.and Fin Taylor s bomb Glastonbury gag
The BBC’s has rejected complaints about Sophie Duker’s ‘kill whitey’ joke on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order – and Fin Taylor’s gag about ‘bombing Glastonbury’ on Have I Got News For You.
Both matters were escalated to the Corporation’s in-house but independent editorial complaints unit following an initial response from executives.
But in a report published today, the unit revealed that neither complaint has been upheld.
Duker caused anger in some quarters of the press with her comment on BBC Two in September. Just over 1,300 people complained amid the extensive media coverage - including Sarah Vine complaining in the Daily Mail that the comment was ‘putrid nonsense’ that indicated support for a ‘hateful dogma’.