Kay Burley s friends are said to be searching for the Sky staff who reportedly told photographers that she was breaking Covid rules.
A number of junior producers hatched a plan after they overheard the newsreader discuss her 60th birthday celebration, it was claimed.
Her disgruntled colleagues revealed details of her night out to the Press via an encrypted email, according to the Mail on Sunday. It was a case of boom, this could really bring her down, said a source. They thought, If she gets caught, that would be the end for her .
A number of junior producers at Sky hatched a plan after they overheard Kay Burley discuss her 60th birthday celebration, it was claimed
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The embattled TV presenter marched through the first class lounge at Heathrow wearing a zebra print mask
She was heading for Virgin founder Richard Branson s exclusive Sabi Sand Game Reserve after car crash week
Sky News confirmed on Thursday she was suspended for six months after she broke Covid-19 rules last week
Bosses are thought to believe that months off-screen represents a significant punishment for their journalists
Political editor Beth Rigby and reporter Inzamam Rashid have both been taken off Sky News for three months
Kay Burley today jetted off to South Africa after being taken off air by Sky News for six months for breaching coronavirus rules during her 60th birthday party.
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It was an opportunity for revenge on an over-mighty colleague that proved just too good to ignore.
When a group of resentful junior production staff at Sky News heard star presenter Kay Burley boast about plans for 60th birthday celebrations which would break strict lockdown rules, they didn’t hesitate to pounce – and set in motion a chain of events that would lead to her being banished from the air for six months, her reputation severely tarnished.
As the £600,000-a-year presenter yesterday started an African safari holiday, away from the British spotlight, The Mail on Sunday can reveal the full story of how Burley was the unwitting architect of her own downfall and how she was ambushed in what has been described as the ‘perfect inside-job coup’.
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