"stretch of track which, on 3 July 1938, saw the world speed record for steam locomotives of set by LNER A4 Locomotive no. 4468 ""Mallard"". In October 1998, Richard Bacon was sacked, following reports in ""News of the World"" that he had taken cocaine. This incident followed shortly after the show's 40th anniversary, when previous presenters returned for a special programme. Those returning included Leila Williams, Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Diane Louise Jordan, Anthea Turner, John Leslie, Tim Vincent, Yvette Fielding, Caron Keating, Mark Curry, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Sarah Greene, Tina Heath, Simon Groome and Christopher Wenner."
"saw him being banned from the State Opening of Parliament, and having a beer thrown at him by Damon Albarn as he tried to interview him leaving a nightclub. Bacon's television break was as a presenter on the children's show ""Blue Peter"", which he joined on 21 February 1997. He presented alongside Romana D'Annunzio, Katy Hill, Konnie Huq and Stuart Miles. On 19 October 1998 he was the programme's first-ever presenter to have his contract terminated in mid-season, after the tabloid newspaper ""News of the World"" published a report of Bacon taking cocaine. His tenure on the programme lasted just"
"and these are the words that have been echoing in my mind this weekend. And with that I would urge all of you listening this morning to let Gerry quite simply rest in peace. Music journalist Joe Jackson alleged on ""RTÉ News at One"" that Ryan's cocaine habit was an ""open secret"" in RTÉ. 4fm broadcaster Gareth O'Callaghan, who worked with Ryan for many years and filled in for him on his radio show in the past, spoke of being offered cocaine by the broadcaster at the 2003 ""Gerry Ryan Show"" Christmas party in Four Seasons Hotel Dublin and of"
"presenters. In April 1998, Walker was offered his own weekly show on Radio 2, Saturday from 3:30 to 5:30pm, then six months later, as well as Saturday afternoons, Walker took over from John Dunn from 5 to 7pm Monday to Thursday. Des Lynam presented Friday's edition. In early 1999, Walker came off his show having been the subject of a tabloid exposé over his cocaine problem. BBC Radio 2 bosses gave Walker back his drivetime show after he was fined £2,000 for possession of cocaine. He was suspended by the BBC when the drug allegations were published in the ""News"
"of the investigators after their enquiries revealed he was a significant consumer of cocaine, purchasing large quantities of the drug. The same evening he offered an explanation for the events in a message recorded at the studios of France 2, a few hours after his release, during which he stated that he was receiving treatment for his drug use and apologised for setting a bad example. The following week France Télévisions took the decision to suspend Delarue for a provisional, indeterminate period so that he could receive treatment and rest and recuperate. Sophie Davant took over the role of presenting"
"television programme ""Blue Peter"", Richard Bacon, was in the headlines when it emerged he had taken cocaine. He was released from his BBC contract immediately. In May 2003, the defence correspondent of the BBC Radio 4 ""Today"" programme, Andrew Gilligan, quoted a government official who stated that the British government had ""sexed up"" a dossier concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, against the wishes of the intelligence services. A newspaper report claimed that Alastair Campbell (the Prime Minister's Director of Communications and Strategy), was responsible. The government strongly denied the claims and this prompted an investigation by parliament. A"
"reporter for ""The Sun"" before joining ""The Sunday People"", under editor Neil Wallis. He moved to the ""News of the World"" in June 2001, under editor Rebekah Brooks (then Rebekah Wade) but was sacked in 2005 by then editor Andy Coulson for drink and drug problems. He said in regard to his drug taking while employed by the ""News of the World"", ""I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of"
"Richard Bacon (broadcaster) Richard Paul Bacon (born 30 November 1975) is an English television and radio presenter. He was a host of the children's show ""Blue Peter""—his first high-profile media role—until he was fired in 1998 after 18 months for admitting to taking cocaine. He has since worked as a reporter or presenter on numerous television shows, including ""The Big Breakfast"", and on radio stations including Capital FM, Xfm London and BBC Radio Five Live. In 2016 Bacon became the presenter of The National Geographic Channel's reboot of its documentary/panel discussion TV series, ""Explorer"". Bacon grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,"
