TV Consultant Steven D Wright says TV is a “toxic” industry.
“These people don’t start off as monsters, they become monsters the way TV enables them,” he told TalkTV Contributor Rosanna Lockwood.
“This is the problem with TV – you start to put people, presenters mainly, on a pedestal and then you have hundreds of acolytes running around saying yes to their every whim.
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