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Sunday Round Up: Twitter, Super Injunction, BBC, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

May 22, 2011 | 3 min read

This week's Sunday Round up sees the Super Injunction taken by an unnamed footballer attact Twitter users who have named him, Arnold Schwarzenegger's love life picked over, news on a charity run by the BBC and a legal financial loophole closed affecting UK actors.

The Sunday Telegraph reveals that the number of tweets about the footballer who is suing Twitter as a result of its users defiance of his super injunction to prevent his name being used in discussions over an affair with Imogen Thomas, has now reached 30,000 messages.

Meanwhile, a ‘well known TV reporter’ and journalist could be one of the first to be sued for breaking the injunction, the Mail on Sunday claims. The journalist revealed the footballer’s identity on Twitter and now could face a two-year jail sentence.

The Mail on Sunday also says that ‘a pop star’, ‘an author’ and ‘a comedian’ could be jailed as it analyses the potential prosecution of Twitter users defying the injunction.

The Sunday Telegraph also analyses how a ‘little known’ charity run by the BBC spends its cash. The charity apparently spends around £15m a year of the British tax payer’s cash on international work.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8527841/How-the-BBC-spends-Britains-international-aid.html

The News of the World claims that actor Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘preyed’ on affairs with ‘ugly women’ so that they would worship him. The report comes a week after the actor split with his wife after it emerged he had a love child with his maid.

Several of the UK’s top actors have been hit with a huge tax bill after a loophole in the law was closed to boost the public purse. The actors, according to the Sunday Express, must pay back tens of thousands of pounds of unpaid national insurance.

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