Un prieten apropiat al lui Steve Wright dă în judecată BBC după decesul său

He was among the best-loved of all DJs, adored by an audience of millions who felt brutally betrayed when the BBC sacked him from his afternoon show in 2022 and utterly bereft when, just two years later, he died suddenly at the age of 69.But perhaps no one was harder hit by the death of Steve Wright than his friend and colleague of almost 40 years, Anthony James Rutt – known professionally as AJ – who, when barely out of school and working on local radio, had sent the ebullient Wright a short piece of music.To his disbelief, Wright telephoned him at home. Thereafter, AJ became a key part of Wright’s team, writing the theme for Steve Wright In The Afternoon and innumerable jingles.Shattered though he was by Steve’s death and the end of a bond which he describes as ’50-50 friendship, 50-50 like a father figure’, AJ became fired up by a determination to expose what he considered the BBC’s grotesque mistreatment of one of its greatest and kindest stars. Late DJ Steve Wright, who died in February 2024, with Anthony James ‘AJ’ RuttThat fury hasn’t abated. Disgusted by the corporation’s crocodile tears following Wright’s death – it broadcast a tribute concert last August – he has, I can disclose, just launched an action against it in the High Court. ‘I’ve been advised to allow the legal process to run its course without public discussion,’ AJ tells me about his claim. ‘I appreciate your understanding.’Last year he recalled the toll taken on Wright by the axing of his show, even though its numbers were ‘through the roof’. ‘It ate him up,’ said AJ. ‘He told me, ‘I’m just really not well’.’Added AJ: ‘The same BBC leadership celebrating Steve publicly is the one that disregarded and undermined our work privately.’His legal action may prove particularly stimulating for Radio 2 controller Helen Thomas, who axed the show. Before last year’s tribute, she alerted AJ that ‘the great and the good’ would be in attendance. AJ, who’d already decided to skip the event, replied that the concert wasn’t meant to be about ‘f****** networking’ but a tribute to his friend.A BBC spokesman tells me: ‘We don’t comment on ongoing legal proceedings.’Don’t ever think that fridge-raiding is confined to kitchens used by the likes of you or me.Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has apparently felt the need to warn colleagues to stay away from her milk. Amanda Holden has said: ‘I don’t drink [regular] milk because I can’t bear the taste, so I’ll have almond or soy milk’ Fia Tarrant appeared to mock Amanda by sticking her finger on the package, commenting, cheekily: ‘Every time! Can’t help it!’A fellow presenter on the radio station Heart has revealed that Amanda, 55, has taken to labelling the items that she stores in the fridge at Global Radio’s studios in London’s West End. ‘Amanda Holden’s milk! Please don’t touch – thank you’, a note says, along with a smiley face and a heart drawing. Fia Tarrant, 38, who posted a photo of the item online, appeared to