Danny Baker: Classic or Dud

Five years ago Baker wrote all the things that Maconie now does.

Danny Baker on the TV (particularly when he's scripting lame gags for Angus 'autocue' Deayton) = ultra-dud.

I found my 'Danny Baker is a twat' Viz T-Shirt only the other day...

His smug appearances on TFI Friday were none more dud though.

But his radio shows had me in stitches, particularly when accompanied by Mr Kelly, who I am sure is odious at other times but they did seem to work well together.

Baker multiple ditto, wiv complications.

Can we blame Baker for The Premiereship? There is probably an argument out there....

So are you cabbage. Indie made itself the mainstream but pretends to itself it has holy inoculation against Britney-cooties.

eh? explain please so I can think of a witty come-back

Great on 606 though as mentioned esp with DKelly. Even greater on Radio 1 Saturday/Sunday morning show scaring all those who had previously tuned in to DLT in same slot. Played what ever records took his fancy which meant interesting sounds and future battles with playlist mafia. Great phone calls, building bodies from peoples names, small children riding in to piles of tincans on trikes and people blowing things up.

He went to Virgin after Radio 1 but then was sacked from there and no longer on national radio. We need him back in the same way we need Mark and Lard back doing an intelligent evening show.

Cabbage is responsible for the Premiership because the Premiership was a failed plan to secure Liverpool's position at the top of English football forever. And Cabbage IS Liverpool.

This is true, It seems that I am a member of a secret Premiership cabal, so secret that even I don't know about it. I don't mind being blamed for that but I won't accept responsibility for the prawn sandwich eaters, no way. I can proudly say that I have never been in a corporate hospitality box.

Bob was instantly in hideous pain, wailing indeed, and the match was abandoned due to this Baker caused toe injury. A quick trip off to hospital later on tour revealed that said to was not just broken but had become cancerous. Within the year Marley was up there with his namesake Jacob.

Whilst the causal connection between a bad tackle and cancer is highly unlikely and certainly won't stand up in a court of law, Baker blames himself to this day for cutting Bob's career short - and at the same time halving the birth rate in Jamaica.

Baker and Kelly will be teaming up again on Radio 5 in the new year (from 11 to 12:30).

but i'm sure he's good on BBC London so remarkably the classics just about have it. i'm generally impressed/envious of his career/fingers in pies ala Keith Allen.

In fact he was totally non-rockist at the NME, he was a soulboy and was into pop music, Michael Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire etc

Starting the Sniffin' Glue fanzine with Mark Perry: classic

Mind you, listening to a rubbish morning show will probably drive me out of bed, which would be a good thing.

I must admit Vicky is probably right. I thought having a morning show I really liked would help me get up int he morning, but actually i usuall listen until 9 and am then late for work*. Any news on if he is moving anywhere. Getting a nice Sunday morning show???

*Not that in the scheme of things this really matter.s

Oh, when he was on the NME, his first (I think) singles review column was all raving about disco 12" singles. Most of which had terrible titles like "I'll never forget my favourite disco" but as I've never heared the tracks, I'll refrain.

He'd write stuff like "It sounds like Highway Star, and I've always hated Highway Star" which was a LIE! which he admitted later. It was more pretence than the CLASH!!! (I mean this, btw). Also, when "So it goes" had a retrospective, a lot of the lost vids were supplied by DB. Hang on, who had a video recorder in 1976-1977? Very rich people, that's who.

Despite all that, I vote Classic.

It would be nice if they could do the obvious thing and put him back together with Danny Kelly again. It seems silly to have them doing different shows on the same station.

Giving Jon Gaunt the breakfast slot would probably be the worst thing ever, but I doubt I'll be listening to it anyway.

PLEASE tell me that's not happening.

Sad to see him go (though, in recent weeks, I've been craving sleep so much I've been hitting the snooze button more often than not).

Radio 4 is an option I suppose. Today tends to make me angrier than I want to be at that time of the morning though. Is there a channel that just does the shipping forecast all the time?

Resonance should do a breakfast show. They've got a clear field. Hello chaps! I'm available at a competitive rate!

xpost haha I think I would listen to Les Dawson in the morning. Lugubrious.

