Alan Titchmarsh ‘flattered’ after bizarrely being censored by North Korean TV channel over blue jeans | U0K8Q7F | 2024-03-31 21:08:02
Alan Titchmarsh 'flattered' after bizarrely being censored by North Korean TV channel over blue jeans | U0K8Q7F | 2024-03-31 21:08:02
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</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Alan Titchmarsh has admitted he's 'flattered' after being censored in North Korea simply for sporting blue jeans.
The gardener and broadcaster, 74, is best known for presenting programmes together with Gardener's World, Floor Drive and Love Your Backyard is also a friend of King Charles.
Nevertheless the beloved presenter has unwittingly found himself in scorching water after an episode of his Garden Secrets collection was bizarrely edited due to his selection of trousers.
However he's fairly 'flattered' by it, he's revealed, after the incident went viral.
He stated: 'I'd never thought of myself as someone who was more likely to lead the youth of North Korea astray.'
'Alas, those jeans shall be lengthy gone or I'd donate them to the Backyard Museum as being probably the most censored legwear within the history of horticulture,' Alan joked to MailOnline.
Earlier this week Alan had his blue jeans blurred when the episode aired on the Korean Central Television.
Within the episode, Alan visits Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, digging into the gardening methods of the 17th century.
After he crops a parterre-style flower bed, organized in the form of a leaf, he then interviews the property's head gardener, David Beaumont, earlier than creating a topiary cube and planting a small fruit tree.
At one level, he is seen leaning down in a backyard mattress whereas tending to crops, however attempts have been made to hide his denims in North Korean broadcast.
Though they have been nonetheless principally seen, the modifying is believed to have been completed after the North Korean regime tried to crack down on influences of Western trend, in accordance with the American-based information outlet NK News.
Blue jeans have supposedly been banned within the nation because the 1990s and have been described by former ruler Kim Jong-il as 'absolutely verboten'.
He also once stated 'individuals shouldn't put on them underneath any circumstance', North Korea researcher Peter Ward informed the publication.&
Nevertheless, he stated it was uncommon for North Korea to 'censor foreigners on TV for sporting jeans' given authorities allowed tourists to put on virtually any Western trend.
The DPRK reportedly views jeans as a 'image of American imperialism' given their shut association with the U.S.
Regardless of the modifying, North Korea has aired this specific episode of Backyard Secrets and techniques a number of occasions since 2022.
It first aired in the UK back in 2010, nevertheless Alan's commentary was replaced with North Korean narrators every time, while a soundtrack of instrumental music was added too.
After being alerted to the censorship throughout a earlier screening of the show, Alan stated he was surprised by the unusual move.
'I never imagined that my programmes would reach North Korea, however hopefully the calming nature of British gardening will probably be nicely acquired there,' he stated.
In 2021 it was reported that North Korea had banned 'capitalist' style including skinny jeans, mullets and certain body piercings.
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