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This audio has Christina talking about the rubbish written in newspapers about her. It is taken from a video interview on a Swedish news site, Aftonbladet, shortly before the 2003 MTV Europe Video Music Awards.
Clip 1 (14s, 179Kb)
You can see the video here (if it is still online).
I wonder if they left the swear word unbleeped because, being Swedish, they did not realise it's usually considered an offensive word in English?
Christina hosted the actual EMAs show on 6th November 2003, when she again spoke her mind about press reports:
Clip 2 (27s, 318Kb)
Jessica Alba, star of Dark Angel, appeared in Episode 1.3 of the candid camera show Punk'd. These two clips are from the DVD version. The set-up occurs in a clothes store, and Jessica is shocked when one of the 'shoppers' begins walking around naked.
Clip 1 (18s, 282Kb) - Jessica tells the guy how she feels.
Clip 2 (7s, 83Kb) - Jessica's reaction when the stunt is revealed.
Now one-half of Appleton with big sister Natalie since All Saints split, Nic got engaged to Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher in 2002. The fly-on-the-wall documentary Appleton on Appleton (BBC3, 15th Feb 03) included many candid glimpses into the life of the sisters, and this excerpt features Liam and Nic discussing how they first met.
Clip (31s, 217Kb) Transcript
Like all the Spice Girls, Mel B has pursued a successful solo career. To promote her single Lullaby she appeared on the live BBC1 Saturday morning children's show Live & Kicking. It was the 19th May 2001 edition and near the end, Mel took part in the 'Popaholics' music quiz chaired by Trey Farley. Trey announced the participants using rhyming sentences. However, the obvious word to complete the rhyme about DJ Pied Piper in: If Sarah's team wins I'm sure that he'll thank her
But if I judge she loses he'll call me a ... was of course meant to remain unspoken. Unfortunately, Mel said it anyway.
Note: the clip is a bit "wavvy".
Clip (56s, 383Kb) Transcript
Here's a screen grab just after Mel said the word:
L-R: Mel B, Sarah Cawood, DJ Pied Piper
You can read a news story about the incident here
Victoria is of course best known for being in the Spice Girls. Soon after their Christmas shows in Manchester and London, she was a guest on Chris Moyles' BBC Radio 1 show, broadcast live across the UK on the 20th December 1999. In an open and amusing conversation, they began discussing her forthcoming TV special Victoria's Secrets, in which she interviews celebrities including one Roger Moore. But the talk soon turned to Moore's appearance in the Spice World movie, and Chris began to give his opinion of it to an obviously offended Ms. Beckham... Clip 1 (42s, 166Kb) Transcript 1 Later in the same show, Victoria suggested she sang to Chris. This was met with a distinct lack of enthusiasm: Clip 2 (7s, 38Kb) Transcript 2
The famous Hollywood actress Halle Berry surprised many when she personally accepted her award for Worst Actress of 2004. It was her performance in Catwoman that earned her this prize. The Razzie ceremony, held on 26th February 2005, is normally shunned by all the "winners" but this time we got to see a rare example of an A-lister making fun of themselves...
