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
Gary Gillespie (presenter) Gary Gillespie (presenter) Gary Gillespie is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist. Until recently he was a sports presenter and reporter for UTV Live. He is not related to the Liverpool soccer player of the same name. Gillespie began his journalism career at The News Letter. He joined Ulster Television in the 1970s, as a reporter and presenter on the evening news magazine at the time, "Reports". He continued as a presenter on its replacement programmes "Good Evening Ulster" and "Six Tonight", and he introduced UTV's coverage of the 1987 General Election. In the 1990s, Gillespie became a reporter