A full-bodied, expensive Red

[lookwhaticando]

BBC quiz grope prompts complaints

The BBC has received complaints after Anne Robinson asked a contestant to feel her breasts during a celebrity charity version of The Weakest Link.

Anne Robinson has presented the

Weakest Link since 2000

TV wine-taster Olly Smith felt Robinson's breasts after referring to the 63-year-old presenter as a "full-bodied, expensive red".

The BBC stressed it was a "playful and light-hearted" exchange.

But 16 people complained about the incident, which was broadcast at teatime on Saturday.

Hit show

The programme was watched by 5.5 million people, the BBC said.

It featured 10 contestants from the world of food and wine, including TV chefs Sophie Grigson and the Hairy Bikers.

The exchange came after Robinson told Smith - who appears on Saturday Kitchen and Richard and Judy's Wine Club on Channel 4 - that she did not like being called "full bodied".

She then invited Smith to feel her breasts, who declared them to be "absolutely fantastic".

The Weakest Link has been a hit around the world since it first aired in 2000.

It moved to BBC One in February to fill the slot left by long-running soap Neighbours, which moved to Five.

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Sixteen completely humourless folk in around five-and-a-half million... that's actually pretty good.

[Phube]

What exactly were they complaining about... some people!!

[lookwhaticando]

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got,

I'm just, I'm just Anne, from the teatime Saturday slot.

[AoWW]

I saw it and - with hindsight - should have complained. That kinda thing could put me off full-bodied, expensive reds for a long time.

[Phube]

I saw it and - with hindsight - should have complained. That kinda thing could put me off full-bodied, expensive reds for a long time.

Well if it had that effect... they should be hanged!!!

[Thracian]

BBC quiz grope prompts complaints

The BBC has received complaints after Anne Robinson asked a contestant to feel her breasts during a celebrity charity version of The Weakest Link.

Anne Robinson has presented the

Weakest Link since 2000

TV wine-taster Olly Smith felt Robinson's breasts after referring to the 63-year-old presenter as a "full-bodied, expensive red".

The BBC stressed it was a "playful and light-hearted" exchange.

But 16 people complained about the incident, which was broadcast at teatime on Saturday.

Hit show

The programme was watched by 5.5 million people, the BBC said.

It featured 10 contestants from the world of food and wine, including TV chefs Sophie Grigson and the Hairy Bikers.

The exchange came after Robinson told Smith - who appears on Saturday Kitchen and Richard and Judy's Wine Club on Channel 4 - that she did not like being called "full bodied".

She then invited Smith to feel her breasts, who declared them to be "absolutely fantastic".

The Weakest Link has been a hit around the world since it first aired in 2000.

It moved to BBC One in February to fill the slot left by long-running soap Neighbours, which moved to Five.

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Sixteen completely humourless folk in around five-and-a-half million... that's actually pretty good.

But the 16 will probably have the more impact with the ban it brigade as anxious to wave their flags as brain dead linesmen at City matches.

Personally I'd have found it heartening. If people fancy groping Anne Robinson we're all still in with a chance!

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

I saw the incident and can categorically say that Anne Robinson is a filthy whore.

How can people complain about about the groping incident when so many times throughout the programme lame innuendos were made? (Particularly by the Eastern European woman, I forget her name now.)

[Guest]

She's been really flirty with the young male contestants lately.

[Daggers]

I'd do Robinson.

I may be drunk - in fact, it is probably that I am drunk - but I'd do her. If she asked nicely.

And if the wife was OK with it.