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BBC chief quits, star suspended over prank row
October 31, 2008, 6:11 am
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LONDON (AFP) - The head of one of the BBC's main domestic radio channels resigned Thursday in a row over offensive comments aired by two top presenters, the broadcaster said.

Radio Two controller Lesley Douglas quit a day after the BBC suspended celebrity presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand over a phone prank involving veteran actor Andrew Sachs.

Ross, the highest-paid presenter for the publicly-funded broadcaster, was also suspended for 12 weeks without pay, BBC Director General Mark Thompson said.

'Jonathan Ross's contribution to this edition of the Russell Brand show was utterly unacceptable and cannot be allowed to go uncensored or without sanction,' he said.

In her resignation letter, released by the broadcaster, Douglas said: 'It is a matter of the greatest possible sadness to me that a programme on my network has been the cause of such a controversy.

'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,' she added.

The controversy was sparked by messages left by Ross and Brand on the answerphone of Sachs, 78, famed for his role as bumbling Spanish waiter Manuel in the hit 1970s TV comedy series 'Fawlty Towers'.

The row escalated into a media and political storm -- eclipsing Britain's sharp economic downturn, the broader global financial crisis and the US election from front pages and news bulletins.

Ross, 47, is the BBC's highest-paid star, with a three-year, 18-million-pound contract that also saw him host a Friday late-night television talk show.

Brand, 33, who got his start in stand-up comedy, earns a reported 400,000 pounds a year for his radio programme. He starred as an oversexed rock star in the Hollywood rom-com 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' earlier this year.

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