15 September 2023 , 18:43
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A British celebrity is in crisis mode as Channel 4 prepared to air a documentary which could end their career. A last-minute episode of Dispatches was dropped into the schedule for 9pm on Saturday night.
The Mirror understands the documentary is set to highlight bad behaviour by an A-list household name. The contents of the Dispatches, which will discuss a number of celebrities in the industry, is said to be potentially hugely damaging.
One TV insider said: "This programme has been years in the making and is being edited up to the last minute. It has the potential to halt the career of at least one celebrity with the contents."
After the Dispatches episode was listed without a title, the channel's news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy said: "Something’s up." Rumours on social media have also speculated about whether it is a scandal about a famous person.
Channel 4 declined to comment on the contents of the Dispatches, the broadcaster has a history of making explosive documentaries which expose celebrities and working practices. Last year's Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime showed the scale of the appalling treatment and lack of care towards some guests and staff on ITV’s The Jeremy Kyle Show.
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Death on Daytime examined the inner workings of the show, with former guests and staff speaking out to claim it was manipulative and manufactured events by riling people up backstage.
The Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled in 2019 after 14 years on the air following the death of guest Steve Dymond, who took his own life after filming an episode where he failed a lie detector test that told his fiancée he had cheated, something he denied.
Dispatches bosses describe the award-winning show on their IMDB page, calling it a programme about "investigations into topics surrounding British society, politics, health, international affairs and the environment".
It was in 2013 that Channel 4 went against legal threats from ITV when they aired an undercover sting allegedly showing soap stars promoting bogus products on Twitter, now X. The one-hour film, titled Celebs, Brands and Fake Fans, aired in August that year.
At the time, a Channel 4 spokesperson told The Mirror: "Celebrities have considerable influence on social media. But are some less than transparent when tweeting brand names with their legions of fans? Dispatches exposes the new tricks used by marketeers to plug brands, from buying fake Facebook ‘likes’ and YouTube ‘views’ to influencing social media conversations."