"roving holidaymaker, he took over as the main presenter when Cliff Michelmore left the series in 1986. In 1988, Bough was sacked by the BBC when he became mired in a sex and drugs scandal, which involved taking cocaine and wearing lingerie at sex parties. ""Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls"" said the ""News of the World""s front-page headline in 1988. The newspaper's former deputy editor Paul Connew later said of the scandal: ""It caused a sensation at the time, given Bough's public image as the squeaky clean front man of breakfast and sports television."" Roy Greenslade, professor"
"the show by the producers. Several well known celebrities condemned the show for broadcasting her audition. Mind, a charity that aids people with mental health issues, publicly condemned the decision with a spokesperson saying ""We want people with mental health problems to participate, but need programme-makers to be responsible"". During the live shows, Frankie Cocozza was asked to leave the competition for boasting about using cocaine. The rules of the series strictly prohibit drug use during the show. His mentor, Gary Barlow, said that he was ""hugely disappointed"" by Cocozza's behaviour, but wished him luck with his future. Cocozza was"
"swimming off Sydney’s Manly Beach. Deayton also lived with 1970s singer/songwriter Stephanie de Sykes. From 1991 to 2015, he was in a relationship with scriptwriter Lise Mayer. In May 2002, the British tabloid newspaper ""News of the World"" published allegations about Deayton's affair with a woman who later claimed she was a prostitute and about his use of cocaine. In October there were further reports of another affair, and he was asked to step down as the quizmaster of ""Have I Got News for You"" on 29 October 2002. Deayton was dismissed. One online poll, on the BBC's own website,"
"having collapsed from a cocaine and alcohol binge during her world tour and claiming that she only had five years to live. In 1999 AMI was bought by a group fronted by publishing executive David J. Pecker. Funding was diverted from the ""Enquirer"", once considered to be the company's principal publication, to ""The Star"". Editor Steve Coz, who guided the paper through the Simpson case, was fired and replaced by David Perel, who had been the Editor in charge of breaking numerous stories on the Simpson coverage. The ""Enquirer""'s circulation for a time fell below 1 million (from over 6"
"journalist Kevin Myers, Ryan's usage of cocaine surprised many of those who mourned his sudden death and, he said, this realisation of double standards has upset much of the public. RTÉ admitted that it had censored coverage of Ryan's cocaine habit. A media debate on the ethics of both journalism and Twitter, through which many people discovered Ryan had died, ensued after his death. The manner in which some RTÉ personalities reported the death led to RTÉ bringing in new rules on how its stars should use Twitter. Ryan's funeral on 6 May 2010 was broadcast live online and to"
"who spoke positively of Ryan when he died were ""weak people if they don't now"" [speak out after the inquest]. ""Liveline"" presenter Joe Duffy, a former neighbour of Ryan, said he ""knew nothing"" about the broadcaster's cocaine habit and described himself as being ""naive"" and ""taken aback by the revelation at the inquest"". Today FM broadcaster Ian Dempsey also denied having any knowledge of Ryan's cocaine use, saying: ""I didn't know about it and I worked beside Gerry every day. I'm either stupid or I was protected from the whole thing"". Marian Finucane briefly commented on the revelations during ""The"
"feistiness of ""Crossfire"". From 1978 to 2011, the program usually ended with a (usually light-hearted and humorous) commentary by Andy Rooney expounding on topics of wildly varying import, ranging from international politics, to economics, and to personal philosophy on everyday life. One recurring topic was measuring the amount of coffee in coffee cans. Rooney's pieces, particularly one in which he referred to actor Mel Gibson as a ""wacko"", on occasion led to complaints from viewers. In 1990, Rooney was suspended without pay for three months by then-CBS News President David Burke, because of the negative publicity around his saying that"
"the youth and sudden deaths of both actors. The November 15, 1993 autopsy found that ""Toxicology studies showed high concentrations of morphine and cocaine in the blood, as well as other substances in smaller concentrations."" The cause of death was ""acute multiple drug intoxication"", including cocaine and morphine. Joaquin's call to 9-1-1 was recorded and broadcast by several radio and TV shows. Following his death, media actively violated the family's privacy, including breaking into the Miami funeral home and taking a picture of Phoenix’s body in his casket. The picture was sold to the ""National Enquirer"". Joaquin was so upset"
"award the Hardline the #1 slot in DFW Arbitron ratings (men 25-52 demographic) for a decade. However, William's battle with cocaine addiction by mid-2007 led to his very sudden departure from the show (often described as ""mid-syllable""). During 2007, a series of on- and off-air incidents had led to increased tension between the two hosts. On October 12, 2007, Williams was late for a live remote that ""The Hardline"" was doing that day, and did only one on-air segment before disappearing for unannounced reasons. Williams later admitted that program director Jeff Catlin had ordered him to take an immediate drug"
