O'Grady sticks boot into TV rivals
Usually when there's a bit of local trouble that threatens to stain the whiter than white image of the Great British talkshow host, they all stick together and help each other out.
Not if your name's Paul O'Grady.
In a newspaper interview, O'Grady has said that fellow presenters Ant and Dec and Richard and Judy should quit over the recent phone-in swindles.
He said: 'If it was my show, I'd probably leave. If you were running a pub and your name was over the door and someone was selling drugs in there then you'd be liable.
'If your name is connected to a show but you don't know what's going on with it, you need to take more notice.'
Among the programmes that have been investigated over rip-offs relating to phone-ins and text message competitions are X Factor, I'm A Celebrity, Soapstar Superstar, Dancing On Ice and Blue Peter, as well as the Richard and Judy show and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night takeaway.
So basically, if all the presenters of these shows quit, that would leave O'Grady as the only one left!
You can't knock a man for trying...
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