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BBC Breakfast rejects guest over her views on unpaid internships
Graduate Fog’s founder Tanya de Grunwald was dropped hours before a planned TV appearance on Friday’s BBC Breakfast – after she refused producers’ requests to tell viewers that unpaid internships can be a really good thing.
So de Grunwald ended up spending a night at Salford Media City Holiday Inn (double room fee: £109). The train ticket cost a further £79.
"On the up-side," she told me, "I enjoyed an excellent cooked breakfast the next day." (As pictured above).
Update (provided by The Guardian): The BBC emailed a statement by a spokesperson at 8pm: "On some occasions it is decided, for editorial reasons, to stand down a guest.
"On this occasion the decision was made close the time of broadcast and for this we have apologised to the guest. The decision was made to interview MP Hazel Blears who's currently campaigning in parliament on this issue.
Sources: Graduate Fog and The Guardian
Graduate Fog’s founder Tanya de Grunwald was dropped hours before a planned TV appearance on Friday’s BBC Breakfast – after she refused producers’ requests to tell viewers that unpaid internships can be a really good thing.
So de Grunwald ended up spending a night at Salford Media City Holiday Inn (double room fee: £109). The train ticket cost a further £79.
"On the up-side," she told me, "I enjoyed an excellent cooked breakfast the next day." (As pictured above).
Update (provided by The Guardian): The BBC emailed a statement by a spokesperson at 8pm: "On some occasions it is decided, for editorial reasons, to stand down a guest.
"On this occasion the decision was made close the time of broadcast and for this we have apologised to the guest. The decision was made to interview MP Hazel Blears who's currently campaigning in parliament on this issue.
Sources: Graduate Fog and The Guardian
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| De Grunwald's breakfast - courtesy of the BBC licence fee payers |
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