"for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s. During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas's remarks on China's teams' possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and international communities. Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in ""The Washington Post"" and Sunday ""The New York Times"", featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: ""Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC"". However, Costas' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994. Further evidence"
"hosted Eurovision 1994. An inquest showed that the cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia and that traces of cocaine found in Ryan's system were the ""likely trigger"" of Ryan's death. A considerable public controversy erupted when Ryan's long-term use of cocaine came to light. RTÉ eventually admitted to having given insufficient coverage of Ryan's cocaine habit in the aftermath of the inquest. Gerry Ryan Gerard Ryan (5 June 1956 – 30 April 2010) was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He presented ""The Gerry Ryan Show"" on radio station RTÉ 2fm each weekday"
"1998 Scottish League Cup Final defeat by Rangers. On 5 January 2001, O'Boyle and St Johnstone teammate Kevin Thomas were sacked following drug-taking allegations. The two players, it was alleged, were found using an unidentified white powder (allegedly cocaine) at the club's Christmas 2000 party in Perth's That Bar. The Scottish Premier League attempted to overturn the sacking but it was over-ruled by the Scottish FA. After leaving the Perth club, O'Boyle joined Raith Rovers for a short spell, before moving on to Brechin City and Queen of the South, with whom he finished his professional career. He returned to"
"supposed revelations were claims that Donovan and stars including members of The Who, Cream, Rolling Stones and The Moody Blues regularly smoked marijuana, used other drugs, and held parties where the recently banned hallucinogen LSD was used, specifically naming The Who's Pete Townshend and Cream's Ginger Baker. It emerged later that the ""News of the World"" reporters were passing information to the police. In the late 1990s, ""The Guardian"" said ""News of the World"" reporters had alerted police to the party at Keith Richards's home, which was raided on 12 February 1967. Although Donovan's was not as sensational as the"
"least one occasion. O'Callaghan is a qualified clinical psychotherapist. In 2010, O'Callaghan spoke out against cocaine use following the death of Gerry Ryan, a former colleague and friend. He acknowledged that he had known of Ryan's cocaine use for 16 years and received criticism and intimidation after speaking about this in public. O'Callaghan started with small pirates such as Radio Dublin. He then was a presenter on ""superpirate"" Radio Nova in the early 1980s, followed by Sunshine Radio (briefly), later Energy 103FM and Q102 (briefly). He spent a few years on UK radio, after his spell with Sunshine Radio in"
"visible to the studio audience, although they were blurred out in post-production before the actual broadcast. In 1998 MacIsaac fought successfully to be independent of his record label. He subsequently signed with the independent label Loggerhead Records for his 1999 album ""Helter's Celtic"". During the promotional tour for that album, he indicated to the press that he had battled an addiction to crack cocaine from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, a journalist for ""The New Yorker"" noted MacIsaac's rock-star bravado and eccentricities. In December 1999, MacIsaac screamed obscenities at a New Year's Eve rave in Halifax; the performance led to"
"the then Taoiseach for its part in the Brian Cowen nude portraits controversy in 2009. Future Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Charles Flanagan called RTÉ's backtracking a restriction on freedom of expression, and Liz McManus of the Labour Party criticised RTÉ for ""bow[ing] to political pressure"". The death of Gerry Ryan led to controversy for RTÉ when it emerged that traces of cocaine were the ""likely trigger"" of the star's sudden death on 30 April 2010. Drugs minister Pat Carey said he was ""a bit taken aback, first of all, by the whole attitude of RTÉ over the last while"" [concerning"
"Seven Network. For three years, he hosted ""Brooksy's Footy Show"", a Western Australian travel/holiday show called ""Wild West"", and in the lead-up to the Sydney Olympics, co-hosted ""The Games"" with Tracey Holmes. However, Brooks' career began to unravel in the late-1990s. He became addicted to alcohol, leading to a series of on-screen incidents. He once read the sports news segment while inebriated, and was then involved in a drunken argument with the Nine Network's Australian rules football pundit Sam Newman. In early 1999, Seven suspended Brooks from on-screen duties for six weeks after he made comments that they deemed to"
