Channel 5 forced to take action after Ofcom received more than 200 complaints about former Coronation Street star using ‘unacceptable and offensive language’
Ken Morley has become the second Celebrity Big Brother contestant to be thrown out by producers in the past 48 hours, for using “unacceptable and offensive language”.
Morley, who played Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street for a decade from 1989, was removed on Monday after media regulator Ofcom received more than 200 complaints after he used the term “negro” during a conversation with US singer Alexander O’Neal.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.
Ken Morley has become the second Celebrity Big Brother contestant to be thrown out by producers in the past 48 hours, for using “unacceptable and offensive language”.
Morley, who played Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street for a decade from 1989, was removed on Monday after media regulator Ofcom received more than 200 complaints after he used the term “negro” during a conversation with US singer Alexander O’Neal.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 18 hours ago.