CBC Radio host fired for "unconventional" sexual practices.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:00 pm
His Facebook says it was just BDSMCBC’s sudden decision to cut ties with star host Jian Ghomeshi came after “information” came to the public broadcasters attention that “precludes us from continuing our relationship,” a senior spokesman told the Star.
What that information is, CBC media relations chief Chuck Thompson said he was not at liberty to say.
“Information came to (CBC’s) attention recently that in CBC’s judgment precludes us from continuing our relationship with Jian Ghomeshi,” Thompson said in an interview.
Ghomeshi stated on his Facebook page Sunday that he was fired because of the risk “of my private sex life being made public as a result of a campaign of false allegations pursued by a jilted ex girlfriend and a freelance writer.”
His Facebook post goes on to state that the allegations are a smear campaign, and that all of his sexual activity, however unconventional, has been entirely consensual. With “no formal allegations, no formal complaints, no complaints, not one, to the HR department at the CBC (and) (and no charges, I have lost my job based on a campaign of vengeance,” Ghomeshi states, having also added that his ex-girlfriend has contacted him to say that she “now wishes to refute any of these categorically untrue allegations.”...
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/10 ... h_cbc.html
People have been fired from TV for making racist statements in the past, but that was generally either making them in public, or making them in the workplace itself. That's hardly the same as doing something privately in your own home.
They sacked him for that? I thought Canadians were cool.
