After another week in which the BBC has had to report on the conduct of one of its own high-profile journalists, Northern Irish presenter Stephen Nolan has apologised, following allegations that he…
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“We have had days, as you probably know, of headlines about me and the Nolan team in the papers this week and I am not ignoring the story,” he said. “It’s just that the BBC has processes in place to deal with staff complaints and I do, and need to, totally respect those processes. They have got to be confidential for them to work.“There was a photograph, it was widely available on the internet and I was talking to a long-term friend and peer outside of work. I am deeply sorry.”
On the same day he took to X, formally Twitter, to deny another claim made this week in the Irish News, that fake guests had been placed in the audience of his show, saying: There have been other headlines, too, including a suggestion that we manipulate programmes by planting staff in the studio audience. I can speak about that on the record. That is completely, categorically false. We don’t do that in the Nolan team. We value our relationship with you far too much to compromise it.”
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