Alan Titchmarsh threatens to quit TV forever over ‘terrifying’ craze – admitting ‘I’ve had a good run’
ALAN Titchmarsh has threatened to quit TV for good over a "terrifying" craze, and admitted, "I've had a good run."
Having battled painful health issues throughout his career, the gardening guru has vowed not to hang up his spade just yet.
However, Alan, 74, appears to have had a change of heart because of a "terrifying craze".
He expressed concern over "cancel culture" and said that he worries that people will twist his words and he won't always say the right thing.
Cancel culture is a term used in the late 2010s and early 2020s to describe a culture in which people deemed to have acted or spoken in an inappropriate manner are ostracised, boycotted, or shunned.
Alan said, if at any point in his TV career he began to "worry too much" about it for himself or his family, he would give up the industry.
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"Cancel culture is terrifying. It makes you very careful about what you say, and if the point ever came when that strain and that worry became too much, for me or my family, I think I'd say, enough...
I'll go. This is the first time I've ever admitted that. But I've had a good run," Alan told .
He talked about incidents to do with cancel culture that his fellow daytime television stars experienced that led to them losing their jobs.
The garden guru went on to discuss the destructive impact of the culture on individuals who work in television, calling it "heartbreaking" for their families.
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He said: As you get older you realise it's an increasingly fragile path, because you can so easily be misconstrued. There are days when I think, do I really want to be putting my head above this parapet? I'm 75 next birthday."
The TV personality said he refuses to use the term "woke," but accused right-wing people of hypocrisy.
“What worries me most is that there is an ever-growing faction of people that endeavour to say you think this or that, even if that might not be what you said or what you meant. Tolerance should work both ways. And I don't feel it always does entirely," Alan added.
