Blue Peter's "blue" tits-up.

Simon Groom, the balding ex-Blue Peter presenter, has told Idiotica reporters of his “deep regret” at saying the word “tits” on children’s television in the mid-eighties.

Groom, who was doing a special report on big door knobs and knockers, famously said live on the show: “…and look at this gigantic pair of tits, aren’t they beautiful?”

“I was thinking about the ornithology magazine I’d been looking at in my lunch break just before we went on air, and I got my mucking words all fucking muddled up,” he confesses nearly 20 years on.

"Great"

Groom, now 57 and living it up in the up-and-coming Beak Street area of London, has since become the first British man to roller-skate from John’s O Great to Lands End.

“I’m still a big kid at heart,” said David “kid’ Jensen.