{"id":494541,"date":"2026-03-25T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:33:19","slug":"amanda-rees-becomes-latest-ex-s4c-boss-to-take-channel-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494541\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Rees becomes latest ex-S4C boss to take channel to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62vdyznddgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">separate High Court claim <\/a>by former chief content officer Llinos Griffin-Williams remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was sacked over allegations of gross misconduct in 2023, in which she was accused of being drunk and verbally abusive in a work capacity to former rugby player Mike Phillips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Griffin-Williams denies the allegations and is claiming for loss of earnings, reputational damage and injury to her feelings and health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also claims other individuals at S4C &#8220;about whom allegations capable of amounting to gross misconduct had been made&#8221; were not summarily dismissed as she was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">S4C previously said there had been no record of complaints about other members of staff and it continued to defend the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A separate High Court claim by former chief content officer Llinos Griffin-Williams remains ongoing. She was sacked over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}