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The first world-football championship was organised by the Lipton Tea Company in 1909. The name, The Lipton...
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IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! PRESS MORE INFO! !!
The first world-football championship was organised by the Lipton Tea Company in 1909. The name, The Lipton Tea Cup, was dropped in favour of 'The world Cup'.. Carol Thatcher, daughter of the former british Premier, presents the whole story for The One Show .NOTE:
I didn't understand the reactions appearing here, till I googled her name;
' Thatcher axed by BBC's One Show'
Carol Thatcher will no longer work on The One Show after being reported for making an off-air remark, the BBC has announced.
The daughter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher referred to a tennis player as a "golliwog" backstage during filming of the BBC One programme.
However, the 55-year-old will not be banned from the BBC as a whole.
The corporation said it had hoped Thatcher would issue an unconditional apology but she had declined to do so.
Her spokesman told The Times she made the remark in a conversation with the show's presenter Adrian Chiles back stage and it was "meant as a joke".
"Carol never intended any racist comment," he said.
"She made a light aside about this tennis player and his similarity to the golliwog on the jam pot when she was growing up.
"There's no way, obviously, that she would condone any racist comment - we would refute that entirely. It would not be in her nature to do anything like that.
"It is disgusting that we've had a leak of private conversations in the green room - the BBC has more leaks than Thames Water.
"Carol is mortified that anyone should take offence at a silly joke. She has summarily apologised."
According to press reports, the comment was made during a conversation about the Australian Open tennis tournament, in reference to a player who had recently been knocked out of the men's singles draw.
The BBC called speculation that Thatcher was referring to Andy Murray "wholly innaccurate", adding she was definitely talking about a black tennis player. It declined to name the athlete.
Apology sought
The corporation said it considers any language of a racist nature "wholly unacceptable".
BBC arts correspondent David Sillito said the row was about "what is and what is not acceptable to say in a workplace".
He added: "People were upset by what she said in the green room and they complained.
"We understand she has not made the unconditional apology that they sought, and as a consequence of that, her position on The One Show is no longer tenable.
"As far as we understand she believes that it wasn't racist, it was meant in jest."
Conservative peer Lord Tebbit questioned the BBC's decision.
"It does seem very odd that Jonathan Ross can be back broadcasting having made obscene, insulting remarks on the air, and Carol Thatcher, who said something which is allegedly highly offensive but which I rather doubt was meant to be so, in private, should be banned in this way," he said.
"It is probably a bit of a way for the BBC to get back at Carol's mother."
Thatcher, crowned Queen of the Jungle in the 2005 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, was a regular contributor to the BBC One magazine show.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi...
Published: 2009/02/04 10:56:08 GMT
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An episode of a 1980s pre-school favourite, featuring a young Jeni Barnett.
BBC2 (UK)
Tue 08 Oct 1985: 14:00.
Edited for content.
(I just realised......
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An episode of a 1980s pre-school favourite, featuring a young Jeni Barnett.
BBC2 (UK)
Tue 08 Oct 1985: 14:00.
Edited for content.
(I just realised... why wasn't I at school?)
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Paul Weller @ Newcastle Arena
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