History Headscratchers / BluePeter

*** Just think of it as revenge for the film ''FreeWilly''. (Even though it's significantly older. Pre-emptive revenge.)
** It was a readymade headline when the tabloid press discovered that Peter Duncan had once been in an "adult movie", though. (It was VERY tame - the worst he did was take his shirt off.)

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** A previous presenter's tenure was cut very short when tabloids revealed he'd not only been in porn, it was ''gay'' porn. This was compounded by his having, briefly, been a rent boy. BP takes it ''very'' seriously that its presenters should be morally upstanding and squeaky-clean. The original presenter from 1958, Christopher Trace, was forced out when it was revealed he was getting divorced and moving in with his mistress. Richard Bacon's drug-related fall is well documented. Lesley Judd left the series shortly before it was revealed her lover had left his wife for her. Even in the morally less hung-up eighties, a female presenter was forced out when it was revealed she was having a baby but not married. Somehow, Valerie Singleton survived a very long association with the show, despite all the rumours about her gender preferences. (LesYay!) And Zoe Salmon's innappropriate on-air revelation about her Northern Irish politics nearly got her sacked (see main).

** A previous presenter's tenure was cut very short when tabloids revealed he'd not only been in porn, it was ''gay'' porn. This was compounded by his having, briefly, been a rent boy. BP takes it ''very'' seriously that its presenters should be morally upstanding and squeaky-clean. The original presenter from 1958, Peter Trace, was forced out when it was revealed he was getting divorced and moving in with his mistress. Richard Bacon's drug-related fall is well documented. Lesley Judd left the series shortly before it was revealed her lover had left his wife for her. Even in the morally less hung-up eighties, a female presenter was forced out when it was revealed she was having a baby but not married. Somehow, Valerie Singleton survived a very long association with the show, despite all the rumours about her gender preferences. (LesYay!) And Zoe Salmon's innappropriate on-air revelation about her Northern Irish politics nearly got her sacked (see main).

**** Yes, you are being dense. "Peter" is one of the many synonyms for "penis". ...Wait, does that make this show [[{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]]?

** A previous pesenter's tenure was cut very short when tabloids revealed he'd not only been in porn, it was ''gay'' porn. This was compounded by his having, briefly, been a rent boy. BP takes it ''very'' seriously that its presenters should be morally upstanding and squeaky-clean. The original presenter from 1958, Peter Trace, was forced out when it was revealed he was getting divorced and moving in with his mistress. Richard Bacon's drug-related fall is well documented. Lesley Judd left the series shortly before it was revealed her lover had left his wife for her. Even in the morally less hung-up eighties, a female presenter was forced out when it was revealed she was having a baby but not married. Somehow, Valerie Singleton survived a very long association with the show, despite all the rumours about her gender preferences. (LesYay!) And Zoe Salmon's innappropriate on-air revelation about her Northern Irish politics nearly got her sacked (see main).

** A previous pesenter's tenure was cut very short when tabloids revealed he'd not only been in porn, it was ''gay'' porn. This was compounded by his having, briefly, been a rent boy. BP takes it ''very'' seriously that its presenters should be morally upstanding and squeaky-clean. The original presenter from 1958, Richard Trace, was forced out when it was revealed he was divorced. Richard Bacon's drug-related fall is well documented. Lesley Judd left the series shortly before it was revealed her lover had left his wife for her. Even in the morally less hung-up eighties, a female presenter was forced out when it was revealed she was having a baby but not married. Somehow, Valerie Singleton survived a very long association with the show, despite all the rumours about her gender preferences. (LesYay!) And Zoe Salmon's innappropriate on-air revelation about her Northern Irish politics nearly got her sacked (see main).