Lee Anderson clashes with ex-BBC star after ripping up licence fee letter: ’Not a cheap stunt!’

Dyke was among those to criticise Lee, and he locked horns with the GB News star today on the matter.

“I said that ‘I like Lee, but that was a cheap stunt’”, Dyke told Lee.

“It’s not a cheap stunt”, Lee hit back.

“My inbox exploded with support over that ‘stunt’.”

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The tiff was brief as Lee went on to ask Dyke about his own personal experience with the broadcaster.

The former presenter said he was likely let go by the Beeb as he was no longer “ticking boxes” for them.

“When I first started, it was a privilege. It was somewhere I always wanted to work after about 30 years in commercial radio”, he said.

“I got in there and the boss said to me, ‘they’ve paid their licence fee, entertain them’, and I thought ‘wow, this is going to be fantastic’.

“And it was. We had a really good ride and things slowly started to change as the BBC became more woke, for want of a better word.

“I think entertainment has taken a backseat on television and in radio as far as the BBC were concerned and in my opinion, it’s now about ticking boxes.

“I was on a long list of people who were got rid of, and I understand it. I was over 50, white, heterosexual, middle class, I didn’t tick any boxes anymore.”

Lee Anderson then jokingly asked if the BBC might consider offering him a job as Match of the Day presenter, to which Dyke responded quite simply, “no”.