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Please rephrase using your snatchnomicon lingua!
I saw the dj's on tv this morning crying and apologizing. It's bullshit that they are being put through hell over this. The women obviously had other issues, at least I hope she didn't off herself over something so stupid. There is no way they could have foreseen something like this happening. They never believed that the prank would work. Stupid bitch has fucked up their lives with her fuck up.
I doubt he is aware...
It's like the papers said - radio stations have been doing shit like this for decades all over the place. There's no reason the DJs here should feel guilty for this or be held accountable. It's part of their job. They're entertainers. This bitch just had baggage.
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UPDATE: EMBATTLED 2Day FM radio hosts Michael Christian and Mel Greig have recorded tell-all interviews with Channels Seven and Nine to air tonight.
Speculation that the duo have chosen to share their side of the international scandal with Channel Nine was sparked earlier today when host Tracy Grimshaw and executive producer Grant Williams were seen striding confidently through 2Day FM's inner-city headquarters.
The program then confirmed the interview on their twitter account saying: "First interview with the #2dayfm djs just recorded with @TracyGrimshaw. It's raw & emotional. The full uncut interview at 6.30 tonight #aca9".
Christian and Greig will make their first public appearance in what is an unpaid interview with ACA. It is understood they have also recorded an interview with Channel Seven, which will air on Today Tonight.
The radio duo earlier today told Grimshaw they are "shattered" by the tragic death of British nurse Jacintha Saldanha and they never dreamed anyone at the hospital would take them seriously.
Speaking for the first time to ACA about the prank which fooled the nurse into thinking she had been speaking with Queen Elizabeth over the Duchess of Cambridge's morning sickness, the pair said they are thinking of Ms Saldanha's family.
Radio DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig talk to Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair. Picture: Channel 9
"And I remember my first question was, was she a mother? I hope they're OK, I really do," Greig said.
"...there's not a minute that goes by where we don't think about her family and what they must be going through and the thought we may have played a part in that is gutwrenching," Greig added.
Earlier reports suggested the duo had also filmed an interview for Channel 10's The Project, but one of the show's producers Tom Whitty tweeted that the pair were too distressed to be interviewed.
"@cameron_adams We're not interviewing them. Mel Greig was too upset and our hosts @BickmoreCarrie (Carrie Bickmore ) and @charliepick (Charlie Pickering) were not comfortable," he tweeted in response to an earlier query from News Ltd journalist Cameron Adams.
"We are however interviewing Rhys Holleran, CEO of Southern Cross Austereo, about the story," he added in a later tweet.
Channel 9 say the did not pay DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig for the interview. Picture: Channel 9
Meanwhile staff at Southern Cross Austereo have all but shut-down in the lead-up to the interview, with 2Day FM programming boss Guy Dobson and interim media manager Sandy Kaye failing to return calls today.
The executive producer of the Hot 30 Countdown, Emily Mills, appears to have deleted her Twitter account and LinkedIn account and is also not contactable.
Mother doesn't know her daughter has died
While the rest of the world mourns for Ms Saldanha, it has emerged her ailing mother is not even aware that her daughter is dead.
A close family member reportedly told the Times of India that the mother of the nurse who killed herself after 2Day FM radio hosts fooled her into thinking she had been speaking with Queen Elizabeth over the Duchess of Cambridge's morning sickness was suffering from heart problems and was under sedation.
A Current Affair's Tracy Grimshaw arrives at the 2Day FM office. Picture: John Grainger
"We are in a difficult situation and don't know how to convey the sad news to her," the family member was quoted by the Times as saying.
It has also emerged that some international media outlets are using images of the wrong Jacintha Saldanha in their coverage of the tragedy.
While the real Jacintha's mother doesn't yet know her daughter has died, the 46 year old's brother gave an interview to UK tabloid The Daily Mail.
Family says nurse died of shame
Ms Saldanha's brother Naveen told the Daily Mail that his sister would have been "devastated" that she unwittingly assisted in the disclosure of the Duchess of Cambridge's private medical information.
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha with her son Junal and daughter Lisha.
"She would have felt much shame about the incident," he said.
Naveen said his sister was a devout Catholic and a "proper and righteous person".
Friends said Ms Saldanha took the prank call "very badly" and was extremely "traumatised", despite not being blamed for the incident or being the subject of any disciplinary action.
One neighbour told the Daily Mail that the radio prank by the 2Day FM DJs was to blame for Ms Saldanha's death.