Danny Baker has announced he has cancer. Awful news. From his Fbook...

Hello cats and kittens,

Apologies for the cloak and d. over recent weeks. However as it appears this is going to continue for the forseeable I really ought to offer up some sort of breadcrumbs trail as to what's going on. (As you know I am queasy about introducing vulgar real life onto the vaudeville stage so let's keep this crisp.)

After a pretty mouldy diagnosis about a month back I finally begin chemotherapy on Monday with further radiotherapy from January. Yes radiotherapy; can you beat it? This being so, the old treehouse baggy pants will be donned but sparingly. Once the quacks have soundly thrashed this thing I shall return like a rare gas and as if out of a trap. In the meantime I am watching Tommy Steele box sets (and has there ever been a more lying title to a film than TS's "It's All Happening"?) and urge you all to keep yakking up a storm and laugh extra loud at the incumbents.

Thank you for all the best wishes and concern from those who suspected as much about my "condition" and by all means keep ringing up Baylen and Amy to demand more and more Atomic Rooster and Spooky Tooth records.

So. Manly handshake. Walk right on. In the words of King George, "What what and there it is..."

DB

Had kinda guessed what was wrong with him when he said something on his show last week about having to take time off at short notice over the coming months.

His current Radio 5 Saturday morning show is definitely a favourite. Alan Davies covering for him this week was unbearably awkward.

the b&w tv show he made in the early 80s about heavy metal and air guitarers was brilliant. plus i've only ever read good things about him by the people who knew him so he gets a lifetime good guy pass from me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wI-AjvwPU

his last show for a while... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00c25ws/Danny_Baker_with_the_original_Candyman_for_one_night_only/

i think this dude is so awesome, btw.

Via Twitter:

The call I have been waiting for just happened. Turns out I won. I'm all clear. I'm well again.

Y*A*Y!!!!!

Aw, I can't say I'm a fan, but right now this is just the best news ever! Thanks for flagging it up, Ned.

Yer welcome!

Okay someone tell me why the UK Twitter crowd is going on about him right now. All I can gather is that he's been sacked but has two hours to himself to rip into the BBC right this second...?

A week before he's entered into the Radio Hall Of Fame, he's discovered that his daily show on BBC London is to be axed.

I think he's a treasure, and while I don't often get a chance to hear his show, he is a great radio personality. His breakfast show on BBC London was a wonderful way to wake up, and is much missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QolgU8thhJ0

daaaaannnnnyyyyyyy baaaaaakkkkkeeeeerrrrrrrr

I understand he is tearing BBC London a new one live on the air, although I haven't actually heard it.

BBC London's not on iplayer, is it? Or is it?

here?

aha! cheers!

there's always this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18493582

wow cool, a guy bigging himself up while slating the bbc, awesome. there's just not enough criticism of the bbc lately.

even moyles left with less self-congratulation than this

hmm. kinda think that's an insight-light take on the situation myself.

why, because you happen to be a fan of his? he just said how much he earns and described himself as the best broadcaster in britain. do you have the bbc budget to hand?

note the bbc did him the honour of quoting his side of the story in their news report.

placed prominently on their front page

do you still work for the bbc, lg?

not anymore.

note the bbc did him the honour of quoting his side of the story in their news report.

well, that's reporting 101, isn't it?

i just think it's one word against another, they won't even comment on him saying it's about money. i'm not claiming the beeb is run in some perfect way, but this sort of pile-on is just pretty unfair. and it's a bit unfair of him too, he's been given a good career by the beeb and it's not as if he'll be destitute and jobless now.

I hate unfair Beeb-drubbing as much as the next guy (who isn't owned by Murdoch) but I'm really quite disappointed by this news, as I think Danny's a great broadcaster, and I'd much rather the corporation spent their money on him than spunking it on another stupid and expensive brand ident ad campaign. I mean, there's nuances here beyond Baker being an anti-BBC egotist really, aren't there?

yes, definitely. i can understand laying into the bbc, i mean, self-flagellation is so inherent to being part of it (or having once worked there) like, half the time you feel you are working against the bbc not for it.

all of that said, when someone so public comes out and slates it, using the language he has used, it is instantly interpreted in that "oh bloody bbc bosses" way that kind of fuels the same distaste for the entire organisation.

i don't know why i'm defending them, i will never, ever, not hold bitterness about the way i had to leave one job in bbc. NEVER! it's a calm bitterness now but it's still there.

that said I'm not announcing this to thousands of people.

