Richard and Judy must be thrilled. They’ve done nothing wrong, but their pictures keep accompanying the articles for the furore surrounding the You Say, We Pay kerfuffle. Of course, I’m not helping by sticking a great picture of the TV couple, but hey, I’m a mean and lazy sod.

Anyway, following an apology from Richard and Judy on their Channel 4 programme about the problem with phone lines used on the show, a row has broken out between the service provider and the show’s producer.

Channel 4 is currently conducting an investigation into the issue, following claims that participants had been encouraged to phone-in to take part in the quiz, even though they no longer had any chance of winning. Cactus TV’s joint managing director Amanda Ross has apologised for the
way the competition had been run but has said the company, "relied on
Eckoh for the picking of the winners."

"They were instructed to ensure all callers were included for
consideration in compliance with the ICSTIS Code of Practice," said
Ross. "When they told us in January they were not doing this we
insisted they rectify the situation. We understood they were taking all
necessary steps to ensure that the competition was run fairly and
properly."
Eckoh’s group finance director Adam Moloney, said in response: "When it
came to the attention of our staff that in their view the ‘You Say We
Pay’ service on the Richard and Judy show was not operating in a fully
compliant way we raised this with Cactus. We also proposed changes to
the way the competition operates in writing to Cactus. The proper steps
were taken by the staff to try to correct the problem." [Mof Gimmers]