Things you don't see on TV anymore...

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In 1988, Bough was sacked by the BBC when he became mired in a sex and drugs scandal,[9] which involved taking cocaine and wearing lingerie at sex parties.[10] "Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls"[11] said the News of the World's front-page headline in 1988. The newspaper's former deputy editor Paul Connew later said of the scandal: "It caused a sensation at the time, given Bough's public image as the squeaky clean frontman of breakfast and sports television."[12]

Roy Greenslade, Professor of Journalism at City University London, said that Bough made a "terrible mistake" by agreeing to speak to newspapers prior to publication of personal allegations, worsening the story.[13]

Bough spoke of his regret for taking drugs and said: "It was a brief but appalling period in my life. Don't condemn my entire career for a brief episode I regret."[14]

In 1989, Bough was hired by LWT where he fronted Six O'Clock Live until it was axed in 1992 and in 1991 he presented ITV's coverage of the Rugby World Cup. He also presented the Frank Bough Interview for Sky TV for two series. However he made front-page headlines again in 1992 when his visits to an S&M prostitute's Welbeck Street flat were made known to the tabloid press by one of the women employed there as a receptionist.[15]

A photograph emerged in a newspaper of Bough leaving the S&M prostitute's flat. During a visit he was reported to have spent 50 minutes in a 'torture chamber' featuring a slave cage and school canes. The following day he appeared on television with his wife and said: "I am feeling exceedingly stupid. I bitterly regret many of the things in my life, and if only I could undo them I would."[14]

What a guy!!!
 
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