Irishman Col Murray is qutg Rad 5 Live for talkSPORT a month after BBC boss had to apologise when his weekly Fightg Talk show clud a sectn on how openly gay prenter Clare Baldg uld be ”turned around”.
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MURRAY QUS BBC SHOW AFTER NTROVERSIAL SEGMENT ABOUT GAY PRENTER
Irishman Col Murray is qutg Rad 5 Live for talkSPORT a month after BBC boss had to apologise when his weekly Fightg Talk show clud a sectn on how openly gay prenter Clare Baldg uld be ”turned around”. Irishman Col Murray is qutg Rad 5 Live for talkSPORT a month after BBC boss had to apologise when his weekly Fightg Talk show clud a sectn on how openly gay prenter Clare Baldg uld be ”turned around” Co Down native, who started his BBC reer at Rad 1, will jo the statn next month to prent a weekday sports said: “I’m tly exced about creatg this programme, and I hope will bee the morng ’go to’ for UK sports fans. How Col Murray went om diggg grav as a teenager to hostg Bra's favoure quiz showThe star was born the Belfast suburbs 1977 and ially named Le Wright - but later revealed his parents changed after jt two days when realisg sound 'like a directn' was ted at the Regent Hoe Grammar School but was asked to leave for beg 'disptive' claimed his tenncy to ask awkward qutns or tell jok were ial for his future reer prentg and should have stead been nurtured by a teenager, Murray worked as a grave digger before makg his first stris to journalism, dog shifts both Northern Ireland and joed BBC Rad 1 the late 1990s before beg a prenter on Channel 4's breakfast show, RI:SE, though he later admted the role 'sred me off TV for a long time' then prented BBC Rad 5 Live's popular sports show, Fightg Talk, before returng to the small screen to host Channel 5's verage of UEFA Cup football stock grew and 2010 he was asked to take over om Adrian Chil as host of Match of the Day 2 (MOTD2) as well as the BBC's highlights show of the World Cup South Ai that three years later, Murray was no longer prentg MOTD2 and also left his rad show unr a cloud when his show rried a segment jokg about beg able to 'turn' his openly gay BBC lleague Clare Baldg.
Murray was ted at the Regent Hoe Grammar School but was asked to leave for beg 'disptive' claimed his tenncy to ask awkward qutns or tell jok were ial for his future reer prentg and should have stead been nurtured by a teenager, Murray worked as a grave digger before makg his first stris to journalism, dog shifts both Northern Ireland and joed BBC Rad 1 the late 1990s before beg a prenter on Channel 4's breakfast show, RI:SE, though he later admted the role 'sred me off TV for a long time' then prented BBC Rad 5 Live's popular sports show, Fightg Talk, before returng to the small screen to host Channel 5's verage of UEFA Cup football stock grew and 2010 he was asked to take over om Adrian Chil as host of Match of the Day 2 (MOTD2) as well as the BBC's highlights show of the World Cup South Ai that three years later, Murray was no longer prentg MOTD2 and also left his rad show unr a cloud when his show rried a segment jokg about beg able to 'turn' his openly gay BBC lleague Clare Baldg. Rad1 prenter Col MurrayCol Murray has spoken for the first time about the famo c remarks he ma over Clare Baldg’s sexualy on his rad show — admtg they went too the Belfast prenter also voiced anger at the handlg of the live rad gaffe at the BBC, sayg the natnal broadster only apologised to “kill the story” ma headl back June when the BBC apologised to the gay Baldg after her sexualy was raised durg the Rad 5 Live Fightg Talk panel show, which he broadster received 19 plats om listeners after Murray hosted a panel durg which his popular lleague’s sexualy was emed to have been had asked nttants — durg a sectn lled fend the fensible — to argue: “Give me 20 mut wh her and I’m pretty sure I uld turn around Clare Baldg. The Seventi saw many women's rights, gay rights, and environmental movements.
Sce transferred to 5 Live's mercial rival TalkSport, where he prents a three-hour weekday show, Murray says his new employer is a place where he n "be myself whout every so often spasmodilly havg to al wh the sh of the outraged few" is a barely-veiled reference to his fal episo of Fightg Talk, on 1 June this year, when the panel show was acced of "homophobic bullyg" after a nttant was ved to advance reasons why if given "20 mut wh her, I'm pretty sure I uld turn around Clare Baldg" was tend as satire, a "mockery of idt views" as Murray put , a round lled Defend The Infensible.