’s annual report has revealed.

The surge is largely fuelled by the BBC’s main income earner, TV license fees collected from the public, rising from £3.52 billion to £3.75 billion. In August 2020, people over the age of 75 were required to pay for TV licenses, with few exemptions.

The corporation also reduced the salaries it paid to staff earning more than £150,000 a year by an average of 10%, including star soccer commentator Gary Lineker and BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball. However, the top 10 on-air presenters all continue to be white. Some 20% of the talent list are from ethnic minorities backgrounds, an improvement of 2% from last year, but the pay gap for minorities has increased from 3% in the last financial year to 3.3%.

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The BBC has ruled that presenter Naga Munchetty broke new social media guidelines after liking a series of tweets about a row involving the union jack flag, but she has escaped punishment after swiftly owning her mistake.

The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit said in a ruling that Munchetty was wrong to like tweets that were “disparaging of the government’s use of patriotic symbols” after an on-air discussion on March 18, in which she and Breakfast co-host Charlie Stayt jibed government minister Robert Jenrick about the union jack flag in the back of his Zoom shot.

The Ecu said Munchetty “risked giving the impression of endorsing one strand of opinion in a controversial area” and her activity was “in breach of the BBC’s standards of impartiality as they apply to social media activity by BBC staff engaged in journalism and factual programming.”

The complaints unit stopped short of recommending punishment for the presenter,...

BBC director general Tony Hall has apologized 12 days after a reporter used the N-word on-air, prompting outrage from both viewers and the British broadcaster’s employees.

Up until Sunday, the BBC had staunchly defended social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin’s use of the word in describing a race hate attack, saying it had been signed off by senior editors and was justified by its context.

But after receiving 18,656 complaints, staff voicing their concerns on social media, and the resignation of BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter Sideman over the issue, Hall has intervened.

In an email to staff today, the director general said: “It should be clear that the BBC’s intention was to highlight an alleged racist attack. This is important journalism which the BBC should be reporting on and we will continue to do so.

“Yet despite these good intentions, I recognise that we have ended up creating distress amongst many people.

Exclusive: A BBC insider has told us the decision to reprimand Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis on Wednesday over her comments about Dominic Cummings was “weak and embarrassing.”

In a blistering attack, the well-placed BBC news source, who works on one of the corporation’s flagship shows, said: “BBC bosses couldn’t have handled this situation any worse. Rushing to judgment in order to hang one of its prized assets out to dry is frankly weak and embarrassing.“

They added that the decision has caused “dismay and anger” within the Newsnight ranks: “The mood among the team is of dismay and anger at this decision. We stand behind Emily and the editor Esmé [Wren] in support of them on this. The decision by BBC management will only act to undermine Newsnight’s award-winning journalism during a crucial time when it’s needed most.”

Maitlis clarified last night that, contrary to reports, she...

Exclusive: A Sky News board member is set to recommend a series of changes to the BBC’s editorial complaints procedures following a huge row over on-air remarks presenter Naga Munchetty made about Donald Trump last year.

Deadline can reveal that Chris Banatvala, a consultant who worked at UK media regulator Ofcom for seven years, carried out a review of the complaints process late last year at the request director general Tony Hall and the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines And Standards Committee. The BBC is due to publish Banatvala’s findings shortly, potentially as early as this week.

It follows an explosive debate last September, when the BBC censured presenter Munchetty after she called out Trump’s “racism” for tweeting that congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib should “go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Asked on BBC Breakfast...

BBC presenter Samira Ahmed is preparing to give evidence on Wednesday in a dramatic legal battle in which she is demanding that her salary mirrors that of a male colleague.

In the first employment tribunal of its kind since the BBC was embroiled in a gender pay scandal last year when China editor Carrie Gracie resigned in protest over her salary, Ahmed is arguing she should be paid the same as Jeremy Vine, a prominent male presenter.

Ahmed presents Newswatch, a BBC News channel show in which viewer feedback on the BBC’s news coverage is discussed. Since presenting the show in 2012, she was paid £440 ($564) an episode for three years before her salary was raised to £465 in 2015. Her pay was later cut again, however, when freelance presenters became BBC employees.

In contrast, Vine was paid £3,000 an episode to host BBC One’s Points of View, which is similar in format...

The BBC has got itself into “deep, deep trouble” after publicly reprimanding one of its top presenters for expressing her views about a Donald Trump tweet that was widely decried as racist.

That’s the view of Marcus Ryder, a prominent campaigner for diversity in British broadcasting, who rallied against the BBC’s decision to censure Naga Munchetty, a host of BBC One’s flagship Breakfast show. He helped organize an open letter from high-profile figures including actors Lenny Henry and Adrian Lester slamming the ruling.

Munchetty, who has Indian and Mauritian heritage, was told last week she broke BBC policies on impartiality when she said on air in July that she was “furious” with Trump for tweeting that Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

The ruling prompted uproar,...

The BBC has become embroiled in a huge row after it censured a presenter for comments she made about Donald Trump on one of the corporation’s flagship shows.

During a July broadcast of BBC Breakfast, host Naga Munchetty took issue with a now-infamous Trump tweet, in which he called on congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib to “go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Following a discussion of the president’s remark, Munchetty said: “Every time I have been told, as a woman of color, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.”

Asked by co-host Dan Walker how it made her feel, she added: “Absolutely furious and I can imagine lots of people in this country will be feeling absolutely furious a man in that position thinks it’s Ok to skirt...

More than 200 of the BBC's most influential on- and off-air talent have called for full pay transparency at the British public broadcaster to end the corporation's current Hr woes. Stars such as Mariella Frostrup, Naga Munchetty and Shaun Keaveny have written to BBC Director General Tony Hall to encourage him to reveal exactly what all staff earn and how pay is decided. The TV and radio hosts, as well as producers and reporters, said that this would be the "fastest…...

Anyone watching today's BBC Breakfast will have seen poor Naga Munchetty accidentally confusing James Bond star Daniel Craig with singer songwriter Craig David.

Fortunately, her love of the Re-Rewinder was so strong that she didn't realise she'd made the mistake, with a quick correction following soon after the slip-up.

That awkward moment when BBC News report on Daniel Craig in the new Bond film and call him Craig David

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As you'll see from the clip above, the BBC Breakfast team were talking about the new Bond movie in the aftermath of the film's first public screening yesterday.

Critical response has been decidedly mixed, with many big broadsheets giving the movie five stars, while some weren't so generous, with The Playlist calling it "a film patched together out of endless hastily-drafted script rewrites rather than a cohesive vision".

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Naga Munchetty is joining the BBC Breakfast team.

Munchetty will be joining Bill Turnbull, Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt to host the morning news programme.

She will be presenting with Stayt from Thursday to Saturday, while Turnbull and Minchin will continue to host from Monday to Wednesday.

"I'm so happy to be joining such a successful, popular programme," Munchetty said. "It's a real privilege to be on a team which is a big part of the morning routine for millions of viewers in the UK.

"I'm thrilled that I'll have my own seat on that famous red sofa."

The financial journalist regularly appears on BBC World News and started her career working for the London Evening Standard and The Observer before moving onto television at CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel Four.

She joined the BBC in 2008 as a presenter on BBC Two's Working Lunch.