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Title: Blue Peter's Peter Duncan's transsexual comments 'offensive', Ofcom says
Post by: Shana A on August 25, 2009, 08:18:47 AM
Post by: Shana A on August 25, 2009, 08:18:47 AM
Blue Peter's Peter Duncan's transsexual comments 'offensive', Ofcom says
Published: 7:00AM BST 25 Aug 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6083351/Blue-Peters-Peter-Duncans-transsexual-comments-offensive-Ofcom-says.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6083351/Blue-Peters-Peter-Duncans-transsexual-comments-offensive-Ofcom-says.html)
Mr Duncan, who became Blue Peter's action man when he presented the programme in the 1980s, described the woman, who appeared on the show in 1978 playing household objects as musical instruments, as "this sort of half man, half woman, or in transition".
He was invited to watch the show on set as part of his audition to become a presenter, but said he was frightened off by the "bizarre panto dame who got carried away".
Published: 7:00AM BST 25 Aug 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6083351/Blue-Peters-Peter-Duncans-transsexual-comments-offensive-Ofcom-says.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6083351/Blue-Peters-Peter-Duncans-transsexual-comments-offensive-Ofcom-says.html)
Mr Duncan, who became Blue Peter's action man when he presented the programme in the 1980s, described the woman, who appeared on the show in 1978 playing household objects as musical instruments, as "this sort of half man, half woman, or in transition".
He was invited to watch the show on set as part of his audition to become a presenter, but said he was frightened off by the "bizarre panto dame who got carried away".