Alan Titchmarsh has priceless response to North Korea censoring his Garden Secrets outfit on BBC rerun
ALAN Titchmarsh had an absolutely priceless response to North Korea censoring his outfit.
The Garden Secrets presenter was bizarrely censored as his show was broadcast on North Korean TV in a bizarre appearance.
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The country’s state broadcaster, KCTV, previously an episode of his BBC programme Garden Secrets, however it featured a major change.
In the 2010 broadcast, Alan, 74, once again offered up his usual gardening hacks, tips and tricks.
However, KCTV were forced to edit the episode in order to make it suitable to be aired in North Korea.
The television completely censored Alan’s legs as it blurred them from view, leaving fans baffled due to the fact he was only wearing denim jeans.
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Now, Alan has spoken out about the incident as he was caught up in the “centre of a controversy”.
In a new video promoting his Classic FM show, he said: “You might have seen I made the news last week as the centre of a controversy. It’s not something I’m generally familiar with.
“I doubt you missed it since it made all the national news bulletins. It turns out that Kim Jong Un took exception to my gardening trousers.
I thought they were rather nice, slim fit, narrow leg and all. But when North Korean state TV broadcast one of my old gardening shows, they blurred out my jeans.
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Censorship of blue jeans on the grounds that they were subversive and representative of imperialist capitalist culture.
The presenter then decided to make light of the situation by walking away from the camera to the theme tune of the short film Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers.
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He added: “I don’t know what they were on about,” as his blue jeans were once again blurred in a knowing joke.
North Korea have banned denim jeans as they seemingly promote “American imperialism”, according to US news outlet NK News.
The clothing item has been banned in the country for three decades so KCTV resorted to edit them out of view.
The country has been known to previously illegally stream Western content and it’s unclear how the broadcaster got a hold of the footage.
Previous broadcasts on the service have included Premier League matches and other English language TV shows.
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