Kids Company founder Camila’s tears for Yentob

ALAN YENTOB was forced to resign as the BBC’s creative director after he tried to intervene in the Corporation’s coverage of the Kids Company collapse. But at least he offered the charity’s colourful founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, a shoulder to cry on.

She has revealed she wept when Yentob quit his £183,000 post in the wake of the fiasco, and calls his ousting ‘unjust’. ‘I cried when Alan resigned,’ she says. ‘All he did was fight for those kids. The trustees ended up being maligned.’ Camila has admitted to ‘bending the law slightly’ while running Kids Company, which collapsed in 2015 amid accusations of mismanagement. MPs accused Yentob of negligence as chair of the trustees.

Yentob, 70, still earns up to £249,999 a year from the BBC for presenting arts show Imagine.

However, he could be banned from acting as a company director if disqualification proceedings are upheld against him.