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P&O Australia boots Aussie TV crew off Pacific Star.
It appears that P&O this week, not surprisingly decided that all publicity is not good publicity, by booting off the Pacific Star what appears to be a Channel 7 TV crew understood to be filming undercover.
The Pacific Star operating a Pacific Sunset 10 night Peach Sunsets cruise left Brisbane on Wednesday.
It also appears that the reason P&O Cruises Australia put the four passengers ashore in Vila yesterday was for ‘filming on board for commercial purposes without permission’ and in a statement P&O said, “The passengers were filming without the knowledge and consent of passengers in what we consider to be an invasion of privacy, with this practice against our company policy and they continued despite the Captain’s personal requests for them to stop.”
The statement also said “the principal member of the film crew had been identified as having covertly filmed on Pacific Star for Channel 7’s Today Tonight earlier this year.”
TravelMole subscribers will recall that Today Tonight filmed undercover on board Pacific Star earlier in the year revealing extremely questionable and inappropriate behaviour by passengers and crew, the broadcast coming at the time of the coronial inquest into the death of a passenger, Dianne Brimble, in circumstances related to alcohol and a ‘date-rape’ drug allegations on board Pacific Sky in 2002.
The inquest into Ms Brimble’s death is set to resume November 6 with the Ch7 filming and the circumstances surrounding the allegations related to her death continuing to damage P&O’s brand in Australia with the Company implementing substantial damage control strategies to protect their dominance in the Australian market place.
P&O was also heavily criticised and had to apologise earlier this year for inappropriate advertising campaigns.
It is reported that the Channel 7 was filming a follow up story assessing if P&O had implemented claimed new policies to control and change the behaviour experienced by Channel 7 earlier in the year and in the alleged circumstances surrounding Ms Brimble’s death.
It is assumed that the crew was not filming for Channel 7’s Great Outdoors travel programme.
Report by The Mole
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