BBC gives celebrities free tickets to sporting events

By Ben Leach Published: 7:42AM GMT 04 March 2010

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Adrian Chiles, the presenter, and Michael McIntyre, the comedian, were in in between those who were since tickets to events together with Wimbledon and general rugby and football matches.

Lily Allen, the cocktail singer, and Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor, were since passes to watch Englands cricket group fool around Australia in the summer.

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The BBC has pronounced it did not compensate for any of the tickets as they were piece of the promote rights packages.

A leisure of report ask by The Sun showed that Allen, 24, got dual tickets to the fifth Ashes Test on Aug 22, whilst Radcliffe, 20, was since a span for the following day.

In lapse Allen gave an talk to writer Jonathan Agnew on Radio 4"s Test Match Special.

Sir Stuart Rose, the Marks & Spencer arch senior manager who has an annual income of �1,130,000 got dual tickets for a Test in in between England and the West Indies in May and an one more dual for England and Australia in July.

Some of those since Wimbledon tickets were: Lee Dixon, the former footballer, Lawrence Dallaglio, the ex-rugby player, David Coulthard and Martin Brundle, the late racing drivers and David Haye, the heavyweight fighting champion.

The Corporation handed out twenty-six Six Nations rugby contest tickets and thirteen pairs for Anglo-Welsh crater games.

Other events enclosed the Queen"s tennis contest in June, the NFL diversion in in between the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley in Oct and golf"s PGA Championship in May.

A BBC orator said: "These tickets did not cost the looseness price payer a singular one more penny.

"The BBC did not suggest any corporate liberality at sporting events in 2009 and the recipients of these tickets were not supposing with any food, ride or place to live by the BBC."