Killing off two primetime programmes would, you might think, spell the end for any television presenter’s career. And yet, despite being guilty of precisely this, somehow there’s still life in Paddy McGuinness’s job prospects at the BBC.
Hired by Beeb bosses who hoped to make him their new golden boy, he was handed two of their most profitable shows – A Question Of Sport, where he replaced the much-loved Sue Barker, and Top Gear.
While the downfall of the latter was a more complex – yet still utterly disastrous – affair, the brutal end of A Question Of Sport is easier to
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