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People are mortified that the BBC just apologised for use of the gardening term 'bastard trenching'
ALAN TITCHMARSH APPEARED on BBC Breakfast this morning and caused a bit of a stir with his choice language.
Remember him? The gardener and TV presenter was one of the stars of legendary gardening show Ground Force, along with Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh.
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Titchmarsh has a new show starting on UTV tonight, called Love Your Garden. To promote it, he visited the BBC’s flagship Breakfast show for a bit of greenfingered chat.
During the discussion, Titchmarsh used an old gardening term, ‘bastard trenching’. It means double digging, and has nothing to do with the meaning we might attribute to it these days.
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No one seemed to mind, until the BBC apologised for his offensive language.
Host Louise Minchin explained after the interview:
Titchmarsh hit back with:
Groan. Everyone was mortified.
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Bastard-trench is described by Oxford Dictionaries as
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