"She must have been embarrassed and under a lot of mental trauma because of those two people, otherwise she wouldn’t have taken such an extreme step of killing herself."
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Friends of grieving widow Benedict Barboza told Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid that Jacintha's husband isn't just angry with the DJs who played the prank, but he's also deeply upset with the hospital and how they have handled the tragedy.
"He's very angry about all the proceedings, not only about the DJs but all the handling of the situation in the hospital. He feels very angry about the hospital management. He's been full of stress about the whole thing. It's not a very nice time," Benedict's friend Stephen Almeida told the paper.
But almost two thirds of a News Limited poll of more than 11,000 people said the radio pranksters should not be blamed for the tragedy.
However their station 2Day FM and parent company Austereo are under siege with internet hoaxers tricking Facebook users with a fake page and hacking group Anonymous allegedly threatening their advertisers in a YouTube video.
It comes as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) began talks with 2Day FM and the station launched its own internal inquiry.
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ACMA said it was "engaging with the station".
"We have not opened an investigation," a spokeswoman said.
Station tried to call hospital before prank aired
In an interview with Melbourne radio station 3AW this morning, Austereo CEO Rhys Holleran said his team had tried to liaise with London's King Edward VII Hospital before airing the controversial conversation.
"We rang them up to discuss what we had recorded. Absolutely (before it went to air). We attempted to contact them on five occasions… because we wanted to speak to them about it," he said.
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"It is absolutely true to say that we did attempt to contact those people."
Mr Holleran said he believed the station staff had carried out the appropriate level of duty of care while performing the prank.
"This is a deeply tragic, unforseen circumstance. We’re deeply saddened by the events. This is an incredibly tragedy, there’s no getting away from that," he said.
"When anything’s done it’s done in a collaborative sense. Our people are very well-trained.
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"The day prior people took it as being a harmless prank in good humour. If anyone could have foreseen the circumstances… I don’t think anyone could have."
It comes as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is today expected to pick up its investigation into the furore after station management suspended all advertising from 2DayFM until Wednesday.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said they had received complaints about the prank call.
"They are considering fast-tracking (the case)", said Senator Conroy.
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the 2Day FM phone call to a London hospital was a prank that went "horribly wrong" and talk of more media regulation was premature.
2DayFM radio hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian are ''deeply shattered'' about the tragedy. Picture: AFP/Southern Cross Austero
DJs sorry for prank call tragedy
Earlier, the show hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian apologised for their actions - but are not ready to face the public.
The duo, who prompted international outrage over a hoax call to the bedside of Kate Middleton and the subsequent death of the nurse who put them through, were still in lockdown last night.
However, the hoax fallout was "growing, not receding" and a "witch hunt" was under way, a spokeswoman for Austero's 2DayFM told The Australian.
"We're expecting reporters from the United Kingdom and the United States to be on ground this morning," she said.
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Austereo chairman Max Moore-Wilton released a letter to the London hospital last night as spokeswoman Sandy Kaye said the Sydney radio hosts would make a statement soon.
"They want to express their remorse publicly and we are hopeful they'll be ready to do that soon," Ms Kaye said.
"They are still being wrapped in cotton wool at the moment and we are very mindful of their situation."
It comes as the grieving family of nurse Jacintha Saldanha compiled a poignant tribute.
Husband Ben Barboza, 49, said: "I am devastated with the tragic loss of my beloved wife Jacintha in tragic circumstances."
And in a Facebook message, her 14-year-old daughter, Lisha, said of her mum: "I miss you, I loveeee you".
The 46-year-old mother of two was found dead on Friday morning after being fooled into thinking she was addressing the Queen when the DJs rang posing as Her Majesty and Prince Charles.
It has been revealed it was her husband who raised the alarm that something was wrong with his wife when she did not answer her phone.
Meanwhile, Prince William has pulled out of attending what was billed as the largest military theatre in the world after Kate suffered another bout of acute pregnancy sickness.
Yesterday Prince William said they should not call it morning sickness but “a day and all night” sickness due to the severity and regularity of bouts.
The chairman of London's King Edward VII Hospital has written to 2DayFM's owners condemning the "humiliation of two dedicated and caring nurses".
Lord Glenarthur said that broadcasting the prank was "truly appalling".
Mr Moore-Wilton said in a letter to Lord Glenarthur that it was too early to know the full details but "we can assure you we will be fully co-operative with all investigations".
3AW's John-Michael Howson said if Austereo was sincere about changing its on-air antics it would have sacked its biggest star, Kyle Sandilands.
