Ruth Jones has responded to the backlash Gavin& Stacey received after a homophobic slur was included in this year’s Christmas special.
The insinuation occurred when Nessa( giving full play to Jones) and Bryn performed a form of the 1987 touch’ Fairytale of New York’ by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
The song boasts the contentious words:” You scumbag, you maggot/ You cheap lousy f **** t/ Happy Christmas, your arse/ I pray God it’s our last .”
In recent years, there has been a lot of controversy smother the expressive material, exclusively the use of the homophobic slur, with some is considered that the song should be banned or- at the least- the poetic removed.
In 2007, BBC Radio 1 constructed the decision to censor the word f **** t from the song but last-minute reversed their decree. Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt said:” After careful consideration, I have decided that the decision to edit the Pogues song was wrong .”
Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan commented on the dissension in December, 2018.
“The word was used by the character because it fitted with the road she would speak and with her reputation. She is not supposed to be a nice person, or even a wholesome person, ” he said. “She is a woman of a certain generation at a certain time in history and she is down on her prosperity and desperate.”
He double-dealing down on his statements this year, saying:” There is no political correctness to it. I’ve been told it’s insulting to gays; I don’t understand better how that works.”
After this year’s Gavin& Stacey Christmas special started parties to complain to TV watchdog Ofcom about the insinuation, and many more complained online, Jones stepped in to respond to the backlash explaining that they included it to” remain true to the characters .”
” It is a different environment. But we have to remain true to the characters, to who they were ,” she told The Sun.
” Characters in Gavin& Stacey are kind and big-hearted, I imagine. So I anticipate no one is going to be intentionally spiteful. But by the same token, they’re not necessarily going to be completely politically correct or to be informed of political correctness .”
“We toyed with the idea of Gavin having an affair or Gavin and Stacey divorcing, ” Jones, who represents Nessa in the see, acknowledged on The Graham Norton Show. “But we really wanted to hold on to the heart of the original testify, and I hope we’ve done it.”
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