Beveridge: Online abuse prepared me for working in broadcast

FM radio host and former member of the Big Brother house Michael Beveridge said the advertising industry helped him hone the skills necessary to work in broadcast.

Beveridge told the Mumbrella360 Conference his experiences as a junior copywriter for an advertising agency gave him an “absolute lack of care” for abuse directed at him.

“The internet is just like a newspaper – it’s full of opinions. I had my first piece of work put up online, and shock horror, some asshole called ‘Anonymous’ told me that my work was shit, had been done before, lacked any creativity, and that my life to this point had been a waste of time,” said Beveridge.

“In retrospect, I should thank Anonymous. Even though he or she is generally a massive prick, they helped me develop an absolute lack of care for what some faceless person on the internet has to say about me.”