Andrew Marr's TV guests rib him over his injunction

BBC presenter Andrew Marr endured an uncomfortable return to the screen today following his disclosure that he took out a super-injunction to prevent reporting of an affair.

He said parliament would have to look at the issue of injunctions as he was ribbed by guests during the newspaper review section of his TV programme.

Mr Marr, the corporation's former political editor, won a High Court order in January 2008 to silence the press following his extra-marital affair with another journalist, a reporter for a national newspaper.

He revealed the existence of the injunction last week and said he now felt "uneasy" about the order, taken out to protect his family's privacy.

On the Andrew Marr Show sofa, actress Maureen Lipman noted that coverage of the royal wedding had dominated the papers and added: "It's a great week to hide an injunction story, say one wanted to."

Mr Marr told her: "You cheeky woman … yes, this is true."

The actress joked: "I'll never be on this programme again, that's for sure."

Mr Marr told her "of course you will" but acknowledged: "I have to say I have featured in the newspapers."

He acknowledged that "the super-injunction issue is not going to go away".

Historian Simon Schama said: "It's obviously going to be something, presumably, parliament has got to consider."

The issue of balancing the right to privacy against free speech was a "big one", he added.

Mr Marr said: "It's something clearly parliament is going to have to look at again. MPs are going to have to look at this."

Last week Mr Marr said he "did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists" and admitted being "embarrassed" about the injunction.

But he added: "I also had my own family to think about, and I believed this story was nobody else's business."