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felt 'sorry for him' and to save him having to sit through conversation he wasn't 'interested' in . After his wife complained, negative newspaper reports and not have even seen the show, he swung the axe and ignored Boland's desperate pleads for spares. Boland believed it was a 'missed opportunity' and it even made his 'depression fade away'. Sometimes in television, unique, diverse, creative shows aren't successful which is always a shame.
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and same-sex practices during an episode which aired on 19 February 2008. A spokeswoman for Seven claims there was "no correlation between the incident" and
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wasn't fired and preferred his new role. A different guest panelist replaced
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