UK News 23-10-2000 TV Decency Watchdog In Sex Scandal who: Lord Holme what: Resigns from post as TV watchdog where: CHELTENHAM when: Yesterday snippet: "The peer in charge of TV morals quit in shame yesterday after admitting a kinky affair with a woman 36 years his junior," reports George Pascoe-Watson in The Sun. "Lord Holme of Cheltenham, 64, confessed he had cheated on wife Kay for three years with a 28-year-old single mum." 64-year-old chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, who played a key role in the Liberal Democrats` 1997 general election campaign, was accused of having two mistresses in yesterday`s News of the World, explains The Star`s Neil Chandler. "In a personal statement on his decision to step down from his £49,000-a-year post, he said his wife was standing by him despite his affair." "My wife, Kay, and I have been married for 42 years," he said in a statement yesterday, "and she wants it to be known that, although she felt very hurt when I told her of my infidelity, she is nevertheless determined, as am I, that we shall stay together at the heart of our family." The paper printed details of The Right Honourable Lord Holme of Cheltenham CBE`s sexual preferences, says Matt Wells in The Guardian, revealing that "he liked to be called `Lord Toad`, after the fictional character in the Wind in the Willows children`s stories." [... more]

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