"They say they've done nothing illegal, that may be so, but what they've done certainly isn't right morally or ethically," Howson said.
Amber Petty, a 2DayFM breakfast presenter for more than four years, said humiliating stunts were "very much a part of the culture" at the station.
"It's not all commercial radio, it's that company (2DayFM)," she said.
"They just want you to be talked about - they don't care whether it's good or bad."
Another former Austereo breakfast presenter said she was encouraged by her then program director to make listeners cry and would be paid $50 when she did.
She said prank calls had long been part of the fabric of commercial radio.
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UPDATE: EMBATTLED 2Day FM radio hosts Michael Christian and Mel Greig have recorded tell-all interviews with Channels Seven and Nine to air tonight.
Speculation that the duo have chosen to share their side of the international scandal with Channel Nine was sparked earlier today when host Tracy Grimshaw and executive producer Grant Williams were seen striding confidently through 2Day FM's inner-city headquarters.
The program then confirmed the interview on their twitter account saying: "First interview with the #2dayfm djs just recorded with @TracyGrimshaw. It's raw & emotional. The full uncut interview at 6.30 tonight #aca9".
Christian and Greig will make their first public appearance in what is an unpaid interview with ACA. It is understood they have also recorded an interview with Channel Seven, which will air on Today Tonight.
The radio duo earlier today told Grimshaw they are "shattered" by the tragic death of British nurse Jacintha Saldanha and they never dreamed anyone at the hospital would take them seriously.
Speaking for the first time to ACA about the prank which fooled the nurse into thinking she had been speaking with Queen Elizabeth over the Duchess of Cambridge's morning sickness, the pair said they are thinking of Ms Saldanha's family.
Radio DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig talk to Tracy Grimshaw on A Current Affair. Picture: Channel 9
"And I remember my first question was, was she a mother? I hope they're OK, I really do," Greig said.
"...there's not a minute that goes by where we don't think about her family and what they must be going through and the thought we may have played a part in that is gutwrenching," Greig added.
Earlier reports suggested the duo had also filmed an interview for Channel 10's The Project, but one of the show's producers Tom Whitty tweeted that the pair were too distressed to be interviewed.
"@cameron_adams We're not interviewing them. Mel Greig was too upset and our hosts @BickmoreCarrie (Carrie Bickmore ) and @charliepick (Charlie Pickering) were not comfortable," he tweeted in response to an earlier query from News Ltd journalist Cameron Adams.
"We are however interviewing Rhys Holleran, CEO of Southern Cross Austereo, about the story," he added in a later tweet.
Channel 9 say the did not pay DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig for the interview. Picture: Channel 9
Meanwhile staff at Southern Cross Austereo have all but shut-down in the lead-up to the interview, with 2Day FM programming boss Guy Dobson and interim media manager Sandy Kaye failing to return calls today.
The executive producer of the Hot 30 Countdown, Emily Mills, appears to have deleted her Twitter account and LinkedIn account and is also not contactable.
Mother doesn't know her daughter has died
While the rest of the world mourns for Ms Saldanha, it has emerged her ailing mother is not even aware that her daughter is dead.
A close family member reportedly told the Times of India that the mother of the nurse who killed herself after 2Day FM radio hosts fooled her into thinking she had been speaking with Queen Elizabeth over the Duchess of Cambridge's morning sickness was suffering from heart problems and was under sedation.
A Current Affair's Tracy Grimshaw arrives at the 2Day FM office. Picture: John Grainger
"We are in a difficult situation and don't know how to convey the sad news to her," the family member was quoted by the Times as saying.
It has also emerged that some international media outlets are using images of the wrong Jacintha Saldanha in their coverage of the tragedy.
While the real Jacintha's mother doesn't yet know her daughter has died, the 46 year old's brother gave an interview to UK tabloid The Daily Mail.
Family says nurse died of shame
Ms Saldanha's brother Naveen told the Daily Mail that his sister would have been "devastated" that she unwittingly assisted in the disclosure of the Duchess of Cambridge's private medical information.
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha with her son Junal and daughter Lisha.
"She would have felt much shame about the incident," he said.
Naveen said his sister was a devout Catholic and a "proper and righteous person".
Friends said Ms Saldanha took the prank call "very badly" and was extremely "traumatised", despite not being blamed for the incident or being the subject of any disciplinary action.
One neighbour told the Daily Mail that the radio prank by the 2Day FM DJs was to blame for Ms Saldanha's death.
"She must have been embarrassed and under a lot of mental trauma because of those two people, otherwise she wouldn’t have taken such an extreme step of killing herself."
