Glyn Hughes

Glyn Hughes is the webmaster of rickygervais.com and proprietor of plumplard.com. He is also listed on iTunes and Audible as the "provider" of The Ricky Gervais Show podcast. He is credited as "Second Camera" for Karl Pilkington's documentary "The Real Extras," which chronicles Pilkington's day on the set of Extras. He designed the souvenir programme DVD for Ricky Gervais' Politics. According to his CV on plumplard.com, he produced "Free Love Freeway" and "If You Don't Know Me By Now" for The Office, as well as Jimmy Carr live at the Hammersmith Apollo. His company's email is [email protected] and the telephone number is 07931 358808.

The Podfather Scandal

In May 2008, Ricky Gervais decided to re-release The Podfather Trilogy podcasts and charge people for them. Pilkipedia had been openly sharing these podcasts because they were 1) free and 2) "a thank you to the fans". Consequently, Glyn Hughes sent an email to Pilkipedia's hosting company and Pilkipedia had its account suspended. It was only after Glyn Hughes had contacted the hosting company that he thought to send a message directly to Pilkipedia. After a whole entire day offline, Pilkipedia was allowed to return but without the links to the Podfather podcast.

Note: Pilkipedia has never broken the law. No files are hosted on the site and it's not illegal to host links to third party sites. Furthermore, Pilkipedia has always protected Gervais' copyright and his profits by forbidding commercially available material to be traded on its site.

Following these events, Glyn Hughes became the focus of intense criticism on the Pilkipedia forums [1].