The mass punishing of guilty phone-in TV shows continues. Veteran children’s show Blue Peter is the latest guilty party to feel the wrath of Ofcom.

The seminal BBC show is guilty of faking a competition winner.

Almost 14,000 people entered the ‘Whose Shoes?’ competition, paying 10p a call but “a technical problem” meant none of the entrants got through to the studio. This left the production with a problem. It was solved by roping in a child already in the studio. This person would be the winner.

However, despite being caught red-handed and copping the corporation’s first-ever phone-in regulatory sanction, the Beeb has only been fined a measly £50,000.

The whole mess would never have even come to the attention of Ofcom, or indeed, anyone else, had another visitor to the programme’s set, Mona Zahoor, not written to the BBC’s Have Your Say messageboard.

I wonder if she’s been given a Blue Peter badge?

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