Clip 1 (12s, 151Kb) - Halle thanks Warner Brothers
Clip 2 (9s, 108Kb) - Halle thanks her agent and lawyers
For the videos and lots more Razzie information, surf to razzies.com
Once a member of boyband Another Level, Dane has recently been doing TV presenting, and this clip is taken from the 12th October 2002 edition of Popstars: The Rivals Extra, a live programme on ITV2 in the UK. This is what happened: co-host Donna Air throws to Dane after her item. But all the viewer sees is the Popstars ad-break segment, with Dane's voice speaking over it. It appears he realized the error (on someone's part) and was taken a little by surprise: Clip (8s, 32Kb) Transcript
Kathy has won considerable acclaim for her acting roles in a variety of comedy series and films, one of the most successful being Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. She was named Best Comedy Actress at the 2002 British Comedy Awards (shown live on ITV1, 14/12/02) and her speech included some words to the critics of her co-star James Dreyfuss: Clip (9s, 72Kb) Transcript
Since the Spice Girls, Melanie C has had considerable success in her solo career. When promoting her new single Here it Comes Again on V Graham Norton (27th Jan 03), Graham revealed he'd been sent the Key to a small place called Liverpool in America (Mel being from Liverpool in England). Unfortunately, she was rather unimpressed with it. Clip 1 (19s, 135Kb) Transcript 1 Later on the same show, the topic of tap dancing came up and Mel tried to remember something she had read on the subject recently. Clip 2 (13s, 91Kb) Transcript 2
These two clips are from a segment included in Sky One's Divas Behaving Badly (17th Nov 02) in which we saw a video tape of Cher riding her motorcycle in Malibu. The star was so angry at being filmed by this guy without permission, she dismounted and walked up to the camcorder saying exactly what she thought of him. (The volume gets louder as she gets closer). I have selected the two clearest excerpts. Clip 1 (15s, 89Kb) Transcript 1
Clip 2 (7s, 43Kb) Transcript 2
Though not in the limelight since his Neighbours and pop star careers ended, Jason is still a famous name and is occassionally seen appearing on TV and the stage. One of those appearances was on Channel 4's Ultimate Chart (16th Nov 2002), a show counting down the UK's top selling singles of all time. Here you can hear him commenting on the minor backlash against fellow Austrailian Natalie Imbruglia when her debut single Torn was revealed to be a cover version: Clip (10s, 49Kb) Transcript
English actress Lisa Faulkner spent three years playing Dr Victoria Merrick in BBC's Holby City and has also featured in Spooks and the film The Baby Juice Express.
She appeared on the chat show Johnny Vaughan Tonight (BBC3, 1st April '03) and discussed her more mature role in drama series Burn It: Clip (45s, 267Kb) Transcript
Sam rose from East London teenager to become one of the most photographed women in 80s Britain, recognised beyond the readership of The Sun, where she regularly appeared on Page 3. She is popular around the world for her very successful international singing career, which has continued into 2003.
The Channel 4 documentary Our Sam (4th Feb '03) was a chance to update the public on her career and thoughts of the last few years. Included was Sam's attitude to having intimate relationships with men: Clip (41s, 286Kb) Transcript
Atomic Kitten appeared on ITV's The Frank Skinner Show in November 2002. Group member Natasha had given birth in August, and when Frank made an unfortunate comment about Natasha's waist line, Jenny spoke her mind. Taken from ITV2's repeat broadcast on 16th April '03. Clip (16s, 127Kb) Transcript
Noel from Oasis talked about his love for Pink Floyd on Channel 4's Ultimate Chart (16th Nov 2002):
Clip (14s, 173Kb)
Stephen was one of the most popular members of Boyzone, enjoying six UK No.1 singles among other successes. He has since released solo records and performed in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat over Christmas 2002 in Liverpool. The clip is from Channel 4's Ultimate Chart (16th Nov 2002), a show counting down the UK's top selling singles of all time. Stephen is hoping the Teletubbies don't get a higher placing than Boyzone (they did though). Clip (3s, 22Kb) Transcript
Famed for being in The Boomtown Rats and for organising 1985's Live Aid, Bob was one of the guests on the live CD:UK (ITV, 15th Nov 2003) reviewing three of the latest pop videos. Unfortunately they ran out of time to show the final one (No Doubt's It's My Life) before the next item (a taped performance of Enrique), which Bob was upset about.
Clip 1 (43s, 340Kb) Transcript
The next audio clip is probably still the most famous incident of swearing on British TV: Bob in the Live Aid TV studio. Shown countless times since, this audio is taken from Forty Years of F*** (BBC3, 11th October 2005) so there's some background noise that wasn't originally present. Nonetheless, I couldn't have a site about inappropriate swearing on TV and not have this one! Actually this incident is frequenty mis-quoted as "Give us your f**king money!" Let's remind ourselves of the correct quote here -
Clip 2 (7s, 85Kb)
And here's a screen capture of the moment:
Sarah has been acting and modelling since childhood but it was 1997's role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, that her international fame was secured. She has since starred in several high-profile movies, often with a fantasy element to them.
These two clips are from Buffy Meets Blackwood first shown in early 2002 on Sky One. In the first one, Sarah answers Richard Blackwood's phone for him: Clip 1 (32s, 221Kb) Transcript 1
Later, Sarah jokingly demonstrates how she reads a Buffy script: Clip 2 (12s, 86Kb) Transcript 2
Sarah is best known for co-presenting the British children's programmes Blue Peter and Going Live!.
