Ex-BBC Top of the Pops presenter, Tony Blackburn pending to file defamation suit against the BBC director-general Tony Hall, unless Hall apologizes to him for sacking him from the corporation. According to the written formal defamation letter to Hall, the said letter will serve as a warning to him.
According to Independent, Tony Blackburn, the known veteran DJ sent two legal action warning letters to Tony Hall, the Baron Hall of Birkenhead. Blackburn also added that he will also sue him for the wrongful termination of contract."The letter warns that this will go all the way unless Hall apologizes by end of play Monday," Blackburn stated.
According to the BBC's director general, Tony Hall, Blackburn was fired because his evidence to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse inquiry "fell short" of the standards demanded. Telegraph reported, Blackburn, who has accused the corporation of making him a scapegoat, denied in evidence that he had ever been made aware by the BBC of a complaint against him by teenager, Claire McAlpine in 1971, even though it told the inquiry he had.
Blackburn was also accused of seducing the said Top of the Pops teenager audience member, inviting her back to his flat after his recording programme back in the year 1971. However, the former disc jockey strongly denied the allegations. The said teenager later died from overdose, the Guardian reported.
Blackburn has also claimed that he was told if he resigned from the BBC there would be an opportunity for him to return later in the year. He said he refused to do that, "because I have got nothing to hide", and stuck by the evidence he gave to the review.
While no longer at the BBC, Blackburn's broadcasting career does not end yet. The legal move comes soon after he thanked fans on his new Retro Countdown show on Kent-based radio KMFM.
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