Shaun goes off-message

BBC 6Music breakfast DJ Shaun Keaveny perhaps ought to know better than to bandy around remarks about phone-in competitions. He does, after all, work for the network that made the Liz Kershaw show, where production staff allegedly rigged a phone-in. But bandy he did. Earlier this week he told listeners that phone-in competitions would be returning in a couple of weeks' time before pausing, possibly after seeing his producer waving frantically at him to shut up. "Sorry if I've let the cat out of the bag," he said sheepishly. Only apparently they're not returning at all. A 6Music spokesman confirms to Monkey that Keaveny made the remarks - but the spokesman said he didn't know what they referred to. "Maybe Shaun was talking off the top of his head but there are no plans to reintroduce phone-in competitions in November," said a spokesman. What about after that? "I don't know. It's a decision for the director general." The only other question has to be how long Shaun must now spend sitting on the naughty step.