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OfCom to investigate Christina and Rihanna’s X performances
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 December 2010
Media regulator OfCom has said it will investigate the raunchy dance routines involving those pesky American pop chicks Christina Aguilera and Rihanna that appeared pre-watershed on the ‘X-Factor’ earlier this month, and which have generated over 4000 complaints, 2750 to the regulator itself and a further 1500 to ITV.
It’s not currently clear quite how many of the 4250 complainers were actually outraged while watching the aforementioned popstresses gyrate on live TV for the millions of families watching at home, or whether their outrage came about after reading about the whole thing in the Daily Mail, which published pictures of Rihanna and Christina’s more sexual moves, because, of course “our readers have to see these pictures to understand the fury they’ve stirred”.
The Mail’s one time terrible food critic turned terrible columnist Jan Moir then took a moment away from guzzling down some cream cakes (probably) to declare “all these sex-crazed nymphs on my telly before the watershed, I bet the gays were behind this” (possibly… well, she said at least some of that).
OfCom held off from launching an immediate investigation into the Rihanna and Christina routines, but has now confirmed it will review the situation to see if any of its rules were broken when ITV aired the pop performances in an early evening slot.
ITV is already believed to have told ‘X-Factor’ makers Fremantle and Syco to air more caution when booking such performances in the future, while it’s believed Fox TV, which will air ‘X’ in the US from next year, has warned the show’s producers that such routines must not appear on its network.
