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Willsy

(August 2007)

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FG
FG1
Anyone know what has happened to Jonathan Wills,Harry Smith and Helen Wright? I hear a rumour they have all been sacked by ITN and paid a lot of money to keep quiet.........
FR
freddy
FG1 posted:
Anyone know what has happened to Jonathan Wills,Harry Smith and Helen Wright? I hear a rumour they have all been sacked by ITN and paid a lot of money to keep quiet.........

The rumour is correct. Dunno about the hush money though.
JO
Jonathan
As far as I know, you need a factual source to back that up, or you can't make sweeping statements like that.

If the rumour is true, then good! At last! The doddery Harry Smith is history.
FG
FG1
Don't think it was a "sweeping statement". It mentioned some people very specifically which ought to make you think there may be some veracity in the claim. Anyway i'm not prepared to reveal my source as it might give my identity away. Fair enough? Watch and wait for confirmation.
I don't post on here very often and i remember why........There is always someone(not in the business)who wants to shoot down inside information because it irks them that they aren't party to it.
FR
freddy
FG1 posted:
Don't think it was a "sweeping statement". It mentioned some people very specifically which ought to make you think there may be some veracity in the claim. Anyway i'm not prepared to reveal my source as it might give my identity away. Fair enough? Watch and wait for confirmation.
I don't post on here very often and i remember why........There is always someone(not in the business)who wants to shoot down inside information because it irks them that they aren't party to it.

What you said. I'm in a very similar position.
FG
FG1
Interesting!!
JO
Jonathan
Well, unless you're Harry Smith, then I'm very sorry for whatever is going on. It happens every day though. People are made redundant, but because they're journalists who appear on our screens every day, it seems for some reason, a thousand times more outrageous and shocking.
LU
Luke
Jonathan posted:
Well, unless you're Harry Smith, then I'm very sorry for whatever is going on. It happens every day though. People are made redundant, but because they're journalists who appear on our screens every day, it seems for some reason, a thousand times more outrageous and shocking.


don't think anyone's saying that here though.

i for one am grateful that we tend to get inside info here, i hope people don't get put off posting it from now on.
GM
GMc
This couldn't have happened that long ago then. I'm sure I heard a report by Helen Wright on the ITV News just the other day.
TV
TVN
freddy posted:
FG1 posted:
Don't think it was a "sweeping statement". It mentioned some people very specifically which ought to make you think there may be some veracity in the claim. Anyway i'm not prepared to reveal my source as it might give my identity away. Fair enough? Watch and wait for confirmation.
I don't post on here very often and i remember why........There is always someone(not in the business)who wants to shoot down inside information because it irks them that they aren't party to it.

What you said. I'm in a very similar position.


As was I until recently.

It would be a turn up for the books if we used to work in the same office or something!!
GU
guidance
Media Guardian seems to confirm the departures of Harry Smith and Helen Wright at ITN.

Changes at ITN

Quote:
There have also been some internal changes at ITV News supplier ITN, with the departure of long-serving correspondent Harry Smith and social affairs correspondent Helen Wright.

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