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training session during his tenure as manager of Portsmouth Football Club, Harry Redknapp was hit by a football. He wasn’t very happy about it.

    Redknapp:   We lost Festa with a ligament injury, he’s having a scan today. I’m just hoping it’s not as serious as we think it might be. So he’s certainly not going to be around. Arjan de Zeeuw’s done a groin—
    [Harry is hit by a football. He looks around, furious, for the culprit.]

    Redknapp [to a player off camera] :   WHY THE FUCK HAVE YOU KICKED THAT OVER HERE?
    [The culprit can be heard trying to explain himself.]
    Redknapp:   WHAT? …YOU TRIED TO KICK IT IN THE GOAL AND YOU HIT ME? GOT SOME FUCKING BRAINS, HAVEN’T YOU? [Distracted and clearly still livid] No wonder he’s in the fucking reserves.

The Ultimate Swear Word
    It’s a real divider, and no more so than when it’s uttered on live television.

Too late!
    These professionals have been known to let the odd one slip …
    ‘[After a video montage of Cantona] How cool is that! Great to see Eric C**t …Cantona.’
    BBC Sportsday host Olly Foster

    ‘Cuts here, cuts there, cuts everywhere …Supposing, though, some of the people who ought to be paying taxes so the c**ts …cuts aren’t so bad, aren’t actually doing so.’

    Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two’s Newsnight , January 2011

    ‘The roads and bridges are closed and trains in and out of the c**t …county have been cancelled.’
    A Sky News presenter reporting on flooding in Cornwall

    ‘We’ve got a weather c**t, er, front coming down from Scotland.’
    BBC weather presenter John Hammond
    URBAN LEGENDS
The myths of live broadcast debunked
    Although David Letterman’s sidekick, band-leader Paul Shaffer, was thought to have been the first person to say ‘fuck’ on American television, it was in fact Grace Slick of rock group Jefferson Airplane.

    The incident happened during the band’s performance of ‘We Can Be Together’ on The Dick Cavett Show on 19 August 1969, the day after the legendary Woodstock concert. Slick refused to change the lyric ‘Up against the wall, motherfucker’. In fact, she muttered the f-bomb twice during the performance.

Asking for it
    If you’re going to include a discussion on The Vagina Monologues on a live broadcast there’s a fair chance the c-bomb might be dropped.
    Jane Fonda:   It wasn’t that I wasn’t a big fan. I hadn’t seen the play, I live in Georgia …I was asked to do a monologue called ‘C**t’ …I said, I don’t think so, I’ve got enough problems.

    The Today Show , NBC, May 2008

    ‘If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.’
    COMEDIAN JOHNNY CARSON
Serial offender
    While discussing the thorny issue of fox hunting in April 2010, Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show host Nicky Campbell let one too many slip …

    Nicky Campbell:   Tim Bono from the Countryside Alliance – an organization which is, of course, pro-c**ting …er …hunting. Have you ever known a law so openly broken?

    [Later in the show …]
    Nicky Campbell:   Georgie Worsley is master of the Old Surrey and Burstow and West C**t, Kent! Er, Hunt and is out hunting this morning in Lingfield in Surrey. Good morning.
    Guest:   Good morning to you. That was a bit of a slip of the tongue there!
    Nicky Campbell:   I know, I do apologize for that. It’s very early in the morning and these things do happen and I do feel exceptionally embarrassed about it.
    [Later still …]
    Nicky Campbell:   Lots of you are mentioning that they’ll still be talking about the c**t, that, er, the West Kent Hunt that shall not be mentioned in five hundred years’ time.
    URBAN LEGENDS
The myths of live broadcast debunked
    In July 1985, Sir Bob Geldof was thought to have said ‘give us your fucking money’ on live television as part of his fundraising efforts during the Live Aid broadcast.

    However, Geldof actually said: ‘Fuck the address, let’s