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“The Great British Pottery Throw Down program is utter filth,” wrote one viewer, while another commented: “The pottery innuendo and rather graphic clay caressing makes the baker’s “soggy bottoms” look childishly tame.”
Other innuendos included saying a pot had “a rather beautiful crack” while one of the challenges including a lot of “clay pulling”.
Show all 11 1 /11Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Matthew Matthew is the youngest potter aged 23. Both his parents are ceramics teaches and his harshest critics. He is artist in residence at a North Yorkshire boarding school and always dresses in a suit. Matthew spends around 25 hours a week at the wheel and enjoys throwing huge pieces. He is a keen cyclist and recently rode from the Orkney Islands to Morocco in 23 days.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Tom Tom lives in Gloucestershire with his university sweetheart wife, Becky and their four young children. Tom, 41, joined the army he 1996 and left nine years later as Major Tom. His army friends used to laugh at Tom's passion for pottery but stopped after he made them all beer tankards. Tom is a big rugby fan and helps at his kids' rugby club when not working as a freelance sales and marketing consultant. He describes himself as a perfectionist.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Nigel Nigel discovered his love for pottery late in life after 30 years working in construction. A 52-year-old father of two from Derbyshire, he was told to 'go and get a hobby' by his wife. Nigel went to university to earn a ceramics degree and has since been potting for eight years in his cellar and laundry room.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Joanna Joanna began potting 12 years ago when looking for a new pot for her bonsai tree and deciding to make her own. She is 42, widowed and lives with her 15-year-old son in West Sussex, along with alpacas, donkeys, chickens and goats. Joanna is a parish councillor and makes tea and cakes for local events.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Jane Jane is a part-time teacher who lives with her husband and two young children in North Wales. A self-deprecating farmer's daughter, she describes her family as "grubby, dusty and with clay in their curly hair". She has been potting for 22 years after graduating from a ceramics course and landing a two-year apprenticeship at Whichford Pottery.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Sandra Sandra recently became a grandma to a baby girl. She lives in Leeds and works as a community arts project manager. Sanda, 52, has been potting for 16 years after longing to "get her creative juices flowing again" following the birth of her second child. She enjoys singing at the wheel and also loves salsa dancing, photography and knitting.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Rekha Rekha moved to the UK in 2000 after marrying her husband. She was born into a conservative family in Mumbai, India but now lives in Buckinghamshire. Rekha, 49, has been working with clay for 6 years after completing a fine art course at Central Saint Martins. She practices pottery in her garden studio and works as a conceptual artist, curating exhibitions.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants James James is a vet from Bristol who nearly became an artist but chose to "play it safe". He lives with his partner Mark on a woodland estate and is the least experienced potter having started just three and a half years ago at an evening class. He likes to throw heart-shaped platters in his garden shed.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Sally-Jo Interior designer Sally, 33, lives in Hampshire and has been potting at an evening class for five years. She is known for chatting and drinking tea while throwing and is engaged to be married.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants Jim Jim, 52, is a part-time painter and decorator from West Sussex. He supplies some 250 dinnerware items to an up-market hotel supplier each year and has been potting for 25 years in his garden workshop. Jim is also the lead singer and guitarist in his band, Slim Jim and the Wildcards. He likes to host pottery parties for his nine-year-old daughter and spend time dancing with his wife of 10 years.
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Meet The Great Pottery Throw Down contestants The host and judges Judges Kate Malone and Keith Brymer Jones with host Sara Cox
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Of course, Tweeters were quick to come up with their own pottery puns, with one noting how "a nice pull" may become the new "soggy bottom”.
The show was full of innuendo (BBC) The first episode of the show - which is brought to you by the producers of The Great British Bake Off - aired on BBC2.
It is hosted by radio DJ Sara Cox, who previously said: “You don’t need to add puns in if you’re discussing making pottery because you’re already talking about cracks and rims.
“I got so used to chatting about somebody’s rim on the show that I just wouldn’t laugh at that sort of humour, or make a thing of it.
"Obviously kids are watching as well, so you don’t really need to do any of that.”
The Great Pottery Throw Down airs every Tuesday at 9pm on BBC2.
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