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Media regulator Ofcom has cleared Sir Trevor McDonald after he referred to dead comedian Bernard Manning as a "fat, white b*stard."
The comment was made in June during an episode of ITV1's News Knight, the Sunday night satirical quiz show fronted by Sir Trevor.
On introducing an item, Sir Trevor said: "It’s time for ‘Racist and Dead’, this week, it’s the turn of corpulent, narrow-minded northerner Bernard Manning. Personally, I never thought of Bernard Manning as a racist comic… just a fat, white bastard."
Ofcom said that the former ITN newsreader had "clearly intended to parody'" the late Manning's style of humour, which played on "real or apparent prejudices of his audience."
112 viewers complained about the remark and said the comment was inappropriate or racist.
The comment was made in June during an episode of ITV1's News Knight, the Sunday night satirical quiz show fronted by Sir Trevor.
On introducing an item, Sir Trevor said: "It’s time for ‘Racist and Dead’, this week, it’s the turn of corpulent, narrow-minded northerner Bernard Manning. Personally, I never thought of Bernard Manning as a racist comic… just a fat, white bastard."
Ofcom said that the former ITN newsreader had "clearly intended to parody'" the late Manning's style of humour, which played on "real or apparent prejudices of his audience."
112 viewers complained about the remark and said the comment was inappropriate or racist.
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