This is 'bullying' in precisely the same way that Paxman is 'rude' - it's rough-and-tumble rather than deferential, something which I think is one of the great strengths of the British media at their best, has been back through Hogarth and Chaucer. And as I said, it's not like they randomly selected him for a drubbing (I hate those shows like Balls of Steel which do stuff like that. Hate them, but still wouldn't expect the PM to start mouthing off about them ex cathedra) - he was a guest who cancelled on them.

If Laura Spence posed for any scantily-clad pictures online then yes, I think such jesting would be pretty acceptable. And even if she didn't, I wouldn't consider it grounds for a national scandal.