That's just a rehash of the Sun's article of course. It's true that Meat doesn't get equal time to comment, but the suggestion in the article that he's not able to ride that particular issue is insulting imo .. I think if he wrote "Protest" it was more likely to be meant in humour.
I don't find his short comments (which are full of imagery and to me convey eactly what he'd like to give as feedback but in just a few words) in the least "embarassing" .. they're point on, amusing and entertaining, which is after all the reason he's on the show.
But I also agree that not all publicity is great .. not when the Sun insinuates Meat isn't more than professional enough to deal with the restrictions imposed on his input. I have watched the show each week and he is nothing but good humoured .. to suggest he's waging some kind of petulant war with Titchmarsh is rude .. entirely worthy of the Sun of course .. but inappropriate nonetheless. And if it was used by the programme makers to generate publicity to help hike the ratings as Andy wondered .. shame on them
Caryl
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