TV's Naughtiest Blunders 4 (26th May 2003 on ITV) included an outtake from a more recent programme she was presenting, Simply Food :
Clip (19s, 271Kb)
Larry Hagman is chiefly famous for his role as J.R. Ewing in Dallas, which began in 1978.
The clip is an anecdote he told on V Graham Norton (Channel 4, 16/12/02) about how he got his Dallas co-star Patrick Duffy in trouble. Clip (59s, 292Kb) Transcript
Debbie has had massive wordwide success as the face of Blondie since the late 70s, and the group still tour today.
These two clips are from Channel 4's Ultimate Chart (16th Nov 2002), a show counting down the UK's top selling singles of all time. The first one is Debbie responding to those who say she can't dance: Clip 1 (4s, 28Kb) Transcript 1
And here she is talking about the different tolerances to swearing on TV in the UK & US at the height of Blondie's fame:
Clip 2 (11s, 76Kb) Transcript 2
The Oscar-winning star of Rain Man appeared on V Graham Norton (E4, 7th Feb 03) and told a joke.
Clip (1m 44s, 838Kb) (Transcript not available)
Note: the original broadcaster, Channel 4, got in trouble for this. See here.
Grammy-winning hip-hop artist Jay-Z has been one of the foremost rappers of recent years, and is equally respected for his collaborations as for his solo work. Tracks such as Can I Get A... and Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) have enabled him to crossover to mainstream popularity as well.
This clip is from BBC Radio 1's documentary Listen With Motherf**ker (3rd Feb 03) which investigated attitudes to swearing in the media. Disappointingly, there was only one real celebrity in the programme who actually swore. This was Jay-Z giving a demonstration of the use of the F-word: Clip (13s, 104Kb) Transcript
Q Awards
First up is Elton's speech when he accepted the Classic Songwriter award at the 2004 Q Awards (4th October), given to him by Elvis Costello. Yes, it's the 'Madonna doesn't sing live' rant (Madonna was nominated for Best Live Act). This 'outburst' attracted quite a bit of media attention at the time. Listen here (1m 5s, 656Kb). You can watch the video at the official Q site.
Chris Moyles radio show
Elton John was a guest on BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles show on 8th November 2004. He chatted about many things over the course of the final hour of the show, such as his new album Peachtree Road and the latest rumours about himself.
Again there was coverage on all the usual news sites about this interview because he happened to swear a few times. Below are the three relevant excerpts so you can hear it yourself.
It's quite rare for a member of rock royalty such as Elton to do a live radio morning show and as such he joked he had trouble finding the correct building. Clip 1 (44s, 360Kb)
Later on, they began talking about Elton's recent concert residency in Las Vegas. After explaining the attractions of the show to Chris, Elton proceeded to list various swear words to determine which could be said on air.
Clip 2 (1m 40s, 1.2Mb)
And finally, a little before the end of the programme, Chris said Elton should be back next week. Elton asked if he would be able to say a certain word. (This bit starts with Elton giving the time in a posh voice.)
Clip 3 (32s, 260Kb)
An interesting story about the Chris Moyles audio:
At the time of writing, the BBC Radio 1 website offers a censored version of the interview to listen to. However, the uncensored version is available to hear on their site if you know how to get to it (as it is, the show's playback on the Radio Player stops just before Elton arrives on the programme!) Luckily for this site though, I was able to use my mad |-|4X0|2 5|<1|_|_5 (lol) to uncover the full 3 hour show for playback, as well as discovering that the BBC deliberately chopped off Elton's interview from the end of the default playback.
Cannes film festival
On May 20th 2006 in Cannes, Elton was presenting an award to the actor Kevin Zegers who starred in Transamerica. But while he was speaking he was annoyed by the photographers present and verbally attacked them before handing it over and quickly leaving the room.
Clip (22s, 180Kb) Transcript
Here is a shot of the ceremony (at the time of writing, the video is availale on the Reuters site)
Vinnie was originally known for his footballing skills, having turned professional in 1986 and playing for Wimbledon, Leeds, Sheffield, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers in his career. But in the late 90s he retired from sport to begin a successful acting career, often making use of his tough-guy image in films like Snatch and Mean Machine.
