Scott Mills Ignoring Friends After BBC Sacking

Scott Mills is reportedly not taking calls from his worried friends following his sacking from BBC Radio 2 this week.

Mills was sacked six days after being .

Last night, the Daily Mirror The case was dropped around seven years ago due to a lack of evidence.

Now a source has told the publication that Scott, 53, 'has gone to ground' since the decision was made and friends are 'struggling to contact him'.

'The show was his life and he is facing oblivion,' a friend has told the newspaper.

The Mirror also claims that his close friends and acquaintances have been 'left totally blindsided by events of the last few days' and that they knew nothing about his sacking until Monday or the police investigation back in 2016.

It comes as  called the sacking of his Radio 2 colleague Scott 'unfair' as he insisted 'there's been no ' on his Tuesday show.

Jeremy, who hosts a daily Radio 2 show dissecting the day's headlines, shared his upset over Scott's departure, adding that he felt bosses had sacked him due to regrets over failing to handle the behaviour of . 

The presenter then questioned why 'Huw Edwards couldn't be sacked because he was in a fragile mental state, and everything I have read about Scott's history today goes back to his own anxiety and but there doesn't seem to be the same break cut for him.'

The disgraced BBC News presenter Huw was handed a six-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children.

'Scott Mills' sacking has left a lot of people very confused. What do you make of it? I'd love to know?' Vine, who has worked alongside Mills at Radio 2 for four years, said at the top of the show. 

'We heard the news just before 12 yesterday here at Radio 2, it came as a complete shock to those of us who work at the station, the presenter of our Breakfast Show, Scott Mills, had been sacked over allegations, we're told, related to his personal conduct.'

Later in the show, Jeremy noted: 'It's a very painful episode for anyone who knows Scott, he's a very popular guy in the building.'

During the show, Jeremy also spoke to BBC's Media and Culture Editor Katie Razzell, who said she'd put 'a series of questions' to bosses about Mills' sacking, in particular whether they were aware he had been allegedly investigated by police.

She then shared that the period for which the probe was launched began in 1997, when Scott was still working at Heart FM. He joined Radio 1 the following year. 

Oasis Charitable Trust founder and Baptist minister Steve Chalke who is friends with Mills and has worked with him on the Pause For Thoughts segment of the Breakfast Show noted there was 'a sense of grief, of loss, of sadness and shock'.

'My thoughts, my heart, my pain, is for him and also of any victim of any crime and their family of everybody involved in this,' he added.

Jeremy then stated that 'there hadn't been a crime' as Mills was never charged with any offence. 

He said: 'The whole point is there wasn't a crime, and that's where this gets difficult, the Met have been over it and there is no crime. We are dealing with something we are calling misbehaviour.

'There is a thought here that what the BBC has done has sacked Huw Edwards, they wish they got in earlier with Huw and they decided to treat Scott how they wish they'd treated Huw. Which would be a bit unfair would it not?'

'Regarding the inconsistency here, we were told Huw Edwards couldn't be sacked because he was in a fragile mental state, everything I have read about Scott's history today goes back to his own anxiety and depression and everything else but there doesn't seem to be the same break cut for him.'

Scott's friend Steve Chalke ended the segment by stating: 'I have had other friends who have faced very serious allegations and have lost their place in the institutions they served only for those allegations in the end to be unfounded. We just don't know.'

'But we must be concerned for the mental health of any victim, for Scott, for his family, for his partner Sam. This is a tragic occurrence.'

Another senior broadcaster at the BBC has said there is 'total shock' at the corporation after Mills' sacking.

There were apparently 'audible gasps' from staff as they were told on Monday morning in an email from BBC director of music Lorna Clarke.

Several stars who have spent time with him described him as 'kind and generous' and that friends are 'devastated' for him.

He was also described by a radio colleague as 'hugely popular' internally.

'It is not like the BBC to act so fast', a household name broadcaster told the Daily Mail.

Another source claimed that wild rumours are flying around Broadcasting House about the reason for his sacking.

'No suspension period or prolonged investigation does not bode well', another insider said.

The teenage boy who accused Mills of serious sexual offences in the 1990s was under 16 at the time, it was revealed today.

Scotland Yard has also confirmed the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the case due to a lack of evidence and their investigation into the broadcaster was closed in 2019.

The Daily Mail can also reveal that the complainant may have been inspired to speak out again this year due to the new Huw Edwards docu-drama.

Two sources have said that within the BBC it is being claimed that the unnamed man may have gone to the corporation due to the huge publicity surrounding Martin Clunes starring as Huw Edwards in Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards.