Top 20 British TV Moments That Caused Major Outrage 

I will never understand why simply turning off an offensive show is not enough for people.

Number 18 is interesting as the Charles Ingram episode never actually aired until years later, so it's a British TV moment that isn't really a moment

When are people ever going to learn - just because a movie is animated DOES NOT mean it's appropriate for children! People can be so thick sometimes.

Ok, as a gay person i've never had a problem with the F word in Fairytale of New York. She's not using the word to attack his sexuality, she's calling him useless, that word used to mean something different. It's just a word in a great song, chill out!

Honestly, as someone who did have a relative who died of covid in a carehome, I am glad he went off the way he did. 4000 people are dead because of her group of idiots.

The sweaty Nonse 😂😂😂

No:2 is hilarious 😂 the suspect is disguised as a house 🤣😭

watership down screwed me up has a kid, it was a mistake showing it before watershed, the original should have a +18 cert.

I saw watership down at school in year 8, we where all like a kids film. Traumatised most of us.

Just to correct about the Millionaire coughing scandal, Diana Ingram's brother Adrian Pollock wasn't there when the Major and Diana were on those two nights. And the person who performed the coughs to help the Major get up to the million pound check was Teckwyn Whittock.

What this list shows…offcom does nothing at all with legitimate complaints regarding things out onto television.

I'm Shocked there were NO Bake Off Moments on this List like Jurgen's Elimination or the Infamous BINGATE Moment!😠😠

It was Tecwen Whittock who was the other person aside from Charles and Diana who was involved in the actual coughing on Millionaire. Diana's brother won £32,000 on the show once after getting his 64k question wrong (just like she did), but he wasn't actually caught up in the scandal.

I’ll never understand why people found Ghostwatch convincing, the acting was obvious and it was billed as a play.

"You Cannot Be Serious" Wimbledon Tennis 1981.

I swear as a channel you intentionally swap the top three around to cause comments 😂 Jade Goody had effigies burning around the world and made News at Ten headlines… and ultimately resulted in her discovering she was terminally ill live on television. I think that’s worse than “punch gate” somehow.

I love these lists, however it states that Big Brother was picked up by channel 5 in the wake of the race row (number 4 in your chart). This was not the case. Big Brother remained on channel 4 for a good few years after the controversy and wasn't dropped by channel 4 because of it. I love Watch Mojo and will look forward to the next installment. ✌️

I never watched Watership Down. I had to be removed from the screening of E.T. by my older sister, who wasn't impressed by my convulsing crying when E.T. looked like he was going to die. In fact i was a teenager the next time we went to the cinema. I can't watch Dumbo because of the scene where his mum was rocking him whilst locked in a caged caravan. I was also very emotional when watching The Animals of Farthing Wood, oh and my most recent 'moment' was watching Toy Story Three and crying when i thought the Toys were going to be killed on the conveyor belt, so funnily enough I've never wanted to see W.D!

The lose wi en one offend me of how rude Kim is

Actually, Watership down isn't a children's film. It was never intended to be for kids.

Please, please do away with the annoying background music!!

Queuegate is hilarious 😂

That's enough utter trivia for today.

I loved the part where you actually showed the outrageous content...

I don’t have a problem with fairy tale of New York but the people who get super defensive and act like it’s their right to say the slur get under my skin

Family show?! If Strictly really is a family show then we would be accepting of everyone - leading to acceptance of all healthy family dynamics/make-ups

i'm gay myself the F word used in that certain song is fine in that song because it's brilliant, I wasn't offended gay people weren't offended white women who think they represent everyone got offended for us and that offends us more then the song edit: "I can't sweat" his forehead:✨

Not sure the minor Strictly scandal caused major outrage

No Benefits Street? No Jerry Springer Opera?

I must say matt has the bollocks to appear on im a celebrity after resigning

Please edit these with headphones - the Corbyn interview for example had his voice on the left channel and the interviewer on the right only.

Watership down traumatized me as a kid

Well at least David Beckham waited in line to see the queen unlike those two morning show people

How come I never see The Sex Pistols/Bill Grundy interview on these countdowns?

I dont know how Charles Ingrim thought he could possibly get away with cheating against Chris Tarrant.

There was always something “off” about this major. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but could only feel that he didn’t ring true. Then surprise, surprise a shock for us all when he was accused of cheating. He was up & down and round and round with his answering then went for the first thing he dismissed. Odd. This was a family always after money because they were living beyond their means. He was falsely claiming Insurance monies several times, until they wouldn’t pay out any more. He had a Court case coming up for this whilst a contestant on the show. A wrong’n. He paid dearly for his behaviour - reputation lost and an incredible amount of public anger towards him.

Corbyn being shown as being in Russia's pocket while Bojo was up to his games and the tories were deep in Russian money and granting peerages to sons of ex-KGB operatives is hilarious.

Do Australia next!

The video starting with Prince Andrew chatting s*it about his rare "I for some bo**ocks reason don't sweat" is peak 😅.

Where's Bingate?😂😂

What about the Plague Dogs?

The Loose Women was clearly a setup, Coleen was on HER show which was moderated by HER friends and co-workers.

Shane mcgowen would explain about that song on GMB

I don't understand the Gavin and Stacey one, what was the fuss about?

Parents don’t want kids to see naked people , wait until the parents learn about the internet!!

