Media
New allegations against RDF emerge
Published Monday, Jul 23 2007, 10:06 BST | By Dave West
RDF Media has been accused of more distortion and of upsetting a child following the Queen documentary storm.
News of the two separate and unrelated alleged incidents has emerged since the BBC and ITV cancelled new commissions from the producer.
The first allegation is from Cheryl Allen-Stephens, a contestant on Masters and Servants in 2003, who claims footage wrongly showed her storming off.
Tom Allen-Stephens, her husband, also says producers engineered rows with the rival family. He explained: "Producers would beguile and force you to say things by urging you to defend yourself."
The second allegation is from Lisa Burke, who says she threatened to quit Wife Swap when producers insisted on putting tape over one of her children's mouths for breaking rules set by the rival family.
She also thought there had been manipulation: "They wanted to show me as a successful businesswoman whose success had been achieved to the detriment of her family. They kept saying to my kids, 'You must have suffered', and reduced them to tears."
RDF has not commented on the new allegations reported in the Sunday Telegraph.
News of the two separate and unrelated alleged incidents has emerged since the BBC and ITV cancelled new commissions from the producer.
The first allegation is from Cheryl Allen-Stephens, a contestant on Masters and Servants in 2003, who claims footage wrongly showed her storming off.
Tom Allen-Stephens, her husband, also says producers engineered rows with the rival family. He explained: "Producers would beguile and force you to say things by urging you to defend yourself."
The second allegation is from Lisa Burke, who says she threatened to quit Wife Swap when producers insisted on putting tape over one of her children's mouths for breaking rules set by the rival family.
She also thought there had been manipulation: "They wanted to show me as a successful businesswoman whose success had been achieved to the detriment of her family. They kept saying to my kids, 'You must have suffered', and reduced them to tears."
RDF has not commented on the new allegations reported in the Sunday Telegraph.
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