🗣️“No one had heard the words cancel culture back then,” reflects Richard Bacon, now 45
Richard Bacon is, he suggests with a merry laugh, someone who was ‘cancelled’ before the world had ever dreamt up the now ubiquitous phrase ‘cancel culture’. It was back in October 1998 and the then 22-year-old Blue Peter presenter was caught in a tabloid sting taking cocaine. Public outrage was huge, and required that he be sacked.
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