{"id":4794,"date":"2014-11-18T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/18\/bob-geldof-was-censored-on-air-and-was-cut-off-the-british-tv\/"},"modified":"2014-11-18T06:46:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T06:46:45","slug":"bob-geldof-was-censored-on-air-and-was-cut-off-the-british-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/18\/bob-geldof-was-censored-on-air-and-was-cut-off-the-british-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof was censored on air and was cut off the British TV"},"content":{"rendered":"


Bob Geldof\u2019s efforts to promote the new Band Aid single were curtailed when he refused to stop swearing during a live television interview, forcing producers to cut him off.
Faced with criticism of the record, which is raising funds for the fight against Ebola, Geldof twice responded with the word \u201cb——s\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the mid-morning interview on Sky News, Geldof was asked for his response to critics who claim that some of the millionaire pop stars appearing on the record are tax avoiders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of detractors saying, \u2018Look at a lot of those people in that room\u2026 if they all paid their taxes in the right way we wouldn\u2019t need these kind of fundraising singles,\u2019\u201d the presenter Jayne Secker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019re talking b——s,\u201d Geldof replied.
After an uncomfortable silence, the presenter admonished: \u201cPretty colourful language \u2013 if you could not use any more, we\u2019d appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, asked to respond \u201cless colourfully\u201d to accusations that the record is patronising to Africans, Geldof said: \u201cComplete and utter b——s.\u201d
The interview was then suspended, with Secker telling viewers: \u201cI\u2019m afraid we have to apologise for that language again, and there we have to leave it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The re-working of the Do They Know It\u2019s Christmas? single, first recorded in 1984, has already raised more than \u00a31 million in sales and pre-orders.<\/p>\n

It is top of the iTunes chart and all but certain to be number one on Sunday. The video had over 120,000 views on YouTube in its first eight hours, although it is not known how many of those viewers followed a link to donate. <\/p>\n

Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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