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Original poster

To think Louisa Johnson's set on Comic Relief was highly inappropriate?

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MycatsaPirate · 11/03/2017 19:59

Comic Relief Lets's Sing and Dance tonight. Nice family viewing.

Except that they had Louisa Johnson on promoting her new single. She and her dancers are all very young, dressed in tiny skimpy shorts, singing about bad behaviour and dancing about with teddy bears. It also started with her lying on a bed full of sweets.

It left me feeling highly uncomfortable. I don't have an issue with women wearing what they feel comfortable in but the whole thing seemed to smack of some sort of advert for sex with young girls.

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SpackenDeDoich · 11/03/2017 21:19

I felt very uncomfortable as soon as she started with the toys and sweets. So unnecessary imo.

TimtheEnchanter · 11/03/2017 21:22

Nope. For a minute I thought I had sat on the remote and changed the channel. Completely inappropriate and weird. And it was shit.

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 11/03/2017 21:22

Well that's a bit shite, isn't it?

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 11/03/2017 21:23

I mean the song, not the op.

Foureyesarebetterthantwo · 11/03/2017 21:27

The styling was terrible! Not sure the flying saucers and teddies were supposed to be anything but ironic, and weirdly, the make-up coupled with her husky voice make her look like a 40 year old with a young woman's body. I didn't find it sinister though, as she didn't look anything other than the age she was, it really wasn't another Britney Spears type moment.

damnedgrubble · 11/03/2017 21:28

Grim, in the extreme. Not at all family viewing - what time was it on?

NotYoda · 11/03/2017 21:29

It was shite. The teddies and sweets were dodgy. The proximity of flames to nightwear was also dodgy. She sings through her nose too.

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MycatsaPirate · 11/03/2017 21:39

It started at 6.45pm. Was great, really funny acts from Holby, Ola and James, The Chasers etc. Then this was the entertainment along with a group from a stage show and something else (not sure, was making coffee then).

So my 11 year old was watching. I really don't want her thinking that this is the type of look she should be aspiring to. The dancers in this were very young, especially the girl with the pink bunches who looked no more than 16.

It just left a sour taste. Strangely I didn't mind the skimpy outfits the tap dancers wore, it wasn't sexualised, it was a typical top hat and canes tap routine.

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FannyWisdom · 11/03/2017 21:40

No its fine, even though she's styled to look young she is over 16.
It's fine if it's only pretend or suggested.
Like comics with graphic child abuse, they are OK too, distasteful but ok.
It's OK if no child really gets hurt.

Before you can blink there is a child abuse section in a comic store.
Not a comic section in the sex store or even an adult store.
And not even an adult section in the comic store there are actual child abuse sections in the adult sections in fucking comic stores.

(If you haven't seen the BBC doc watch it and see if it makes a difference, did to me)

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MycatsaPirate · 11/03/2017 21:41

Foureyes I agree she looked older than she is but her dancers were very young and the whole 'rolling about on the bed in baby doll clothes with sweets and bears' left me feeling I had fallen into some sort of dark web underworld.

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scillysummer · 11/03/2017 21:46

Completely agree. Wildly inappropriate on prime time family viewing,

scillysummer · 11/03/2017 21:51

I have written a letter of complaint to the Beeb, please do so if you also think this isn't on....

Myfanwyprice · 11/03/2017 21:51

I found it really uncomfortable viewing.

Also thought it was pretty distasteful to have all those sweets wasted right after a film about children dying because they can't afford a mosquito net.

leccybill · 11/03/2017 21:59

Didn't watch as was forced to sit through it last week and it was absolutely tripe.

Sounds like all kinds of wrong though. Didn't one single staff member say out loud ' Hang on, is this not a bit wrong?'

Sisinisawa · 11/03/2017 22:05

I thought the ola and James song and routine was unsuitable for family viewing as well.

AYankinSpanx · 11/03/2017 22:05

What the fuck were they thinking?

I don't care that she's over 16; the whole set was suggestive of younger children.

Sweets, toys and teddy bears? Sure, that's exactly what no-one is ever going to associate with young children.

Grim, and it's left me feeling angry.

GatoradeMeBitch · 11/03/2017 22:15

Gross

Hoppinggreen · 11/03/2017 22:32

My 12 year old DD thought that it was a waste of flying saucers and that her outfit was "gross"
I agree it was pretty inappropriate

MummyMuppet2x2 · 12/03/2017 05:24

Odd song, didn't like it.
She's got a lot more vocal talent than this song allowed her to show.

SoupDragon · 12/03/2017 06:20

I thought it was inappropriate at the start but I stopped paying attention because it was shit.

SoupDragon · 12/03/2017 06:21

Not sure what was at all inappropriate about James and Ola.

NewPuppyMum · 12/03/2017 06:53

Some of the Twitter comments are just vile.

dangold426 · 12/03/2017 13:12

Song is called BEST Behaviour not Bad Behaviour. And there are more sexed up acts than her so I'd thank my lucky stars that she came on

FriendofBill · 12/03/2017 13:16

It's not about being sexed up.
Have you rtft dan?

FriendofBill · 12/03/2017 13:17

Why should I thank my lucky stars?

I don't like the cut of your gib tbh.

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