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Originally Posted by Ammi
..I always think it's strange that it only seems to be prejudiced/bigoted views etc that seem to be held onto from 'back in the day'...with people who seem very 'modern' in their lives in every other way...Biggins is in his 60s or whatever age he is and apparently he can make such a generalised ignorant statement on a reality TV show and yet he's never had conversations/thoughts etc about bi-sexuality before..?..in all of these years, he hasn't once re-assessed his opinion and mind-set on this with the people around him..?..and in a showbiz world as well, where he surely must know and have met bi-sexual people..?...there have been no conversations that have taken place, no questioning, no 'educating' of the old Biggins..?..so the poor old chap finds himself on a reality show in his 60s or whatever age he is and poor old fellow makes such an ignorant statement that we're all discussing...?....hmmm, that's just really difficult to believe that he's expressed his own sexuality so much through his life and it's so much a part of him and yet there seems to have been an avoidance etc of discussion and realisation of bi-sexuality....hmmmm....
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until you have lived your life in that persons shoes, I think its difficult to assess where he is coming from. Its the easiest thing in the world to take a comment and over analyse it. I've never really liked Biggins, but I do think he is being judged harshly here.