A television executive behind a string of family favourite shows is fighting a secret High Court battle over claims he violently beat a young female TV presenter and forced her into “extreme sexual activities”.
The retired producer, who is now in his 70s, is accused of dishing out “sadistic beatings” to the woman for his “own sexual pleasure” in the 1990s, when he was in a senior role and she was attempting to kick-start her career.
