Colin Mathura-Jeffree The Broadcasting Standards Authority has refused to uphold a complaint about a claimed "tasteless gay sex double entendre" host Colin Mathura-Jeffree made on a TV cooking show. In an episode of Nestle New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker a contestant baking a pie exclaimed, "Oh my ring went into the cream," to which the Mathura-Jeffree responded, "Usually it's the other way round." A member of the public complained that it breached the standards of good taste and decency and responsible programming. They claimed it was in poor taste, offensive and inappropriate within a G-rated cooking programme. The Broadcasting Standards Authority says the comment was barely audible and its meaning was oblique, so many viewers would not have understood the double entendre. "Furthermore, we consider that the comment would have gone over the heads of child viewers under the age of 14 years. It was a fleeting, throw-away line which was said as the contestants hurried to finish their dishes, and which was not dwelt upon." The BSA says the rest of the programme material was suitable for a G-rated programme. It does not believe it should have been rated PGR on the basis of one brief comment which would not have been understood by children.
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First published: Monday, 5th July 2010 - 3:49pm