TV execs should realise that they do not need to pander to the “talent” anywhere near as much as they have done in the past. No one is irreplaceable. Viewers always care more about the show’s format than who presents it.

Always assumed he was a “demographic” - that tv execs are predominantly (upper) middle class and to them this is what working class blokes are like? “Oh I know tarquin, he’s insufferable, but we have to appeal to the working class.”