Andrew Sachs has thanked Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for helping his career with the obscene messages affair.

Russell Brand returns to the UK airwaves tonight in typically controversial style.

Russell Brand is to return to the radio, it was announced today, six months after he left the BBC in disgrace following the obscene phone messages scandal.

The BBC was fined £150,000 (€164,000) by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom today following the prank phone calls made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to Andrew Sachs.

RUSSELL BRAND has called another grandparent on a radio show, sending up the lewd calls he made to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

Russell Brand has called another grandparent on a radio show, sending up the lewd calls he made to 'Fawlty Towers' actor Andrew Sachs.

The film Bafta awards face a diversion this year – their controversial host Jonathan Ross.

Andrew Sachs has not spoken to his granddaughter Georgina Baillie since the row over obscene messages on his answering machine erupted, it was reported today.

Shamed presenter Jonathan Ross will return to work at the BBC today after his three-month ban for making lewd comments on a radio show.

Tom Cruise will appear on Jonathan Ross’s comeback TV chat show, the BBC announced today

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has today made Girls Aloud the 2/1 favourites to be the first pop group to split.

Adam Sandler has offered his public support to 'Bedtime Stories' co-star Russell Brand after the British funnyman resigned from his BBC Radio show over a lewd behaviour scandal.

Steve Coogan has slammed the modern generation of comics as too "nasty" - accusing stars including Russell Brand of relying too much on "cynicism" in their work.

Jonathan Ross is set to keep his job as a BBC presenter, despite the Andrew Sachs obscene phone calls scandal, after the corporation’s governing body today agreed the “right action” had been taken against him.

Jonathan Ross will learn whether he can return to his job as a BBC presenter when the corporation’s governing body responds to the Andrew Sachs row today.

The BBC was accused of “arrogance” today as its boss accepted Radio 2 was wrong to announce Jonathan Ross’s return date.

The BBC today broadcast an apology for the “grossly offensive” phonecall made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2 in the UK.

The BBC will apologise to “licence fee payers” for the “grossly offensive” phone call made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross tomorrow, it announced today.

Andrew Sachs’s granddaughter Georgina Baillie has called for Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be reinstated.

The BBC was hoping today that a three-month unpaid ban for star presenter Jonathan Ross and the resignation of Radio 2’s boss would draw a line under the obscene phone calls furore.

Radio 2 Controller Lesley Douglas has resigned over the Andrew Sachs row, the BBC said today.

Pressure was building on Jonathan Ross today as BBC director general Mark Thompson reports to the corporation’s governing body on the prank-calls scandal.

The granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs tonight said she was thrilled to hear that BBC presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand had been suspended over their lewd phone calls.

Jonathan Ross has publicly apologised for the lewd phone messages he and Russell Brand left for Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.

The granddaughter of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs called today for Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to be sacked for their lewd phone calls.

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are to apologise personally to veteran actor Andrew Sachs over the offensive calls they made to him during a radio show, sources said tonight.