While on my lunch today I spotted a story about a hapless Come Dine With Me 'star' who was complaining to the BBC that every time they repeated the show he appeared on, he received new death threats from people both outraged at his rudeness to another guest and simultaneously unaware to mark the passage of time.
I'm now wondering whether the existence of such threats would tip the public interest balance in continued repetition of some TV shows in favour of a disguntled 'star' who (for whatever reason) had become weary of being offered up to the TV watching public as a 'journalistic, literary or artistic material', thus giving (admittedly, a relatively few) people a legitimate reason to halt incessant repeats?
It's obviously a rather different proposition to true classics of art or literature being on travelling display or reprinted in numerous worldwide editions, but it would be interesting to see what the ICO or Tribunal would make of a DPA-based argument from an aggrieved 'TV appearee'.
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