My prognosis:

The papers (especially the Murdoch papers) will kick up a stink until Ross is sacked.
The BBC will be forced into a cripplingly expensive legal battle, and end up paying about half the nine million quid outstanding, plus another million in legal costs.
A Murdoch TV station will hire both Ross and Wotsisname.
They will use the scandal to lobby for a reduction in the BBC's licence income.
They will use the fall in audience following the removal of Cack and Shitbag to argue that the BBC is losing popularity, and that public service broadcasting money should be given to independent organisations like the Murdoch empire, that have the best interests of the public at heart.

They will keep doing this until a future tory government (of any of the three major parties) abolishes the BBC and gives its assets away to Murdoch.