...Blue Peter phone- in recieved 14,000 calls...

During a fone in competiton a grand total of 14,000 people called in but due to technical faults the show had faked a winner!!! Whomever called in was not part of the competition 'guess whos shoes'. A young girl who was just visiting the show was asked to call with the right answer and was proclaimed the winner.

Figures to show Blue Peters gainings in money...
- 3.5p of the 10p call going to Unicef, it raised £450.52 for the children's charity.
- £727.75 went to Cable & Wireless for the use of the phone-lines
-£207.93 to Telecom Express, which ran the competition and has donated its share to the appeal.

BBC explained that the technical difficulty was due to the fact that calls were flooding in and thereby everything just froze, the tv show carried on saying that the stand in was a mistake and did not think at the time if it was the best thing it was the spare of the moment.

My opinion:
I think that Blue Peter did not want to intentionally hurt anyone that called in - it was a technical difficulty and it was just meant to be the girl in the studio who was visiting. As long as Blue Peter have accepted they made a mistake, there is no problem.