Channel 5 boss Ben Frow has revealed he secretly resigned last year for a period due to burnout.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, he said he experienced a “delayed reaction” from the pressures he faced during Covid to hold up the team and his family.
Mr Frow, who is the broadcaster’s controller, said it hit him “like a brick” last April and he resigned as the company’s president.
However, he later paused his resignation after making a recovery.
He shared: “I’ve got the pressures of business, I’ve got the pressure of Channel 5 and all the channels, then I had all the pressure of the indies who were like, ‘What the hell is happening? We can’t film anymore.’
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“Then I had the pressure of people going, ‘If I don’t get a commission my company is going to fall down.’
“And I powered through it but I think it just hit me like a brick in April last year and I just had to stop.”
He added: “I was very angry… I would shake in meetings. People would say, ‘Can I have this?’ and I would start shaking.
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“I felt like I was being peaked alive, eaten alive. There was nothing left in me inside. So I resigned.”
Mr Forw added that it felt an “enormous relief” when he resigned, but explained that he did not tell his colleagues or his family.
He felt in a better place when he returned as the chief content officer of Paramount UK.
He added: “I cannot allow myself to be overwhelmed like that again in that sense of (having a) responsibility to everybody and everything all the time.”
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