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Friends of grieving widow Benedict Barboza told Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid that Jacintha's husband isn't just angry with the DJs who played the prank, but he's also deeply upset with the hospital and how they have handled the tragedy.
"He's very angry about all the proceedings, not only about the DJs but all the handling of the situation in the hospital. He feels very angry about the hospital management. He's been full of stress about the whole thing. It's not a very nice time," Benedict's friend Stephen Almeida told the paper.
But almost two thirds of a News Limited poll of more than 11,000 people said the radio pranksters should not be blamed for the tragedy.
However their station 2Day FM and parent company Austereo are under siege with internet hoaxers tricking Facebook users with a fake page and hacking group Anonymous allegedly threatening their advertisers in a YouTube video.
It comes as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) began talks with 2Day FM and the station launched its own internal inquiry.
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ACMA said it was "engaging with the station".
"We have not opened an investigation," a spokeswoman said.
Station tried to call hospital before prank aired
In an interview with Melbourne radio station 3AW this morning, Austereo CEO Rhys Holleran said his team had tried to liaise with London's King Edward VII Hospital before airing the controversial conversation.
"We rang them up to discuss what we had recorded. Absolutely (before it went to air). We attempted to contact them on five occasions… because we wanted to speak to them about it," he said.
2DayFM in the spotlight.
Austereo shares plunge on prank fallout
"It is absolutely true to say that we did attempt to contact those people."
Mr Holleran said he believed the station staff had carried out the appropriate level of duty of care while performing the prank.
"This is a deeply tragic, unforseen circumstance. We’re deeply saddened by the events. This is an incredibly tragedy, there’s no getting away from that," he said.
"When anything’s done it’s done in a collaborative sense. Our people are very well-trained.
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"The day prior people took it as being a harmless prank in good humour. If anyone could have foreseen the circumstances… I don’t think anyone could have."
It comes as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is today expected to pick up its investigation into the furore after station management suspended all advertising from 2DayFM until Wednesday.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said they had received complaints about the prank call.
"They are considering fast-tracking (the case)", said Senator Conroy.
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the 2Day FM phone call to a London hospital was a prank that went "horribly wrong" and talk of more media regulation was premature.
2DayFM radio hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian are ''deeply shattered'' about the tragedy. Picture: AFP/Southern Cross Austero
DJs sorry for prank call tragedy
Earlier, the show hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian apologised for their actions - but are not ready to face the public.
The duo, who prompted international outrage over a hoax call to the bedside of Kate Middleton and the subsequent death of the nurse who put them through, were still in lockdown last night.
However, the hoax fallout was "growing, not receding" and a "witch hunt" was under way, a spokeswoman for Austero's 2DayFM told The Australian.
"We're expecting reporters from the United Kingdom and the United States to be on ground this morning," she said.
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Austereo chairman Max Moore-Wilton released a letter to the London hospital last night as spokeswoman Sandy Kaye said the Sydney radio hosts would make a statement soon.
"They want to express their remorse publicly and we are hopeful they'll be ready to do that soon," Ms Kaye said.
"They are still being wrapped in cotton wool at the moment and we are very mindful of their situation."
It comes as the grieving family of nurse Jacintha Saldanha compiled a poignant tribute.
Husband Ben Barboza, 49, said: "I am devastated with the tragic loss of my beloved wife Jacintha in tragic circumstances."
And in a Facebook message, her 14-year-old daughter, Lisha, said of her mum: "I miss you, I loveeee you".
The 46-year-old mother of two was found dead on Friday morning after being fooled into thinking she was addressing the Queen when the DJs rang posing as Her Majesty and Prince Charles.
It has been revealed it was her husband who raised the alarm that something was wrong with his wife when she did not answer her phone.
Meanwhile, Prince William has pulled out of attending what was billed as the largest military theatre in the world after Kate suffered another bout of acute pregnancy sickness.
Yesterday Prince William said they should not call it morning sickness but “a day and all night” sickness due to the severity and regularity of bouts.
The chairman of London's King Edward VII Hospital has written to 2DayFM's owners condemning the "humiliation of two dedicated and caring nurses".
Lord Glenarthur said that broadcasting the prank was "truly appalling".
Mr Moore-Wilton said in a letter to Lord Glenarthur that it was too early to know the full details but "we can assure you we will be fully co-operative with all investigations".
3AW's John-Michael Howson said if Austereo was sincere about changing its on-air antics it would have sacked its biggest star, Kyle Sandilands.
