Scots TV presenter Selina Scott has savaged her Breakfast Time co-host Frank Bough as a sex-obsessed “nightmare”– just days after he died, aged 87.
The pair launched the BBC’s first breakfast magazine show in 1983 but Scott claims their relationship was poor from the outset.
Barely 10 days after his death, Scott said Bough was “not the friendly uncle figure that he liked to project to the public”.
In 1988, the News of the World revealed that Bough had taken cocaine and worn ladies’ lingerie at a sex party involving prostitutes.
Scott wrote: “Some might say it is too soon to write this piece.
"But I think it is instructive to explain that the demons that drove him to this dark double life were, to an extent, shaped by fame, pressure and the misogynistic culture that prevailed at the BBC.”
She discovered that Bough had made derogatory comments about her sex life.
Her Sunday Times article added: “This attitude led him to say of me that ‘even when she rides a bike she keeps her knees together’.
“He was implying that I was either frigid or a lesbian. After all, how could I be otherwise if I didn’t fancy him?
“Many times, while we were winding down after the show, he would make smutty remarks to me about how well-endowed he was. I wasn’t overly shocked, but for a man more than 18 years older to be making such boasts was more than simply off-colour.
“I wasn’t the only one to learn about Bough’s manhood.
"Shyama Perera, who later co-hosted a breakfast show on LBC with him, was quoted last week recalling their first day working together, ‘He made a point of telling me he always showered before heading to the studio for 5am so my penis is clean’.
“Some men work through the strain by having a few pints in the pub, gambling or playing golf.
“Frank appears to have sought relief in drugs and sexual encounters with strangers.”
Scott, 69, began working at the Sunday Post in Dundee before going on to appear on Grampian Television’s North Tonight show at the height of Aberdeen’s North Sea oil boom.
She said Bough did her “a favour” after enduring their working relationship for a couple of years.
She moved to New York to present the West 57th current affairs show on CBS, travelled the world and won Baftas of her own.
She signed off the article: “So thanks a lot, Frank.”
