To have been offended by this comment on Twitter?

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Someone I follow on Twitter (not a friend, a celebrity of sorts) posted last night, "They sell chocolate boobs in Brussels. Milk, dark and white. Was thinking of getting one of each an d pretending it was the Sugababes."

I felt very surprised by his comment and quite offended, although I'm not quite sure why. I think my overwhelming response was one of disappointment, as this is someone I really respect as a person and an artist, and I don't think he would've meant it in a racist way.

He has since apologised for it, and I genuinely don't think he intended to offend, but I'm left with a vague sense of unease, which is odd, because if I'm honest I'm still not 100% sure what offended me so much!

Never look up to people you don't know.

Why not Marge? I respect him as an artist and a person, he comes across as very genuine and likeable. I accept that having "heroes" you don't know is likely to lead to feet of clay scenarios, but i still don't think that the comment was appropriate - given the public forum he was using and he must know that most of the people who follow him on there are fans.

I've seen them on TV (the chocolate boobs that is). I'm not going to buy any. The whole idea of them isn't funny or imaginative, and a waste of decent Belgian chocolate.

I'm intrigued as to which celeb it was now!
YANBU, it's a bit of a coarse remark, quite Bernard Manning! And chocolate boobs/willies = never remotely funny.

YABU. Leave twitter well alone...

OK, maybe not NEVER (Obama, Mandela, I have never met but do look up to) but very often when people are in the public eye they are not really themselves. Particularly perhaps artistic people?

Yeah, I see what you're saying, and I sort of agree. I just think that even if he does think like that, he should keep it to himself on a public thing like Twitter!

Its a very childish joke, perhaps someone told it him & he thought it was funny.

I'd find it more disappointing, only mildly offensive in a way that young boys can be.

At least you know better what kind of person he is, so he's off the list now then?!

Like was said, I look up more to people I know, even if I like music from people I don't really know personally.

I think it's quite offensive, I was thrown by the reference to skin colour, but the offensiveness here is sexist, really. He sounds like a 14 year old.

The person who's being offensive is whoever made the chocolate breasts in the first place.