Gardening legend Alan Titchmarsh is a hit on North Korean TV, but not his jeans

I wonder if it’s the ‘jeans’ configuration specifically; or if vulgar displays of denim are off-brand in a country where the leading textile’s main virtue is the fact that you can produce it from coal and limestone.

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Given the topic is “Titchmarsh unnecessarily censored” your comment seemed very salient.

A little nominative determinism and coincidence is fun. Like Burt Ward playing Batman’s ward, or Frank Beard being the guy without a beard in ZZ Top.

Just the foil for Cruise

I don’t know why either.

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The man is a legend - and a runner up for the Bad Sex in Literature Award - which might have given the North Korean censors a pause for thought as the degenerate imperialist cameraman provocatively lingers on Alan thrusting his trusty dibbler into the yielding mulch.

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People wearing denim can be arrested in NK, taken to a police officer and forced to write a public apology for their transgressions.

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