Chef Marco rebuked over 'pikey' remark.
Marco has been condemned by the racial equality watchdog after he used the word "pikey" on his ITV show.
The Commission for Racial Equality called on the chef to apologise after he was heard telling celebrity contestants on Hell's Kitchen: "I don't think it was a pikey's picnic tonight."
His use of the derogatory term for travellers and Gipsies led to a row with Lee Ryan, former member of the boy band Blue.
Ryan, 24, said: "I have a lot of friends who are travellers... and I know they don't like being called pikeys." White replied: "What is wrong with being a pikey?"
A spokesman for the CRE said yesterday: "These distasteful comments are highly derogatory and have caused much offence.
"These high-profile figures should realise that fame brings responsibility. He (White) ought to acknowledge his mistake and apologise for the offence he has caused.
ITV said it had received "a handful" of complaints following Thursday evening's show.
A spokesman said the language had been flagged as "controversial" at the start and use of the word pikey was "robustly challenged" during it.
"In this context, we feel that the broadcast of the word was responsible and justified," added the spokesman.
And the CRE threaten a chap over referring to pikeys as itinerant travellers
s part of his election campaign to win a council seat, Carl Lewis started a petition to evict travellers from an illegal caravan park.
He spent hours circulating leaflets that highlighted the problem of the 'itinerant travellers' and his concerns struck a chord with residents.
But those two rather ordinary, functional words have brought the wrath of the Commission for Racial Equality down on his head.
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6 people have spoken:
im a traller and wats wrong wid travllers you dirty smelly assed gorger bredd cunt yo need to get a life life u sad muthers cunt
Ok pikey scum I shall explain. It is not the travelling lifestyle as such, but rather the freeloading off the state, the fact that we the fixed abode people for worthless cunts like yourself.
Oh and I shall correct your comment for you, you wrote:
Im a traller and wats wrong wid travllers you dirty smelly assed gorger bredd cunt yo need to get a life life u sad muthers cunt
Quite what is a traller? Do you prehaps mean trailer?
Also wats should be whats
Wid should with with
travllers travellers
Not quite sure on the bit "gorger bredd cunt" some ethnic pikey chav scum speak prehaps?
As I have said, pikeys - ill mannered, illiterate cunts.
Toodle pip ol chap.
Absolutely hilarious! Well done. And of course the more humorous it becomes, the cooler the status of pikey will become!
What is a "pikey"?
A traveller, a gypsie, a mobile thief that tarmacs drives, steals anything not nailed down and acts like a total cunt to boot.
yeah also im a traveller and if you dont like travellers then go an have a good shit you dirty gorgie oh and by the way gorgie means opposite of a traveller
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