Kaye Adams is battling sleepless nights in the course of the “s******* weeks ever” amid a probe into bullying complaints.
In October, it was reported that Kaye, 62, was suspended from her £155,000-a-year, three-hour phone-in BBC Radio Scotland present Mornings with Kaye Adams, over allegations she “shouted and screamed” at junior colleagues, which they reported underneath the company’s Name It Out scheme.
The presenter – who denies any incident occurred – gave an replace on the scenario within the newest episode of her How To Be 60 podcast, which Kaye hosts with Karen MacKenzie, who’s present process chemotherapy.
Kaye opened the episode with: “Hello, everybody. It is Kaye and Karen right here with one other Midweek Catchup. And I’ve to warn you when you’re right here for the laughs, you could be disenchanted as a result of we’ve each had the s******* weeks ever, albeit for very completely different causes.”
Karen requested Kaye how she is doing, to which she sarcastically replied: “Oh, I am nice!”
The star then went on to speak about her suspension – saying it had ripped off “layers of my pores and skin”.
Kaye stated: “I can not say something concerning the scenario, however having stated that, I do not need folks to suppose that I am making an attempt to child on, nothing’s occurring.
“I do know that individuals will pay attention to stuff that they’ve learn, which is, I can not even describe it. It is identical to, ‘Oh,’ I do not know. It simply looks like layers of my pores and skin have been torn off, to be sincere.”
The Free Girls panellist added: “I will inform you what I am discovering laborious is just not sleeping as a result of I like my sleep. And I am not sleeping nicely.”
Kaye – who has offered her BBC Radio Scotland present since 2010 – by no means predicted the bullying allegations in opposition to her, and she or he hopes there can be a “wise decision” on the finish of all of it.
She stated: “I definitely by no means noticed this one coming, however that is it. You have simply acquired to cope with it, have not you? …
“However, you realize, I simply need to go together with it, and, hopefully, there can be a form of wise decision on the finish of issues. That is all you may actually hope for in life.”
Chatting with the Mail on Sunday, Kaye lately described the scandal because the “most distressing weeks of my skilled life” and that BBC Scotland has “nonetheless not supplied me with any particulars of the allegations which have been made in opposition to me”.
Kaye added that she had been “inundated with messages of assist from individuals who I’ve handled each personally and professionally over the a long time, and I thank them from the underside of my coronary heart”.
And a type of folks is her former Free Girls co-panellist Carol McGiffin, 65, who emphasised in her newest Greatest journal column that Kaye is “by no means a bully” – regardless of her “fiercely clever” and “pedantic, persistent perfectionist” nature “will be difficult” at occasions.
BBC Scotland refused to touch upon the allegations, however confirmed that Kaye had not completely left the organisation.
A spokesperson stated: “We might not touch upon any particular person case.
“If any complaints or issues are raised, we’ve strong inside processes in place to handle these.”
