Jonathan Ross has responded to new criticism over the Sachsgate affair following comments from a senior BBC exec.
Ross said that the outgoing chairman of the BBC Trust, Michael Lyons had "a very bad memory. Or none at all" after Lyons delivered a strongly-worded criticism of the Sachsgate scandal.
Lyons said the furore, caused by Ross and Russell Brand leaving obscene messages on Andrew Sachs' answerphone which were then broadcast on Brand's Radio 2 show, was a "uniquely toxic combination of profanity, misogyny, bullying and black farce".
However Ross, who was suspended for 12 weeks without pay for his part in the scandal, defended himself on the social networking site Twitter.
He wrote: "Hmmm. Michael Lyons comments re Russell and I very interesting. And nothing like the view he expressed to me at the BBC at the time.
"He must have a very bad memory. Or none at all..."
