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“It’s relatively simple in that if he signs a BBC contract he is bound by those terms. He can always move to ITV or Sky,” @SimonBennett shrugged.

@DavidHu25795073 agreed: “This is about guidelines and terms and conditions of employment. Gary constantly pushed and manipulated them until he broke them. It’s his own fault…. He signed a contract and understood what he had to give up.”

However, @DangerouslyTal raged: “The Tories are trying to take [the channel] over and make it a far right echo chamber.”

Meanwhile, John Cleese recently revealed on GB News that he would not be bringing his Fawlty Towers remake to the BBC, due to how different he felt its culture had become.

“I wouldn’t get the freedom 1678542060. I was terribly lucky… working for the BBC in the late 60s, 70s and the beginning of the 80s,” he explained.

“That was the best time because the BBC was run by people with real personality who loved the medium!”