According to The Grauniad: “Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, is gaining a reputation as something of a rottweiler as he slashes into the corporation’s staffing structure. Yesterday this image took on a physical manifestation when allegations emerged that, when he was editor of the Nine O’Clock News, Mr Thompson sank his teeth into the arm of a colleague…”
Sounds like more of a gnasher than a slasher then. We wait with interest to see how the BBC gets its teeth into this story!
Update: News Online’s Entertainment page has a link, BBC bites back over Mark Thompson “horseplay”, to their story about old BiteMark: BBC playing down biting incident.
Start the week 16th February 2026
And one of the reasons people don’t recognise Lowe is that the BBC has made sure to keep him off…