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Post by sweet soul on Feb 3, 2009 11:23:16 GMT
Row as Carol Thatcher calls tennis player 'a golliwog' The comment was made in a conversation about the Australian Open tennis tournament and was understood to have been a reference to one of the players in the men's competition. Thatcher, 55, who is a "roving reporter" on the show, had been speaking in the green room with its presenter, Adrian Chiles, and other members of the production team. A BBC source told The Times that Chiles was 'very shocked' and others in the room told her they found her language offensive. A BBC spokesman told Metro: "The BBC considers any language of a racist nature wholly unacceptable. "We have raised the issue with the individual concerned and are discussing it as a matter of urgency." A spokesman for Thatcher said that the comment had been "an off-the-cuff remark made in jest'. He told the newspaper: "Carol never intended any racist comment. She made a light aside about this tennis player and his similarity to the golliwog on the jam pot when she was growing up. www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Row_as_Carol_Thatcher_calls_tennis_player_a_golliwog&in_article_id=517419&in_page_id=34 |
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Post by evenstar on Feb 3, 2009 11:33:11 GMT
Stupid cow, does she not read the news ? This kind of stupidity has no excuse anymore.
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 11:34:10 GMT
I suspect this is just another goof made in jest and has become a storm in a teacup. Carol Thatcher is very verbal and eccentric, i really doubt she meant anything by it. Another overreaction i suspect.
Was the person she directed her comment to offended?!
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Post by policecar on Feb 3, 2009 11:41:39 GMT
She made a light aside about this tennis player and his similarity to the golliwog on the jam pot when she was growing up.
Nothing to see here. Move along. No shrieking piss fits please. Move along.
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Post by justmyopinion on Feb 3, 2009 12:46:24 GMT
"i really doubt she meant anything by it."
I never mean anything offensive when I say something that someone found offensive
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Post by evenstar on Feb 3, 2009 12:49:12 GMT
What actually makes it a 'row' anyway, it seems to be the in word at the moment when some TV/media tw@t opens their stupid god and blurts out crap, calling it a 'row' is trying to make more of it than is really necessary
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 12:55:46 GMT
Apparently the remark made by Carol Thatcher was made "off air" and not broadcast.
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Post by evenstar on Feb 3, 2009 12:57:22 GMT
Apparently the remark made by Carol Thatcher was made "off air" and not broadcast. So some low rank goon reports it to the newspapers for a few quid. It is what keeps them in business i expect. |
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:02:52 GMT
It certainly seems that way evenstar! Lowlife indeed!  |
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 13:06:24 GMT
All messed up. Nobody uses that kind of language, stupid woman. Stupid colleagues for reporting her rather than saying "I bloody hope you didn't just say what I think you said" and calling her stupid. Stupid papers for reporting it like anyone cares.
Most stupid is having her as a roving reporter on a tennis programme. Her connection with tennis is what now?
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Post by evenstar on Feb 3, 2009 13:07:40 GMT
. Most stupid is having her as a roving reporter on a tennis programme. Her connection with tennis is what now? She is posh and tennis is for poshos! |
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:08:42 GMT
God alone knows, she has no connection with tennis at all does she?! The only connection i can think of is Australia and she was on that daft programme I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! That's the only association she has with Australia i'm sure! lol!
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:10:30 GMT
Also VHW, i think it's the latest "craze" to report any hint of a rascist slur. I would have thought that "celebrities" or people in the media would be a little more careful these days using these "terms" because it is inevitable in some way, shape or form, that everyone gets to hear about it!
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 3, 2009 13:14:44 GMT
I'd have thought everyone would not use that phrase because it's just not acceptable. I'd certainly raise merry hell if someone used it in front of me.
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:16:16 GMT
Yes i would too. It is socially unacceptable and anyone with half a brain would realise this. Either way, Carol Thatcher was wrong. I still think the person reporting it when it was off-air is a petty no-mark.
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:18:10 GMT
On the subject of Gollywogs, i am amazed that my local market sells them. I am talking about the old fashioned toys with the black faces, white eyes, red jackets and striped trousers that were so popular with children in the 60's. I didn't realise it was acceptable to sell these soft toys any more?!
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Post by mango on Feb 3, 2009 13:18:08 GMT
Has the woman had a proper look in the mirror lately..?!
never see her for years - she had dark hair back then I'm sure,
she now looks like an ugly Jimmy Saville
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Post by Libby on Feb 3, 2009 13:22:05 GMT
She's getting on a bit now Mango, she must be in her mid-50's.
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Post by mango on Feb 3, 2009 13:27:52 GMT
I don't mind toy golliwogs - I think people make far too much fuss over them - but to actually say that somebody looks like one is mega rude
she should look closely at herself before she remarks on anybody
in her 50's..? she looks shocking
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Post by sushimo on Feb 3, 2009 13:35:23 GMT
Gollies are still a fave toy with children, all the kids in my family have one and shops do still sell them - and out of them too. There's a real toy shop on the moors in North Yorkshire that only sells traditional toys, and he says he can't get enough of them, he has a waiting list!
Nothing rasict in them in my view, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
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