Overview
- Bacon spoke this week on the How To Fail podcast and restated that he took cocaine in 1998 and accepted responsibility for the act.
- He says a close friend from his time at Radio Nottingham sold the story to the News of the World, a betrayal he says led directly to his sacking from Blue Peter.
- Lorraine Heggessey, then head of Children’s BBC, told him he would have to go and he handed back his Blue Peter badge after the tabloid report.
- Bacon describes enduring personal consequences, saying the scandal left him with a deep sense of shame and that the episode caused visible distress for his parents.
- Coverage notes his later recovery in broadcasting, the 2018 lung infection that nearly killed him, and that the new claims are drawn from his podcast interview with no new legal developments reported.