Andrew Marr gets superinjunction ribbing on live TV
Guests on Andrew Marr's television show turned the tables on the host by teasing him live on BBC1 over his superinjunction.
In the first edition of the Andrew Marr Show since news of his gagging order broke last week, the journalist had to endure the light-hearted tormenting of the actress Maureen Lipman and historian Simon Schama.
As they reviewed the week's papers, dominated by Royal Wedding coverage, Lipman quipped: "It's a great week to hide an injunction story, say one wanted to."
Marr replied: “You cheeky woman ... yes, this is true."
Later Lipman and Schama picked out a piece about Marr from The Sunday Times, headlined: "Old Jug Ears, daddy of the super-secret."
Marr took the chiding in good humour, describing the Times article as a "slightly disobliging piece" before adding: "...The worrying thing is the picture is both rather unpleasant and also entirely accurate, so there we go."
Last week it emerged that Marr had taken out a superinjunction in January 2008 to gag journalists from reporting on his affair. They were not even allowed to mention that he had taken out a superinjunction.
When the 51-year-old father of three came clean, he said: "I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists.”
Returning to his show yesterday, Marr admitted "the super-injunction issue is not going to go away."
He added: "It's something clearly Parliament is going to have to look at again. MPs are going to have to look at this."