Miriam Margolyes was appalled (Picture: Isabel Infantes/PA Wire)
Miriam Margolyes has admitted she gave herself ‘a lot of stick’ over her F-bomb blunder while talking about Jeremy Hunt live on BBC Radio 4.
The 81-year-old Harry Potter actress didn’t hold back on the airwaves back in October when she aired her views on Hunt as her interview came to a close, and told hosts Justin Webb and Martha Kearney that she never thought she’d be ‘sitting in the seat’ where Hunt had been sitting.
She added: ‘The thing is, when I saw him there, I just said, “You’ve got a hell of a job, the best of luck.” Of course what I wanted to say was, “F**k you, you b*****d!” But you can’t say that.’
The pair scrambled to stop her from saying anything else that could cause ripples pre-watershed, as Webb laughed and said: ‘Oh no no no you mustn’t say that. We’ll have to have you out of the studio now.’
Now, Miriam admitted while she only got in trouble with readers of certain newspapers, her harshest critic might have actually been herself.
‘I gave myself a lot of stick because it was totally unintentional,’ she told The Guardian, noting that she wasn’t in trouble with the broadcaster.
She had some choice words about Jeremy Hunt (Picture: Tejas Sandhu/SOPA Images/Shutterstock)
‘I did not know that the microphone was on. I was shaking all the way home in the taxi. I was really upset because Radio 4 is a holy temple.’
Responding to readers’ questions, she also told the outlet that she doesn’t like telling ‘filthy jokes’, and insisted the public have an ‘unfair’ perception of her based on the language she uses.
Miriam insisted she doesn’t like ‘a loose use of filth’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
‘I’m certainly not going to tell any filthy jokes. I don’t like filthy jokes. People have this idea that I’m a walking cesspit. I think it’s quite unfair,’ she explained.
‘I take great care in the words I use and when I use swear words, I mean to use them. I don’t like a loose use of filth. I like a precise use of filth.’
Meanwhile, Miriam did open up on people having ‘different gradations of naughtiness’ when asked about the ‘naughtiest’ thing she’s ever done.
She responded: ‘Everybody has different gradations of naughtiness. I suppose it’s when I bare my a**e or t*ts at people. When I was younger, I enjoyed sharing my body visually.
‘When I was doing The Age of Innocence, by the end of a very long day of costume parading, the whole crew would be very tired and bored to tears, so I thought: the only thing to do is to show them my t*ts. I said: “I’m going to refresh you, gentlemen,” lifted my top and my untrammelled bosoms hung free and
dazzling.’
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