UNITED KINGDOM
Evening Express
Published: 05/10/2013
NEWSNIGHT host Jeremy Paxman has admitted he “thought about” quitting the show after a scandal which saw an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes dropped.
He said he was still enjoying presenting the BBC2 current affairs show but admitted it had been damaged by what happened.
Asked if he considered quitting, he said: “I thought about it of course but in the end I decided that you know these were … there were several bad decisions, they were individual bad decisions and I felt that loyalty commanded that you stayed.”
He also said senior figures at the BBC Trust – the corporation’s governing body – proposed dropping the show.
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