Geldof drops Celebrity lawsuit - 25/04/03
Chelsea based Sir Bob Geldof has dropped legal action against the makers of the hit TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

Sir Bob’s production company, Castaway Television, had claimed I’m A Celebrity... copied its show, Survivor.

But Castaway has now withdrawn its claim for damages and an injunction, according to Granada, who make I’m A Celebrity...

After the first series, Sir Bob said it was too similar to Survivor, in which contestants were filmed trying to win a reality TV show in a wilderness location.


Geldof co-owns the rights to Survivor with Waheed Alli and producer Charlie Parsons.

The second UK series starts on Monday.


Sir Bob receives Lifetime Achievement Award - 04/03/03
Sir Bob Geldof received a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards, which took place last night in Dublin.

The Irish musician was responsible for organizing 1985’s Live Aid benefit concert for Ethiopia for which he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He has since been involved in campaigning against third world debt.


Bob backs cricket tour protest - 28/01/03
Sir Bob Geldof is backing a bid to help the England team to pull out of their controversial World Cup game in Zimbabwe.

Geldof has teamed up with human rights organisation the Aegis Trust in a bid to raise £1million to meet any financial penalties incurred by England should they withdraw from their game against Zimbabwe in Harare on February 13.

"On a day in which perhaps thousands will die of state-sponsored famine, the English nation as represented by their cricket team will be guests of their perpetrator Robert Mugabe," Geldof told the Evening Standard.

Without financial help from the Government to fund compensation the ECB refused to pull out of the match, but the Trust’s offer of support could change their stance.


Geldof puts stop to cover of Band Aid - 30/12/02
Sir Bob Geldof has revealed he put a stop to the stars of Fame Academy and Popstars recording a cover of Do They Know It’s Christmas.

Sir Bob said he was approached by representatives from both shows about the possibility of them teaming up to record a cover version of the Band Aid song. But he says he denied the request he believed they did not have time to do the song justice.

"It is a good Band Aid idea, overcoming rivalry - BBC and ITV together, bringing people together. I just didn’t think there’d be enough time for it to be significant," he tells The Sun.

"As long as all the money goes to famine relief, that’s what is important," says Geldof.


Bob loses out on Beeb contract - 18/12/02
The contract for a new ’youth’ political programme has gone in-house at the BBC as opposed to being awarded to local resident Bob Geldof’s independent TV company.

Sir Bob’s reply to this decision is not exactly printable - well after six months of bidding for the show is that surprising? He wrote a ’strongly worded’ letter of complaint to the BBC saying he felt the process was a ’muddled farce’ and that his company, Ten Alps, had been "completely stitched up".

Of course Auntie Beeb says this wasn’t the case, but it is I do wonder what Bob would have down with a youth political programme - might have been very good viewing!

Geldof moves into TV documentaries - 06/11/02
Chelsea rock star and activist Bob Geldof’s company Ten Alps has bought the independent producer behind award-winning documentaries including The Death Of Yugoslavia and Endgame In Ireland in a £4m plus deal.