Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Brady: Beeb can sort pay gap ‘quickly’
Lawyer says Chloe ordeal ‘a sham’
KARREN Brady says the BBC can settle the gender pay gap “quickly” once the director-general makes the decision to fix it.
And Baroness Brady, 48, said she was “100% certain” she earned the same as The Apprentice counterpart Claude Littner. She said: “I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.”
She told Radio Times magazine: “Change can happen very quickly if a CEO is determined to make that happen.
“Tony Hall [BBC director-general] just needs to make the decision to resolve it, and then go and resolve it.”
Brady and Littner will return to BBC One with Lord Alan Sugar in The Apprentice on October 4. CHLOE Ayling’s Italian kidnap ordeal may have been faked, concocted by the British model to drum up publicity, a court heard yesterday.
The 20-year-old claims she was snatched in Milan after being lured to a bogus photo-shoot and kept hostage for six days in a remote alpine home where she feared she would be sold as a sex slave.
Polish-born Lukasz Herba, 30, is being held in Italy accused of the kidnap and his older brother Michal was also arrested in Britain and is facing extradition.
But his lawyer George Hepburne Scott told Westminster magistrates: “There is a real risk that the entire case is a sham. Upon her return to the UK, Chloe
Ayling seems to have launched upon a tour of TV studios and announced a forthcoming book about her experiences. It would amount to an abuse of process of the court if there was any evidence to suggest this was a publicity stunt.”
Chloe, of Coulsdon, South
London, was spotted shoe shopping with Lukasz after she was allegedly snatched. She was freed on July 17. Michal was held in Tividale, West Mids, last month on a European warrant.
District Judge Paul Goldspring said much of the material Mr Hepburne Scott relied upon came from press reports which did not prove any theory. He will give his ruling on the extradition plea this Friday.