Sir Trevor McDonald has hit out at the star of Mrs Brown's Boys after production was suspended because of a racist joke.
Sir Trevor McDonald has hit out at the star of Mrs Brown's Boys after production was suspended because of a racist joke. Sir Trevor branded the offensive quip, said to have been made by Brendan O'Carroll, as "crude and offensive and insulting".Work on the sitcom’s Christmas special was paused as TV bosses investigated the incident following complaints by cast and crew members.
The entire cast and crew stood down in the wake of the comment, as the BBC tried to get to the bottom of it.”O’Carroll created the sitcom which first aired in 2011 and plays the title character Agnes Brown.The show has won Best Comedy at the National Television Awards six times with a fifth series recently commissioned for which production is set to get underway in spring.Read more: Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards puts six-bedroom Dulwich home up for sale for £4.
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