Breakfast of champions?

It seems the relationship between former ITV director of television Simon Shaps and executive chairman Michael Grade was slightly on the eccentric side. Recalling an incident several weeks before he was replaced by Peter Fincham, Shaps, writing in the Royal Television Society's Television magazine, says he received a call while breakfasting with Cold Feet creator Mike Bullen. "It was Michael Grade, who, as a fellow BlackBerry addict, tends to email, rather than phone," Shaps says. "I assumed something particularly urgent had come up, but he said that he was just checking that I was in The Wolseley, as he assumed I was every Friday morning. He was right, of course, and I am happy to confirm that is one tradition I intend to preserve when I leave ITV." Shaps doesn't say why Grade was checking up on him, but seeing as Shaps was clearing his desk several weeks later, Monkey thinks Fincham should be worried if he starts getting early morning calls from the boss as well.