NUDES UPDATE ON BBC
Train girl in the buff-er
VIEWERS did a double- take yesterday when the BBC screened footage of a naked woman at breakfast time.
The full-frontal shot of a leggy blonde waving from a train appeared during a BBC Breakfast report at 7.23am.
She was said to have advertised the InterCity 125 train when it was launched in the 1970s.
Reporter Richard Westcott made no reference to the nude as he reported on the loco’s replacement.
And presenters Bill Turnbull, 59, and Sally Nugent, 43, carried on without batting an eyelid.
But viewers set Twitter alight after spotting the boob. Lindsay Cardwell tweeted: “Naked lady slipped through editing net hanging out of high speed train @ BBCBreakfast!”
And stunned Tony Wood wrote: “Did @BBCBreakfast just show an advert of a naked woman advertising a train?”
But reporter Richard insisted the babe was not nude, tweeting: “It’s a proper old British Rail ad... she had a costume on...”
And a BBC spokesman said the woman had been wearing a fleshcoloured bikini, with the grainy footage making her look naked.
TOP stars including Daniel Craig have blasted David Cameron over plans for BBC cuts.
The Bond hunk, 47, was one of more than two dozen celebs who attacked the proposals.
Other big names lashing out included Dame Judi Dench, 80, Sir David Attenborough, 89, Harry Potter writer JK Rowling, 49, and hosts Gary Lineker, 54, Graham Norton, 52, and Chris Evans, 49.
In an open letter, they told the Prime Minister: “A diminished BBC would simply mean a dimin- ished Britain.” The stars joined forces ahead of a speech today by Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who will set out a raft of potential Beeb reforms.
They include scrapping ratings-chasing shows such as The Voice and Strictly Come Dancing and replacing the licence fee with a household tax.
A spokesman for Mr Cameron said a review of the BBC’s Charter “should take its course”.