Russell Brand, who is the head of Britain’s most listened to radio station, has resigned today over an issue of a prank phone call made by him to actor the Andrew Sachs during his show, reported by the BBC news.

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Followed by a call from the dashing comedian Russell Brand,  Lesley Douglas, Radio 2 controller, has reportedly stepped down from her post. Jonathan Ross, a popular television presenter, has drawn thousands of complaints on this issue. This was the top news of the Britain’s news agenda for the past couple of weeks.  Ross, who is  one of its most highly paid personalities, will remain suspended from all broadcasting for 12 weeks, reported the publicly funded BBC.

In a jury-rigged and swearing-laden message left on actor Andrew Sachs’ voice mail box, Ross had claimed that Brand had slept with Georgina Baillie, Sachs’ granddaughter. He also joked that hearing this Sachs might hang himself. Baillie had also acknowledged she had a sexual relationship with Brand but said the call to her
grandfather was unnecessarily ridiculous and cruel.

Sachs is best known for his role as the incompetent Spanish waiter, Manuel, in the classic comedy series Fawlty Towers. Thousands of his fans were dismayed to see the way this great comedian was harassed. The BBC’s plethora was intensified after it came out with the fact that the obscene phone call was not aired live, but had instead been recorded on October 16 and aired on Brand’s radio show two days later.

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Douglas in a letter to BBC Director-General Mark Thompson stated that the reason for her resignation was the fact that it all happened under her watch. “t is a matter of the greatest possible sadness to me that a program on my network has been the cause of such a controversy,” she wrote in the letter, which was distributed to journalists. “I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal apology to Andrew Sachs and his family and to the audience for what has happened”, was what Douglas had to say.

Brand also announced to quit his radio show on Wednesday, recording in a videotaped message that he “got a bit caught up in the moment.”

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