Holding his post for a while as celebrity guest columnist in Zoo magazine, propaa geezaaaa Danny Dyer’s days of offering cockney laddish musings to readers came to an abrupt end when he advised one bloke (struggling to get over a break up) to ‘cut his ex’s face so no one would want her’. Dyer claimed he’s been ‘misquoted’ while Zoo sensibly tried to rely on the classic ‘production error’ excuse. But when all was said and done - Danny boy had to hit the bricks.

When an England manager starts philosophising about anything other than the 4-4-2 formation he’s planning to deploy in the upcoming Azerbaijan game, there’s always a chance it may end badly, and Glenn Hoddle’s ramblings about karma and disabilities couldn’t have gone much worse. His apparent assertion that ‘the disabled were being punished for sins in a past life’ was too much for the FA to ignore and he was promptly given his marching orders.

A comedian that makes it his mission in life to be as comically controversial as possible, Frankie Boyle has upset a hell of a lot of people along the years with his various stand-ups. Rather than jibes about Katie Price’s son or Rebecca Adlington’s face, Boyle’s removal from Channel 4 was the inevitable result of racism, when he couldn’t help himself blurting out those naughty P and N words on air

Much like Andy Gray, Big Ron was caught off cam and unawares slagging off ex-Chelsea player cum pundit Marcel Desailly after a particularly woeful Champions League performance. Rather than question his aerial prowess or ability to play the offside trap successfully, Atkinson branded poor Marcel ‘a f****n lazy, thick n****r’.  Needless to say, he wasn’t asked to headline ITV’s next World Cup television campaign.

Ol ‘Wossi’ and long-haired lothario Russell Brand almost brought the BBC to it knees with the much publicised ‘Sachgate’ scandal back in 2008. Broadcasting live on Radio 2 the comedy duo belled up actor Andrew Sachs (the lovable Spanish nitwit from Fawlty Towers) leaving a voicemail inferring that the promiscuous Brand had bonked his granddaughter. The beeb were fined 150K and, chastised like naughty schoolboys, Brand and Ross resigned.

Joining Andy Gray in the list of disgruntled ex-Sky pundits is old QPR and Man City frontman, Rodney Marsh. Now, the Tsunami disaster is still very much a taboo subject today - so 6 years ago when Rodney Marsh stated ‘Beckham couldn’t possibly sign for Newcastle after what the Toon Army did to Thailand’ he must have expected his p45 handed to him on the way out of the studio. Too soon Rodders mate… too soon.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you – smiley ITV pundit Robbie Earle was shown the door when it emerged he ‘passed on’ a shitload of his complimentary World Cup tickets to a third party. Rather than make a tidy sum flogging them on eBay, the ex Jamaican midfielder thought it wise to give them to a large Dutch company engaging in a ‘ambush marketing effort’, all of whom turned up dressed in orange mini dresses. Subtle Robbie, subtle.

It was too much White Charlie and not enough Blue Peter that saw big-eared Rich getting the axe from this popular kids programme. After admitting to dabbling in cocaine on a 12-hour drugs and alcohol binge whilst he was on the show – the BBC thought Bacon’s ‘here’s a line I made earlier’ persona wouldn’t sit well with the millions of kids watching and handed him his papers.

It was the classically overused phrase ‘revelations about his private life’ that tied itself to this ‘Have I Got News For You’ presenter’s dismissal. Upon learning Deayton had apparently succumbed to the usual clichéd vices of drugs and dalliances with prostitutes, the BBC (once again… the poor bastards) asked him to ‘stand down as host, with immediate effect’. He soon recovered and was back to TV in no time… oh no, that was Jonathan Ross.

The only female to grace our illustrious list, Maggie’s daughter needed her foot surgically removed from her mouth when she claimed French tennis player Jo Wilfried Tsonga bore a striking resemblance to a ‘golliwog’. Unsurprisingly ‘The One Show’ decided to go in another direction and sacked her as roving reporter. Carol, Carol, Carol…