BBC'S RED FACE DAY.SHAMEFACED shame·faced adj. 1. Indicative of shame; ashamed: a shamefaced explanation. 2. Extremely modest or shy; bashful. bosses at the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. yesterday admitted conning viewers of Red Nose Day, Sport Relief and Children in Need with fake phone-in contests. The Beeb confessed their own staff posed as phone-in winners on this year's Comic Relief in a contest to win Sharon Osbourne's shoesandfrock. And in a Children in Need contest run by BBC Scotland in 2005, producers invented a fake winner. All BBC phone-in contests have now been suspended. FULL STORY: PAGES 4&5 CAPTION(S): PRIZE: Sharon Osbourne's dress and shoes |
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