The BBC issued a statement following comments from Len Goodman during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
The former Strictly Come Dancing head judge was chatting to host Kirsty Young as part of Sunday's Jubilee Pageant when he said his nan referred to curry as "foreign muck". The topic changed to food as he sampled the official Jubilee pudding- a lemon and amaretti trifle created by Jemma Melvin.
Appearing alongside MasterChef’s John Torode he gave his stamp of approval to the pudding, before Kirsty asked if he was any good at cooking. He replied that he was "hopeless" but he tried a new dish for the first time after his wife had made it recently.
