For the record: 11/10/2010

'I would happily have stayed there for any fee they cared to offer, but there were other considerations' – Reviled by critics and unmourned by his bosses, Jonathan Ross departs the BBC after 13 years

Peer pressure

Lord Puttnam is angry that the FA is missing a great marketing opportunity by not putting the name Unicef – the charity of which he is president – alongside the three lions on the England football kit for the World Cup.

"Putting a cause on the England shirt would make guys like Steven Gerrard feel really great about what they were doing," the peer tells new brand magazine Platform. Manchester United could definitely benefit from such a move. "Manchester United run around with a bankrupt insurance company on their shirt. If I was Ryan Giggs I would really kick back against this, and tell them "I'm not a living ad hoarding", because that's what they are. They are advertising hoardings." As for the marketing clout of Cristiano Ronaldo, he's no David Beckham. "He is cold and self-regarding and lacks personal imagination."

Times Up

Word from Wapping is that plans are afoot for a revamp of James Harding's The Times, which will see the end of the T2 supplement and features slotted into the back of a one-section paper.

Guardian angle

Having set their title up as the judge and jury of the British press, nay the entire media, senior figures at The Guardian have recently been complaining to industry bodies that "The Guardian is feeling unloved."

Vaughan again

Jonathan Ross may have not got a new contract, but Johnny Vaughan has. Capital has decided that Vaughan and sidekick Lisa Snowdon have established themselves as the leading commercial breakfast show presenters in London, and are the right team to face the new challenge from Chris Evans – who starts today in place of Terry Wogan on Radio 2. Capital have offered them another two years.