Erm, you might be...

I am probably overestimating the readership of this thread.

it's nowhere near the same. and i'm not going into detail nor am i calling them "weasels" etc etc etc.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-21/richard-branson-im-giving-danny-baker-my-record-collection

30,000 unsold Hatfield and the north albums arriving at the prodnose door...

oh i assumed this was the thread where i called him a pompous unfunny sack of shit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6D9o_TXsAAP1xc.jpg:large

wouldn't expect any better from a Millwall fan, but surprising that this smug, self-satisfied prick has decided to jump on his own grenade in such a fashion.

holy fuck

he quickly deleted it and said he didn't see the racist connotations because his mind "isn't diseased".

Yeah I’m interpreting it as him being gobsmackingly ignorant or blind towards racism rather than it being intended as a racist insult but even so it’s a fucking shocker of a tweet

fired by fivelive

whoops

it was an awful, awful, awful show and I will not miss it one iota.

Some good news at last.

Yeah I’m interpreting it as him being gobsmackingly ignorant or blind towards racism rather than it being intended as a racist insult but even so it’s a fucking shocker of a tweet

Will stick my head up here and say I really liked his show and that he tweeted the same photo at the last few royal births, dunno if you all want to flag me or tell me to fuck off or something?

If that’s true then that’s a bit different but it’s still incredibly stupid!

yes i think his emerging line is "i don't really pay any attention to the royals, it's all just a distant circus to me" -- but "i fucked up bcz i wasn't even slightly paying attention" isn't much of a defence for a very highly paid media professional really

that's one of the dangers of being a real-life Colin Hunt with an army of admirers who never tell you to stfu!

His "deleting my tweet" was conciliatory and apologetic.

Compare it to his post sacking tweets, hmmmmmmm

Charlton forum thread on this already has 142 comments. Dare I

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/men/2017/05/16/TELEMMGLPICT000003385634_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZgEkZX3M936N5BQK4Va8RWtT0gK_6EfZT336f62EI5U.jpeg?imwidth=480

london FAP?

god that show made Five Live unlistenable on a Saturday morning, please replace with po-faced journos going on and on about sport. not joking.

man gazza really fell in with a bad crowd in the 90s

his general persona/personality has been even more unpleasant than usual for a long time. this sort of macho, ranting idiocy:

He later attacked the BBC for its handling of the decision, describing the call from 5 Live firing him as “a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity”.

He added on Twitter: “They took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah. Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits knees knocking.”

obviously there were his (unintentionally) amusing tweets when england lost to iceland in the euros also - he comes across like a football alex jones.

i don't know the business but maybe sometimes the suits are just looking for the first good excuse that comes along

don't mention the VAR

yeah i think if they weren't facing the pensioner license fee black hole in their funding in the coming years it might have been a different outcome. he's become another victim of austerity :p

they're scared! he's getting too close to the truth!

i meant because he's a boring pain in the arse tbh

pic.twitter.com/tbQxTqQKQE

— Steve J (@Jarvinhio) May 8, 2019

football alex jones

this is deeply otm

Heh.

I quite like his radio show but there's a wilful ignorance involved on my part because, particularly on Twitter, he's been building to something like this for ages.

if I was at all invested in affirming Danny Baker's racism I would probably compile all the times he claimed to have killed Bob Marley

yeah I remember that, joking about causing cancer in Bob Marley after a football tackle or something.. what a bizarre dickhead.

As an aside, I can’t stand the typo/misspelling that gives us GAFFS instead of GAFFES.

that gaff in full

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.pictures.zimbio.com%2Fmp%2Fu12MgoKKPPax.jpg&f=1

Will stick my head up here and say I really liked his show and that he tweeted the same photo at the last few royal births, dunno if you all want to flag me or tell me to fuck off or something

Did he tho? His line seems to be "he would have", not "he did" amd no one seems to have dug out these alleged tweets.

