Frankie Boyle - OTT ?
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BBC said:
Mock The Week star Frankie Boyle's comments about Rebecca Adlington branded "humiliating".
The BBC Trust has ruled that popular satirical gameshow Mock The Week breached guidelines over comments broadcast about swimmer Rebecca Adlington.
Panellist Frankie Boyle's remarks were branded "humiliating" and "risked offending the audience" by the body.
The show in question originally aired in August 2008.
It followed the Olympic champion's success at the Beijing Olympics. "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon," Frankie Boyle had said.
He went on to make another remark about the swimmer's appearance: "When she arrived back on the flight she met her boyfriend. Did you see her boyfriend? He was really attractive. He was like a male model. So from that I have deduced that Rebecca Adlington is very dirty."
The BBC received 75 complaints from viewers. Its producer apologised, admitting: "The ribbing may have gone a tad too far on this occasion".
Conversely, the BBC Trust found that Frankie Boyle's joke about the Queen did not breach editorial guidelines. Centring around what Her Majesty didn't say during her Christmas broadcast: Frankie Boyle offered: "I'm now so old that my p**** is haunted."
Richard Tait, BBC Trustee and ESC chair, said it was in "bad taste" and had "sexist and ageist overtones" but added: "However, it was well after the watershed, well signposted and within audience expectations for the show. As a result, this was not a breach."
[/snigger]The BBC Trust has ruled that popular satirical gameshow Mock The Week breached guidelines over comments broadcast about swimmer Rebecca Adlington.
Panellist Frankie Boyle's remarks were branded "humiliating" and "risked offending the audience" by the body.
The show in question originally aired in August 2008.
It followed the Olympic champion's success at the Beijing Olympics. "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon," Frankie Boyle had said.
He went on to make another remark about the swimmer's appearance: "When she arrived back on the flight she met her boyfriend. Did you see her boyfriend? He was really attractive. He was like a male model. So from that I have deduced that Rebecca Adlington is very dirty."
The BBC received 75 complaints from viewers. Its producer apologised, admitting: "The ribbing may have gone a tad too far on this occasion".
Conversely, the BBC Trust found that Frankie Boyle's joke about the Queen did not breach editorial guidelines. Centring around what Her Majesty didn't say during her Christmas broadcast: Frankie Boyle offered: "I'm now so old that my p**** is haunted."
Richard Tait, BBC Trustee and ESC chair, said it was in "bad taste" and had "sexist and ageist overtones" but added: "However, it was well after the watershed, well signposted and within audience expectations for the show. As a result, this was not a breach."
On the beeb?
Of course not.
Live, if he were trying to find the humour in exhuming Diana so he could buttf
k Maddie with her femur on a bed of baby seal spleens whilst Gary Glitter inteferes with Harvey Price suspended above them watching Kerry Katona ritually slaughter her brood and comit suicide on youtube then perhaps.
But I doubt it.
Of course not.
Live, if he were trying to find the humour in exhuming Diana so he could buttf
k Maddie with her femur on a bed of baby seal spleens whilst Gary Glitter inteferes with Harvey Price suspended above them watching Kerry Katona ritually slaughter her brood and comit suicide on youtube then perhaps.But I doubt it.
Justayellowbadge said:
On the beeb?
Of course not.
Live, if he were trying to find the humour in exhuming Diana so he could buttfk Maddie with her femur on a bed of baby seal spleens whilst Gary Glitter inteferes with Harvey Price suspended above them watching Kerry Katona ritually slaughter her brood and comit suicide on youtube then perhaps.
But I doubt it.
I think that is probably up on redtube instead...Of course not.
Live, if he were trying to find the humour in exhuming Diana so he could buttf
k Maddie with her femur on a bed of baby seal spleens whilst Gary Glitter inteferes with Harvey Price suspended above them watching Kerry Katona ritually slaughter her brood and comit suicide on youtube then perhaps.But I doubt it.
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