Naughty Terry Wogan Told Off For Product Whoring

Hecklerspray got taken to task for 'inappropriate' advertising once.

'Inappropriate'? We still can't figure out why. All we did was help out the British Pork Board by inventing the slogan 'Pigs Are Delicious And Anyone Who Doesn't Agree Is A Bloody Great Big Bender.' And the positioning of the billboard was great, too: lots of guaranteed people-traffic, what with it being right outside that mosque and everything. Honestly - we'll never understand what went wrong.

At least a celebrity feels our pain, though. And - as everyone knows - when a celebrity shares a problem, that problems instantly becomes, like, a million billion times more important.

What we were writing about again? Oh yeah - beloved Terry Wogan has got in trouble for trying to sell himself on air. Not literally, of course. That'd be horrible.

Oddly entertaining, but horrible nonetheless.

Poor old Terry Wogan. All he wanted to do was slip a few references about his new chat show into his BBC radio programme. But apparently the BBC don't take well to things like that. Making Wogan stand in the naughty corner (before sending him to bed with no special Wogan supper), the BBC has said that:

…references to the DJ's chat show on UKTV Gold - Wogan: Now and Then - broke the corporation's producer guidelines on promoting commercial programmes and channels. The move came following a listener complaint about the DJ's "repeated promotional references" to his autobiography, Mustn't Grumble, and his UKTV Gold show.

Ominously, it added:

The controller of Radio 2 will remind Terry Wogan and his producer of the requirements of the BBC editorial guidelines in this area.

Probably something along the lines of "we pay you close to a million a year, so the least you could do is not persuade viewers to tune into other stations, you ungrateful bastard."

Still, hecklerspray would never dare stoop to such ungracious 'stealth promotion' tactics. Not unless we had something really important to sell, by the way. Like special signed hate-mail letters from Lee Ryan.

25 pence for the lot, anyone?

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Wogan Told Off For Self-Promotion - Digital Spy