W*nker Wins Countdown
Written by Digiguide Grouch Potato / January 19th, 2012, 2:49pm
This is what your face would look like if you were about to say 'w*nker' on daytime TV (and if you were an overweight ginger man with pale skin in a bad shirt).
When you read a headline like, 'W*nker Wins Countdown', naturally you assume that George Lamb was triumphant on a special celebrity version of the Channel Four words and number quiz. And for anyone here to read up about the grey-haired presenter idiot – lovingly known to TV fans across Britain as 'The Cancer of Television' – I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. This is instead an entire blog about the fact that someone done a swear on Countdown.
IT worker Mark Murphy broke out the cuss word in one of new host Nick Hewer's first shows. Still, as a veteran of The Apprentice, Nick should be used to dealing with w*nkers, shouldn't he?
This would probably be a better new story if the exact same word hadn't already been used previously in 1981, 2003 and 2008. Still, it's a slow news day. And 'I've started so I'll finish!' as they on Countdown...!
Hang on, no that's Mastermind, isn't it?
George Lamb: Shabba W*nker
“Where does Mark stand on this?” asked Sir Lord Sir Alan Sugar's former right-hand man (can I just point out that Nick Hewer wasn't literally Alan Sugar's 'right-hand man' – there is no evidence to suggest that Alan Sugar has ever acted improperly to any of his staff - though he probably has).
To which wordswoman Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner replied:
“He stands absolutely fine, it’s in the dictionary.”
To save the elderly audience's blushes, they didn't ask sexy dolly girl Rachel Rily to spell the word out with the letter cards as per usual and even bleeped the word out when it aired.
A Channel 4 spokesman said:
“The word was bleeped out and not shown on the board to ensure the programme is suitable for its daytime audience.”
In November 2010, some chancer tried to get the eight letter word 'sh*tface' in. The programme seemingly prefers to use the Oxford English Dictionary instead of the Urban Dictionary, which is disappointing.
PS Boobies!
Grouch Potato out.