"They say they've done nothing illegal, that may be so, but what they've done certainly isn't right morally or ethically," Howson said.
Amber Petty, a 2DayFM breakfast presenter for more than four years, said humiliating stunts were "very much a part of the culture" at the station.
"It's not all commercial radio, it's that company (2DayFM)," she said.
"They just want you to be talked about - they don't care whether it's good or bad."
Another former Austereo breakfast presenter said she was encouraged by her then program director to make listeners cry and would be paid $50 when she did.
She said prank calls had long been part of the fabric of commercial radio.
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Anonymous: The Internet's equivalent to a kid on the playground who threatens to beat up all the meanies.
That's new, gay Anonymous (note capitalized "A"). Any true anon would find this whole scenario to be hilarious. Fuck this white knighting for the little guy bullshit. Hacktivists my hairy white arse.
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I actually feel sorry for the DJ's more than the actual nurse, for being a weakling and not being able to take a harmless joke;
Australian radio hosts make tearful apology for royal prank call
Mel Greig and Michael Christian said their impersonation of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charleswas a silly stunt that they never expected to succeed, let alone play a potential role in the death of Jacintha Saldhana, who worked at the hospital where Prince William's wife was being treated for acute morning sickness.
"It was never meant to go that far. It was meant to be a silly prank," said Greig, who repeatedly broke down in tears during interviews with two Australian television stations. "The accents were terrible. It was designed to be stupid."
"The joke was always on us, not anyone else," added Christian, who was also overcome with emotion at times.
Saldhana took the two radio presenters’ call to King Edward VII Hospital last Tuesday and, believing them to be the British monarch and her son, patched the pair through to another nurse, who revealed details of Middleton’s condition.
On Friday, Saldhana was found unconscious and then declared dead at her apartment around the corner from the hospital in central London.
An inquest is being conducted into her apparent suicide. Police have made no explicit link between her death and the hoax call. The hospital has said only that Saldhana was on the receiving end of the call and that it had been "supporting her through this very difficult time."
That has not stopped the media here, particularly the tabloids, from blaming the two DJs for the death of Saldhana, a married mother of two. Some readers have even left comments on websites calling the two radio personalities killers.
Greig and Christian, who have been suspended from their show on 2Day FM until further notice, said they were devastated upon learning what had happened.
"It was the worst phone call I've ever had in my life," said Greig. "There's not a minute that goes by that we don't think about her family and what they must be going through. And the thought that we may have played a part in that is gut-wrenching."
She and Christian insisted that there was no malice behind their stunt, saying that prank calls were "routine" on their show and radio shows everywhere.
With their bad British accents and extra touches such as fake corgis barking in the background (the queen dotes on her pet dogs), the two DJs said they expected to be caught out from the start -- either hung up on or referred to a complaints department at the hospital.
"It wasn't about trying to fool someone," Christian said. "We just assumed that with the voices that we'd put on, we were going to get told off, and that was the gag."
Jeremy Hunt, Britain's health secretary, told Sky News that the hospital is investigating whether its policies to protect patient confidentiality are being properly followed, including mechanisms to confirm the identities of callers asking for private information.
The company that owns 2Day FM has said it is reviewing whether any rules were broken by the prank call or its airing. Some critics have suggested that recording and broadcasting the nurses'remarks without their permission could be in breach of communications regulations.
Outrage and even threats have been directed at the radio station since Saldhana's death. But Greig said these were secondary to the real tragedy.
"There is nothing that can make me feel worse than what I feel right now and for what I feel for the family," she said. "We're so sorry that this has happened to them.
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LONDON -- Tearful and contrite, two Australian radio hosts Monday described themselves as heartbroken over the apparent suicide of the nurse in England who took their prank call seeking information about Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge.Mel Greig and Michael Christian said their impersonation of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charleswas a silly stunt that they never expected to succeed, let alone play a potential role in the death of Jacintha Saldhana, who worked at the hospital where Prince William's wife was being treated for acute morning sickness.
"It was never meant to go that far. It was meant to be a silly prank," said Greig, who repeatedly broke down in tears during interviews with two Australian television stations. "The accents were terrible. It was designed to be stupid."
"The joke was always on us, not anyone else," added Christian, who was also overcome with emotion at times.
Saldhana took the two radio presenters’ call to King Edward VII Hospital last Tuesday and, believing them to be the British monarch and her son, patched the pair through to another nurse, who revealed details of Middleton’s condition.
On Friday, Saldhana was found unconscious and then declared dead at her apartment around the corner from the hospital in central London.
