Alan Yentob resigns

[Osem]

Alan Yentob has stepped down as BBC executive after speculation he pressured reporters over the Kids Company scandal.

The 68-year-old will step down from his role as creative director at the end of the year to focus on programme making and TV production, but will remain as Chairman of BBC Films and continue to present the BBC1 arts series Imagine.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...-a6758536.html

I'm sure the timing is purely co-incidental but I guess the £150k pa he'll still be getting from the licence payer will compensate for any sadness...

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Osem

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...-a6758536.html

I'm sure the timing is purely co-incidental but I guess the £150k pa he'll still be getting from the licence payer will compensate for any sadness...

And the rest:

ALAN Yentob quit his £183,500 job as BBC creative director yesterday — but will still trouser £366,600 a year in pay and pension from the corporation.

He left over his role as chairman of the Kids Company charity, which collapsed in chaos in August.

He was cleared of meddling in the BBC’s coverage of the fiasco after ringing the editor of Newsnight and standing in a Radio 4 studio as Kids Company boss Camila Batmanghelidjh was being interviewed.

He will continue as host of BBC1 arts show Imagine, for which he is paid £150,000, and as chairman of BBC Films.

And his £6.5million pension pot, one of the largest in the public sector, is thought to be worth £216,600 a year.

The BBC yesterday refused to say whether it will still pay into the pot.

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Remember him when you pay your BBC tax.

[Osem]

Nice 'work' if you can get it eh? Never mind, it's only money extracted from ordinary people...

What really gets up my nose is how some of these people make a lot of noise about what's right and moral for everyone else but don't mind having their own fat snouts in the trough.

[Osem]

Business Secretary Greg Clark is to bring proceedings against former directors of the collapsed charity Kids Company charity to have them banned from company directorships.
The Insolvency Service names former chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh, Alan Yentob and seven others.
Kids Company - which provided support to deprived and vulnerable children - closed down in August 2015 following allegations of mismanagement.
The bans would be for up to six years.
The list of nine directors includes Mr Yentob, who was creative director at the BBC at the time of the charity's collapse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40778365

I don't suppose the BBC will stop employing him whatever the outcome...