No sausage jokes!

Britain:

"Strictly Come Dancing was hit by a string of viewers’ complaints following a quip directed at judge Craig Revel Horwood by contestant Paul Daniels.

Dozens of viewers contacted the BBC to protest after Daniels, 72, told Revel Horwood not to give up ‘his day job tasting sausages’ on the first show of the new series.

The Australian-born judge, 45, has openly talked about his homo­sex­uality in the past and his life with partner Grant MacPherson.

Many viewers assumed Daniels was taunting him about his sex­uality and vented their fury on a BBC website and on Twitter.

But it appeared last night that Daniels was actually referring to Revel Horwood’s upcoming role promoting British Sausage Week, which is launched on November 1.

Daniels, himself a former frontman of Sausage Week, wrote: ‘Media this morn trying to make me homophobic. Crazy. Why do journos and editors want to live in a nasty world of their own creation.’

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).