Yahoo News CBeebies issues amusing apology after 'snowpeople' gaffe
The BBC’s CBeebies channel has issued an apology, after a raft of complaints rolled in when a presenter referred to snowmen as ‘snowpeople’.
Red-faced fury and reports of political correctness having ‘gone mad’ flooded social media after the broadcast of Catie’s Amazing Machines on the kid’s channel yesterday.
Effusing about the white stuff, 20-year-old presenter Catie Munnings said on the show: “Snow is amazing. You get to build snowpeople and go sledging.”
Some viewers found the remark so powerfully offensive, they took to social media.
Who are these idiots running the BBC? Needs closing down, would not be missed. BBC blasted after snowmen were called 'snowpeople' in new kids show https://t.co/F4pIfmKsiU
— D. William Norris (@dwilliam9940) November 6, 2018
Watched Catie's Amazing Machines with my 4 year old this morning as she loves it. However…
Snowpeople?! Really?! WTF are Snowpeople? Do they really require a gender? Even my 4 yo said it was a silly word cos they're snowmen
Fact. #CBeebies #fail #bbc— L A U R A C L A I R (@laura__clair) November 5, 2018
STOP ✋🏼 SNOWMAN, NOT SNOWPEOPLE #CBEEBIES https://t.co/uv2rnbqmRg
— Katie (@pixiekatie85) November 5, 2018
snowpeople to not offend the snowflakes #cbeebies
— scott gowdy (@woofmachine) November 5, 2018
Apparently you aren’t meant to call snowmen, snowmen anymore. They are snowpeople, Who is pathetic enough to demand all these name changes? #ItsCalledSnowMan
— Sailor Mum (@KatjaQueen) November 5, 2018
Welcome back @piersmorgan totally agree with you, you are an oasis of reality and sense in a desert of politically correct madness. #snowpeople wtf
— Jaimo (@Jaimobaby) November 5, 2018
Some even called for the abolition of the licence fee on the strength of it.
Put #cbeebies on for my daughter and they are referring to "snow people". More PC garbage and indoctrination from the @BBC. Another reason to abolish the licence fee.#banthebbc
— Simon Gurd 🏴 (@residentethel) October 31, 2018
Piers Morgan even got involved, offering up a surprising level of knowledge about the history of snowmen construction on Good Morning Britain: “You don’t build snowpeople, you build snowmen. We, mankind, humans, have built snowmen for 10,000 years.
“Catie you seem a lovely lady, whoever you are, but they are not snowpeople, they are snowmen.”
But CBeebies soon sought to calm the avalanche of criticism.
“Okay, okay, we get it,” read the apology tweet. “Snowmen aren’t snow people. We didn’t think it’d snowball like this.
“It’s snow joke. But that’s snow business… Soz.”
Okay, okay, we get it 🙄🙈.
Snowmen aren’t snow people. ⛄️
We didn’t think it’d snowball like this. ❄️
It’s snow joke. But that’s snow business…
Soz. 🤷🏼♂️ https://t.co/NFc468fzam— CBeebies Grown-Ups (@CBeebiesHQ) November 5, 2018
Everyone OK now? Good.
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