For all we know he might have decided to use the situation to further his own ends after realising his behaviour at the hotel was like that of a spoiled child having a tantrum.

Having seen that his obnoxious behaviour had many witnesses and that some of them would probably report it to the press, he cleverly decided to exploit the situation to pressurise the BBC to either "keep" him at an inflated renewal of his contract or to "sack" him so that he could play one media outlet against the other in order that a bidding war would ensue.

Such a bidding war may well be under way and it may well include the BBC so far from being concerned, he might well see himself as being in a win-win situation.

If faced with such a contrived arm-twisting, I'd weigh up the options and having done so, I'd decide that it was time to move on and wave him bye-bye.

Theatricals may well "push the boundaries" but after a time they've pushed so hard they've forgotten their direction so that the push "upwards" may have gone as far as it's going and having peaked, thereafter the only way is down. He won't be the first (nor the last) to think that he's bigger than he is and wrapped up in his own cocoon of self importance, blame everyone else for his ultimate demise.