He definitely didn't for the three Will'n'Kate births.

Charlton forum largely in accord with ILX here tbh, general line is that he wasn't being consciously racist but pretty thick. BBC decision generally regarded as a ridiculous kneejerk and I'd be inclined to agree on principle tbh - if there's no malicious intent, as seems pretty obvious, why sack him? Not that I'm shedding too many tears

what's the mumsnet consensus

Here we go.
Opened door, grinning Mail hack.
"Do you think black people look like monkeys?"
Any other time you'd knock someone right on their arse for saying that.
No mate. Gag pic. Posh baby chimp. Alerted to circs. Appalled. Deleted. Apologised.
He asks again! #MailonRacism

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 9, 2019

ironic that people are now knocking on his door asking for his views on non-whites

xps can't find them, and quite likely imagined because loads of old people / chimps tea party etc. photos, it's one of his twitter things

though I'm guessing not any more

vg nick b!

lol! it whooshed me first time!

Ha ha, top notch.

took me an embarrassingly long time to click but yes vg a+ would lol again

idgi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeO0AhKPW5Y

Extremely unconvincing performance as a 'genuine member of the public' by the actress in that.

thanks!

Extremely unconvincing performance as a 'genuine member of the public' by the actress in that.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow shes only just given birth

meanwhile everyone plz to buy my book abt how great the rock press was back when ppl writing for it included *checks notes* ugh never mind

(i guess i dodged a bullet back when he was too important to reply to my emails lol)

That was a v good joke Nick B, better than the "PG gone mad" I'm seeing everywhere.

James O'Brien interviewed DB, he does not sound like he's taking it very well - https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/danny-bakers-first-interview-since-being-sacked-by/

Also realised that his tweets seem to only go back to February for some reason?

what's really getting me about this is the brazen hypocrisy of the bbc, who promote racists and far-right ideologues at any given opportunity

wow shes only just given birth

this was good too

i agree the BBC should not promote racists and far-right ideologues maybe they should sack Danny Baker

If this means Farage isn't going to be invited onto everything then... yeah, not going to happen is it?

sugar getting some blowback from this too

Brendan O'Neil might be having one of them days where he worries he might be playing himself or maybe even experiencing a very lucid dream.

Good morning, everyone.
Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.
I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 10, 2019

It's a good and honest apology

Remind me where the joke was.

at least now he's got the honest apology out of his system i guess this will be the last we will hear of this matter from him.

sincerely like it that a tweet thread with various swears and typos can now be considered a 'formal apology' and also be reported as such by newspapers

... so what was the correct photo? If that's hilarious, then maybe all is forgiven?

honestly struggle with believing he's somehow missed out on the "black people are monkeys" racist trope in his 6 decades of living in britain or not put two and two together when posting that picture. like we're talking next level being a thick cunt if that's to be believed

I think the excuse is he didn’t know the baby was mixed race when he posted the pic

am inclined to believe him tbh, but this is definitely an exception to the 'if it smells like a racist' rule

In that case he has outed himself as a dimwit of staggering proportions.

seems entirely likely that as both he and Camaraderie have stated, he frequently posts pictures of chimps in clothes to represent posh fuckwits, and didn't think "hmm do other people use chimps in clothes to represent other minorities?" in this one instance

what's really getting me about this is the brazen hypocrisy of the bbc, who promote racists and far-right ideologues at any given opportunity

good to know that the human resources manager for a medium wave sports radio station is the exact same person as the tory who heads the news division or whoever books question time, admirable sharing of resources

A colleague, who I would not describe as stupid, did not get how the joke was racist, turns out he didn't know Megan was mixed race.

ugh, i am kind of on the "PC Gone Mad!" side for this one

kind of like the ilhan omar thing. clodheaded but whatever. apologies should mean something. people shouldn't be afraid to say the wrong thing, reflect, and recalibrate, which DB seems to have done

I'd watched a storyline on a tv show v similar to this (woman calling toddler a 'cheeky little monkey', gets called racist) and still didn't clock this when I saw the pic. Just thought it was a daft royal family joek. I didn't realise MM was mixed race for ages either, and then didn't realise how many people actually cared about that, so perhaps my finger is not exactly on the pulse

obv if I was in the public eye I might consider what I was posting for more than 0.01 second

nods

Which is the point, yes.

