Bruce Forsyth has stressed he does not "excuse or condone" racism after an interview in which he said the Strictly race row was being taken too seriously. Forsyth told Talksport radio people should have a "sense of humour" over Anton Du Beke's use of the term "Paki". But in a statement on Thursday, Forsyth said: "To be absolutely clear, the use of racially offensive language is never either funny or acceptable."

Of course in the painfully politically correct BBC Land, terms like paki are a doubleplusungood. Indeed if you have a look at posts passim we have covered gollywogs before & if one of the prancers on an absurd over hyped waste of taxpayers’ money TV programme uses a naughty naughty word, I couldn’t be more ambivalent. As I pointed out in my Stills post earlier this year, just because you can’t say that one of the contestants, upon returning from makeup, looks like a paki doesn’t for one moment alter the fact that she might look like a paki. It also doesn’t alter the fact that you might not be allowed to refer to them as such but the Scrictly Come Dancing judges do seem to be comprised of an awful lot of over excitable wops & dagos