Btw
We don't have that slang word in the US, I've never heard it before and had to look it up.
I think the equivalent in the US would be, "I look like a ******" we do not use that word anymore (********) even though it was used in psychology as a term for a mentally handicapped person, but because people were using it as a way to insult someone, especially in school it became really offensive to the mentally handicapped and faded out in the 1980s
NOT to give her a leg to stand on, but I've heard of mongrel maybe a couple of times in my life, as a child and it was a derogatory term for a dog ("get this mongrel away from me" for example) but I've never heard it used to describe humans with handicaps, and I never knew the orgin, I bet most people in the US have no idea what it means.
"gong" on the other hand, if everyone in England knows exactly how it is used, she is grasping at straws if she thinks people would take it to mean "scruffy"
Basically, if the US only uses it to mean dog, that's one thing, but if British people insult one another in school for example by saying "gong" she should know better and apologize NOW.
no matter what she meant she should apologize!!!
she should care about the fact that she offended her viewers.....even for selfish reasons.... apologize to save your career and income source!!
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also - as people are saying re: not if but when - it's not surprising something like this happened.....when you are a meanspirited trashy person pretending to be elegant and polite it WILL come through.....the mask will fall
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