Any time I see the name of a male BBC celebrity, especially one who was around in the 70s, my first thought is “oh God, not him as well?”
I'll just leave this here (the post is still up, I just didn't want to link directly to the original but you can see it if you just change the site name in the url back to "reddit")
And worth leaving this here, which includes the interview, his apology and full context rather than a screenshot of a website linked on reddit long after the fact.
The BBC have long since forgotten the universally important, and ever relevant, Rule 1:
Don’t fuck the kids