I have to agree and would love to know how this 'ban' came into being, after seeing that TOTP edition from 1996 … maybe something to do with the government of the day? By some strange coincidence, on the same evening on BBC Four we also had an edition from 1984, in which pretty much every studio act had at least one person on stage sporting a Band Aid T-shirt … which didn't contravene BBC guidelines?Sorry but Mark Linsey can get fucked. The absolute whiplash of these two sentences.
BBC entertainment controller Mark Linsey said, although Norton "cares passionately about" World Aids Day, he was "in breach of BBC guidelines".
Wearing poppies in support of the Royal British Legion is the one exception.