This is the problem with fearless iconoclasm though: unless you're Lou Reed, it'll eventually bite your arse. And if you're Lou Reed you would enjoy having your arse bitten, anyway.

Fwiw, as these things go, that's a pretty decent fist at an apology. I don't wish him any ill.

where is he going next, TalkSport? Glad I won't hear his annoying as fuck shtick (even for a few seconds) when channel surfing my dab.

just had the radio on the kitchen and this week's replacement is even worse, some basic as fuck interviewing minor celebs bullshit, it's Saturday and you're supposed to be the sports station fffs

It's Geoff Lloyd, I think. Inoffensive to the point of invisibility.

i should just leave it permanently on the World Service unless there's a match on tbh

the history of stand up comedians from the world of r4 comedy/Edinburgh fringe/"the circuit" 1990-2019 is going to be an essential read one day.

if it ends with a savage outbreak of ebola then yes

I wonder how they'll deal with this on R4's The Now Show oh wait I don't fucking care.

it'll be a short lived + pyrrhic victory for the haters when Geoff Norcott gets the old Baker slot.

Chris Evans & Gazza or gtfo

There was an extended bit on Baker on the News Quiz last night with Desiree Burch and Andrew Maxwell both being fairly merciless.

I don't know why I listen to the News Quiz. It's some bizarre form of self-punishment.

cos Miles Jupp is so frigging hilarious :p

well he would be for me if I cracked up as much as he does at his own jokes sometimes.

Rehabilitation seems underway already. Street-Porter defending him at length in the i (apparently there's not enough Londoners on the been seems to be her main point) and that it's hard to know what's offensive "these days". Bleagh.

"been" = "beeb"

mr been

Pity, I thought JSP might be using Cockney rhyming slang, as spoken on the streets of London, as Ralph McTell once memorably sang, to lend support her fellow Londoner, Danny Baker.

there's a bit more feeling in this rehabilitation as baker seems like a decent man who screwed up due to thoughtlessness rather than an actual bastard, i.e. [¡]his cancellation could have happened to any of us, really[/¡]

i mean, it couldn't, because a lot of people would never make that mistake, but there's a fair perception that this fuckup is relatable

I'll take getting cancelled, as long as I've got a few hundred grand in the bank for doing a weekly Colin Hunt impression.

would subscribe to a calzino podcast tbf

Is it racist to assume a royal baby is white? Like is there a bias at play where people assume MM is white because a British prince married her?

I believe DB had no idea and his apology is genuine but there were a few big stories about her race at the time. Wasn't there a UKIP leader or his girlfriend or both in the shit about a bunch of monkey posts when the pregnancy or wedding were announced?

Not knowing MM is mixed race, in 2019, is pretty weird imo.

I don't know why people are so invested in saving Danny Baker's career anyway, he's an annoying cunt who's long past his sell-by date.

Lotta people really hoping for that reboot of Pets Win Prizes i guess

but there were a few big stories about her race at the time.

Like having an African-American Episcopalian preacher giving a holy rolling sermon at their wedding and having a African-American mother, for instance?

I literally had no idea there even was a royal baby until the morning it was born but I was obv aware of markle’s race, frankly I don’t believe baker at all on that score. Can totally believe kinder’s account of not following this kind of thing and taking a little while to clock it, but being a professional media gobshite and being unaware until *this week*? Fuck off. At best I can believe he momentarily forgot in his rush to post this excellent comedic material, it’s a pretty classic gaff and I’m glad he’s taking his lumps

it's really really easy to not give a shit about the royal family

like genuinely just completely ignore them

DB seems like someone whose instinct is to do this but for reasons of personal branding is also dutybound to attempt off-the-cuff lolrandom topical humour, which is a combo that's nailed-on going to fuck you up sooner or later

it's really really easy to not give a shit about the royal family

like genuinely just completely ignore them

I bet you I give even less of a shit about the royal family than Danny Baker so I'm not buying that argument - mind you I don't know about calzino.

even if you don't gaf about them, just listening to 15 minutes of radio tv news bulletins in a day will expose you to information about them. idgaf about marvel superhero movies, but in a pub-quiz could probably answer which hollywood actor cunt plays who.

