BREWDOG’S chief executive will take legal action against the BBC, claiming the corporation broadcast “totally false” claims about him.

CEO James Watt announced the action on Twitter as the BBC put out a one-hour special Disclosure episode claiming to reveal “the truth behind the beer company’s marketing and financial hype”.

Several staff members working at the craft brewer’s outlets in the US alleged they had seen Watt give private late-night tours to female customers and that his conduct often made female bartenders feel “uncomfortable”.

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In the BBC Disclosures programme which aired on Monday night, more than 15 former BrewDog employees spoke out against the CEO.

Ahead of its broadcast, Watt wrote on Twitter: “The BBC published claims which are totally false and they published them despite the extensive evidence we provided to demonstrate that they were false.

“Reluctantly, I am now forced to take legal action against the BBC to protect my reputation.”

The BBC published claims which are totally false & they published them despite the extensive evidence we provided to demonstrate that they were false.

Reluctantly, I am now forced to take legal action against the BBC to protect my reputation.

Also ahead of the broadcast, BBC Scotland tweeted a clip of the programme in which one former BrewDog employee said it was “genuinely astonishing” that Watt owned shares in rival beer firm...

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