Something's not right

LONDON - BP PLC's chief executive, John Browne, resigned Tuesday only hours after a judge cleared the way for a newspaper to publish details of his private life.

The company's board appointed Tony Hayward, who had been set to take over on Aug. 1, as the new chief executive effective immediately, BP said in a statement.

Browne had led Europe's second largest energy company for more than a decade. He had announced earlier this year that he would resign at the end of July.

He had been fighting since January to suppress details from an interview with a man with whom Browne had had a relationship from being published by the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

"For the past 41 years of my career at BP I have kept my private life separate from my business life. I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private," Browne said in a statement.

"It is a matter of personal disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public."

He's resigning because he's been outed? That's rather silly... and it sure as hell doesn't look like it's an "allegation" to me.

How about you be a man and just say "Ya.. I'm gay. So what? Piss off you silly sods."

What is it with the English and their ears sticking out perpendicular to their heads? They look really goofy. He's not cute at all.. hence doesn't get much sympathy from me.