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Gogglebox star gets TikTok ban for cyclist crash prank

Tom Malone Jr encouraged his social media users to share footage of staged stunt

One of the stars of Channel 4’s Gogglebox programme has received a ban from social media platform TikTok after posting a prank video of a cyclist being thrown over the bonnet of a car.

Tom Malone Jr appeared on the  BAFTA-winning reality TV programme from 2014-20, along with his parents and siblings who continue to feature on it, as do the family’s dogs.

In the TikTok video, he was filming himself travelling in a car driven by his father, Tom Sr, who apparently ran over an elderly woman who was riding a bike, reports The Mirror.

His father said in the video: “Oh you knobhead. Jesus Christ, is she off the bonnet?”

Tom Jr replied: “She’s gone, she’s gone.”

“Get the reverse, let's get out of here quickly,” his father told him. “Don't tell your mum.”

Posting the video to TikTok, the younger Tom said: “Enjoy this one (no grans were harmed in the making of this video).”

He also encouraged hundreds of thousands of followers on his other social media platforms to share the video, although it now seems to have been removed from all of them.

After a backlash over the video, which many social media users saw as being in poor taste, the dancer and choreographer from Manchester told his followers: “Just so you know that video got me banned off TikTok for a day so you better enjoy it.

But he added: “It was worth it.”

Whether any cyclists who had managed to watch the footage from the comfort of their sofas, remote control in hand, would have agreed is open to question.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Rik Mayals unde... | 2 years ago
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Two words which should never follow in the same sentence. 'Gogglebox' and 'Star'. 

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VeNT | 2 years ago
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I wonder if I'd get just a days ban if I made a video killing a car driver.

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NPlus1Bikelights | 2 years ago
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Who?

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AlsoSomniloquism replied to NPlus1Bikelights | 2 years ago
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Does it matter on the "who?" when he has potentially 700k following on Tiktok. Probably more people have seen this attempt at "humour" then saw the pieces in the newspapers that were supposed to be jokes. 

Unfortunately it has also now promoted him in the public conscience which is why he did it, hence the reaction afterwards of it being worth it.  

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PRSboy | 2 years ago
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Sounds hilarious.

I won't let anyone tell me that society is being 'dumbed down' when programmes of this quality get BAFTAs.

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