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| Ofcom investigating Miriam Margolyes' swearing on live ITV show | Ofcom investigating Miriam Margolyes' swearing on live ITV show |
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| Actor forced Robert Peston to apologise for language she used on Sunday morning show | Actor forced Robert Peston to apologise for language she used on Sunday morning show |
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| Mon 19 Feb 2018 12.48 GMT | Mon 19 Feb 2018 12.48 GMT |
| Last modified on Mon 19 Feb 2018 14.10 GMT | |
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| Ofcom is investigating the ITV show Peston On Sunday after the actor Miriam Margolyes swore live on air. | Ofcom is investigating the ITV show Peston On Sunday after the actor Miriam Margolyes swore live on air. |
| The Harry Potter star, 76, said “fuck” last month while telling an anecdote involving the Hollywood star Warren Beatty. | The Harry Potter star, 76, said “fuck” last month while telling an anecdote involving the Hollywood star Warren Beatty. |
| Ofcom said: “We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules on offensive language before the watershed.” | Ofcom said: “We are investigating whether this programme broke our rules on offensive language before the watershed.” |
| The show’s presenter, Robert Peston, had acceded to Margolyes’ request to use a “bad word”, which had the studio guests – the Tory MP Sarah Wollaston and Labour peer Lord Adonis – giggling. | The show’s presenter, Robert Peston, had acceded to Margolyes’ request to use a “bad word”, which had the studio guests – the Tory MP Sarah Wollaston and Labour peer Lord Adonis – giggling. |
| Peston apologised, and quipped: “You’ve just got me sacked, which was a public service.” | Peston apologised, and quipped: “You’ve just got me sacked, which was a public service.” |
| Margolyes appeared to put her hand over her mouth in surprise following the apology. | Margolyes appeared to put her hand over her mouth in surprise following the apology. |
| Earlier, she described how she agreed with the principles of the #MeToo movement, which is shining a spotlight on sexual abuse, but said it had the potential to lose sight of its aims. | Earlier, she described how she agreed with the principles of the #MeToo movement, which is shining a spotlight on sexual abuse, but said it had the potential to lose sight of its aims. |
| “It can overbalance and become a witch-hunt. I think people talking about hand-on-the-knee 15 years ago is not serious enough,” she said. “Rape and pushing into a woman – it’s obvious what’s assault and what isn’t.” | |
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