Notable Incidents: Great Britain
- June 2005: Radio DJ Tim Shaw propositioned glamour model Jodie Marsh live on-air on his Kerrang! FM show by announcing he would leave his family for her. This enraged Shaw's wife, who promptly sold his Lotus Espirit on ebay for 50p. Earlier that year he had been suspended for staging a mock burglary at the home of former programme director Andrew Jeffries, and in 2004, after he was challenged by listeners, he phoned his sister-in-law live on-air to boast that he fantasized about her during sex with his wife.
- October 18, 2008: (UK) BBC Radio 2 host Russell Brand resigned after calling actor Andrew Sachs and leaving an answering machine message claiming that he had had sex with his granddaughter.
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