As FM said, given the soft-porn nature of many of the videos made to accompany popsongs now which all the channels play quite happily at any time of the day, this is preposterous.
And Channel 5's statement is both hypocritical and ridiculous. When Meat was on the Des and Mel show he asked, when he was referring to the false breasts he wore in Fight Club, what word he could use on daytime TV. On Channel 5 he no doubt considered that the word he used (which is commonplace, euphemistic and perfectly acceptable in the UK) would provide no cause for complaint given the first "competition" (clearly aimed at the young, given the admonishment to make sure when texting their entry they had the permission of the person who was responsible for paying the bill) was "Balls in the pants" .. and provided the "presenters" with much seized opportunity for double entendres like "She's going to get the balls out of his pants now" .. "I'm trying to grab the balls in his pants" and "I can now say to him you have no balls in your pants!"
As, according to SueW's report, they did not show Meat singing CHSIB live, but in a recorded piece just afterwards, and certainly AFL was obviously shown thus, there was no reason at all to curtail his performance for the spurious reason he might have contravened some imagined decency standard. And the reporting of the interview strays just far enough from the truth to be misleading and sensationalist.
All this to me smacks of paddling for the shore after they had treated Meat extremely badly and were trying to justify their actions in the face of many complaints received about that, rather than their concern about the use of the word in question.
I remember the dismissive response a few years ago to a friend of mine who had complained about the aardvaark puppet on a children's TV show saying he wanted to recruit a secretary "with big bazoomas". And now a TV company trumpet loudly that the word frig-ging is indecent? What a crock!!
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