 Half
an hour after the 9pm watershed adult film actor Ron Jeremy – captioned on
screen as a porn legend – described in graphic detail lewd acts that he
wanted to perform on Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan and her lesbian lover.
Nutter politicians and lobby groups reacted in supposed anger to the
segment on the programme Most Annoying People 2008.
It was first broadcast on December 29 but repeated over the New Year period and
is still available to view online.
Another guest on the BBC3 show, Radio 5 Live presenter DJ Spoony, referred to
lesbians as munters and mingers, prompting supposed fury from gay
rights activists.
Nutter MP Anne Widdecombe has demanded to know who sanctioned broadcast of the
programme: What was their reasoning behind choosing a porn star as an
interviewee at all – and why was the pre-recorded show screened?
You would think that following the debacle with Jonathan Ross and Russell
Brand, they would have gone out of their way to ensure anything going out was
within the limits of decency. This was a holiday period when children tend to
stay up later and there is a strong risk that children would have seen it.
Indecency is just ingrained at the BBC. They are institutionally indecent.
Jeremy, who has appeared in almost 2,000 hardcore movies, said of Lohan and
Ronson: ‘These two girls are very good-looking. I would love to be in the middle
of that: They will do each other, do me, do each other, do me, back and
forth. Jeremy also said of Lohan: Men are wishing they could be with her
and change her mind, thinking “Yeah, she is a lesbian now because she never met
me.”
BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Spoony, 38, said of lesbians: Let the munters and
mingers get each other. That's cool because nobody wants them. But referring
to Mean Girls star Lohan and Ronson, he added: When they're hot and fit -
Hollywood superstars - they should be saved for the guys.
Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell branded the remarks by Jeremy and Spoony
gratuitously sexist and homophobic. The BBC should have never broadcast
them and should issue a public apology. Spoony should be suspended by the BBC
and only be allowed to continue presenting his Radio 5 Live programme after he
has apologised on air and promised not to repeat his homophobic garbage.
Ron Jeremy's comments were needlessly offensive. He's a sexist pig, which no
right-thinking woman, lesbian or straight, would want to meet, let alone have
sex with.
The BBC today said that it had received 13 complaints about the programme to
date.
A spokeswoman said: Most Annoying People 2008 is a light-hearted and comedic
look at people and events that have annoyed, amused or appalled us over the last
12 months. The contributors to the programme are expressing their own views and
opinions, which are meant in a light-hearted way with no malicious intent.
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