[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It's such an awful condition really. Such a shame that he was there being honoured for a film trying to raise some awareness for the condition and it ends up causing all this misunderstanding and people basically saying he's using his disability to be a horrible person.

I think plenty of people know about tourettes,they just hate being told not to be offended by a word that carries a lot of historical pain .

Most of the comments I've seen is people telling others to basically " shut up and calm down" , like it's no big deal that the BBC didn't edit it out .