Everyone starts at the bottom of some ladder, but it would do some bosses well to remember it doesn’t cost anything to be nice…
Media baron Richard Desmond, he who threatened to shut down The Irish Daily Star after those Kate Middleton pictures were published, has landed in some hot water of his own after verbally assaulting a schoolboy on work placement at Desmond’s Channel 5 headquarters.
According to the latest edition of Private Eye magazine, the boy was sitting at his desk in the Channel 5 offices eating a packet of crisps when Desmond came across him.
Desmond allegedly snatched the bag from the young man’s hand and shouted: ‘You’re here to work, not stuff your face, you fat c**t!’
Richard Desmond, the media mogul accused of verbally abusing a student on work experience
The young lad left the building in tears, but chances are that Desmond shed some of his own after learning that the boy’s father was a senior executive at a top advertising agency spending a LOT of money with Desmond’s various media outlets.
With immediate effect all adverts for Asda supermarkets – previously big spenders with Desmond – have been removed from the publisher’s Daily and Sunday Star and Daily and Sunday Express titles until further notice.
It costs nothing to be nice, for sure, but the cost of a four-letter-word clearly adds up pretty quickly!
