BBC children's television programme 19 months into his contract after reports emerged he had taken drugs.During a television appearance on Mel Giedroyc's Dave comedy show Unforgivable alongside Jimmy Carr, Judi Love and Lou Sanders, Bacon put to bed the urban legend that he once snorted cocaine off of the reptile.Host Mel teased him saying: "Do you remember Fred and Frieda the tortoises?
Big white line", as she mimed taking lines of cocaine on the tortoise's shell.Guest Judi Love asked: "He gave them coke?"Richard stressed: "I didn't give any tortoises coke.
So I got fired for taking drugs."Bacon joked about his infamous career moment which saw him fired from Blue Peter in 1998.Speaking about his dismissal, which was a huge scandal in its.
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