I host a radio show on the BBC's 6 Music and realised that this would be a good forum for Ade to chat about what had happened. When he asked me if he should "just leave it", I said he had an obligation to act - that the doorman had probably abused people in the past and, if unchecked, would continue to, and that Ade was in a position to turn this horrible experience into a positive one by ensuring the doorman was sacked and his licence revoked.
We chatted about the incident on my Sunday-morning show, and the listeners were incensed. The nightclub denies Ade's version of the encounter, saying that he had been abusive and aggressive to the club's staff. To me this seems out of character and highly unlikely.
The 6 Music show I do is available as a podcast (yesterday it was No 3 in the iTunes chart, behind Ricky Gervais and Big Brother). The BBC said the exchange between me and Ade contravened legal guidelines and refused to include it in the podcast. I said that without it the show would not be representative of what took place, and therefore I would prefer if the podcast were withdrawn. At the moment it is unavailable.
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