Article: Can't take a joke about a chocolate Hobnob! Have they all gone completely (ginger) nuts?(News)

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
October 29, 2009
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Byline: by Christopher Hart

ONCE again, the BBC has provided us all with a good laugh. Unfortunately, once again it's done this not by putting out some fresh, brilliant, gilt-edged new sitcom, but by the Corporation's management being really, really silly.

The rumpus has already been dubbed Hobnobgate. On last Thursday night's current affairs programme This Week, presenter Andrew Neil cheekily compared regular panellists MP Diane Abbott to a chocolate Hobnob and Michael Portillo to a custard cream.

Neither Abbott nor Portillo complained, but a tiny handful of viewers did -- most of them distinctly custard cream-coloured and hypersensitive ...

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