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Bring back Hardeep. Why can't women these days deal with advances themselves! I am sure a good kick in the right place would have sorted things out. Pathetic running to Auntie to make a complaint. The One Show organisers are too PC for words. We have Hardeep's name, let's have the complainant's name too and be allowed to know what the compalint was about.

- Lusy, Swansea, 20/07/2009 13:47
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Dear oh dear. Aren't there are a lot of precious little petals at the BBC. Grow up!

- A. Cameron, Liege, Belgium, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Davis,

Carol Thatcher' s remark was towards a real person too......Jo Winfred Tsonga....doh. Hardeep we are told apologised, Carol was adamant she did nothing wrong. I am not one to judge, but I believe cases are judged case by case and we are only human, it's only God that can and will judge accordingly.

- Rotimi, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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I no longer have a telly,because the bbc tries to wring the licence fee from us ,as they carry on like this.
P.S. Hardeep seems like a very nice bloke,is he the victim of racism?

- Jimfred, London UK, 20/07/2009 12:47
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I just cannot comprehend how Carol Thatcher could be dropped from the show. She made a comment in private. We ALL make inappropriate comments in private, that we wouldn't want anyone else to hear. Most of the time they are flippant comments that we don't really mean.

- Marion Windsor, South Derbyshire, 20/07/2009 12:47
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John, London I agree but is this not to be expected.

I believe the BBC sacked Carol for refusing to say sorry lets see if Hardeep says sorry and to do so would have to admit to what he has done otherwise an apology is worthless.

- Gary, Brentwood, 20/07/2009 12:47
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"NOBODY has accused me of sexual harassment."
Well obviously SOMEBODY felt whatever he did was "extremely serious", and made a complaint Some BODY (the BBC) has dismissed him from his post for 6 months. He's mentioned what he has NOT being accused of, but not what he actually did, got caught doing and got punished for. What I don't understand is if the complaint was 'informal' , why has the BBC 'formally' suspended him? And even then, 2 months after the incident and his confession/apology? Whilst I understand the need to protect the identity of innocent people, this still lacks transparency from the BBC.

- Rosemary Marlow, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Why so long? Goodbye!

- Mike, Newbury, 20/07/2009 12:47
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It's nice to see that the production colleague complained and followed the correct procedure instead of putting up with his behaviour and suing for it in 6 months time....i hear the going rate is £40million?!

- Anon, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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"Carol was adamant she did nothing wrong." Not true Rotimi.

Carol made the remark in private, and then immediately apologised in private when it was pointed out to her she shouldn't have said it.

The BBC thought that her apologising to the people who heard her wasn't good enough and wanted her to apologise in public - not having made the remark in public, Carol refused as she saw it as unnecessary grandstanding by the BBC.

However wrong Carol may have been for making her remark, it does seem uneven handling of the two situations - Carol sacked, Hardeep only temporarily suspended from one of many shows.

- John, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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I gave up watching The One Show after the Carol Thatcher debacle. This is the BBC at its PC worst. It seems to me that there is a mole in there to spy on everyone and everything!

Pity they haven't got anything better to waste Licencepayers' money on, and just how many "bosses" was Hardeep hauled up before?

- Anil Chatterjee, Manchester, 20/07/2009 12:47
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He is a boring twit so who cares.

- Never Eat Tuna Again, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Picking up on comparisons with Thatcher case, it does smack of double standards and politicking. No one was going to complain to the BBC at the sacking of the daughter of an ex Tory prime minister - not so easy to sack one of the few ethnic minority presenters with a reasonably high profile.

- Jim, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Can it be explained to us exactly what kind of overstepping took place?

- Jonathan Montmorency, cooden, uk, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Carol Thatcher's was an inappropriate off the cuff remark (a remark, singular) in a group, albeit private conversation. This bloke's got axed for his inappropriate behaviour, which would have been a series of actions over a period of time, but he'll be back in 6 months. So much for the BBC being fair!

- Ravi Malhotra, Finchley, 20/07/2009 12:47
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How sad, he was an excellent addition to a very boring Adrian and Christine.......we loved his dry sense of humour.....he made the programme what it is - like many others, ie. Lucy Segal, Dom, Dan Snow etc......they are what makes the One Show...If we had to listen to Blakely and Childs for half an hour, it would be a dreadful programme. Please install him again...we need people like him on the shows.

- Yvette, preston, 20/07/2009 12:47
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I guess the B.B.C are using any lame excuse to save money and pay it directors that outrageous expenses that they just can't seem to let go. What a shame !!

- George, terry, 20/07/2009 12:47
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He should be ashamed for stepping over the mark.

- Surj, london, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Amazing, Carol thatcher was sacked for making an innappropriate remark, yet this man gets away with "stepping over the mark with an actual person. Once again the PC brigade only works one way.

- E Sullivan, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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Thought crime?

- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, Hants, 20/07/2009 12:47
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This does make you realise how out-of-touch and imbalanced the bBC has become. It no longer operates in the real world of men and women but some type of stalinist/macarthy world, where thought and insinuation that does not correlate with policy is forbidden and punisnable. Such is theri monopoly on broadcasting, no one will ever challenge it and even if they did it would nmot be reported.

The organisation has policies that seem to alienate both it's traditional audeinces but also puts it at odds with new communities that see it as a sanitised government mouth piece.

BTW : The small 'b' was deliberate.

- Hansel, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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When you read stories like this and various law suits by women which can destroy innocent ex colleagues careers while they make multi-million pound claims for harassment, you can't help feeling that the workplace will return to segregation of men and women.

Some of my male friends have started to avoid attending one on one meetings with female colleagues or similar at work social events which is quite sad.

- Jim, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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What mark has he overstepped?

- Transparency Tim., London., 20/07/2009 12:47
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He is a patronising smug unfunny twit anyway so good riddance.

- Joey Schultz, London, 20/07/2009 12:47
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