Student DJs sacked for claiming Des O'Connor's daughter was a porn actress

Lewis Grewcock, 20, and Sam Foster, 22, made the untrue allegation about Kristina O'Connor, 21, on the Birmingham University station Burn FM.

They were apparently trying to be satirical.

Both have now been banned from appearing on the station, although they have not yet been formally disciplined by the university authorities.

Kristina O'Connor is the daughter the entertainer's third wife, Swiss model Jay Rufer. She is in her final year studying Italian and Spanish at the university.

The pair of DJs, both final politics students, made the allegation earlier this month on their Sanctuary Radio Hour Show. They have since lost the slot after the station's student committee decided to take them off the air waves.

Mr O'Connor, 76, said he and Kristina had dismissed the students' comments as "puerile nonsense".

A university friend told the Daily Mail: "I think they might have been inspired by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's infamous remarks on their show, but all they were doing was upsetting people and making outrageous comments for shock value."

The university's student union, called the Guild, has decided not to take any action.

However, a university spokesman said the matter was being investigated.

He said: "We take allegations of this nature very seriously. The investigation is still ongoing and it would be inappropriate to comment any further at this stage."

Mr Grewcock has said: "Ours was a satirical show that poked fun at the way student news was presented in student media and we hoped that our listeners would not take our comments literally."

- telegraph.co.uk