ELTON JOHN HAS A TOUCH OF THE SHAUN RYDERS

Channel 4 must have thought that their new teatime policy - Paul O'Grady instead of Chris Evans - was going to spare them having to send apology letters to Ofcom.

Not quite.

Elton John popped up on the show and managed some light, pre-watershed swearage, although it's hardly the "outburst" the Daily Mirror would have you believe:

[Elton said] he changed his name from Reginald Kenneth Dwight because it made him sound like a "banker or wanker, one of the two."

Pretty light, even in a light entertainment context, but enough to make twenty people complain - which, even if you don't count the tabloid journalists ringing in to complain to shore up the story still means three or four people got upset.

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