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19th Jan 2016

PIC: This fake Rupert Murdoch/Jerry Hall sex scene was removed from Frankie Boyle’s Guardian column

Conor Heneghan

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If you’re in any way prudish then you should probably stop reading now.

Frankie Boyle has been one of the most popular comedians on the circuit for years now and to say he’s not afraid to be controversial would be putting it very mildly.

Boyle writes a regular column for The Guardian and in today’s offering, he wrote about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his relationship with the British press, particularly the media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

The Guardian is not one of those Murdoch-owned outlets, but they saw fit to remove a paragraph in Boyle’s column after it had been published online today, a paragraph that offered an imaginary account of Murdoch having sex with new fiancée Jerry Hall.

Be warned, it gets quite graphic (albeit hilarious) at times.

https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/689548850412023808

As Boyle tells it, the paragraph was removed after it had initially been published and he wasn’t afraid to call The Guardian out on it on Twitter this evening.

https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/689549521316089858

We’re sure Frankie will resume his column-writing duties next week, but there’s definitely a future in erotic fiction for him if it doesn’t work out.

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