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BGT blogger cautioned
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 4 July 2011
The blogger who claimed to be a Sony Music insider, and who said he had evidence that Simon Cowell’s Syco company had been coaching one of the finalists on this year’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, has been cautioned by police.
As previously reported, the not especially genuine looking blog post claimed twelve year old ‘BGT’ contender Ronan Parke already had a professional relationship with Cowell, who was using the ITV programme to launch the young singer’s career. Cowell strongly denied the allegations, reported the blog to the police, and threatened legal action against the anonymous claimer. A subsequent second blog post seemingly from the same blogger withdrew all the previous claims.
Police confirmed this weekend that they had cautioned a 52 year old man in relation to the blog, a spokesman for Scotland Yard saying, simply: “We can confirm that a 52 year old man has accepted a caution under the Malicious Communications Act. There will be no further police action”.
Meanwhile a spokesman for Sony Music told The Guardian: “A man has now admitted responsibility for the wholly untrue blogs relating to Ronan Parke and the false allegations against ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, Sony Music and Syco. He has admitted he has absolutely no connection with Ronan Parke, Sony Music, Syco, or ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. He has apologised both via the police and directly to those involved and the matter will not be taken further”.
If I’d been Cowell I’d have played along with the malicious blogger, his untrue claims being pretty much the only interesting thing to come out of the last series of the ITV talent contest.
