Lorraine Heggessey involved in the dismissal of "Blue Peter" presenter Richard Bacon. In October 1998, the "News of the World" newspaper revealed that Bacon had taken cocaine, and he was subsequently sacked from his job as a presenter on the high-profile children's programme. Heggessey appeared on-screen in a specially-recorded one-minute address to viewers shown directly before the first episode of "Blue Peter" to be screened following Bacon's sacking, on 19 October 1998, to explain to young viewers why Bacon had been dismissed, claiming that he had "not only let himself and the team on "Blue Peter" down, but he has also let
Angus Deayton Barclaycard and the films "Savage Hearts" and "Elizabeth". In an episode of "Coupling", he appears in a fantasy sequence with Mariella Frostrup. In addition, he hosted the late-1990s BBC show "Before They Were Famous", which showed early and frequently embarrassing clips of TV and film stars (including Deayton himself) when they were relatively unknown. In May 2002, the "News of the World" suggested he had taken cocaine and had sex with prostitutes. He was ridiculed by Paul Merton and Ian Hislop in the following episode of "Have I Got News For You" but continued as presenter. Deayton began the episode