John Simpson insults Richard Madeley

[Fambo Number Mive]

He's only saying what we're all thinking

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https://twitter.com/JRsArmchair/status/1418458599391694848

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[imitationleather]

It's amazing because I wouldn't have thought that John Simpson would use the word wanker even off-screen.

It's like hearing David Attenborough call someone a cunt.

[JesusAndYourBush]

What's the context? What did Madeley say to provoke that response?

[Neville Chamberlain]

I've definitely heard David Attenborough call an Amazonian tree frog a cunt.

[sevendaughters]

He was telling a story about reporting from the Lebanon in 1982, edited to steamroller that high-hanging fruit of Richard Madeley.

[Paul Calf]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57940487

[Smeraldina Rima]

What's the context? What did Madeley say to provoke that response?

"We're joined now by John Simpson."

[PlanktonSideburns]

What's the context? What did Madeley say to provoke that response?

"A guy stuck a gun in the back of my neck and pulled the trigger and I thought my last moment had come.

"And then everybody laughed and I got up and I brushed off my knees and I thought, 'I've got to reassert myself here'.

"So I said to the guy who had fired the gun, or hadn't fired the gun, 'Do you know what? You're a real [expletive]'."

THEY'VE DONE US

[Fambo Number Mive]

Apologies, I thought he was swearing at Madeley. Sorry for my fake news.

"Wanker" isn't that much of an insult though. If he'd said "He was even worse than Boris Johnson" that's a real insult.

[Chollis]

"We're joined now by John Simpson."

:D