This clip is taken from an edition of his fly-on-the-wall series Vinnie (BBC3, 16th Feb 2003) when he was a guest on Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show on 9th Nov 2002. It starts with some off-air talk (and swearing) by Jonathan to the camera before going into the radio show chat. Notes:
- This could have been put on a Jonathan Ross page instead but the point of this clip is that Vinnie swears inappropriately and those kind of clips are the chief goal of this site. Also, Vinnie is a bigger celebrity than Jonathan.
- BBC3 were responsible for the 'bleeped' part.
Clip (1m 20s, 549Kb) Transcript
Jordan's fame rests on her 3-times enchanced figure and tabloid-friendly socialising. Her real name is Katie Price and as probably the most famous British glamour model in recent years, her status was secured when she became a US Playboy cover star in 2002. She has also said she wants to be a singer. The clip here is from Jordan: the Model Mum (BBC3, 13th April '03), a candid documentary on her life as a new mum. She is on the phone to Dwight Yorke who was complaining about an article in "OK" magazine. Clip (46s, 316Kb) Transcript
Polo-playing Jodie Kidd is one of the most famous models in British fashion. In 1999 she even released her own software package, Jodie Kidd Makeover.
On the 24th Jan 2003, Jodie was a guest on Channel 4's Born Sloppy. She was asked by the presenter (Sara Cox) if she might act someday: Clip (21s, 145Kb) Transcript
Andrew got to the final 10 on Popstars: The Rivals but was voted off in the first live show.
This clip is taken from the 26th October 2002 Extra show, where Andrew was on hand to give his opinion of Peter Smith, who had voluntarily left earlier that evening. You could say Andrew was a little too complementary. Clip (4s, 22Kb) Transcript
He is now a member of Phixx.
This clip is from Channel 4's Johnny Meets Madonna interview, shown on 16th December 1998. Interviewer Johnny Vaughan asks Madonna where in the world she could go and be anonymous; it's her answer I have put here.
The audio quality is not that great on this one. Clip (11s, 172Kb) Transcript
Shirley is the lead singer of transatlantic rock group Garbage and she is well-known for saying exactly what she thinks. During an interview on the The Base (ITV, 18th October 2001), the host asked if Shirley's new haircut was in homage to Anne Robinson from The Weakest Link. Here is a picture of Shirley's hairstyle at the time:
This clip was her answer: Clip (7s, 42Kb) Transcript
There isn't much swearing in it, but this leaked audio is pretty cool. The singer was taking part in an off-air phone interview with DJ Tony Wrighton of Manchester Century FM some time around March 2004. The interview went badly, the DJ signed off, and Kylie's reactions to the interview were unexpectedly recorded afterwards.
Listen to the whole debacle here: Clip (3m 6s, 2Mb)
Sinéad has been a singer/songwriter of some renown since the late 80s. Her work often combines both traditional and modern sounds and her image is absolutely her own, as this first clip testifies when Sinéad talks about one of her old record companies: Clip 1 (23s, 136Kb) Transcript 1
Also known for a number of infamous events, Sinéad once ripped up a photo of the Pope on TV. She has this to say about the incident: Clip 2 (9s, 57Kb) Transcript 2
Both the clips are from the Nothing Compares to Her documentary (BBC Radio 2, 15th Feb 03).
Previously I hadn't bothered with any Osbournes stuff because it's hardly unusual to hear them swearing (on their TV show).
But here's some Christmas-themed clips showing Kelly and Ozzy's feelings about the season. From episode 1.9 "A Very Ozzy Christmas" (Channel 4, 25th Dec 2002)
Kelly (8s, 104Kb)
Ozzy (5s, 78Kb)
Perhaps this will be of extra interest to US vistors as I believe the show is shown "bleeped" over there.
Nicola is a member of the pop group Girls Aloud (originally formed on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002). In 2006, the girls (minus Nadine) went questing for ghosts and spirits in haunted buildings in the one-off Ghosthunting With Girls Aloud (12th December, ITV2).
It was an entertaining programme and even if the viewer felt no ghosts were encountered the girls themselves (along with presenter and guide Yvette Fielding) seemed to believe some had been.
