Sir Terry Wogan has hit out at cheap, modern TV shows saying that programming has deteriorated over the last fifty years. Terry is also unimpressed with the language of TV chefs like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.

Wogan told the Sunday Mirror: “Television has changed. It’s not what it was like 50 years ago. Light entertainment is no longer the expensive quality that it used to be. It’s all quiz games, reality TV and talk shows.

“Talk shows these days are just cheap TV. In the same way that reality TV is cheap television that humiliates people.

“There’s no point saying there can’t be any humiliation, because the public seem to respond to it, it seems to be something they want. But then again the public liked mass executions as well, but we don’t do those any more. To be honest, I don’t know where we go from here.”

Wogan then turned his attention to the language of celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver.

“I see people like Jamie Oliver use the F-word in an attempt to achieve what I think he assumes to be credibility and I think it’s reprehensible and demeaning,” he explained. “And in terms of someone like Gordon Ramsay it’s ultimately self-defeating.”