Chiles and Bleakley Forced out of BBC
TV partners Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley recently claimed that it wasn’t the money that made him switch from the BBC to ITV.
Adrian who landed a neat £6 million switch a few months ago finally spoke yesterday and blasted the “intolerable pressure” from the BBC which forced them off of the One Show.
Reports in the Daily Mirror said that 43 year old Charles said that they where happy to stay on the BBC1 programme but admitted that when the BBC bosses hired Chris Evans as Friday host it made the pairs positions untenable.
Adrian told reporters from the Daily Mirror “nothing needed to change but obviously change was suggested on the One Show, I couldn’t live with”. Speaking on behalf of his TV partner Christine who was sat beside him he continued “we were both put under intolerable pressure. Christine was in an imposable position”.
Adrian prompted that it wasn’t at all about the £6 million which he has signed to receive to present ITV1’s Daybreak, Christine followed just a few months after Adrian’s switch, she signed a £4 million deal. “Adrian clarified it wasn’t about the money when he said “we were both very happy to stay, didn’t want any more money, just wanted to carry on doing a successful programme like we had”.
Chiles even declared he “resents” it when people think or suggest that it was mainly a switch for the bigger pay cheque.
The pair will appear for the first time together next Monday on GMTV, and Chiles has expressed his delight he told the Daily Mirror that “at all costs I felt like we had to be together again”.
Bleakley however seems as if she is still a bit unstable she told reporters “I worked with them (BBC) for 14 years, since I was 17, so it was a massive decision to leave. Suddenly everything I knew and loved changed over night… its been a turbulent and tough time”.
