Apparently, Noel Edmonds has been avoiding paying his TV Licence, and has done an interview on BBC One to explain why:

Edmonds, a former BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ and host of BBC TV shows such as Noel’s House Party, said there was now “an aggressive culture” in the UK.

“There are too many organisations – and the BBC is a fabulous organisation – that seem to think it’s OK to badger, hector and threaten people,” he told BBC One’s Breakfast.

“I worked for the BBC for 30 years.
“When I was at the BBC, it promoted the licence fee by saying how wonderful it was because – let’s face it – the BBC licence fee is astonishing value,” the 59-year-old added.

Now, however, the BBC said “we know where you are” in campaigns to avoid evasion, he claimed.

Now, as much as I agree with him that the BBC’s advertising has an air of totalitarianism about it – and that BBC should be promoting Licence Fees by demonstrating the value that they give. His point is trampled on somewhat by a later paragraph…

Edmonds was using his interview to promote his new Sky 1 series Noel’s HQ, which he said would be responsible for good deeds which would improve people’s lives.

So, Edmonds is now working for BSkyB, the Murdoch company that’s got the most to gain from anti-BBC sentiment and the abolishment (or greater distribution) of the Licence Fee, and he starts complaining about the BBC. No conflict of interests there at all…