Overview
- Friday’s pre-recorded Have I Got News For You featured Katherine Ryan and panellist Maisie Adam using the slur while discussing Sir David Beckham’s investiture.
- The show’s official X account posted the segment, prompting complaints that the language should have been cut or bleeped in a recorded programme.
- Ryan responded on Instagram by sharing coverage of the row and quipping, “And that was just my intro!”
- Some audience members appeared shocked during the taping, and Ryan remarked on air that she “didn’t expect that reaction.”
- Reports note the remarks referenced 2013 emails about the honours committee that surfaced in 2017, and outlets said the BBC had been asked for comment with no disciplinary action announced.