Ok that's one person i need next time i do a pub quiz

psst.. it's Micheal Crawford who plays Condorman.

I know that one, I saw it at the pictures when it came out

And John Terry is Hawk the Slayer iirc

Jimmy Greaves is Brown Bottle

tbh I'd probably get at least 3/4 of them wrong.

I also saw 'Condorman' at the cinema. Cool car, shit movie, fascist imagery...
https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-23-2015/Zk77yG.gif

Also, finally, here's an animated GIF that adequately sums up Brexit:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/ec1ff9d0f7d685c322e766b78b69104a/tumblr_obhystHyC51sqf5tdo1_400.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Vywcjyt0Y&t=1s

9/11 truther and bloke who has written a self-published book about an alternate reality where Hitler died in WW1 and the US launched multiple nuclear weapons at China - saying it was karma that got Baker sacked because of the disgraceful way he treated Gazza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Vywcjyt0Y

don't do drugs, kids

what happens to moaty in this alternative timeline

him and Lord Gascoigne crack the secrets of cold fusion between them.

spoilers: the secret ingredient is some fog on the Tyne.

reminds me that danny baker guests with kenny lynch, lulu's brother and that bloke from spooky tooth on this gazza album >>>

https://http2.mlstatic.com/lp-gazza-and-friends-lets-have-a-party-D_NQ_NP_734705-MLM25073698268_092016-F.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Gazza-And-Friends/release/4300889

shame that danny’s gone and ruined that album for me now tbh

the day you walked into a barbers and was greeted by an unsteady looking old man propped up by a walking stick and keenly showing his manual hand clippers. "Do you want a Paul Gascoigne short back and sides lad?". Thats wot brexit wants to bring back!

the spooky tooth guy dying in 1979 is the best thing abt it tbh

cool kids never had the tyne

Yes, it's Son of Spooky Tooth guy, not Spooky Tooth guy. Also can you be called Spooky Tooth guy when you only appeared on one Spooky Tooth album and it's not what you're best known for anyway?

yes

it's canon

Having trouble finding out why Spooky Tooth were called Spooky Tooth.

named after the band's favourite DJ and body part

at least it wasn't an acci-dental death.

calz moving in hard on this vacant colin hunt role

:p

That Gazza album only has the man himself on three tracks! Gazza, not Danny Baker. Wot a ripoff. Wot a low moment in Gilbert O'Sullivan's career too.

I bet Danny Baker knows why Spooky Tooth are called Spooky Tooth.

now we'll never find out

imagine if you started getting flashbacks to the Terry Wogan interview, whilst getting interviewed by Danny Baker ...

And faster than you can say "gor blimey gov'ner luv a duck" he's back in front of adoring crowds.

BBC News - Danny Baker: Standing ovation at first show since Twitter storm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48249637

Also "Twitter storm"?

this is all really tasteful

Damn he was supposed to go away for good what happened

white people have finally forgiven him

He's just performing in front of crowds in his normal manner, he's not milking it.

no he should fuck himself off a cliff nothing else will atone

sometimes - and i'm just throwing this out there - a period of seemly staying out of the public eye might be in order

he is calm and posting as he always does iirc

perfect

Lol. That's the one.

nothing about danny baker is about seemliness or not being in the public eye, in particular his job

Well yeah hence fuck him

If was a bit more up for a short period of sweet obscurity he would be a coupla percent less a nauseating cunt for a day, at least.

fair

Biography is on Kindle daily deal today. #1 bestseller in autobiographies apparently.

His podcast with Gary Lineker stopped without any announcement.

Lineker has kept schtum on twitter about the whole thing - dunno if he's dropped Baker or they're just letting the dust settle.