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UK NRI, A WELL KNOWN ANCHOR WAS SUSPENDED BY BBC

After a production colleague/ female researcher's complaint for 'sexual pestering' or his inappropriate behaviour, Hardeep Singh Kohli, 39, has been suspended from one of BBC's most popular shows 'The One Show' . He has been removed from the weekday evening programme for six months after she lodged a complaint about his behaviour two months ago.

Kohli said:

• Nobody has accused me of sexual harassment. I recognise I over stepped the mark and have apologised unreservedly
• He had apologised "unreservedly" for his behaviour after being hauled before bosses.
• He was reprimanded and immediately apologised. He agreed to take some time away from the show to reflect on his behaviour. This leave of absence has been agreed to be six months.
  

According to BBC spokeswoman, "Producers of The One Show received a complaint and One Show management took the issue extremely seriously.

NRI Sikh, Punjabi and Scottish writer and radio presenter. (BIO)

Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Sikh, Punjabi, Scottish writer and radio presenter. He spent some years presenting various shows on BBC Radio 5 but is now more often found on BBC Radio 4. He has stated that while he is a Sikh in ethnicity and culture, he does not practice the Sikh religion

Hardeep was born in Glasgow and his parents came to the UK from in India in the 1960s. His father was a teacher then a property landlord and mother, a social worker

Hardeep is a writer, presenter and property landlord in the United Kingdom. He was schooled at Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and later Meadowburn Primary. He studied law at Glasgow University

He was 8 years old when he moved to St. Aloysius College, a private Roman Catholic school in central Glasgow. There he got eight As in his O-grades, and four As and a B in his Highers. He managed a few restaurants for his father and began working as an usher at the Citizens Theatre.

He took part:

• for writing, directing and starring in Channel 4's Meet the Magoons in 2004
• documentary in Search of the Tartan Turban for Channel 4, which explored cultural identity as a Briton and a Scot belonging to an ethnic minority.
• in three-part series on Channel 4, £50 Says You'll Watch This, exploring gambling. The show involved Kohli taking part in a celebrity card game, visiting casinos in Las Vegas....2007
• in cooking series for UKTV with John Torode. On 23 September 2008 he took part in a radio interview with Les Ross of BBC
• in a celebrity edition of The Apprentice in order to raise money for charity.
• in writing articles for The Guardian and The Independent.
• in BBC One's Celebrity Masterchef programme, reaching the final along with Roger Black and Matt Dawson. He was runner-up.
• in one of five volunteers who took part in a BBC series of three programmes Famous, Rich and Homeless about living penniless on the streets of London.
• in a Radio 4 documentary series about the demise of the Indian and Pakistani corner shop.
  

He decided to keep his Sikh heritage by growing his hair and wearing the turban. His parents did not care about turban

but he loves being a Sikh from a Sikh family. He said, “From the Jesuits there was a degree of resistance when I took up with the turban. But if you force people to say things about you and what you're doing, that opens their own beliefs up to scrutiny.”

He is a divorced father of two children, a girl, 16, and a boy, 11. He has two brother. Younger brother, Sanjeev Kohli is the film and TV actor and writer. His elder brother, Raj, is a policeman.