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Ouch! Have I Got News for You’s brutal joke about Hancock WhatsApp ‘betrayal’
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The joke writers at Have I Got News for You have shared a brutal dig following the publishing of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages.

On Thursday (2 March), the former health secretary broke his silence after messages were leaked to the Daily Telegraph by Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who helped him write his pandemic memoir.

Hancock stated that he was “hugely disappointed” by what he said was a “massive betrayal and breach of trust”.

A post on the official Twitter account of the BBC comedy show Have I Got News for You on Thursday took aim at Hancock over the scandal.

“As Matt Hancock describes leaking of text messages as ‘a massive betrayal’, his ex-wife says she knows the feeling,” the post read.

In summer 2021, just before he resigned as health secretary, Hancock left his wife of 15 years, Martha Hancock, for Gina Coladangelo, the aide he was pictured kissing at work...
See full article at The Independent - TV
  • 3/3/2023
  • by Ellie Harrison
  • The Independent - TV
U.K. Media Mayhem as Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden Replaced Mere Hour Before Major Channel 4 Speech
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Just 45 minutes before Oliver Dowden was set to address the British television industry at the Royal Television Society confab in Cambridge, the Culture Secretary was replaced in a shock cabinet reshuffle that helped produce one of the most baffling media moments in recent memory.

Dowden has been replaced by Nadine Dorries (pictured), an author and a Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire since 2005. Dorries most recently served as Minister for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety. But in a bizarre twist, she’s probably best known in the U.K. for a controversial 12-day stint on ITV’s reality juggernaut “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” in 2012.

Dorries, however, may be better equipped to understand the nuances of the Channel 4 ethos than most of her predecessors: she actually appeared on the broadcaster in 2010 as part of an episode of “Tower Block for the Commons,” which...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 9/15/2021
  • by Manori Ravindran
  • Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros, Netflix team with ScreenSkills for UK apprenticeship pilot
Initiative aims to enable more people to join the film and TV industries.

Netflix and Warner Bros are to partner with UK industry body ScreenSkills on a pilot programme aimed at enabling more people to join the film and TV industries through an apprenticeship.

A total of 20 people aspiring to work in film and television will be trained as broadcast production assistants and as production accountants in the programme which is being supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).

It follows approval by the government last July to relax the rules of its apprenticeship levy scheme...
See full article at ScreenDaily
  • 1/23/2020
  • by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
  • ScreenDaily
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