BBC Breakfast bosses assign âwatchdogsâ to Naga Munchetty amid bullying investigation as job âhangs by a threadâ
BBC bosses have assigned crew âwatchdogsâ to monitor Naga Munchetty after she was placed under investigation.
The journalist is now only permitted to work with certain producers on BBC Breakfast and Radio 5Live.
The changes come as bosses escalate their review into complaints about her bullying behaviour to a formal probe.
The Sun last week revealed that Nagaâs position at the Corporation now hangs by a thread following CEO of BBC News Deborah Turnessâ resignation.
A source said: âNaga has not been taken off air but now has certain members of production monitoring her and her interactions.
âSheâs only allowed to speak to specific people too.
âItâs far from ideal as a way of working and everyone hopes it comes to a head someway or another soon.â
Naga last week parted ways with her long standing showbiz agent M&C Saatchi.
Many reportedly felt that she had been âprotectedâ by Turness, who resigned alongside Tim Davie over the edit of a Trump documentary.
A source said: âThe Naga situation has been an Albatross around Breakfastâs neck since June when the endemic bullying at Media City was first exposed by The Sun.
âWhilst others have been cleared, the review on Naga has done the opposite with further complaints against her.
âThey had no choice but to take things from the slightly softer âunder reviewâ to formal investigation.â
The BBC said: âWe do not comment on individual HR matters.â
Severe question marks have hung over Nagaâs position since September when complaints against under-fire director Ricahrd Frediani were not upheld following a probe that rocked the award-winning show.
The inquiry, first revealed by The Sun in June, sparked counter-claims against main hosts Munchetty, 50, and Charlie Stayt, 63.
Frediani was backed by Beeb bosses but many saw this as the cue for Nagaâs departure.
Stayt remains âunder reviewâ for âbullyingâ, whilst complaints against Naga range from laying into an intern for incorrectly spreading Marmite on her toast through to making an unwelcome, sexual remark to a female colleague.
Some complaints were raised under the BBCâs Call It Out scheme â an initiative set up in the aftermath of the scandal over former MasterChef presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode.