"fired, and claimed the company had given him (after 13 years) one month's severance pay. On May 19, 2008, Williams announced that he had been officially diagnosed with depression and is currently taking prescription drugs to fight it. A few months later, in a cover story in the ""Dallas Observer"", Williams described the entire series of events, admitting to cocaine abuse and other difficulties. On September 8, 2008, Greg Williams began hosting a show called ""GameNight with Choppy & Greggo"" on 103.3 FM ESPN in Dallas with RJ Choppy. On May 5, 2009, he reportedly was incoherent in comments made"
"Bill Clinton, actor/director, rapper Tupac Shakur, Sidney Poitier, and singer Whitney Houston. On January 25, 1996, Gordon became the first journalist to interview former NFL star O. J. Simpson since Simpson was acquitted of murder the previous year. Gordon also joined NBC News as a contributor to ""Dateline NBC"" and ""Today"" and hosted the MSNBC talk show ""Internight"". After BET fired the host of its nightly news program ""BET Tonight"" (Tavis Smiley) in 2001, Gordon took over as host. As part of a reorganization focusing on entertainment productions, BET cut its news staff and canceled ""BET Tonight"" in December 2002"
"a huge injection of 'fuel'"" to the Alex and Edmund romance.<ref name=""Soaps In Depth 03/21/00""></ref> In 2001, Nader was arrested for cocaine possession. ""All My Children"" suspended him and demanded he get treatment. They cast Addabbo in the role as a temporary replacement. Fans of Nader, the Loyalists in particular, rejected the recast. Though the majority of the viewers did not take to him, Addabbo gained an amount of support from fans who wanted him to continue in the role or portray a different character once Nader returned.<ref name=""Soap Opera Digest 04/10/01""></ref> ""Soap Opera Digest"" criticized the casting of Addabbo"
"fired from Osbourne's band, were together in Houston, Texas with Uriah Heep when they heard news of the accident. Kerslake recalled in 2002: Rhoads' longtime girlfriend Jody was in her car when she recalls hearing a block of songs from ""Blizzard of Ozz"" on the radio before the DJ announced the accident and the news that Rhoads had been killed. She was too distraught to continue driving. It was later revealed after autopsy that Aycock's system tested positive for cocaine. Rhoads' toxicology test revealed only nicotine. Osbourne later said that Aycock had been doing cocaine all night prior to the"
"When a ""make"" was featured in the programme, the creator of the item (invariably the retired Margaret Parnell or Gillian Shearing) was credited first (until credits were discontinued in 2008). An example of this would be """"Dolls House make by Margaret Parnell"""". In October 1998, Richard Bacon became the first presenter to have his contract terminated mid-run, after he admitted to taking cocaine and punching a wall, following reports in a tabloid newspaper. Lorraine Heggessey, then the Head of BBC Children's programmes, apologised on air. However, before Bacon, four previous presenters had left the programme when their contracts were not"
"forced her to compete with experienced correspondents. However, Savitch's hiring has also been cited as an example of male news executives choosing a female hire based primarily on her visual appeal to them, rather than on her journalism skills. On October 3, 1983, during a live NBC news update, Savitch was incoherent on the air, slurring her speech, deviating from her script and ad-libbing her report. She performed a later update the same evening without issues. Her flawed delivery fueled speculation that she was using drugs, specifically cocaine. However, Savitch blamed the problems on a teleprompter malfunction, while her agent"
"much as drugs as [he] could"", and is shown taking illicit substances, such as snorting cocaine and smoking a crack pipe. While he goes on to condemn such behaviour, he claims that for much of his career, the more drugs he took the better he played. The documentary covers several major controversies, such as Cousins' association with underworld figures involved in shootings and stabbings in Perth's nightclub scene, and how he was the last person to see West Coast teammate and close friend Chris Mainwaring alive before he died from a cocaine overdose. Losing the 2005 AFL Grand Final is"
"the incident were used an evidence. While both officers continued to deny any wrongdoing, Podesta resigned in March 1998 and the following year was found guilty of supplying cocaine. Dilorenzo was later sacked from the NSW Police Service in June 1999 as a result of his involvement with known drug dealers. Bratanoff-Firgoff's photographs of the incident have become iconic, and have been described as ""culturally emblematic signifiers"" of critical incidents between police and the mentally ill. In 2007, the State Library of New South Wales purchased the photographs, on behalf of the people of New South Wales. Death of Roni"