He's a broadcasters dream after this surely... Netflix, Sky or someone else will whip them 3 up, triple their salary overnight and create another emmennsely popular entertainment show. BBC will loose out, although, of course, they probably couldnt have done anything else and left their image intact.
I'm almost certain this won't be the end of any of their careers.
I don't get some of the arguments on this, if you don't like him/them don't watch it? I probably wouldn't like him (and don't from what the media have said about him) but I find him entertaining, and so do the other 750m people who watch the show - each to their own of course... There are entertainers I don't like, But I don't go wishing the end to their career :/