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BBC CASTAWAY 2000
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WHAT ELSE IS AT GARDENCROFT??
jailbreak on channel 5 £ BILLY GATES AND DICKIE BRANSON WANT TO RUN THE LOTTERY (I'M SENDING THEM MY SHIRT AS WELL!) INTO V.W BEETLES AND CAMPER VANS? CHECK THIS OUT TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT?? THEY DID IN THE FIFTIES!! CLICK HERE THE GARDENCROFT HOMEPAGE--ALL THIS AND MORE
DAILY MIRROR SPRINGS RAY FROM TARANSAY!!
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The BBC's controversial Castaway project has suffered its most embarrassing crisis yet after one of the 36 castaways was thrown off the remote Hebridean island of Taransay straight into the arms of tabloid reporters. Ray Bowyer, a 58-year-old builder from outside Manchester, will reportedly be picked up from the island this morning by journalists after a series of what BBC executives allege were drunk and disorderly incidents. Bowyer, silver-haired and pony-tailed, was one of the first castaways on Taransay. Last night, programme executives were scrambling to mount a hasty damage limitation exercise, but admitted they did not relish the prospect of the first proper insight into the project spread across the pages of the newspapers. "We fully expect the circus to begin again," said one BBC source last night. In a statement, the BBC said Mr Bowyer was leaving after a number of documented incidents. Programme sources said there had been a series of confrontations between Mr Bowyer and some of his fellow castaways, and at least one had been caught on film. "There had been several incidents of inappropriate behaviour and disorderly behaviour, which got to the point where the other castaways were debating about whether he should go," said one TV executive. "It involved physical and verbal threats and drink was usually involved. Ray himself said he was going to leave. Our contractual agreement is for two months written notice. He announced today that he was wanting off immediately and we found him using the emergency phone to call some journalists. That is in breach of his contract and frankly we had no option but to tell him to go." Mr Bowyer's departure is the latest in a series of crises to hit the project. After the castaways were dropped off on Taransay at new year, it emerged that about half of them had left the island and were living in a hotel on the nearby island of Harris. Building work was not completed in time, crates of belongings were dropped into the sea, and the weather was unseasonably awful. |