Number 5 on this list i used to fancy sam womack but shes a brilliant actress

The naked education bit is rather stupid. First of there is something like sex ed, as part of biology. What would be wrong, is that the naked bodies shown in such material are choosen because of a rather invalid ideology of beauty. (Extremely slim women, as example. Or choosen because of there skin colour, usually white. I'd call that racist.) But to learn about human bodies and biology, yes I think bodies of both genders should be shown naked. People should not ever confuse nudity with sexuality unless we talk sex ed, which is part of the curriculum of the educational system. Instead of shaming something, one should look at the basics. True, one an argue that from a religious point of view one does not like that children of a certain age, get this education at school, but I think that point is rather moot, nowadays. The reason behind this, is female genital mutilation, sex ting, sextortion etc. That does not mean, I disagree with someones religious believes, but I think knowing about this, might prevent several sex crimes, and religious crimes in western societies.

As an American, I am so lost by a lot of this list lol

Several years later, Charles Ingram lost some of his toes in an incident with a lawnmower. Karma.

A scandal that doesn't get mentioned the john alford scandal London's burning

Damn, expected Jimmy Saville to be on here

Clarkson 😂 work for a living 😅

Is that video title meant to be a pun ...aimed at the cough code Major?!

Brooksides Same sex kiss And David of Corrie sa storyline i remember watching a few videos of most complained about TV moments and both of them where

Care to do another top ten shops that gone bankrupt

Brass eye was HYSTERICAL tbh. Sidenote, Mr narrator guy you're obviously British so speak properly. It's two thousand AND one. Not two thousand one. You're not American. Speak properly.

To be fair some people really can not sweat. Its a really thing. He's totally lying about it, but its still real for others.

Surprised the sex pistols bill Grundy interview wasn't here that caused outrage at the time

WatchMojo - You have the Matt Hancock year wrong (you have placed it as 2002 but its 2022).

10:58 None of them are, mate

@ about 1:30, There's no such word as "undoubtably"

Number 20 should have been a bullet dodged because after the watershed & gay actor playing gay role so the scene was meant to be very ironic also number 9 is a root cause for the BBC to slightly cower to prudes with Angela Rippon & Amanda Abington as contestants this year & having Krisnhan as a counter to that controversy knowing all too well he’s probably there as a punchbag

Does anyone else think lining up to bow toward the corpse of a politician is fucking weird? Like we don't even bow to our dead relatives (who matter far more than any politician)

If Strictly want to include Same Sex Couples dance routines and drag queens the haters should back off and stop trying to destroy inclusivity

Im sorry people actually complained about the Royal Family being white ?! Theyre a white family !! Get over yourselves 😅

I stopped after 3 minutes and I don't know how I got that far. You show a lot of clips of the program in question except the one that you're talking about - how brain dead is that? If your excuse is 'I might get demonetised if I show them', than don't make those videos - simple.

The biggest bit of irony to come out of the Brass Eye special was the sheer hypocrisy of the various news journals complaining about it. I forget who it was, but there was one paper that printed their article criticizing the special on the same page as a full spread talking about a 14 year old girl's breasts. Imagine thinking you have a leg to stand on when you post articles about the private parts of actual children.

We don’t know if James Cordon deliberately caused- Yes. Yes he did, obviously.

unpopular opinion the ingrams exposed and took advantage of the flaws in the systems

It's pronounced 'moss-go', Not 'moss-cow!

karma got jade

Bloody hell!! It’s bloody 2023 and people are STILL getting OFFENDED by drag performances and same sex dance couple. People can’t get over the fact that there is NOTHING WRONG with people liking and loving people who just happen to have the same genitalia as they do. Why can’t they be like my parents when I was growing up, who were just like “Yeah. This is what some people do. And there’s nothing wrong with it.”

The Queen was the only royal I liked.

9:25 Note to self: Ofcom embraces racism. 😡

Just show that UK people will will cry about everything

Hehe “major” outrage. And the thumbnail is that dirty cheater Charles Ingram. I see what you did there.

James Corden starting crap to get more attention - NO WAY 🙄

Diversity’s dance was important and appropriate. End of.

Terribly white 🤣 I couldn't stop laughing at that one. Some people are oblivious. I wonder if she watched a clip of Black Panther and exclaimed it "terribly black".

no more excuses for the alphabet mafia

So surprised that Doctor Who being cast as a female human didn't make this list!

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I must say I hate the royal family

nice

If you have no content, don't post stuff. Most of these are non-events.

If cartoon rabbits upset you to the point you'll complain...never go to the countryside there's no one to complain to about dead rabbits on the road, hanging from trees and hedgerows where the Kite's drop them, mixamatosis...it's life and it happens, shielding kids from nature does them no good.

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It’s mad that some of these (Strictly, Diversity’s performance) were even a thing. Just a bunch of bigots complaining about something progressive….. On queue-gate. I lose respect for anyone who uses David Beckham as an example of what should have been done. This is the same person who accepted a multi-million pound deal to promote a football tournament/country that has numerous human rights violations. He never acknowledged people’s issues with it (properly) and is a lot worse than a couple of people skipping a queue…..

Woke junk!

Whoever complains about a ghost program being scary should not watch it, simple. Woke nonsense.

I'll never understand why being "terrribly white" is a terrible thing is a majority white nation.

I have a medical condition that makes put sarcastic comments in You Tube Video comments sections