If you ring the BBC complaints number - 03700 100 222 - there's a recorded message saying: "If you want to complain about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, press one; if you want to complain about anything else, please continue to hold." Really there is.
They then stress that live operators won't be able to tell you any more - even if you do hold - about Brand and Ross than is already in the public domain.
I'd hoped briefly that an 03700 number might turn out to produce revenue for the BBC. Wouldn't it be a delightful irony if it turned out that every one of those 30,000 sheep who complained about the show was putting a little bit of cash in Jonathan Ross's pocket?
Sadly, it's not the case. In fact, the BBC has paid for that number so that wherever you are calling from in the country, you only have to pay a local call rate to complain. Who said they don't have the public's best interests at heart?
