How senior BBC editors closed ranks to bring Martin Bashir in from the cold
‘Shades of the Kremlin’ in attempts by senior managers to distance themselves from scandal
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Martin Bashir cut a different figure on the stage of Celebrity X Factor. Under the gaze of Simon Cowell, the now disgraced journalist stumbled his way through a rendition of Nat King Cole's L-O-V-E. Putting a gloss on the performance, judge and former Pussycat Doll Nicole Sherzinger said: "I feel we got to see a whole other side of you we have never seen before."
That was two years ago. With the publication of Lord Dyson’s report, which found he deployed “deceitful behaviour” to secure his interview with Princess Diana, those words now take on a greater meaning.