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Your support makes all the difference.Jason Donovan's backing of Boris Johnson in London's mayoral election on the actor's radio show was a "very serious" breach of broadcasting rules, Ofcom found.
Donovan's comments were made during an edition of the Sunday Night With Jason Donovan show on 27 April, just days before the elections.
He said: "It's time for a change. It's definitely time for a change. Boris Johnson. I have to say it. That's my political message ..."
A listener complained to Ofcom after hearing Donovan's comments on Invicta FM.
Radio station owner GCap said an on-air apology was read out on the radio stations that carried the entertainment programme and it was made clear Donovan's comments were not condoned.
It said it was only Donovan's fourth live radio broadcast with the show and accepted that his comments breached rules about due impartiality.
Ofcom noted the comments were isolated, but said the seriousness of the breach was compounded by it taking place in the run-up to the elections.
Ofcom said: "A presenter endorsing a political candidate at a time of an election is a clear and unambiguous breach of the due impartiality requirements of the (Broadcasting) Code.
"Ofcom considers this to be a very serious breach of the Code.
"A presenter, albeit relatively new to his role as a radio presenter, was allowed to use his programme to promote an unchallenged political message in favour of a candidate for the 2008 London mayoral elections."
Earlier this year veteran presenter James Whale was fired from TalkSport following complaints about him urging listeners to vote for Mr Johnson in a broadcast on March 20.
It was later announced that he had landed a job on home shopping channel bid tv.
* An episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV1 also fell foul of broadcasting rules after a Scottish man on the programme used the word c***" - which initially went out undetected by programme makers as his accent was so strong.
A Scottish viewer complained to ITV, which responded to Ofcom that the strength of the man's accent meant the comment was indistinct to non-Scottish viewers and was missed.
Ofcom, which found the programme to be in breach of its rules, said: "We accept that the inclusion of the term was unintentional, and that the comment may not have been readily understood by some non-Scottish viewers, but ITV should ensure that inappropriate and offensive language is not broadcast before the watershed."
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