An inquest is being conducted into her apparent suicide. Police have made no explicit link between her death and the hoax call. The hospital has said only that Saldhana was on the receiving end of the call and that it had been "supporting her through this very difficult time."
That has not stopped the media here, particularly the tabloids, from blaming the two DJs for the death of Saldhana, a married mother of two. Some readers have even left comments on websites calling the two radio personalities killers.
Greig and Christian, who have been suspended from their show on 2Day FM until further notice, said they were devastated upon learning what had happened.
"It was the worst phone call I've ever had in my life," said Greig. "There's not a minute that goes by that we don't think about her family and what they must be going through. And the thought that we may have played a part in that is gut-wrenching."
She and Christian insisted that there was no malice behind their stunt, saying that prank calls were "routine" on their show and radio shows everywhere.
With their bad British accents and extra touches such as fake corgis barking in the background (the queen dotes on her pet dogs), the two DJs said they expected to be caught out from the start -- either hung up on or referred to a complaints department at the hospital.
"It wasn't about trying to fool someone," Christian said. "We just assumed that with the voices that we'd put on, we were going to get told off, and that was the gag."
Jeremy Hunt, Britain's health secretary, told Sky News that the hospital is investigating whether its policies to protect patient confidentiality are being properly followed, including mechanisms to confirm the identities of callers asking for private information.
The company that owns 2Day FM has said it is reviewing whether any rules were broken by the prank call or its airing. Some critics have suggested that recording and broadcasting the nurses'remarks without their permission could be in breach of communications regulations.
Outrage and even threats have been directed at the radio station since Saldhana's death. But Greig said these were secondary to the real tragedy.
"There is nothing that can make me feel worse than what I feel right now and for what I feel for the family," she said. "We're so sorry that this has happened to them.
Lol I read yesterday that the lame bitch, before hanging herself, wrote three notes. One said to make those dastardly Australians pay her mortgage. Bwaahaahaahaa!!!
Who the fuck puts that in a suicide note - "make them pay my mortgage"? Well, clearly that cooky bitch, with an agenda, and an excuse, did! *dies* =)
"The nurse who hanged herself after falling for a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge blamed the two Australian DJ pranksters for her death, it has emerged.
And a dramatic confrontation with the late nurse’s family is looming – as one of the DJs has announced she may attend the inquest in person.
Mother-of-two Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was on reception duty at the London hospital where the duchess was being treated when presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian rang in December, pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and asking for a condition report.
Not seeing through their low-quality impressions, Mrs Saldanha put them through to a nurse helping treat the duchess for morning sickness.
The stunt, which drew out information about Kate’s medical condition, was broadcast in full and rocketed the radio pair to international fame. But that turned to infamy when Mrs Saldanha was found hanged three days later.
Now it has emerged that in one of the three letters Mrs Saldanha left in her nurses’ accommodation in London, she directly accused the two Australian DJs of driving her to her death.
In the handwritten note, addressed to her managers at the Edward VII hospital, she said: ‘Please accept my apologies. I am truly sorry. Thank you for all your support.
‘I hold the Radio Australians Mel Greig and Michael Christian responsible for this act. Please make them pay my mortgage. I am sorry. Jacintha.’."
Who the fuck puts that in a suicide note - "make them pay my mortgage"? Well, clearly that cooky bitch, with an agenda, and an excuse, did! *dies* =)
"The nurse who hanged herself after falling for a hoax phone call about the Duchess of Cambridge blamed the two Australian DJ pranksters for her death, it has emerged.
And a dramatic confrontation with the late nurse’s family is looming – as one of the DJs has announced she may attend the inquest in person.
Mother-of-two Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was on reception duty at the London hospital where the duchess was being treated when presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian rang in December, pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and asking for a condition report.
Not seeing through their low-quality impressions, Mrs Saldanha put them through to a nurse helping treat the duchess for morning sickness.
The stunt, which drew out information about Kate’s medical condition, was broadcast in full and rocketed the radio pair to international fame. But that turned to infamy when Mrs Saldanha was found hanged three days later.
Now it has emerged that in one of the three letters Mrs Saldanha left in her nurses’ accommodation in London, she directly accused the two Australian DJs of driving her to her death.
In the handwritten note, addressed to her managers at the Edward VII hospital, she said: ‘Please accept my apologies. I am truly sorry. Thank you for all your support.
‘I hold the Radio Australians Mel Greig and Michael Christian responsible for this act. Please make them pay my mortgage. I am sorry. Jacintha.’."
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