The BBC has agreed not to screen an interview with George Michael after the pop star complained that an admission that he refuses to take an HIV test was “too personal”.
BBC bosses bowed to pressure from the gay singer to pull the interview, given to Stephen Fry for a BBC Two documentary about HIV in Britain.
The capitulation raised new concerns about the influence of celebrities over BBC editorial decisions. A recent report criticised the BBC for pandering to celebrities in its coverage of public policy issues.
Programme-makers had leaked details of the revealing interview Michael gave for the two-part programme, Stephen Fry: HIV And Me. Fry asks why HIV has “fallen off the radar” even though 70,000 people live with the virus in Britain today.
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