According to The Sun (so 'pinch of salt time'), Paul O' Grady is still going to be presenting ITV's new Saturday evening talent show...
The Sun posted:
COMIC Paul O’Grady is set to host a new talent show for ITV — despite his sensational move to Channel 4.
The prime-time evening show is being produced by X Factor’s Mr Nasty Simon Cowell.
As The Sun revealed, Lily Savage star Paul recently filmed a pilot for the programme, which features singers, dancers, magicians and jugglers.
According to The Sun (so 'pinch of salt time'), Paul O' Grady is still going to be presenting ITV's new Saturday evening talent show...
The Sun posted:
COMIC Paul O’Grady is set to host a new talent show for ITV — despite his sensational move to Channel 4.
The prime-time evening show is being produced by X Factor’s Mr Nasty Simon Cowell.
As The Sun revealed, Lily Savage star Paul recently filmed a pilot for the programme, which features singers, dancers, magicians and jugglers.
There's a bigger article on their site somewhere, it's in today's TV Biz section of the paper.
According to The Sun (so 'pinch of salt time'), Paul O' Grady is still going to be presenting ITV's new Saturday evening talent show...
The Sun posted:
COMIC Paul O’Grady is set to host a new talent show for ITV — despite his sensational move to Channel 4.
The prime-time evening show is being produced by X Factor’s Mr Nasty Simon Cowell.
As The Sun revealed, Lily Savage star Paul recently filmed a pilot for the programme, which features singers, dancers, magicians and jugglers.
Ah yes but he has a daytime contract with Channel 4 so he can do evening shows for any network
The Sunday Mirror's Carole Malone had her say about Paul O'Grady today
PAUL'S O'GRAVY TRAIN..
PAUL O'Grady says he quit ITV because he "didn't feel loved" there.
What a silly, whingeing, big girl's blouse he is!
The man who's constantly banging on about his working-class roots was treated like a king at ITV.
Never mind he's the highest-paid presenter on ITV Daytime, that his every whim was catered for by armies of run-arounds and executives who visited him on a daily basis to tell him how wonderful he is.
He was ferried everywhere in chauffeur-driven cars and ITV, despite his mammoth salary, paid for a dog minder to look after the three mutts he brought to the studios every day. Does that sound like someone who isn't loved?
O'Grady's defection to Channel 4 is nothing to do with not being loved or executives forgetting to renew his contract - it's about greed. He wanted his own production company to make the show so he could make even more obscene amounts of money, but ITV said no.
So he quit in a strop.
It's fair enough that celebrities go where the money is, but why can't they just tell the truth and say that's what they're doing instead of publicly rubbishing the people who made them stars in the first place.
O'Grady was on his backside when ITV picked him up, dusted him down and made him a chat show star. The least he could do is show a bit of gratitude and respect.
The Sunday Mirror's Carole Malone had her say about Paul O'Grady today
PAUL'S O'GRAVY TRAIN..
PAUL O'Grady says he quit ITV because he "didn't feel loved" there.
What a silly, whingeing, big girl's blouse he is!
The man who's constantly banging on about his working-class roots was treated like a king at ITV.
Never mind he's the highest-paid presenter on ITV Daytime, that his every whim was catered for by armies of run-arounds and executives who visited him on a daily basis to tell him how wonderful he is.
He was ferried everywhere in chauffeur-driven cars and ITV, despite his mammoth salary, paid for a dog minder to look after the three mutts he brought to the studios every day. Does that sound like someone who isn't loved?
O'Grady's defection to Channel 4 is nothing to do with not being loved or executives forgetting to renew his contract - it's about greed. He wanted his own production company to make the show so he could make even more obscene amounts of money, but ITV said no.
So he quit in a strop.
It's fair enough that celebrities go where the money is, but why can't they just tell the truth and say that's what they're doing instead of publicly rubbishing the people who made them stars in the first place.
O'Grady was on his backside when ITV picked him up, dusted him down and made him a chat show star. The least he could do is show a bit of gratitude and respect.
Oh come on Andrew, your perpective here is a little squewed.
I really don't know why you are taking this so personally. When they say, "that's showbusiness" they're really not kidding.
Giving a man a television programme and a daily timeslot alone does not a star make. The driving force behind O'Grady's success is O'Grady. Are you suggesting he stays with the first person who signed him for the rest of his career? If that's the case he would still be doing Lily Savage in gay clubs.
He's quite within his rights to ask for more creative control/a larger cut of the profit - and in fact he would be a poor businessman not to. ITV dropped the ball when they lost Trisha for the same reason, and if I were a shareholder I would demand the head of the person who didn't agree terms.
I'm afraid should have recognised gold when they had it and paid his market value.
Erm, I think it was actually Carole Malone of The Mirror's opinion - not Andrew's.
No, but Andrew posted it - would he ever post an anti-ITV article?!
Probably not but would you ever post an anti-Tyne Tees Televison article
To balance it out the new TV critic in the Sunday Mirror seems to dislike everything I like and like everything I don't like so I'll never be quoting him
He was ferried everywhere in chauffeur-driven cars and ITV, despite his mammoth salary, paid for a dog minder to look after the three mutts he brought to the studios every day. Does that sound like someone who isn't loved?
Lol, I don't think so Ms Malone...
His "chauffeur-driven cars" are probably by Addison Lee, a company most big businesses in London use as a taxi service (I know we do).
His PA, (lovely fella), looks after his 3 dogs whilst he is in the studios.
She should get her facts right before mouthing off in a newspaper.
