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Tributes Flood In For Former RTS CEO Simon Albury: “An Absolutely Huge Personality”
Simon Albury has died and tributes have come in for the former RTS CEO who was a tireless UK TV diversity campaigner.
Speaking to Deadline this morning, RTS CEO Theresa Wise described Albury, who ran the society from 2000 to 2012, as an “absolutely huge personality.” “Personally he touched a lot of people,” she told us. He regularly contributed to committees on the subject and was hugely popular in industry circles for never giving up, forming a partnership with fellow campaigners such as Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder. Organizations including the British Urban Film Festival also paid tribute, hailing a “much respected figure in broadcasting and latterly through his diversity campaigning.” “For those who bang the drum for diversity, inclusion and representation – we have lost a soldier though the good fight will continue and BUFF will do everything in our power to ensure that Simon’s unerring consistency to speak truth to power is a quality we should all aspire to as a fitting legacy to the beacon that was Simon Albury,” added the fest on X.
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