The entertainment industry is weird. We pay people to entertain us; to provide us with a service. but I think one the major problems with the entertainment industry as a whole is the way these that a lot of these front of house staff (aka presenters) are treated.
For a start they are referred to industry wide as 'the talent', and treated like some sort of rare, protected species. I just can't think of any other industry where the people we pay to provide us with goods and services are treated any differently than the rest of us, except perhaps professional sport (which also has it's issues). It's like paring a mechanic to fix your car and then rolling out the red carpet at the garage.
They are put on a pedestal and are treated as some kind of protected entity. "Mustn't upset the talent darling...", and it's not just the BBC, who are somewhat under the microscope, but the entertainment industry as a whole. It's absolutely toxic with someone like Brand whose whole personality centres around his massive ego. It seems like at every turn he was allowed to get away with more and more; things that would get most people sacked from any other job in the world.
I'm not absolving Brand of any blame here. He's absolutely at fault for his own behaviour, but those who allowed him to continue to get away with his abhorrent behaviour also bear some responsibility for what has happened. The MTV saga should have absolutely been the end of him in the industry, but instead of binning the cnut, he was given another high profile job, even though it seems that EVERYONE knew EXACTLY who he was.
