Channel 4 has offered an apology after broadcasting a seven-letter gay slur on word-based quiz show Countdown.Fans were left wondering why the slur hadn’t been left on the cutting room floor, and questioned why bosses allowed the word "p*****r" to air in the final edit.Contestants in the show were handed the letters AOOEDRPFT with which to make words from.And player Matt Gould came up with the offensive word - though later apologised for his part in the controversy.Matt, from Whitley Bay, said: "I apologise for my part in this.
I thought it might be edited differently."At the time I said ‘I have an inappropriate 7 that I know is in the dictionary or a riskier seven that I’m less sure about’."I thought that bit would be reshot with a non.