There was a fair amount of audio I could have used for this site but I've chosen just one clip, a memorable outburst from near the end of the programme by the usually quietiest member, Nicola:
Clip (18s, 220Kb) Transcript
Screen capture from immediately after the moment:
American actress Alicia Silverstone was a guest on the night-time UK music show Transmission (Channel 4, 21st July 2006). She was asked about her dog by presenter Steve Jones:
Clip (13s, 160Kb) Transcript
Slash appeared on ITV's live music show CD:UK on 2nd December 2000. When being interviewed by Cat Deeley, he answered some questions e-mailed from viewers. But one of Slash's replies resulted in the interview being cut short, and co-presenter Dec having to apologise for it afterwards. You can hear the incident here (1m 9s, 956Kb)
Some media reaction appeared on BBC Entertainment News and Dotmusic. Slash's own comments on the interview can be read here
Mike Skinner was a guest on Zane Lowe's live BBC Radio 1 show on 5th May 2004. Just after playing The Street's "Dry Your Eyes", Mike explained why his plan to have Chris Martin from Coldplay as a guest vocalist on it was scuppered.
Listen to the excerpt here (1m 13s, 717Kb)
I'd say it was odd Mike was told to apologise considering the cursing in the songs Zane had been playing.
The actor Christian Slater was appearing on stage in One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest at the time of this live BBC Five Live interview (3rd Nov 2004). He was being interviewed by Simon Mayo about the play and one question asked was if Christian's time in 'an institution' helped prepare him for the role.
Listen to it here (2m 7s, 1.2Mb)
The audio I've included here is from the bbc.co.uk Radio Player the following day. The reason I mention this is because if you read this Ananova news item it makes the incident seem worse than it was. Either it's typical journalists blowing a story out of proportion, or the BBC cut something out of the website version (though the latter is unlikely in my opinion).
Global pop superstar Britney Spears performed at the Rock in Rio III festival in Brazil on January 18th 2001. This piece of audio was recorded backstage before her appearance.
Note that the vamp Britney refers to is the piece of music played before an artist goes on stage, usually designed to stir up the crowd in anticipation. The point in the clip is that there isn't a vamp and she doesn't want to go on stage with no build-up. Clip (1m 4s, 501Kb) Transcript
You may be interested that in the March 21, 2001 issue of UK pop bible Smash Hits, a Britney interview included the question "Were you embarrassed by the mic 'incident' in Rio?". Her reply was "(Blushing and giggling) Nah. That was just one of those things that happens. I'm only human!"
On the 20th March 2001, the S Club 7 girls were presenting MTV UK & Ireland's live Select programme. The following clip is from a segment hosted by Jo and Rachel after Lil' Bow Wow's debut video had just been played.
Rachel comments how cute the young rapper is, and Jo suggests (in an Irish accent for some reason) he is probably a bit of a tearaway too. But Rachel whispers her own term to describe him... Clip (10s, 40Kb) Transcript
Right at the end of the clip you can hear Jo slapping Rachel in disgust at her bandmate's language. Here's a capture of the moment: 
In 2002 Louis became a recognisable face after being a judge on Popstars: The Rivals as well as the Irish Popstars. As manager of Boyzone, Westlife, Girls Aloud and others he is one of the most successful pop managers of recent times.
It was during the final Popstars: The Rivals Extra (live on ITV2, 22nd Dec 02), that host Donna Air asked if he would ever do a record with rival manager Pete Waterman: Clip (14s, 87Kb) Transcript
A megastar in his native UK, the last decade has seen Robbie enjoy outstanding success around the world in the music industry. The first clip is from the 13th December 2001 edition of ITV's The Base.
The programme was showing Robbie's new Somethin' Stupid video, and intercutting it with some behind-the-scenes footage of him in a recording studio and the like. One piece of this extra footage consisted soley of the outburst available here. Robbie was in a vocal booth at the time, but we can only guess at what was so "amazing".
Clip 1 (7s, 52Kb) Transcript 1
The next clip is from Robbie's Nobody Someday documentary film as broadcast on Channel 4 in November 2002. The film was made in 2001 and is also available in shops (15 certificate). Note: the broadcaster chose to silence one of Robbie's words, but it was easy to see what he said from reading his lips, so I've put it in the transcript in square brackets. I don't know if it was edited out in the retail version. Clip 2 (48s, 281Kb) Transcript 2
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Alicia Silverstone, Nicola Roberts (Girls Aloud)