GirlChat #604124
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and i think i've found an ideal candidate!
...I'm uneasy at the BBC's continued beatification of the broadcaster, who this week was also the subject of an adoring Radio 1 documentary called How John Peel Changed My Life, in which the likes of Annie Nightingale, Rob Da Bank, Huw Stephens and Michael Palin paid teary tribute. It's worth remembering that this was a man who married a 15-year-old in the US (which, at the time, was legal in Texas) when he was in his mid-twenties, and who was later discovered to have had at least one other relationship with an underage girl in the UK. And let's not forget his Schoolgirl of the Year competition on his Radio 1 show in the early Seventies. Does Peel's lofty cultural standing mean that, even posthumously, he's protected from the opprobrium meted out to fellow broadcasting "personalities"? Is his legacy so sacred that his questionable behaviour around young girls should be ignored?... i think an appropriate answer would be YES!
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